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Where are they? I'm aware of developments like the Triangle and the Domain, but they feel like a love affair between plasticky high-end retailers and a captive audience of consumers. The yuppie d-bag quotient at the Flying Saucer was ridiculous last time I was there. I think the problem is that the Domain and the Triangle seem to be planned by the same MBA types who plan malls, so they feel like malls with housing attached for people who really, really like the mall. By contrast, I like the pedestrian culture on South Congress and even South 1st, even though those areas were designed for cars. I'm more optimistic about old neighborhoods evolving in dense, pedestrian-friendly ways than I am about synthetic neighborhoods having any significant effect. (Maybe it's just because I don't trust real estate developers.)

On another note, living far from workplaces is a given if you want people to have reasonable job mobility and reasonable home stability. You need a public transit system so people can live ten years in the same place without being tied to a single, possibly crappy job for that long.
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He sure knows how to "tell a story". That could indeed mean embellishing the facts.
Antennae would be very fashionable in Milan this time of the year :).

Was your point that 'defamation' has a strict meaning in law and that I was wrong in suggesting that these deniers are guilty of defamation in that strict sense? In that case, that is probably true, I'll trust you on that.

My previous comment was intended to explain that I did not mean it in such a strict sense. My argument was not that it is wrong because it is that exact offense that is punishable by law. The fact that we have laws covering parts of that behaviour merely illustrates that we consider it wrong. But that only parts of the behaviour are covered does not mean that the other parts are not considered wrong. Some behaviour is not outlawed because it is not feasible to formulate proper laws to cover the behaviour: even in countries where holocaust denial is forbidden, most cases of holocaust denial cannot possibly be prosecuted.

As an aside, in my book, a 'liar' does not necessarily have malicious intent. He may just be ignorant: morons and liars are not mutually exclusive.

Finally, seeing what demagogues have been capable of: yes, the power of words is scary. Fear is a bad counsellor, but still a warning to be heeded after the fear has passed over you and through you.
Hey, they totally stole our schtick! http://developer-day.com/

Though we're only doing one city at a time...
There's a distinction to be drawn between espousing a worldview and organizing direct action. We don't know what Facebook would do if confronted with evidence that a violent group was organizing and energizing itself through their service. All we have are people drawing lines of varying thicknesses and curvatures between ideas, actors, and projections.
How Git could be attacked if SHA-1 gets broken
How to build a bigger brain
I do think most people do that. I just think that here it's not actually the case (though maybe it is with the crowd here on HN; I'm probably more conservative than most here).
way to misrepresent the results. on my screen it's showing an i7 intel with geforce 9800 running chrome as having the highest score at 5595...
I'm wondering how many people will wear the suggested identity t-shirts. As cool as wearing your internet identity on your chest is, I'd kinda rather go in regular clothes + a nametag.
Impressive example of welcoming an employee on board - Valerie must be glowing.

What a great tone to set for the culture of a fledgling company.
Some startups would be happy to get $38.5 M in revenue ANY YEAR. You can knock the guy all you like, but he's been through the trenches and his Mixergy content is pretty good.
Does this support odds other than 50/50?
Yeah, I bought an .ly domain recently ... it was $199 on 101domain.com but available from the Libyan Spider network for $75 (and they're fairly reputable).
This just in! 1935 twitter didn't work out.
Bhutan: "We're happy having nothing."
Jerry Yang slept under his desk, Amazon had door desks.

I tried to emulate Yang by renting an office - I wanted to sleep nights in it. But I chickened out and continued to work from my bedroom (a UK equivalent of a USA garage).
Some say this is infantile like the previous poster said, some think it's awesome. I'm not sure it's either, I can't decide if this is civil disobedience or a weird form of vandalism. I'm by no means on the fence on the issue of piracy and I think the ruling in the case was absurd but I can't bring myself to take part in this action.

Maybe if this action was targeted at the plaintiffs rather than the law firm I'd think differently but it's destructive to punish those who choose to represent those we don't agree with.

I just can't shake the feeling it's wrong, I don't like it.
College alone will never prepare you for real-world anything, programming or otherwise.
"What a whiner, right? Where's the gratitude there?"

Gratitude for what? Did Harvard cut him a break?

