skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup. Some are deeply focussed on the technical and see that as their mission in life/work. Some are in a similar position but are blinkered (I think I was here) and some are simply insecure about softer skills or striking out on their own (may have been here too).
The only real answer to give you is to hire a lawyer whose specialty that is. The government (and perhaps any client) is going to take your answer and run it past their legal team, so unless you can bullshit to the extent that would pass actual legal scrutiny, it's probably best to not bother.

The hard fact of the matter is that you almost certainly are infringing on something in today's murky IP landscape, so the expectation is almost certainly less likely to get a document from you saying that you aren't infringing, rather, to get a document that explains the defensibility of your claims where you are infringing.

Interesting to me is that I've developed a broad set of applications for various government agencies, and I've never once been asked to prove anything similar to this. I don't know if you're responding to a bid with competitors, but my (wholly uneducated) guess is that perhaps one of the competitors brought it up in an effort to smear you, and even if your IP is defensible, the extra work involved might be enough to give them a win over you.
> Is it fair to call copyright "a monopoly on an idea"?

IMHO that's a fair description of patents, but not copyright.

First reason: copyright doesn't give you a true monopoly, not in the same way that patents do. With a true monopoly over an idea, you can prevent other people from using the idea even if they came up with it independently. Patents do that, copyright doesn't.

Second, copyright - in theory, anyway - doesn't protect ideas, only a particular expression of an idea. (Again c.f. patents, which do protect ideas).

> Why do we have IP-laws? What are their purpose?

For copyright, Richard Posner (a US judge) wrote a good essay on the subject at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/IPCoop/89land1.html .
They've been around for ages - they're called a blog :)
And I think you would be surprised by how equally dispersed it is out there. For every developer that doesn't care there is at least one more who does.
> I really don't understand why people use MongoDB.

Really? When I don't want to think in databases and only on persisting my native types in my favorite programming language MongoDB is my choice. I use it only for experimenting, so I don't care about all those scalability issues.
Do you know if they support Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode? Fairly essential when doing b2c transactions with "real" goods.
There aren't "several" free Python interpreters. PyPy is still in an early stage and Jython still doesn't have a stable version supporting Python 2.7.

Golang has two different implementations (6/8g and gccgo), one of which part of the GNU project, so it's not particularly behind.
What's the difference between this and ranger.io?
Facebook generally will present the OpenGraph data from pasted links; for sites lacking it they might present the first image on the page.

It would be vast overkill to download a whole video just to present a thumbnail, and the user experience in the delay while the whole file is downloaded and processed would render the feature fairly useless.

Which leaves the question of why Facebook would do this open... It might just be really bad practice and an under-/non-optimized crawler.
As a general rule I leave education off of my resume. Also it has negative connotation for good reason. However, neither of my parents went to college so we were a little bit ignorant. Plus I didn't see how I could work full time at a University.
I can confirm that HTTP links, not just HTTPS, are visited by a Microsoft IP if you paste them in to Skype. I noticed it happening a couple of weeks ago.
It's a whole team, actually :)
"Sports science sucks"

Yep. So does nutritional science and anything else that involves measuring humans over long periods of time. It's expensive and we make lousy lab rats.
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As the above poster said, you should totally try picking up something like .NET, many financial companies use .NET, Java, or C++ for their trading systems.
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> how do we know these types of studies aren't happening right now in other countries that have more lax ethics in science?

The one truly totalitarian society left, AFAIK, is North Korea; they might be doing this.

But pretty much the easiest strategy for a centralised sports system is to just throw bodies at sports until the normal distribution gives you winners. The Chinese are finding that this works well for them.
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From the ACSM article:

"Although HICT can be an efficient means by which to improve health and decrease body fat, it may be inferior to [sic] creating absolute strength and power, specific endurance, and other specific performance variables. If these are the goals of a program, as with competitive athletes, traditional programs may elicit greater absolute gains."
Debian Linux is now Google Compute Engine's default OS
I will probably get down voted for this, but when did a monopoly that makes you pay ~80 £ (if i remember correctly) for an obligatory book is a good guy now?
Then von Danikens visitors from outer space can come back and rebuild the Mayan pyramids?
Errr... I'm not saying there isn't, and it would be very hard to put a number on it, I just wanted to point out that there does exist a large group of tech folk who actually want the sort of situation described.
Got a link? I can't get enough bike.
Yes. But insulting him makes it worse. It's toxic, and adds to the noise.
Overly attentive startup?
New Relic do this as well. Extremely irritating, made worse by the smug, overly familiar tone of the emails, which were phrased as if I'd shared a frathouse with the copywriter or something.

