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I don't think you understand how IP works. You think that in a national security sense, our IP laws keep our economy ahead of other countries? What, they're bound by those laws?
I haven't taken the time to fully understand it, but I gather that there are proposed ways to trim the block chain's history. For clients that don't need a long history, I imagine they could just download a snapshot for, say, Jan. 1, 2013, that simply listed all the bitcoins and their owners at the time, rather than all the transactions that happened before that point.
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No but would it be reasonable to be fired from a job if one was causing inconvenience to their higher-ups elsewhere so much that they didn't want to work with you? Probably.

Edit: not saying I think you should have been banned for this because frankly, I think you were right to begin with, just pointing out that your legality comparisons are not always reasonable.
Well done, love the idea! Just to let you know on the http://www.duetapp.com/features page it says 'helpw' instead of 'help' under the messaging section.
In my experience freelancing, if you say "yes" to all new clients instead of "no" -- even if you're too busy and feel guilty for taking work you think you can't do -- you find a way.

When it happened to me, I went from solo freelancer to hiring 6 full-time engineers, which essentially means I created an agency.

It was great. The only challenge then, was convincing clients who'd hired me specially, that "someone else from my team may work on it, but the quality will be just as high."

The worst-case scenario: If you take on too much work, you may end up delivering late. Usually not the end of the world. But if that's not an option, you'll still manage to find a way.
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I am not sure what the point of this comment is. What conclusion do you come to as a result of this "everyone trusts CA" belief that is different from mine?
In the current spec[1], CDM might either return the decrypted frame to the browser or forward it to the system.

In practice it would be way too easy to patch say Firefox if they implemented the spec to intercept the decoded frames. It means that either the CDM wouldn't work with any open-source browser, or that they will only directly render to the OS. But in that latter case I don't see how it would play well with the rendering of the page, it would be the same problem we had with old version of flash where you couldn't overlap elements.

Does anyone know if Chromium implements that feature (since Chromebooks already do) ?

[1]: https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
Considering the agreement he had signed if anything it was an interesting attempt to vacate that agreement. As in, he attempted the "Patent exhaustion" (first sale) as a means to circumvent paying to use a product. Since there are patent unencumbered varieties available I think its a good decision.

edit: read the NYT article which has further comments by the court, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/14/business/monsanto-victorio...
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I have a one-person company. It's a business. And a job.
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Yes, probably if you're starting from scratch. But I think in general it's good to have a flexible language which lets you write code in any reasonable style. Hopefully this library (the AST transformation part, not the specific macros) is making Python even more Pythonic! Although I suspect Guido would disagree with me
Alright. Do you want to go and research Philip Greenspun before you decide whether or not you agree with his review?
There is a funny joke about Bill and Hillary Clinton riding in the President's Limonsine when they pass by a gas station where Hillary's high school sweetheart is working. Bill says, "Look at that if you had stayed with that guy you'd be the wife of a gas station attendant." and she replies, "No, I'd still be the first lady."

There is luck involved with being successful, but there is also an ability to push it through. The recent comments by Bill Gates about how Microsoft did tablets way before Apple did, but they didn't have the design vision for them he did is a great example of that. I don't think the iPad would have been successful without its design, and that design wasn't "luck" it was deliberate. But the other parts of the equation were lucky (things like the PC market fading)
Hi tlarkworthy, thanks for sharing your code with me!

- It's really hard to make valid comparisons against data I don't have access to. Do you have any open data sets to try this comparison against?

- It looks like the meat of the work is being done here by scikit-learn. As was mentioned earlier, Numba at this stage is mostly useful for improving kernel performance, not large library routines.

I'm planning on taking a deeper look into some of the scikit-learn kernels in the future. Keep an eye open for a blog post from Continuum on this.
There are many other reasons than driving down IT salaries, to increasing H1Bs. And H1Bs aren't an ultra-conservative agenda: you'll find plenty of supporters on both sides of the US political spectrum.
The docs really are great. I once downloaded the whole lot as a PDF and read it from the beginning on my phone during downtime (like 15 mins on the train). Read all the way through to the parts that discuss internals then stopped. I now appreciate it as a relational database, not just as a storage backend.
it's called interpolation.
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They had an opportunity to reject the notion that organisms are patentable

Did they really? My understanding is that they would only be able to do this if Mr Bowman had tried to challenge the validity of the patent on that grounds. While the link to the decision is broken, the article makes no mention of him arguing against the validity of the patent at all.
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This is a serious, ongoing problem. Police assaulting people for photographing them is a DAILY occurrence. The Website "Photography is not a crime" documents this.
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/
Yep and they set the price. He's done all the hard work, he should just host it at Gumroad (no aff) or Creative market.
The predictions I listed are some of the latest, but they don’t differ much from one year a go. And indeed, Apple sells more iOS devices than ever.