It sounds like he busted his ass and paid his own way.

" ...who knows why, really, you like to bitch and moan about other people's reactions to their circumstances, but you apparently do, and in so doing reveal something about your own character."

Pot? Kettle?
I agree with dfranke here. This whole issue with the RIAA is about powerful entities abusing their resources toward unethical ends. If the letter of the law is on the side of the Pirate Bay (which it is, by all accounts), then they have no reason to do something like this; and if it isn't, then they have no right.
This thread is barely even heated.
Why should you be nice to a corporation that wants to take away everything you own, and prevent you from ever owning anything again in the future?

(As an aside, I wonder why more terminally-ill people don't go on last-minute killing sprees.)
How long until Peter Sunde returns T when invoked on this law firm? (</lisp joke>)
Two words: Pecha Kucha.
That's... clever... but I can't see it working very well. They'll probably just lock out payments at values smaller than the transaction fee.
Twitter was invented when they first used the smoke signals.
A few points:

I'm trying to play this on my iPod without wifi. Touching "Puzzles" from the main menu left the application hanging on "Syncing with server..." -- I have to quit the app, start over and figure out to disable server sync.

Then, when I go to "Puzzles" only one shows up -- is this because more need to be downloaded from the server?

I tried playing the puzzle before going through the tutorial. I managed to figure out the controls through trial and error, but the incrementing and decrementing by performing consecutive taps in a particular direction is awkward / unintuitive. No simpler control scheme jumps to mind though.

When I complete the puzzle the options are "Try Again" and "Scorecard". I don't want either of those -- what I want is "Next puzzle".

It's hard to tell from playing only one level, but the emphasis on achieving a high score seems a little misguided -- IMHO the process of solving a puzzle for the first time should be the "meat" of the game -- beating a high score should be extra value / replay value.

Brainstorming: Because the moves are all reversible, it seems like it would be trivial to procedurally generate an unlimited number of levels of gradually increasing difficulty -- start with a blank slate of zeroes and transform the level from there by a certain number of moves (like a Rubick's Cube).

In any case the levels should come built into the app -- I'm left wondering why there seems to be only level available. If I had paid money for this app I would be disappointed for that reason alone.

At this point I'm not sure the best way to spend your time is by improving this app -- maybe take what you've learned from this and apply it to your next project.

My advice would be to focus on simplicity of user interface -- that means controls as well as game logic. One of the pitfalls of my first app (http://www.itrioapp.com) was that for people who weren't already familiar with the game Set they had to figure out the game based on the examples I gave them, which didn't seem too hard for me but ended up being an impediment for a lot of people.

All else being equal the iPhone is a casual platform, so people expect a very shallow learning curve and immediate satisfaction -- ideally you should be able to stick the first level in front of any idiot and have them enjoy the game right away. The upside is you don't have to provide an engaging experience that lasts for terribly long -- 5 or 10 minutes is generally fine.

Hope this didn't come across as terribly critical -- I do like some of the things you've done with dialog boxes, animations etc., but it sounds like you're asking for constructive criticism.
The question wasn't whether the law could be justified; the question was whether the government, as the arguer conceived of it, was competent to enforce the law. The same argument could be applied to many other complex technical subjects which we clearly do need to regulate.

Also: anarcho-capitalism, silly? Of course it is. Slippery slopes usually lead somewhere silly.
I really like that graphic which shows linked up accounts. That's so much clearer to the layman than mentioning anything about OAuth mashups.
Congrats, you should do a year wrap up post(I'm pretty sure you haven't done one yet, and you hit the 1 year milestone recently) and list all the accomplishments for Balsamiq from start to finish.
Many people who exercise regularly find that they feel miserable, and eat more

Yes, I'm like this. Oh, actually you meant the reverse. :)

However, I do want to eat more when I'm regularly exercising, even though apparently that's not the approved response. One reason it's difficult to keep exercising regularly is that I know that even when I get to the point where what I'm now doing is easy and I don't feel miserable doing it, I'll have to push things until I do feel miserable or I won't be getting the benefit of exercise! There's no end to it; the task is never actually done; you have to continue to make yourself miserable 3-4 times a week, forever. That's very discouraging.
And - while we're kvetching - Office 2008 takes just as long to start up as Office 2004 on my Intel Mac... even though the '04 version is PowerPC-only, and is therefore running under Rosetta emulation.

