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You (deliberately contrarian for the sake of it?)dickhead. The character already was a tomboy (or rather, a female wanting to control her own outcomes in life).

Normally I try not to insult people, and just attack their argument, but sometimes it's just really justified.

Edited: To insert "deliberately contrarian", to specify the behaviour prompting the insult. It's not the person, it's the action. All happy now? :)
It seems like one of the common things going on right now is the confiscation of the cellphones.

Are there any apps that take video and then immediately upload it to youtube or (better) a password protected site for later retrieval?
In many possible cases: Yes.
If you can't scale beyond the team you have, you haven't created a business, you've created a job.

This meme has little entanglement with reality. A one-man consultancy's chief concerns are almost entirely alien to a W-2 employee's chief concerns: as a W-2 employee your chief economic objectives are work-performance, as a consultancy your chief economic objectives are almost certainly external to the actual delivery of your professional skills. A one-man consultancy can unilaterally offer themselves a pay-raise of 25%+ every 6 months if market conditions support it; this happens in vanishingly few salaried jobs. A one-man consultancy can build intellectual and other forms of capital which are absurdly portable; this is possible as a salaried employee but their access to capital formation is markedly inferior. (For example, it is exceptionally difficult as a salaried employee to licitly walk away with your employer's take on your core job function and then implement it for competitors. That's pretty much the default in consultancies, and deviating from it costs the client extra money.) A consultancy has significant work-related expenses in a way that a salaried employee does not. A consultancy has a vastly more complicated tax, compliance, insurance/risk-mitigation, etc etc, situation than a similarly situated employee.

Perhaps most relevant to someone who thinks headcount is the only meaningful way to scale things: a consultancy, even a one-man consultancy, even a one-man consultancy which outside observers believe is impossible of maturity required to scale, has a permanent call option on growing headcount.
They may have been, but then they put lead in everything. Since then everyone has been dumb.
I think his point is not that the world isn't biased against women, it's just that it's obviously not biased against Sandberg, so it's surprising that she's so confident in preaching about this bias.
I agree that you could probably charge considerably more for this, though I also agree with the poster in another thread about support expectations for a more business-class-priced piece of software.

You could do both: Keep selling the $45 version that maybe includes access to a general support forum, but sell a $299 version with premium support for one year. Then sell renewals for support agreements! It'll be worth it to most businesses to avoid the headaches of having to deal with self-hosted software on their own, and you'll have a good source of recurring income from existing customers.
Who wanted this, though? All I see is backlash, not praise.
Thanks - this is definitely a side project. All of my projects start out as side projects. I'm not as fortunate as some to get funding for ideas.

I'm a huge Instagram user (I created Pinstagram) and I would see a lot of people posting quotes. Quotes is also another passion of mine. I love inspiring quotes and I see a lot of people sharing them so the idea of mashing 2 of my favorite passions - photos (instagram) and quotes seemed really natural.

Future plans include mostly refining the product - adding more quotes, improving the UX, providing more themes (as in app purchase as well as free).

Challenges include:
marketing in the app store
social media marketing
getting users / downloads
making sure I build something people want
Yes, thank you. I think I got the gist.

Vega comes with "free" PNG and Canvas support, which is useful to me.
If you want to maximize entropy, you want to avoid collisions.

Say we're taking strings of one or two words, picked randomly. With spaces, there's an equal chance of any string that can be generated. Without spaces, "therapist" has twice the chance of the typical string, which is some information an attacker could exploit.
I'm not a fan of app servers; I'd rather segment my running applications. I use maven-shade or sbt-assembly to create an executable .jar with an embedded web server. (Also makes it easier to just provide a runtime interface with jsvc.)
Newt Gingrich’s Embarrassingly Asking To Rename Cell Phones
Looks like work has started on the underlying connector: https://bitbucket.org/ged/ruby-pg/issue/161/add-support-for-...
Well, they certainly might've had better grammar than us. “Cleverer” my foot.
So, even though the government can snoop on us, we shouldn't stop using CAs, because then the government could snoop on us.

With TACK you depend on CAs to establish the initial connection, set up a "pin", and then no longer rely on the CA for future connections. That initial connection is fungible by a MITM, so it's not secure. We need a term for connections that are "probably" secure, but for which there is no complete assurance of security, which is what any connection based around a CA really is.

