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No, we have it right. People like you need to stop convicting everybody in our society for momentary instances of foolish behavior. Who cares if it was a ad-hoc experiment or something she saw on YouTube that her friends were trying to get her do? It's still science, and performing it without all the permissions and safety precautions doesn't change that. Even if it just a bunch of kids who just wanted to see something blow up. It's cause and effect. Learning and growing. Yeah, it was stupid, but you learn from stupid things.

Regardless of all that, the charges are completely over the top. Community service, detention, suspension, sure. But the county was trying to charge her with a felony! I did stuff like that in junior high too, because I wanted to see the reaction. I learned from it though, and grew, because I didn't become an instant criminal and have my entire life ruined.

Congratulations, now we just put another young person into the system that strips away the chance to succeed and condemns her, for life, to one childhood mistake.
rickrolled by itunes opening. I don't want clicking on a link to open up some app I hate. Does anyone know how to disable apple.com automatically opening iTunes? I'm not on my phone, and I don't sync my phone using iTunes....
Reaction wheel bearings are notorious for failing, having killed numerous science spacecraft. I remain amazed that they have not standardized on magnetic bearings.
There is a vary specific exception. When a lot of FDIC ensured bank fail at the same time the FED create money out of thin air to pay some of the depositors. However, while you may have added a new line in a database somewhere there is a large audit that takes place and you may or may not get though that audit. Though in most cases when a bank fails it's paid out of FDIC funds which are just another form of insurance.
How is this different than paypal?
There is a difference between cost and value. The client valued your ability to solve their problem as equal to your daily rate. It shouldn't matter if it took you 1 hour or 8 hours, they are paying for a result, not for you to punch a clock.
Federation was turned off temporarily to fix an exploit then turned back on. I guess it's moot now.
I quite liked the previous article we had "Comments are apologies" or something. HN seemed to rail against it overall, but it makes sense to me. It's sort of "Sorry, but this has to be this way because API <x> does thing <y>". Or "This is a bit convoluted, but necessary because the naive way is too slow." That doesn't have to be the literal text of the comments, but that's the sort of mindset they should be written in, imo.
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I suspect the original question was intended to ask "graph databases" vs. "relational databases".
He's long since divested.
Starting to do it more?

15 years ago, the grocery stores in my home town wouldn't sell The Works to teenagers.
> 2) Most of the daily commuters in the bay area are either
> bart riders or caltrain riders or muni riders -- as in, the
> mode of public transport they take is fixed. As a Caltrain
> rider, i have never taken the bart in the last 2 years i've
> commuted to the city. And I believe vice versa is equally
> true. Bart riders are unlikely to ride Caltrain regularly
> (discounting every once in a while ride). Why am I saying
> this and how is it relevant ? Most of the existing daily
> commuters have already downloaded free apps which provide
> the schedules, maps etc. -- most will have very little
> incentive to download your app, unless it provides some
> additional value above and beyond the existing apps

This is true for people who live outside of SF. But a lot of folks in SF do use public transit to get around. (Inside the city, Muni and BART interchangably depending on where I am, where I'm headed and when the next train/bus/whatever for different stops is likely to show up.) When I visit the south, east or other parts of the bay from SF, I use transit (BART, Caltrain, etc) most of the time.

It's called Embark SF, not Embark Bay Area. I think that was a good choice.
now that kids are starting to do it more

Do you have citations to show that this was a bigger problem now then it was 10/20/30/40 years ago? Plenty of folks blew shit up during my day.

she later admitted someone told her how and encouraged her to do it

Link? I hadn't head this and 5 minutes of Googling hasn't turned anything up.
Well, I'm only 23 so any code I wrote ten years ago was hopelessly simple by comparison to what I'm writing today. But to answer your question: In general I found it over-commented, but it was simple enough that I could ignore the comments and look at the code. I don't know how I'd feel looking back at my code now.
TFA adds absolutely nothing to the article to which it links.
I have moved everything that I host for myself or my clients to Azure. Low cost, rock solid reliability, incredible speed and easy to administer. CPU, memory and disk really are a commodity at this point.

I loved Amazon EC2 too but Azure was far cheaper for high use Windows VMs.
Who voted this down and why?

From what I can see, its pretty much a statement of fact. A horrible fact, sure, but surely pretty much true. OK, given the numbers involved, its almost beneath worth bothering about, right now. But if it does grow, so will concern.

