skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not to undermine your point at all - as the US is guilty many times over of doing terrible things in the name of overthrowing governments - but Democracy != good. Just because people can vote, doesn't mean they won't vote in evil leaders. The US elected Nixon, Bush, and Obama, after all.
> People pay Pandora for music customized to their personal taste. From the musician's point of view, that makes it less effective than radio at reaching new listeners.

More effective, I'd argue; sure, its likely that a smaller percentage of the Pandora listeners are new listeners, but the targeting of Pandora stations is more focussed better than radio so a larger percentage of the Pandora listeners that are new listeners are likely to become fans.
Post ends with "While talent may be distributed everywhere, that kind of serendipity is the most concentrated in Silicon Valley."

Um...
The pledge is not teaching, it is brainwashing. If you value the notion of a free society (and I am sure that you do) then you should be able to teach that appreciation (and I am sure that you could, if you tried). Explain to them why it is something to be valued, don't merely have them accept it as axiomatic by having them repeat it ad nauseam.

Also, the pledge is absolutely to a particular government; I don't know how that could be any more clear.
Fair enough, but actually your other point doesn't stand either because the prevailing understanding is that the keybag mechanism allows the clients to detect and report when another device is provisioned, and that the password is needed to join a new device to the keybag.

Therefore although Apple could add another device to the communication protocol, without the password another device cannot be added to the encryption session, or without alerting the end user.
To be clear, I think that IE can be a good complement to advertising in some industries and use cases, but I think it's a poor wholesale replacement.
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This is a pretty good article and cuts at the heart of the "readability" vs "understandability" debates I see. If we decide reading code is an O(N) problem, where N = number of lines, then his argument makes sense and you might just argue about the constant factor (he states 5, I bet it is closer to 20) between understanding a Java code base and understanding a Clojure code base. But the real issue might be that understanding a Clojure codebase as is O(N log N) or possibly O(N^2) if there are lots of interactions and lots of new syntactical constructs.

Has anyone ever measured a Reading Comprehension score for languages?
For me these are three different classes. A good team needs all three of them. And in no way does this mean 'progress' from one level to the other.

A hacker is an explorer, using, exploiting and playing with new technologies, finding quick solutions, often a bit too bored to implement and debug them, but at the forefront of your development process. Their motivation is the fun of playing with new systems, often you can't motivate them with money. They love the chaos that new stuff brings.
An engineer is the overall architect, ensuring the system overall's flow and creating the tie between your teams roles. They love order and structure.
A developer is the person who implements the elements of the structure that the architect designed. They are trustworthy and can sit down from 9-5 to do boring code work. They often love clean implementations and efficiency.
Then you haven't explained how Apple could join another device to the encryption session without the user's password.
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Did any of these changes get merged back into upstream GNUStep?
This is indeed a cool idea. Of course there are some of us who like the un-styled (or rather uniquely styled) crap from the early 90s as well ;)

I certainly appreciate the simplicity and it may be good to keep this to a limited number of tags.

Article, section, footer, aside maybe. And form elements, form, select, input (text, password, email, search) and textarea. And text, p, a, h1-h6, blockquote, ul, ol, li.
The concept of curating all the basic knowledge of Rails into 3 hours is interesting, but his sales page does not tell you exactly what he covers.
If you are not willing to drop 40 dollars on an unknown product, Michael Hartl's free book is more than good enough for anyone. If you can make a Twitter clone, then you have the basis for making any sort of application.
Incidentally, I'd imagine the same technology, methodologies, and infrastructure used for planning and optimizing shipping routes (first by UPS/FedEx, now Amazon) would be very applicable in this arena.
For me, it's orders of magnitude more efficient to try out a new technology than to read a book. For example, I recently took on a more advanced Arduino project. Knowing very little about electrical engineering, I've been making slow tangible progress, but immense intellectual progress.

I usually end up seeking out reference material to supplement my experimentation, but by far most of my learning comes from actually "building something using the technology".
Still they deserve credit for coming around. Better that they do that then stick to a wrong position. Criticize them when they do the wrong thing, but not when they do the right thing.
It's tremendously idiotic. It makes sense for him to go to countries likely to push back on the U.S. extradition request. He went to Hong Kong for reasons which made sense, then left while they temporarily resisted extraditing. He went to Russia with plans to meet with ambassadors from at least one other country, and that plan was arranged by Wikileaks. Now it's not publicly known where he is, and it may not be in Russia anymore.