This is why the postcard method is superior. Unless someone spends the time to intercept every anonymous postcard with a secret code on it, rewrite the message with perfect imitation handwriting, and send it on to the unknown P.O. box, without more than a couple days delay, it's next to impossible to circumvent this initial key exchange. For those that need real privacy I would recommend this method; for those that just want to order Jolt Cola on an open wifi connection, CAs are good enough.
Yeah, it's not clear. Does the browser eventually create a vector or just work out a png itself?
Thanks for checking it out! While the view/history/router related code should be okay just sitting there unused, I agree that does seem like a bit of a code smell. I know Jeremy has been against modularizing Backbone in the past, and there is something to be said about keeping everything packaged nicely together in a single file - though maybe something like this would change his mind.

It's definitely something I'll begin to look into a bit, possibly splitting up the Backbone components into a separate library specifically for Bookshelf, similar to lodash's custom build process. If you have any ideas for a good way to go about this, feel free to open a ticket.
What I appreciate about so-called flat design is that's low-key by nature, and by not calling attention to itself (no bezels, few gradients, border colors, etc.) it can - when used correctly - get out of the way and let the user focus on content. E.g. https://dispatch.io

An example of the opposite is so-called good design, where skilled designers set out to make a visual statement and, in the process, obfuscate the content. E.g. this site, where every article is more than half-buried by a ginormous image: http://www.fastcodesign.com
Why would they reject such a notion? Plant patents have been around for a long time (since the 30s). Honeycrisp apples (which are a product of the university of minnesota) and Maui Gold pineapples, for example, are IP-protected organisms.

You can't patent organisms, in general. You can, however patent plant varietals that are the product of breeding programs. For the supreme court to overturn this would be a very edgy violation of the separation of powers. The constitution gives congress the authority to define IP and set copyright and patenting law, not the supreme court.
It's actually not justified. There's always a way to let someone know that they are wrong without resorting to childish name-calling.

Hell, I'm autistic and even I know that.
The cues are a result of depth. You have given them up, by-definition when you use a flat design.

edit:
To enumerate some of the affordances you lose and problems:

-What is a button? What can I interact with? A raised button used to be a good cue.

-Is that toggle on or off (depressed or no)?

-What is clickable?

-What is important? Closer things used to be more important.

-Is this a "thing" or a word? Shadows used to hint at this.

-Is this a banner or a button?

-What did I click? I don't even know!

Non-flat designs work because they use real world metaphors to build a natural vocabularly that is almost universally understood by our common experiences living in a 3D world. Now, perhaps you can re-define this naturally shared design vocabulary in the flat world. But the point is, you are redefining something which people intuitively already know, and when you have to teach users your interface, that is never as friendly as when they know how to use it intuitively.
While not a big fan of the movie, my impression was the character trait expressed was self-determination. I'm not even sure what you mean by "tomboy" as she was still a feminine character.
With the outrage over Monsanto's patenting, why have we not had a kickstarter to develop an "opensource" alternative to roundup resistant seeds? (ala http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/antonyevans/glowing-plan... )
The whole point of ethics is to know when to say "no" to giving people what they say they want. It's kind of like a "constitutional democracy." The constitution exists to limit the things a people can say they want.
Well, except that we don't pay as much attention to every human being.
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I don't think your question can be answered from this case.

The farmer here had signed an agreement with Monsanto, and knew the second hand seeds he was buying were covered by Monsanto's patent.

If the farmer had never signed an agreement with Monsanto the case may have turned out differently.
Another benefit of hiring a (good) sales manager is that they have mastered walking this tightrope and know how to prioritize client requests and set expectations, both for clients (timelines) and you (expected capacity).
While I agree with the creator's point...

Taking a step back from this, you have to ask "how could this have happened?"

Chances are that her original contract lets Disney do this. I wouldn't be surprised if she signed away the rights (for sequels and merchandise) to the movie's characters to Disney/Pixar in her contract. Several years ago, Disney dangled the fact that they could release crappy Toy Story sequels over Pixar when they were renegotiating the renewal of their deal.

In fact, I doubt this movie would have been made had she not signed away those rights, and I assume her lawyer let her know what the real-world implications of that would have been.

In other words, I don't know how she couldn't have seen this coming. While she might have assumed the best in Disney, she had a small part in letting this happen.
If you start a similar forum based on the mid-growth/mid-risk sector that VCs deride as "lifestyle businesses", I will be there.

I'd like to see a continued interest in the "big ideas" and technological advancement, without the big-money obsessions that make our generation so exploitable. Real machine-learning work == made of awesome. $850 million acquisition == who gives a fuck?
Detroit's RoboCop statue emerges
Read the second paragraph of the introduction.
This decision rests on the common, but arbitrary view that different generations of organisms are different things, when they can instead be viewed as all the same entity. Of course, that view is not very popular, and would completely destroy any hope of collecting meaningful royalties from non-sterile genetically modified organisms.