Government should be concerned from its POV. "We", me included, might well think, "well, sod them, ha, ha, cant get our money", and all that. But "we" would, right? Government, no matter how shitty, still has to look out of government interests. That's it job. Well, one of them, anyway.
Reaction.Wheels.are vert heavy, adding too much redundancy of then make they all more prone to failure, add to rocket fuel costs, and also increase the needed fuel on the ship thrusters and battery size, thus making everything even more heavy.

In short, add more reaction wheels and end with a much more heavy machine, more complex, expensive, and more expensive to launch.
Is this a confirmed fact? So far I think we've only heard from Microsoft regarding this.
> They're roughly in the same place, most of the time, and that's about all you can say for them

> a rework of the UI to look like Windows Phone

I am laughing at this comment in particular only because most of the project uses the APIs provided by Apple to change the appearance on existing controls, exceptions being the switch and the alert view.

The project only makes it easy to generate and integrate flat images into these controls. You make it sound like he is rewriting UIKit.
I used to believe Google was more "open" and "less evil", because they were.

I no longer believe those things, because they aren't true anymore (but they did used to be true).

I still use a lot of Google products and services (gmail, Nexus 4, google maps, search, ARM Chromebook, Go, etc) because I am more pragmatic than idealist, but now I view Google as being capable of being just as dicky as any other big company when it suits them, because that's how they've been behaving for the past couple of years.

I think it is unfortunate they don't make the APIs more equally available to all platforms, but I'm not going to start a riot or boycott them over it... they are just a big business being a big business, and yes, occasionally doing "evil" (for very first-world-problem definitions of "evil").
And how will that be a good experiment at all with one data point? Are you trying to find out the criteria of how they decide to remove the ability? I do not think it is limited to MS articles only.
Thanks for letting us know! fixed :)
I wasn't aware that the IRS has in fact had its budget slashed.

The only thing I've seen is that they're expected to expand to take on Obamacare, and may not have the funding to do so.

Do you have the specific details on their budget being cut? Hasn't Obama expanded their budget in the last four years?
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That scenario is what "offline" is for. That soldier could call up his mum and ask her to read off the link over the phone. There is no way that anything but an utterly game-changing surveillance and censorship system is going to MiTM that in time. Or he could give some local kid a candy bar to look it up at an internet cafe, or hold onto the data until more alternative communication channels open up for him. If this soldier's communication is blacked out to the point that he cannot ask anyone else to verify the link using an internet connection other than his own, then it probably isn't safe for him to be attempting whatever it is that he is doing in the first place.
"But I also understand why Google is doing this. It's retaliation for all the crap Microsoft has done against Google over the past few years, too - the anti-trust lawsuit, the Gmail ad, the DroidRage, the Scroogle, the patent license extortion from Android (and Chromebook) makers, and on and on."

You forgot bingiton.com
That would be nice indeed. Mitmextract uses libnids, which can do stream reassembly on the fly. It's not such a big step going from reassembling a pcap file to doing the same thing on network traffic.
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NL: It strips the last character of whatever you type if you hit the <enter> key to quick. Bug in Qtimer.
I don't know -- at the time of this reply 12/30 top links were Google related. Google does some interesting stuff but the Tech world isn't THAT small.
Oh please, I've blown up so much stuff when I was younger, and it was instrumental in encouraging me to learn about science.

Did people get hurt? No.

Was she doing it to hurt people? No.

Was she doing it for attention? No.

She was doing it out of curiosity. She doesn't deserve to be treated like a criminal.

We must look at this in terms of mens rea.

She needs a stern talking to, and probably at least a suspension from school. If they really want to escalate this to an expulsion, fine, but criminal consequences? Probation? Jail? Completely ridiculous.

Like there aren't enough actual criminals to prosecute.
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On the counter, there's nothing fair about stealing someone's property either. If a person works for 40 years, pays off their mortgage, and has little money in old age, the idea of the government stealing their property due to failure to pay property taxes is extraordinarily vicious. I assume you'd back an exclusion for the primary residence (one home per person, or at least an income requirement).
Comparing a pipe bomb to a plastic bottle pressure "bomb" is like comparing a gun shot to a nerf dart.
I had a hunch that was the case, but this quote from Wikipedia suggests otherwise

> Since the reaction wheel is a small fraction of the spacecraft's total mass...

The gist from the Wikipedia article suggests momentum wheels (used in Hubble) are very heavy, but reaction wheels, not so much, due to their use for precision movement.

Obviously I defer to someone that has more than a cursory Wikipedia articles breadth of knowledge on the subject.