EDIT: just looked back through them, and that last bit about frathouses was probably overstated. It definitely felt like that at the time I received the messages though.
I'd understand that sentiment better if the item in question wasn't a human monument.
For what it's worth, "dub dub dub" as a pronounciation makes my skin crawl.
>Given that the studies done on high intensity interval training were initially done with elite athletes, I'm not certain it shows that at all.

There was a study recently released of HIIT (8s sprint/12s relax on a bike) on overweight males, showing it to bt very effective [1]. Not that I pretend to know how this relates to this program in particular.

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3375095/
So. wait. I can't actually write software for alien beings? Tease.

Anyway, agree with the sentiments personally, but not sure that's true of those who identify strongly with the moniker "programmer".
Has anyone ordered the new Raspberry Pi Camera Module?
I got this in my email this morning but haven't been able to submit an order yet. The site was down all morning and is now down again.

I was able to get in for a few minutes and load my shopping cart with only 1 unit available. Unfortunately I couldn't complete the ordering as the site went down again.

Was anyone lucky enough to successfully put in an order?
> How quaint.

Perhaps the best way to describe the condescending startup hiring culture where aspirational devs are encouraged to give up their dreams to work for yet another VC funded rocket ship that is "changing the world."

Another recent article with this attitude:

http://pandodaily.com/2013/01/01/your-2013-resolution-come-t...

My guess is developers are starting to see through this BS and realize that they very well can run their own companies.
I have never heard a tech person pronounce it "sexy" and I have never heard a marketing person /not/ pronounce it "sexy".

Tech people who've had to suffer with terminator resistors call it "scuzzy" for a reason.
People like reading about failures -- but only (a) when they hear what someone learned from the failure and (b) when the individual eventually succeeds. If you haven't succeeded yet, then the reader justifiably feels that your estimates of what-went-wrong were off the mark, so how can _she_ learn anything from it?

Unless you are really funny. Anything is forgivable when you're funny.
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Well I'm past the point of not wanting to live now, but I still really don't feel much. I feel good when I work out. I can't think about myself without feeling like a failure. Most days I try to start out thinking about positive things I have in life, but then I get to work and those all go away. My wife doesn't think I love her. I do but I just don't get any feeling in general. She caught the grill on fire and everyone else is panicing and I'm just like "whatever" put it out.
You mention that Google Analytics uses image URLs to send data and the limit is 1800 characters. It's actually 2083 characters in IE, and 20,000+ characters in other browsers. We use the image tag for similar reasons as well, and wrote a component that chunks up the data and can send out large amounts of data this way with no noticeable hit on the user's machine.
Well, to be fair it's rather easy to spot what this is doing. Looking at the last two lines of code:

assert(!setuid(0));
return execl("/bin/bash", "-sh", NULL);

It spawns a root shell, so it's (probably) a (local) privilege escalation.
Umm... My cheap linode vm toy box has 8 cores. Intel's higher tier server chips run 20 threads per chip (across 10 cores).

Heck, even a dirt cheap Dell 1U with 2x X5670 has 24 threads going.
The blog post is at least as 'passive-aggressive' as the emails, as opposed to just clicking any of the offered "stop receiving emails" links.

The concluding suggestion -- "if startups keep sending forward e-mails, everyone loses" -- isn't well-supported. Weebly probably has data that these messages work, and even testimony from other customers happy to be reminded that they should finish their website.

Against that, what weight should a single peeved power user's blog post have?
This is a waste of time. Let me explain.

After years of spinning wheels, like many others, I've found that gimmicky crap like this is just that - gimmicky crap. This may be more efficient than a 30 minute run and burn the same net amount of calories, but you'll offset the entire effect of this workout by eating a cookie. For overall health and lasting benefits you're going to need to get into a gym and pick something heavy off the ground.