I'm not supporting these countries at all as having great governments, but to say that he is a supporter of them because he isn't openly criticizing them while they're helping him is just stupid.
I'm not a huge fan of the Valley having lived there for a long time and moved away however.......what the Valley does really well is understand very quickly when something new and revolutionary is afoot. That's the difference between picking the next 100 bagger or being a sheep. Github is a rapidly growing company hiring some of the best talent globally in a game changing way - and so far it's going against all the "common perceptions" about how you build and scale out a startup. I'd say watch this space closely.
Which they seemed to fix pretty quickly, mainly by migrating to keyczar.
You said it yourself; "full spectrum dominance". Why should any military fight another military on even odds if they can bring overwhelming force? Iraq certainly had a military composed of persons other than peasants, otherwise it wouldn't have been in Kuwait!

> Meanwhile, the US just shoots down an civilian airliner and refuses to even say sorry

But the U.S. did pay reparations. The U.S. should apologize, certainly. But what does that have to do with "wars not involving conquest", which is what I thought you were talking about?

Either way I don't see why you're having to resort to personal attacks.
Darwin includes a separate kernel and binary image format.

The question is the Sony OS using regular ELFs and the FreeBSD kernel with modules, or did they replace it entirely as well.
AppScale Launches As An Open-Source Backup Equivalent To Google App Engine
If someone wanted to build a PS4 ABI, much like how Wine works, there's a small chance that you could - but most likely not.
US Gov maintains lots of exit nodes as well as other related network infrastructures to make sure they're ... hmmm.. not the last to know ...
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Yep. We elect bad guys in large part because our democracy is flawed. At a minimum we need approval voting to loosen the stranglehold the two major parties have on us.
I think you make really good points. I'd turn it around though a little. GitHub can break the mold (scale a startup/grow a team) where others have failed partly because it's in the DNA in their product. But once they show how it's done it'll be modifiable/repeatalbe and usable by folks focused on other markets.
Not really - it just means they aren't very efficient at monetizing music. Why should artists subsidize a channel that devalues their art?
World of Warcraft seems to struggle on (its UI is built of Lua)
The Psychology of the Man of Steel
A better title:

"How I didn't know how to under-promise."

I did freelance web design in high school (nothing fancy, HTML/CSS with stuff that clients thought was fancy in 2006, like Lightbox and RSS) and after my second client, where a five-page photography portfolio turned into a Frankenstein's monster of a PHP web-app held together by duct tape and invalid code, I realized two things:

1. There is never such a thing as being too specific.

2. Bill hourly.
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Codea (ios) is also nice. My first forays into Lua were hacking WoW UI components.
Come to Seattle if you're not already here, sounds like it would be right up your alley.
And thousands of unknown/unsigned artists getting discovered and kicking off their careers.

This has to be balanced against the (probably greater) number of people whose careers fizzled or stalled because so many smaller labels went out of business in a short period. File sharing and streaming has been a disaster for lots of less well-known genres that don't necessarily support large tours. Serious electronic music (as supposed to 'Superstar DJ' BS) has only recently started to put up green shoots in the US, and I'm not sure how long that's going to last: the largest importer/distributors of dance music on the East & West Coast of the US went out of business this spring and nobody is even willing to bid on the liquidation stock: http://www.ebay.com/itm/261230689524?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEWAX...

Next time you read some gushing article about the resurgence of vinyl think about those 70,000 records ending up in landfill.
Read. Build. Repeat.
Your condescension does nothing to further your argument. And I'm quite happy with what I teach my children about their country--warts and all. I was simply replying to the GP about the pledge. If you don't like my opinion I don't care and you can go pound sand.
MS Word or Word Viewer to see the specification? Really?

Good to see nothing ever really changes in Redmond.
The app is simple enough that it seems within the realm of possibility that it would take less time to build it using the web thereby getting support for many more operating systems for free.
> A multitude of accepted methodologies using scores of independent datasets from various fields overwhelmingly produce results consistent with anthropogenic global warming.