This unanimous decision by SCOTUS shows a sickening lack of appreciation for the complexity of the problem. We need more creative and forward-thinking people interpreting our laws.
OMG you're so right!

I never noticed before that in the vast majority of societies throughout history and today men are effectively second class citizens. Remember how long it took for men to get the vote! And how in some cultures men are effectively the property of their wives! And there are those religious courts where they simply state that a man's statement doesn't count for as much as a woman's statement!

I've got a million of these. It doesn't matter how many long-winded, carefully constructed points to the contrary are raised; every day I see women ignored, overlooked, and unconsciously stepped around in a way that happens far, far less frequently to men. The very fact that the counter-argument has to be carefully constructed is itself damning when compared to the simplicity and ease of verifying what it opposes.
Yes, that is exactly what I am saying. The current CA situation is bad, the "abandon the CAs and come up with an interim plan" solution is worse.

Meanwhile, the world in which most of the mainstream browsers support TACK is imperfect, but immediately better than what we have now. TACK also sets us up to continue decoupling ourselves from the CA system.
I understand it's all algorithmic and there will be some truly innocent collateral damage involved but Google wouldn't be pushing this out if they didn't feel the overall quality of search would increase.

Most of the collateral damage is going to be people straddling the grey hat line and rightly so in my own opinion.
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I thought programming community is so bad for being trend-chasing, UI designing is even worse, which is basically a fashion industry. Come on, why does everything has to be flat, it's not the DOS era in 80's, you have access to gigabytes of video memory and extremely powerful graphics cards.

Can't stand the group-thinking of designers. Where is your creativity?
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In the quote about right-handed men, I think you missed the following parenthetical phrase: "(and as noted below (Ioannidis), this result is itself probably false)"? It's not (A and ~A), it's the same thing in both statements (i.e. published studies aren't reliable).
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Disney pasteurizes another princess before adding her to its roster. How is that news?
It's that Merida (the character) is fiercely independent and as-drawn, is closer in appearance to a real girl. The "new" look trashes all that and is a retread of all the current Disney princess tropes.

In other words, she now looks like she was designed by a committee.

"Need to lose the bow - we don't want to promote weapons."
"Can we change her eyes to look more oriental? We need to appeal more to the Chinese market."
"Why is her dress so dull? Can we liven it up with some sparkles & gold?"
"check all constraints and report all failures"

Interesting point. Foreign key failures are usually the result of a program bug. Unique and exclusion[1] constraints depend on concurrent actions, and can't be caught ahead of time as easily. So I assume you are mostly talking about CHECK constraints.

Also, we're talking about a single statement, which probably means a single table.

It does sound like a good idea to validate all of the check constraints on a table at once, and report all of the failures.

[1] http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/ddl-constraint...
I'll take my "more clever", and head back to the 1800s I suppose.
I think there's an element here that has a lot of relevance to HN, although it's not called out in the headline: The seizure of phones. I think we all understand that the evidence on those phones will never see the light of day, and that nobody will ever be prosecuted for its destruction. But it would be easy to prevent that outcome -- just ensure that the evidence is transmitted to the cloud before it can be destroyed. There are already apps that do this, but the ones I've seen aren't designed for a life-or-death situation, and can't be counted on to do it reliably. Do we have any that can?
I could really use UPSERT.

I'm using postgresql right now.

My use case: I could have a table like:

create table items (id uuid primary key, attributes json);

I'd have a webapp using javascript for adding/editing new items. If the user wants to add a new item, the client code would generate the uuid.

Editing and adding new rows would both use the same UPSERT/MERGE code -- no need for separate insert or update statements -- if the uuid already exists, it's assumed to be an update, if it doesn't, it's inserted as a new row.
#group is an Arel method that generates a SQL 'GROUP BY' clause in the resulting statement, not part of chartkick or mongoid.
Ah, I suspect you have learned a set of social rules that allow you to function in society despite your autism, and one such rule is "don't insult people".

I applaud your efforts and I nonetheless disagree. Sometimes, it's justified.
Report: AT&T Discontinuing HTC First After Facebook Home Fails To Impress
I assume by "people" you mean "marketing weasels" because everyone I've talked to about this either finds somewhere between incredibly tasteless and a sexist attack on women.
If you have one specialized need (i.e. one specific path for packets to travel), then it is just as valid an approach to trash every other path.

To turn your own question around: Why bother trying to optimize a stack that contains a lot of stuff you don't strictly need? The talk doesn't deal with general-purpose servers that perform multiple roles; it says "if you have a singular role, here is how you hyper-optimize to support that role at a huge scale."
The way girls use Google Glass
"Cleverer" is absolutely correct:

http://oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/clever
I particularly like how rapidly the comments go off the rails; the second or third one when I read the article was about Benghazi and Erdoğan's Neo-Ottoman ambitions.