In the US, where the iPhone has been available longest, iPhone market share has actually been increasing at all the major telcos – it’s growing faster than any of its competitors.

http://gigaom.com/2013/05/03/iphone-remains-top-us-smartphon...
Speaking from years of experience with a self hosted PHP application, I'd recommend a "recommend hosters" section in your FAQ. Setup an affiliate program with them - most of your users will be happy to send you the referral to know that you recommend and have a good experience with them.

Ones to really watch out for are Godaddy shared hosting (note that updates to .htaccess files can take many hours to actually show and performance is frequently abysmal) and "Hostgator" (they do something funky on some of their shared hosting servers that breaks custom user session support if you use that). You'll soon find there is a huge difference between quality and cheap shared hosting.
A better analogy might be a poker tournament: no matter how brilliantly you play your hands, you'll still need to get lucky a few times.
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I think Patrick Mckenzie could tell you a thing or two about how important web design was to closing direct-to-consumer sales for a web application.

And that's consumers. Most people don't build applications for end consumers; they build tools for businesses. Businesses pay to have their problems solved. They're human beings and will swoon over beautiful pixels like anybody else, but if your application effectively solves their problem, that's what they're going to care about. If you're entering a crowded market, design might be a negative/positive differentiator... but, then, don't enter crowded markets; there's a universe of business problems nobody has effectively solved with software yet.
Sure there are, they just are interpreted in side-effecting interpreters. Lambda calculus comes to mind.
Flash was (and is, but I think the prevalence is declining or at least growth has slowed or stopped) used to deliver much content that I would consider to be or in the nature of being (before ginned up) static.

(Perhaps not the best example with respect to my concern here, but one widely cited example of this: Flash to view the menu of a restaurant I'm interested in or scheduled to visit.)

I fear a DRM mechanism in the standard (and so, with broad, built-in deployment) will be used the same way. You won't get any content without enabling the DRM, and whatever payment mechanism is associated with that.

Whether subscription, or ads. And while I'm not adverse to useful, non-intrusive, safe ads, we've yet to see those realized in a consistent and reliable manner. With DRM, content can be inextricably tied to bad, exploitative, and unsafe ads.

It's not what one thinks it will be used for. It's whatever a developer can twist it to do.

What I find to be similar arguments exist for e.g. not permitting the government to backdoor communications and security systems. It's not always the overt use we worry about; it's often the covert use, whether by government or by third parties.

P.S. I'll add that I'm not a technical expert in this particular area. But, I tend to suspect -- or regardless, look for -- the worst, and I often end up finding it. And doing that in technical environments has been a significant part of my career, where I've done quite well at finding and solving problems before they cause catastrophes (or, as the case may be, after).

TL;DR: I fear this baked in DRM as a closed channel for any and all sorts of dangerous as well as annoying crap and behavior.

I'm not claiming to have a solution to all the current woes. But I don't see this going in the right direction.
Personally, I find those to be better 'real world' examples. I would suggest including them in the docs. Thanks for the explanation!
I think we can be pretty confident that nobody called "The President's Secret Bomb Shelter" from a pay phone, and nobody's uncle got in trouble for asking about a phone number.
"We're booked until the end of the year" sounds suspiciously like "We're not charging enough money."
"our Windows text rendering has been getting a new backend that we can hook up soon, greatly boosting the quality of webfont rendering there" That is nice anyway, as somebody who has to look at the sketchy fonts on chrome for windows every day.
Great design! Is it possible for both clients and admins to add tasks? I can't seem to find the action to add tasks as a client...
Hi, great read. Just FYI your link to the "The Noun Project" is broken.
If anyone's looking for similar functionality for PHP (Database-level time-grouping, time-ranged drilldowns, charts), you can check out http://razorflow.com

(Disclosure: I am the developer of RazorFlow, and am only posting here because I feel it's relevant to this particular story)
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Why do you think that getting paid in bitcoins is any different than getting paid in gold coins, or diamonds, or Pokémon cards? You can safely assume that every government in the world has considered and closed that particular tax loophole aeons ago.
That's been my experience in the US as well. On EDGE/EVDO or even early days of 3G, unlimited plans were extremely common and fairly cheap. When 3G became more established and 4G/LTE started rolling out, 2GB is now the normal with massive increases in prices as you add more ($10/GB is common).
This is the fundamental challenge of all professional services businesses. It has a name: "Feast or Famine".