Of course they do. That doesn't mean there's no error cascade surrounding our understanding of what this means.

That past human activity has produced some amount of warming is a pretty uninteresting factoid. In fact, it's trivially true in that land-use patterns alone can have a measurable impact on temperature - you don't even need a theory relating to CO2 to establish that there has been some "anthropogenic global warming" (still less to find that data is merely "not inconsistent with" this notion).

But when alarmists raise alarm, they have something very different in mind. They believe that the warming rate and/or level is unprecedented in human history, that warming has been a bad thing and is likely to produce net negative impacts in the near term. They tend to think it is sensible to talk about "climate sensitivity" having a single value and that this value is high - at least 3 degrees per doubling. All of those are debatable points, and it's wrong to assume scientists agree on them based on their agreement with a much more vaguely defined "consensus view" that humans have caused some undefined amount of warming.

> If something like this is there to be found, it would have been found by now.

Several such things have been found. The post I linked to mentioned a few. The ongoing efforts to hide or minimize the MWP (and thereby show recent temperatures to be "unprecedented") is the usual example, perhaps best documented on ClimateAudit.org .
I did this on my first real consulting gig on a state contract. We were on a roll kicking ass working 10-12 hour days and we blew through the requirements in the first deliverable a month early. When you're going like that you don't want to stop.

Rather than taking it in and showing them. The lead decided that we should just start in on the second deliverable.

We busted out most of the work there before the meeting began regarding the first deliverable.

When we went in to the meeting we were shocked to see that everyone who had written up the requirements had quit and moved on to other jobs. The task had fallen to other employees who wanted to completely change the direction of the application. While the first deliverable did not change. All the work we had done on the second was worthless.

After that I never again worked 12 hour days while on schedule and I never again did anything ahead of schedule that wasn't a 100% sure thing.
They shouldn't of course. The point being made was that Pandora isn't laughing all the way to the bank.
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This is silly. Built with web technologies you'd get most of those for free. This isn't facebook, the app is simple enough that the web is viable platform for delivery.
In the senate it's not the case since each state currently elects twelve senators each, and each territory two.
Since there are a greater number of people being elected from the same pool, it's more likely that a minor party candidate will be elected to the senate.

On the other hand, in the house of representatives you're most likely going to get a candidate from one of the major parties since most people preference them first.
That's a really good point I hadn't thought about. I'm trying to imagine the career path of someone who just wanted to be a hacker. How would they progress?

Also, would you say most engineers started out as hackers, or do you think it's possible to jump straight through the levels.
I don't know, our two kittens (now grown) make the stinkiest poop imaginable. We scoop them up right after they do it, but they still manage to stink the whole apartment up. I don't know why that happens, they only eat pate/dry food, but it does.
Electing bad guys (which itself is kind of a ambiguous term - what metrics and who gets to choose the metrics?) is a risk of democracy.

It's kind of like seedless watermelon - if you want rich, succulent aka "good" watermelon you have to put up with the occasional seed. If you want a guarantee of no seeds then you have to accept a watermelon that doesn't taste anywhere near as "good" - maybe it is passable but it certainly isn't good.

That's not to say that democracy can't be perverted, just that it can't be perfect.
Having hired many software development firms for projects, I expect the project manager to ensure the consulting team is not working inhumane hours and to push back if I ask for too much, too soon. Healthy push back should normally come in the form of "What you want will take an extra developer, an extra month, an extra $20k, etc." and let me decide if I still want to do it. If the firm fails, then I fail, so I never intentionally do things to undermine the consultant, but I am also not perfect and depend on honest communication from them. Also, a project done ahead of schedule is not as helpful as it seems. Even if the consultant is done early, it doesn't always mean that I can start my next milestone early.
Why is it so hard to imagine building this with web technologies. The app is simple enough and then many more platforms would be supported by default

My argument is that there simply isn't any reason to make this a native app and by doing so they are limiting their reach.
Here's PDF version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/dt6xzum432zine0/CSharp%20Language%...
You know... Most prisons in the US (non-maximum security) are more like hotels with free gyms, TVs, college class work, and Internet. Some of them where the non-violent white collar criminals go are seen almost (jokingly of course) as resorts. I disagree with your statement.
In my school, one had the option of remaining silent, a few people would opt --I even did once in a while, for kicks, no one gave me any flak.