Yes, that's right. The '08 version manages to be slower than emulating the previous version.
I don't see how that can even work. The site is in Swedish and they only provide a 'Plusgiro' number, which I think is insufficient for international money transfer.

Plus the bank can close or suspend the account whenever they want.

oh, and did anyone actually check that it's not a scam?
Realistically, as mynameishere points out below, they were able to get a jury to convict him because he was doing some genuinely nasty things -- things no half-sane person would do at work, including soliciting prostitutes. It looks like a terrible injustice when you carry it to the logical conclusion, but realistically you would not be able to get a jury to convict someone for twittering at work, nor would a prosecutor ruin his career by pursuing a case like that.

This is just another example of, "Okay, we found a bad guy, now what laws can we use to nail him?" I don't think it's especially uncommon, and it is one reason juries are so important: they're the first line of defense against the unreasonable application of unreasonable laws.
You are right that there is harm done in all cases, but the amount of harm differs and even breaking the law comes in degrees (at the discretion of the cop or judge).

I'm not arguing in favor of actually making this behaviour illegal, as it is simply not possible to formulate a proper law covering the exact behaviour you'd want to prevent. Any attempted law would be extremely prone to abuse.

I merely wanted to argue in favor of Facebook banning what they judge to be unwanted examples of holocaust denial, without fearing the wrath of people waving the 1st amendment around. What's good for facebook isn't necessarily good for a country :).
Is this related? http://notificator.com/
This does prompt an interesting question, with repositories like github where there is a built in trust model, maybe this will actually be the norm at some point?
With all due respect that is quite delusional. (I couldn't figure out a more respectful way to say that, sorry)

President of Iran is my case in point. Need I say more?
I thought paypal won't process gambling claims in the USA - isn't that what Tip Joy uses?
It works in the US too. I lived in a neighborhood served by a small mutual water company (160 houses). When we needed to replace old 4 inch mains by new 6 inch mains, the neighbors did all the in-the-trenches manual labor.
When we register a plusgiro-account to make a payment to it you see the name of the account holder. Since this has been making the rounds around the Swedish blogosphere for one or two days now I'm sure someone would have noticed especially considering how paranoid my fellow pirates are.

Even if it was a scam the scammer would essentially make himself loose money by the nature of the action.
Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python
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Don't agree. The law is interpreted, not compiled; this is one possible interpretation of what I admit is a farily broad statute.

But let's be realistic here, if you twitter your other half with 'working late, will eat from freezer xxx snookums' no jury is going to hold that against you. Uploading >700 porn pictures at work, even of your own sexy self, is asking for trouble. You're laying your employer open to all kinds of liability, to say nothing of it not being anything like what they pay you for unless you're in the porn business.

The guy is irresponsible, lacks common sense, and is trying to wriggle off the hook on a technicality. Let's not make a hero out of him, and let's not extrapolate the worst possible future from a single case, because the likelihood of anyone going to jail for checking the sports results or reading Google news on the office computer during lunch hour is vanishingly low.

It's this kind of stupid 'but nobody told me I shouldn't' bullshit that leads to the imposition of idiotic HR policies in the first place.
Tipjoy stopped giving PayPal as a payment option because of some limits in place that make their checkout experience really awkward.

On the regulatory side, I'm not sure such a toy app matters all that much.

A larger site like longbets mandates that the gifts get sent to a charity:
http://www.longbets.org/faq

That could easily be built into birdbet too. From longbets:

How come I can't keep my winnings?

You keep the most important thing, which is public credit for winning your Long Bet.
I would disagree. I would suggest that this dude is a tool, and that money is just fine.
Q: What happens when you combine this with the default Ruby OpenSSL certificate verification level? (Hint: the default verify setting is 'none'.)