Ah, the internet.
What about Google Play Music?
We'll never know, because it's behind a pay wall. It's hard to consider the cause of the supposed effect without access to the methodology used.
need a slime implementation please.
It's already pretty trivial to set up a standard IMAP client and sync all your mail to your desktop. Some clients even support GMail's labels so you don't have to deal with that. (Each "label" shows up as a different IMAP folder, so normally you end up with a copy of each email for each label you give it.)
Forget vinyl, engineer produces the world's first records made from wood
Alas, I don't have paid access to the Elsevier racket.
Show HN: HireYard - a free applicant tracking system
I worked on this in my last weeks - it's a simple applicant tracking system where employers can add jobs, display them on their careers page, receive applications, send challenges, etc....

I would appreciate any feedback - thanks!
And you can't read from the matview while it's being updated, iirc.
BOWMAN v. MONSANTO CO. ET AL.
Bill Gates Details Last Moments With Steve Jobs: We Grew Up Together
Point taken, however, would you say the same if your client, who has some programming experience, takes your code, mucks it up and deviates from the original vision? I don't think so. Especially when this is a moral issue more than it is a visionary issue.

While legalities are always complex, you can't push the blame on her for not expecting Disney to screw it up.
I guess this was a link-bait tongue-in-cheek response to all the Show HN posts that look like I'm 14 and this is my first iphone app etc etc.
For what it's worth, we've been in the same position lately of being pretty booked up, but we took the approach they're suggesting from the beginning.

No matter how busy we are, I never say "no" to an opportunity to talk or sit down to coffee with new people, whether they be a potential client or just someone seeking advice. I'll even go through the discovery phase and estimate/quote out their project, and only after the quote do I bring up our timeline. Most of the time, they are fine with the timeline (though I've always found a way to make it sooner than "next year", usually a few months out at most). If they need it doen sooner, then I'll find a way to get it done with our partners by sub-contracting. The rest have been fine with that. If they weren't, then I'd simply help them find someone else who can do it.

It's worked pretty well so far. But I can attest, it is very hard to go talk with someone for an hour when you know there's actual work you should be doing. I feel the same way though when I'm doing taxes or keeping our books. They have to be done. You just do it anyway.
I don't believe you're reading it correctly. (IAAL). Yes, he had a license that allowed him to grow the crop, but that does not change the fact that Monsanto was suing him for patent infringement, not breach of contract.

Typically when you exceed the scope of your license, the appropriate cause of action if for infringement, not breach of contract. The idea is that all the license does is to grant permission to do x where it would otherwise be prohibited by law. X here is to grow a crop but not replant the seeds harvested from it. There is no need to go farther in the contract and prohibit replanting because the premise of the license agreement is that everything not covered by the agreement is already illegal ex ante.
Would linux accept those patches?
Chapman fumed. "When little girls say they like it because it's more sparkly, that's all fine and good but, subconsciously, they are soaking in the sexy 'come hither' look and the skinny aspect of the new version. It's horrible! Merida was created to break that mold — to give young girls a better, stronger role model, a more attainable role model, something of substance, not just a pretty face that waits around for romance."

That seems to indicate they tested it, and it performs better. The pushback seems to be from people whose agendas aren't being served.
I don't agree in this case, because OP is setting up a false premise: if you are opposed to corporate makeover, you're "manipulating girls to be tomboys" which is patently ridiculous. OP is in fact a dickhead this time.
Do choose them carefully, though. A routine traffic stop is one thing (but only if it's 100% routine, i.e. you know what you did, and you've got nothing interesting in the car, and the cop doesn't ask to search, or ask you to get out.)

Beyond that ... best to play it safe.
Let's say the NSA's chip fab is 10 years out of date - the same technologies as an Athlon XP "3000+" 2.1 GHz CPU with a 70 watt TDP. Worked just fine in a lot of consumer desktop PCs.

If they needed a lower TDP, couldn't they just drop the clock rate and use wider features for lower gate leakage?
This is my biggest problem with Penguin. No website controls who links to them. Google should do a better job at discounting/ignoring spammy links, rather than penalize a website with spammy links. It's essentially the same thing, though one is easier to come back from.
The fact that her negociating power wasn't strong enough to prevent this from happening doesn't mean she can't be loudly unhappy about it and try to protect her original vision in the press.
The silent majority who paid for the movie and didn't complain about it on the internet afterwards.