That being said, it's trivial compared to the conditioning they do in Japanese schools. I.e. all the loudspeaker commands throughout school and the environment.

On, on a positive note, at least it's to a country (ideals) rather than a Queen.
I see it the way you do. I mean, it's not like we have 136Mbps pipes connected to our houses (with the exception of google fiber), but even if someone did.. most public facing servers will be limited to 100Mbps anyways.
Over-deliver doesn't mean "deliver early." It means deliver better quality.
I am not saying you can't ignore visual appeal at all. I'm just saying that visual appeal should serve to enhance the hook, and when well done it really makes a great total package, but the design itself is not the hook.

For example, modern PC laptops basically are ripping off the design of the Macbook Air, with varying results. Yet, one thing Apple does consistently well is the trackpad and somehow in almost every review I read, the trackpad of every PC laptop doesn't match well with the MBA. They never feel right, even if they look very, very similar. It might feel like a very small thing, but that little bit of hardware design and software drivers changes how the user feels about what might otherwise look like comparable hardware.

At the same time, I don't mean to discount the design or graphics when done well. A game like Borderlands takes a great gameplay experience with a fantastic hook (random loot drops/rpg elements), and the graphics helps add a vibe all its own. A different graphical style and it would look like a different take on Gears of War, Fallout 3, or Call of Duty...

Anyway, I think we are on the same page.
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There actually are a few "average-case complete" problems. The field was started with this 1986 paper: http://epubs.siam.org/doi/abs/10.1137/0215020

It's true that we don't seem to know how to build a cryptosystem out of them. Part of it is that a cryptosystem needs something stronger than average-case complete, a property more like every instance being hard (possibly excluding trivially easy instances that can be detected and filtered out).
I have been doing bi-weekly talks about new technologies that I have never used before for my meetup group in San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/apidiscovery/

The way I've been learning, is to do a quick getting started to get the gist of the new technology, and then read through the documentation. What I have realized is that by reading the documentation, you get to really understand that technology you want to learn.

Good Luck!
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You are using the total amount paid to songwriters for pandora ($42) but only the amount paid to him for AM/RM Radio ($1500). Your math is wrong.
FeedDemon is my replacement. It's a Windows program, not web based and there is no phone app, but I'm perfectly happy with it so far. It's free now but to be honest I would have paid it.
The industry also provides marketing, administrative, and editorial services that are extremely valuable. Artists aren't necessarily good at self-promotion, accountancy, sound engineering etc. etc. Bands usually have managers because they're good at making music, not tour management and so on.
According to Sony's licensing page, the PS3's OS is based on FreeBSD 8.2:

http://www.scei.co.jp/ps3-license/

They've also apparently used FreeBSD on the PS Vita:

http://www.scei.co.jp/psvita-license/
Q Last thing on this. The administration was obviously embarrassed when you had a 29-year-old person as contractor just leak all these documents in the first place. Is the administration embarrassed now that you can’t track him down, that he’s -- this cat-and-mouse game that’s going on for all the world to see?

...

Q Is the President enraged? You know -- like really angry? -- like throwing around stuff? Like the throwing of that bronze horsie statue -- in the oval office?
I own radio stations. We pay about $0.50 per song played in music rights fees over the course of a year.

Those 20,000 plays are worth a solid $8k to $12k in music fees. (my stations are about industry average in terms of sales; rights fees are based on a % of sales, so the fees can be dramatically higher in sum for a large metro station)

Bottom line, musicians are getting screwed across the board. The music rights companies are collecting much higher fees from the streaming services than they do for radio stations (music radio stations will typically pay 10% to 15% of their sales to music rights; depending on the bracket their sales fall into), but the point that remains the same is that the musicians are getting chump change out of the deals.
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I vote for having a rope tied in a knot as the icon: still sort of secure, just less so.
This sort of expectation management is also why it is a terrible idea to show a client a slick UI mockup that kinda works (but is missing the underlying app logic).

As far as they are concerned, you're pretty much almost done because all the stuff they will ever see is there and looks good. No matter how much you try to rationally explain to them that it is just a superficial shell of an app and is a long way from done, a lot of them just aren't capable of internalizing this concept meaningfully.