I'm also not sure this is worth an entire blog post, given how little code is required to implement it:

require 'open-uri'

module Kernel
alias :_orig_require :require
def require(mod)
mod =~ %r{^https?://} ? eval(open(mod).read) : _orig_require(mod)
end
end

Edit: I should have phrased that a little more constructively. My point was not to suggest that small snippets of code are unworthy of blog discussion; rather, it was to show that the code in question really was equivalent to any case of 'eval' applied to untrusted input. I.e., a Bad Idea.
And uploading 700 kinky pictures of yourself from work is sane?
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I've often wondered the same, about suicide perpetrators. Opportunity squandered!
the startup world is becoming inundated with people who just want to sell stuff to startup founders

He's part of the parallel universe in silicon valley (physically, and in spirit) of people who hold seminars, arrange mixers, make blogs, write twitter posts, and generally act as a big sideshow and social group for 2nd rate startups and their entourages.

It's a surreal place filled with the same people at every event (and linked on every blog or re-tweeted on every tweet) who seem like they must be important, but aren't.

Sometimes worlds collide and Tim Ferris does a talk at Google (or TED - WTF?) or Tara Hunt doles out free beer at a conference room at Yahoo!...

In my experience unless your girlfriend is working for one of their boutique PR firms you can safely avoid everything about this world.
Really. Staphylococcus aureus: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus_aureus is most commonly found up your nose and on your skin. And by on I mean deep inside the grooves, it's practically impossible to wash it away. It's what turns your boogers yellow.

It's also the one most commonly responsible for infections, when you cut yourself. Or someone else like a surgeon cuts into you.

It is also most commonly resistant to multiple antibiotics. It's on us all the time, we take a lot of pills, it adapts.

If you have the multiply resistant strain and you go into major surgery, may God have mercy on your soul.

Also I'm not a biologist, I just write research software for chemists and biologists.
What all programmers have in common
The best practice is to conduct your sex life at home instead of the office.
I think it's mentioned that part of his company was sold to brad greenspan of euniverse/intermix(myspace) fame. I don't know how much this reflects on Andrew and/or mailbits, but brad greenspan and euniverse are know for, among other things, 'legitimizing' the adware business, until most everyone realized it wasn't legitimate. Also euniverse and brad had a pretty well publicized accounting fraud scandal that resulted in him leaving euniverse. Anyone that worked in the LA online advertising business during the late 90s early 00s will know euniverse is about as shady as shady can get, without actually getting thrown in jail.
Federal tax collection drop 34% year over year
I know this is a dupe, but people keep reposting it so much that we'll give it another run.
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Independent observation: somebody really should provide a free database of academic papers. I'm graduating soon and not looking forward to paying ridiculous $29.95 a la carte fees.
I think that "Java" is being used as a variable name here, which can stand for any programming language ever compiled/interpreted.
Balsamiq is continually a great example for other entrepreneurs as well as an example for a small independent web business. Another great post welcoming the new employee and updating us on how it will change and improve the business further!
Oh no, you'll continue to get the health benefits even if you let your performance plateau. You only have to push yourself if you want to keep improving your performance, and if that's your mentality, you will start to get weird satisfaction out of the misery, which compensates for the... misery aspect of the misery.
Ivan: please tell me you spoke to some attorneys versed in gaming law. I'd be careful about facilitating wagers online. This will almost certainly be used for sports wagering if it gets any traction at all, and that is illegal at the federal level and in all 50 states. You do not want to mess around with sports betting online. You'd probably be better off selling pot than facilitating sports bets.

If I were you I'd block this immediately until you have this thoroughly reviewed. This is the sort of crime people have ended up in jail for. Better safe than sorry.

I can recommend a great attorney in that field too if you need, but honestly I wouldn't even waste the retainer over it if I were you. I'm about 99.99% sure he'll tell you to block it.
I think what makes it wrong is that most of us think that they didn't do anything against the law, and even though the law had to be bent for that conviction to go through, what they're advocating now is basically lawlessness. As funny and clever as I think it is, I think it's crossing the line.
Agreed. Sometimes in life, things don't go the way we want them to.

The responsible way of addressing this issue would be to dedicate more time to convincing the public that your views are in fact the legitimate ones, that copyright has some serious flaws that need to be addressed, and that the law was bent out of intention to aide a corporation's interests.

Instead, the Pirate Bay pretty much proves the opposite point: They're a bunch of petty crooks that are only interested in stealing and harming others.

A shame, because they do have valid points and we do need to reform our copyright laws globally.