As technology-minded guys who tend not to get a lot of physical exercise, we're really susceptible to people throwing around the term "scientific" to describe their exercise pitches.

Please don't waste your time with this "workout," unless of course you're so weak and fragile that it'll literally kill you to do a squat. Really look into Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe for actual good advice.

"Strong people are harder to kill than weak people, and more useful in general." - Mark Rippetoe

Edit: Btw, time comparison: spend years chasing the latest "scientific" fitness fad (see article) and going nowhere or get in better shape while working an office job than 99% of highschool/college guys in a few months for a time commitment of 2-3 hours per week. That's the kind of math I'm talking about when I talk about starting strength and leangains.
I don't know, but my dell box has a windows 7 sticker on (running Ubuntu, of course), so someone somewhere in Dell/Microsoft clearly made it worthwhile...
Within 15 minutes of setting up a https CI environment, complete with robots.txt, Googlebot was hitting the DNS name which also wasn't public or previously used or easily guessed.

All the team use Gmail and one was using Chrome.
I always though nginx was some variant of Vogon. It /never/ occured to me to pronounce it "Engine X". I've heard other people mention Engine X and never made the connection.
My guess is it works fairly well on average, and most people don't think much about it. I wonder what patio would say about this specific case?
I'm sorry to tell you that you are terribly misinformed.

Athletes get stronger with yoga, because improved flexibility helps them to do compound exercises with better form, and that allows them to activate the correct muscle groups for better leverage. In other words, they have the same muscle mass - they can just activate those muscles more effectively. This is most likely what happened to you, unless you were so unfit when you began yoga that even simple poses worked the hell out of your muscles.
"Programmer: I'll be forced to learn things outside of programming. Things like how to design, how to market and how to do customer service.

MBA: But you, are a programmer.

Programmer: I'm also a person. Programming is just one thing I do."

I graduated in business administration, and when I tell people I can actually code and have been learning how to do it for the past few years, I mostly get blank stares, which is sometimes followed by the question: "why do you learn it if you ain't a programmer? You should hire a programmer instead."

They don't get it when I explain that the programmer I would need to do the work I want done wouldn't need me as much as I would need him. They also question me why didn't I graduate in something related to programming instead of BA, as if studying something outside of your area of expertise is waste.
Someone tried putting terrorist related texts/images/videos in gmail or some other webmail to see if a third-party tries to read your information?

It's a good honeypot.
It would probably be worth switching if it wasn't just a rebranded Hotmail finally doing what GMail has already been doing since the dawn of time.
See other reply. If the docs say MongoDB "walks", it's hilarious to complain that someone obviously didn't read the docs for saying "walk", too.
Work "for" us? How about work "with" us?
It's more "Outlook: 1, Gmail: 50" lately. The new "compose" has got me angry at least twice a day.
But what if you want better memory accounting, or better isolation between users, or a different data structure, or any number of other tweaks to the page cache implementation?

Oh, I don't know, you could always write your own kernel module. Considering I used to work on a kernel module that hooked the IRQ calls to implement hard RT, I'm not convinced that the kernel is that constraining. If you really feel constrained by the kernel, you could do without and go bare metal. Even if you don't want to do that, you've still got tons of other possibilities (the BSDs, any of the OSS microkernels, etc, etc). At least you've got those options with FLOSS kernels; I'd like to see how far you can get with changes to a closed source kernel, or worse, some hardware that's locked down to "keep you safe from malicious code".

As for the approval process of Linux patches, there's good reason for that, and other FLOSS kernels are just as (if not more) picky. The truth is, the Linux kernel has probably had more use cases thrown at it than any other software, ever. It's not perfect, nor heavily optimized towards any particular configuration; but it's highly configurable, and with a bit of tweaking (which would take less time and be less error prone than going bare metal), you can almost always get an acceptable solution to your problem.

Some cases where routing around the kernel are of genuine interest and necessary; most of the time, though, I far too often hear of programmers blaming others for performance problems that they haven't run a profiler on (if they've even heard of profiling).
I don't see people using yoga alone to win powerlifting contests or Olympic medals in weightlifting. That makes me suspect that perhaps yoga's ability to elicit strength adaptations is limited by leverage and bodyweight.