Am I misinterpreting Wikipedia, or are the reaction wheels on Keppler more than a "small fraction of the mass"?
The local developers are all employed (if you're a developer, check your email). Anyways, I wouldn't be able to afford a local developer even if I wanted to at this stage. It's not a just a question of being cheap for many of us, it's a matter of being able to get our projects off the ground in the first place.
I don't get it. Perforce is ~$200/seat/year. IDEA at $500 seems like a no-brainer compared to limping on with Eclipse.
Yeah, I thought it was a bit of a weak link.

I suppose they had to put a pretty picture of something up, and there aren't any other faces known related to BC which even most geeks would recognise, let alone the average reader.

Perhaps it could be said that Assange represents the struggle between freedom and government. Freedom of information, freedom of money, and government crack down type stuff. Kinda works, no?
Obviously it cannot be a good experiment. It is for shits and giggles.

I never bother to flag anymore, if I manage to have the ability removed by only flagging MS articles over the next few days then I am going to take that as a mild indication that all of the people whining about MS posts being flagged really just have persecution complexes and are not actually onto anything. If I don't have the ability removed, that suggests nothing at all.
Wait, that's not how app development works. Writing a well made app does not somehow allow one to circumvent ToS, which Microsoft very clearly violated.

I'm sure if Microsoft merely removed the ability to download videos and restored ads, Google would not have any problems with it.

The fact that MetroTube is so successful disproves the conspiracy theory that Google is trying to prevent Windows Phone users from being able to use YouTube.

This isn't a "We don't like WP" issue, this is a "your app blatantly violates our ToS and we're not okay with that" issue.
Can you point to any specific incident of anyone anywhere on Earth at any time in human history being blinded or losing a limb, or even a finger, by either a dry ice bomb, draino bomb, or an HCL bomb in a plastic bottle?
Flat UI has become a common theme on a number of popular iOS apps. Spotify, Yelp, Truila, Google Maps etc. have all moved to flat UI recently... are all of those apps "disregarding platform conventions?" Of course not.

If anything, they have made flat UI a convention in itself, just like pull-down-to-refresh, large center tab buttons and slide-right navigation weren't originally/aren't native widgets, but have become commonplace.

The rumor is that iOS 7 is going to change to a flatter appearance anyway, so in a few weeks this all might be moot.
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Which of the top apps on the App Store don't theme iOS?
"Sure Google can handle scale better than anyone"

Spoken like someone who has never tried to buy tickets to Google IO!

But on a serious note, there are some products at Google that clearly scale well beyond what most other groups are capable of, but there are some products at Google that... don't.

Like any big company, things aren't completely uniform across the board.
Google have not dropped support for CalDAV. It's still available, you just have to fill out a form first.
Great work! This is a really cool project. I actually did something like this in an app I am working on using the same approach. I knew it could be generalized to all UI components and not just buttons, but I did not take those further steps and implement it.

This is definitely a step above using drawRect: to draw custom views, when images are more efficient in this case thanks to UIControl.
Does Embark SF fix the problem with iBart where trains leaving from Fremont would disappear 5 minutes before they actually left the station? Not sure if this was ever resolved or if this was something on BARTs side to fix.

Also, any chance of an iOS 5 version? Thanks.
Isn't that what the headline is suggesting? :P
It's not blacked out. It's subtly and near-undetectably changed. Who says the soldier is tech-savvy enough to know to talk on an alternate secure backchannel because s/he can't trust the same Internet that has fantasy football and funny videos on YouTube?

Let's reduce this even further. The New Yorker has put up a webpage saying,"Send your secrets here!" Pretend they put up a phone number instead. 1-800-231-2142. The military phone switching system can either automatically redirect calls to that number to a switchboard of impersonators, or they could change the number to one they already have, so that they can also capture military assets using personal phones, mobiles, etc.

The New Yorker page does not give any information about "offline" validation. They give a pointer to a supposedly secure dropbox. That dropbox may actually be secure, but there are a number of ways to subvert it.
"Experiment" in this case has, I think, a somewhat fuzzy definition. From her perspective, calling it a "science experiment" probably makes perfect sense.
> It doesn't explain why PHP is bad with examples

The linked article specifically does explain why PHP is bad, and it does it by providing literally hundreds of specific examples. It's a really impressive essay.
Show HN: Some useless JS that simulates ping in the Browser
How is the former different from the latter? Is that not still science? Are you not doing science if a teacher directs you to perform experiments for a grade?
That's a problem you only have to solve once.
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Oooooh the magical attack de hominen.
Just a heads up, the reason I say "useless" is that about 1/2 of the servers I tried testing with using the technique in the pong tool just black hole the request.
$100/hour * 40 hours * 50 weeks (fulltime) is $200k, not $100k -- that's where the doubling comes from. (2000 billable hours, roughly.)