Raise your rates.

Another thing that is true of many professional services businesses: clients hate it when you say "No", and unless they have a process in place to balance work across multiple vendors, will prefer vendors that reliably say "Yes" to all their project requests.

Good luck, welcome to the big leagues.
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That is awesome. I think caching at the ends of your app is a lot more elegant and easier to maintain than littering your app with cache logic. I use Varnish for caching HTTP responses and have been waiting forever for more databases to support materialized views.
Oh, please, with the sanctimonious hyperbole bullshit.

You're NOT a poor, helpless worker being exploited by a ruthless 19th century steel-magnate with a monocle and a top-hat, you're a member of the most empowered generation of the most empowered professional class in the history of mankind, full stop.

If you somehow feel you're in a situation that needs fixing, then, especially as HN reader, you know exactly what to do.
Specifically, they have some more details regarding this incident (not at the top since it's several days old): http://photographyisnotacrime.com/2013/05/10/california-depu...
Beating people death and then intimidating witnesses into handing over evidence sounds like a police state to me.
The Atlantic did a piece on decrease in government funding trends back in january: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/01/the-38-s...

And Think Progress shows some stats on another indicator of decrease in government funding trends (tuition hikes): http://thinkprogress.org/education/2013/03/19/1741231/states...

The Kansas City Fed also did a report on a periphery indicator of decrease in government funding trends (student loan defaults) and more: http://www.kansascityfed.org/publicat/reswkpap/pdf/rwp%2012-...

And when you consider that universities have been raising their tuition prices by 5%+ per year for decades, if they get the same check as they received last year means that they will have less money to spend.
> which they are not given that there is a billion years of prior art

I'm not a Monsanto supporter by any means, but there is no prior-art for a tailor-made organism, is there? The genetically-modified version of the Monsanto soybean has no prior-art. Unless you consider all soybeans as prior-art.
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>Windows text rendering has been getting a new backend that we can hook up soon, greatly boosting the quality of webfont rendering there.

Finally. The web font I use on some portions of my site (Roboto Thin) is almost completely illegible on Windows systems; I have to use a JavaScript workaround for Windows systems to use Arial.
> undocumented immigrants may be in violation of the law, but they are not criminals

Then what, precisely, is the definition of a "criminal" if not someone who violates the law?
Nice, hadn't seen that before, looks like it was just added early this year.
Ugh kerning, this xkcd comic says it better than I ever could: http://xkcd.com/1015/
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Ask HN: How do sites test their purchase process?
I'm looking into tightening up our purchase process at work and I'm wondering how other sites tackle this. We use phpunit and codeception to test the site which includes a few subscription purchases, but this doesn't seem to be enough to catch all the bugs we see. I've heard somewhere that Amazon uses its own internal testing suite, but I can't imagine this is the norm.
That's known as destructuring-bind: http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/m_dest...

Is that a macro created by this library or a feature of the library?

Edit: I did some reading and it looks to be a feature macro of the library.
But, you do realise that you just proved the authors point right? Sure, you would obviously be able to tell the difference, but I'm pretty sure that the difference would be a lot smaller than if you had requested table with ornaments and wooden inlays.
I'd almost always agree with your sentiment, but since Duet allows you to generate invoices... ;)
One option which is more constructive than "We're booked, let me exit from this conversation" is "We find ourselves in very high demand at the moment. Can I interest you in an offering which isn't the partners personally delivering this entire engagement?" That could be the partners doing e.g. a design/wireframe and then the client shopping that out (or the partners doing so), a training engagement, a product offering ("I have no availability in December to write an email campaign for you for $20k, but you can have me tell your team all about the campaign they could write for you, it will only cost you $2k, and you can keep the video"), or (at the waaaaaay low end of engagement) just sign them up for an email list to have you stay as their top-of-mind team on your problem space.

There's a few other options, too. There is no zeronary Consultancy#are_we_booked? method. It's ternary: Consultancy#are_we_booked?(price, schedule, scope). For a price you can virtually always take on a new client starting tomorrow. (I mean, you can't physically be on two continents at once, but if you're scheduled in New York one week and a client in Germany wants the same week, if they're willing to pay 5X what New York is, then you call New York and say "Hey guys, have I got a proposition for you: how about we delay this engagement N weeks and in return I'll discount 20% off the invoice.")

You probably retain scheduling flexibility with clients unless they pay extra to get scheduling predictability (p.s. ask Thomas about this in more detail, it's a great hack), so if you're scheduled above 80% and a lucrative gig comes in, you might be able bump everything back N weeks without blowing any windows even without having to renegotiate things, especially if you are capable of hiring and ramping someone in that time. That is, of course, the ultimate consultancy scaling mechanism.