Edit: I agree with you that weights are not the only way to elicit adaptation. But they're easy to scale up in small increments and a lot of the movements don't require much in the way of skill acquisition.
You can download Firefox 21 right now; official launch is tomorrow
One thing I learned from an honest manager: He felt his managerial position was more at risk than his position as a developer.
I got this in my email this morning but haven't been able to submit an order yet. The site was down all morning and is now down again.

I was able to get in for a few minutes and load my shopping cart with only 1 unit available. Unfortunately I couldn't complete the ordering as the site went down again.

Was anyone lucky enough to successfully put in an order?
Not for now, but they should. The problem is that you need to take your customer to another site and that screws all the transparency (Doing everything in just one site) and simplicity that you have right now.
>>A lot of people don't ever get a trainer to show them the right way to do things and get hurt.

Man, don't even get me started on trainers...
Well Java doesn't generally segfault either... until you start referencing external libraries ( freetype.dll , serial_comms.dll, swt.lib )

I presume Go ( CGO ) will have to deal with segfaults too, and I'd like to understand what it does.
Ruby has an ISO standard.
How was the evaluation process that led to using MongoDB in the first place?

At some point you must have compared it to, say, Postgres – which is what the section before the summary hints to.
Debuggify is all about tracking problems when users using you website in live environment and help developers to fix them as well. Its can be called Crashalytics for Javacsript driven applications

Whereas Ranger.io seems to monitor URLs, if the url doesnot open it will report
You obviously cannot prove a negative to start with, but in the interests of being non-confrontational, you should just come out and ask what they are looking for in this proof.

I was once asked to prove that future litigation had already been dealt with (my reaction: WTF???) before somebody bought something from me. It turns out they were looking for a specific certification, which was easy enough to obtain.

The point being, they had asked the question in such an odd way, that it just confused rather than communicated.

Just ask them what they expect to receive from you in the way of proof, or that would be acceptable proof, and then go about getting it.
Even though I agree, the author could have simply clicked the "unsubscribe" if he wasn't interested.
Gammification of Healthy Eating
Not in the slightest. I just didn't want to spell out each heading (I just threw out the ones obvious to me). If I'd said "etc" instead of "blah" would you still have picked on it? (I sometimes use those interchangeably when speaking).

In any case, the actual structure I'd use would evolve over time, based on my experience of such meetings.
It is "boring" -- absolutely. It is almost insanely so at times (even when solving complex problems). The number of times you get to feel insanely clever is very low.

But, that output / work product is -- and a huge part of Go's value is around the EDGES of a system (build, standard formatting, deploys, etc)
The work FOR us theme is present throughout. I'd guess it was intentional...
>>As technology-minded guys who tend not to get a lot of physical exercise, we're really susceptible to people throwing around the term "scientific" to describe their exercise pitches.

Actually, the headline is targeted towards people who know very little science. Tech folks like us approach things like this with a great deal of skepticism. I bet more than half the posters in this thread have at least skimmed the study on which the article is based. You can't really expect the general populace to be so inquisitive.
I have no doubt that you have gained significant strength doing yoga. It should be noted that the poses in yoga do involve holding bodyweight, and the increasing complexity and difficulty of the various poses involves progressively more bodyweight resistance per muscle group.

There is no question that intensity can be achieved without weights. I believe what the gentleman was referring to is the science of building significant strength increases over a fit level of baseline strength.

The science on this one is very much settled, courtesy of the not very ethical, but scientifically valid, studies from the Soviet Union in the height of the Cold War.

The science is this:

Lower # of reps at 80 - 90% of a weight you can only lift once builds strength most effieciently.

As you progress up the curve to higher reps at 60%, you are still building strength, but not as efficiently, and you are moving more towards increasing endurance.

Endurance, of course, is most efficiently gained with high # of reps at low percentages. However, this will typically be at the expense of raw strength.

Note: For people who are not at all fit, with atrophied muscles, strength will be gained very easily from almost any use of their muscles, high reps or not.
Uh good luck even getting an interview at those places without a 3.8+ gpa from an Ivy league school. They also tend to test you pretty hard during the interview so if you get nervous you are screwed.