If you're doing freelance, you also have to cover downtime, business development, benefits, and all the stuff that a normal employer might cover, so you would probably be prudent to charge more than ($YourSalary/2000) per hour.
Was sup (http://supmua.org/) one of the clients you looked at? If so, what advantages does/will luamail have over it?
The Hangouts app is iOS 6.1 only.
It is worse than you think, here is a small excerpt about Florida students: In Florida, students have been arrested for bringing a plastic butter knife to school, throwing an eraser, and drawing a picture of a gun. The eleven-year-old who allegedly brought a plastic butter knife to school was handcuffed, taken to jail, and charged with a third-degree felony. Legislation recently passed unanimously by the Florida Senate could change all that by prohibiting schools from calling the police for nonviolent misdemeanors. "Throw an eraser and they want to call it throwing a deadly missile, which is a felony," said state Sen. Stephen Wise (R-Jacksonville), the senate sponsor of the legislation, which has yet to clear the state house. "When you get into the juvenile justice system everybody thinks your sins are forgiven when you turn 18, and I will assure you that doesn't happen. It's a blemish on your record." http://www.eagleforum.org/educate/2009/june09/zero-tolerance...

I am personally aware of two FL elementary cases one where a student was charged for throwing a deadly missle, which was a paper ball, and the other a boy kissed a girl on the school playground and was charged with sexual harassment. I wish I could say I am joking...
I've been off all microsoft products for a long time, but I think I might be willing to give their phone a try. I'm not completely sold on android or apple at the moment, and Msoft's design does seem to be taking the lead (flat ui), and presenting a different option . Plus, before the android/ios wars, I always thought Nokia made the most brilliant phones, and i'm kinda glad to see them back in the game.
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Switching between tabs in the editor takes > 1s (on a core i7 with 12GB). That is enough to make it almost useless for me. IntelliJ community edition is much snappier.
Standard XMPP clients still work. If you use Pidgin or Adium or other similar clients, you can still send and receive messages to Google users regardless of whether they're using Hangouts.

If you have an App Engine instance, and it uses the App Engine XMPP Service[1] to send messages to people, then that will stop working for users who switch to Hangouts.

[1] https://developers.google.com/appengine/articles/using_xmpp
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I currently work at a fairly large MS client. No way we're going to abandon .Net right now or in the next few years.

We're currently in the process of getting ready for a migration to Sharepoint Server 2013 which will cement the company with .Net for at least the next two to three years. We still have several sites on the old 2007 platform with no hint of moving those over any time soon.

I'm wondering what you see as viable open source alternatives to the .Net platform.

Also, we have a handful of .Net developers and they've all said a majority of the work they've had in the last year did not involve MVC3 or MVC4 so I'm also wondering what the future of this platform will be.
So which of the 6 roles is Mt Gox fulfilling? They're not a currency dealer or exchanger. They don't cash checks. They don't issue traveler's checks, money orders or stored value. They don't sell or redeem traveler's checks, money orders or stored value.

This isn't even close to as cut and dry as you are trying to make it sound.
It's true. Ever since I installed that, I've been amazed at the number of lockouts on all of our client sites.
Cost and availability of developer time is much more of a factor in platform choice than a lot of people think, especially engineers who don't have to worry about the business end.

If you can find RoR developers, they are not cheap. If you're building a v1 product on a limited budget, and don't want to spend 80 hours per week writing it yourself, PHP is an excellent choice.

Having to read the code with a clothespin on your nose is a small price to pay.
> I got a firm talking to, a two-day suspension, and a uncool nickname out of it, but that was it.

Was this before, or after, the Columbine school shootings in 1999 and the terrorist attacks of Sep. 11, 2001?
I think you are receiving so much negative feedback because you are essentially referring to developers as a commodity that can be negotiated down to 'cheap'... You then posted to a site that is highly trafficked by freelance developers. As someone who frequently works with developers and handles a lot of the spec'ing, I thought your post was helpful.. and informative. That being said, it doesn't really tell people who to pick a good developer out from a bad one. What kind of questions do you ask to find a good developer for iOS?
Shows that they could in the early 1900s. These days the specific formulation of bromine being sold would be patented (even if they had to modify the formulation every 17 years) and Dow would be sued for patent infringement on the resales.
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Ah ... of course :)

Its pretty late here in the UK!

Well, my comments remain valid and are hopefully somehwat amusing if not useful in this particular case.