P.S. In parallel with any, all, or none of the above advice, if you find yourself above 80% utilization, raise rates.
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The grain elevator was selling the seeds for animal feed.
"Flat design is bad because it gives up visual cues that convey information in return for conformance to a monotonous style."

So make a flat design that doesn't give up these visual cues? All these complaints are just farts in the wind, and I only single your post out because it was pithy. Not only is the term "flat design" horrendously vague and difficult to pin down, but the very idea that there is some kind of absolute scale by which to judge design–clearly implicit in your judgement–should raise a few eyebrows.

Ultimately what matters is communicating to the user how to interact with the product in question. Everything else is marketing and will be subject to trends. But you could make a delightful and useful skeuomorphic interface or a delightful and useful flat interface or any one of a million variations on those spectrums and many others.
Yes. I've heard (here, I think) of patent trolls that prefer to go after customers rather than producers of whatever is supposedly infringing, because it's easier to convince the smaller customers to settle out of court rather than fighting and getting the patents declared invalid.
...only if you are a farmer knowingly planting unlicensed monsanto seed in your field with the hopes that the patent wouldn't hold up in court.
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"However, if he dialed 804-840 and four rather predictable numbers, he got a ring!"

What are those predictable numbers? Is this a US thing? Thanks!

Super exciting article btw, what year is this from?
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A while ago there was actually better lightbox / pop-up solution presented on HN, called magnific popup: http://dimsemenov.com/plugins/magnific-popup/

See the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5643801
> You don't think he's learned a few lessons in the past 10 years that gives him some insight that's useful?

Insight into running a big organization? Sure. Insight into global politics? Not really.

> Who gives a fuck if it drives down wages or puts more competition in the workforce. It's that versus a more open world for everyone.

My dad was an immigrant too, and I got my citizenship about 8 years after moving here (at which point I had been living in the U.S. for most of my life). I don't give a damn about a "more open world for everyone." The purpose of a country is to maximize the prosperity of its citizens. Sometimes that's furthered by making things more open, and sometimes it isn't, but the key consideration should be the people who are already part of the body politic.

That's the only morally justifiable way of running a democracy. The people did not give up some of their freedom in order to institute government just so that government could sell out their interests in favor of the interests of other people. Those people have governments to watch out for their interests--they don't need ours to do so. Certainly, they don't want their governments watching out for our interests at the expense of theirs.
Those versions did not run on embedded devices (in the common usage), but rather PCs that needed reduced functionality, such as ATMs.
McClure's point that "everything sucks" gets lost in everything else
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Well, it's true: You can create charts with just one line of Ruby. The fact that it uses libraries to provide such a service is irrelevant to the assertion.
eurleif asked much the same question and got some good answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5697545

Basically, the two things are not very much alike, because the DEA isn't supposed to be able to initiate a full-scale investigation without a warrant, while the IRS has a bit more discretion in whom it scrutinizes.
You should look into OpenTripPlanner by OpenPlans, they have built a multi-modal routing engine that can account for GTFS public data feeds as well as combining walking/cycling/public transit together to for a single route.
Yes, my point was that the OS isn't currently doing it on its own, putting the onus on the driver developers -- which have limited information available to them and are pretty much unable to make the right choice -- unless we're talking about highly customized embedded-type machines, or unless the user is willing to heavily participate in the process.

It was just a simple example of something that could change for the better in terms of performance, but that probably won't because it's a significant amount of code churn with little $$$ benefit.

I was honestly surprised that a core-balancing algorithm was added in Windows 7, but that was done at the last second (RC2) and by a very senior (while young) dev that had a lot of balls and respect. Sadly he was thanked by being promoted into management, as is usual with Microsoft.
Right. And that's because the patentability of a seed or plant was decided by SCOTUS in 2001 in J. E. M. Ag Supply, Inc. v. Pioneer Hi-Bred Int’l, Inc., 534 U. S. 124 (2001). People who keep hoping for a ruling from SCOTUS that organisms aren't patentable are living in the past.
True, that's usually the case. However, it is still entirely up to the whim of the entity asserting a patent claim (rightly or wrongly) as to whether or not you end up with a very large legal bill. That's a huge amount of liability and personally it terrifies me.
Makes a little more sense then, didn't realize it was a crowdfunded project.
You could take out some existing features from the current version in order to sell the full one to a higher price. You are in a competitive market...more money means more dev power.