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easier != worthwhile

Sometimes something is not worthy of your respect! Something I thought was interesting is that the article is basically a rehashing of the Austrian criticism of modern macro. Although the austrians superimpose their own theology as well.
Give me a free trial and I dont get how it works from the how it works section. Just figured it's a scrapper of some sort.. looks cool.
Use Node.js to Extract Data from the Web
>Start launching an app and switch to another window; the app will jump in front when it's done launching. Argh! //

In common it seems with most features of the UI KDE has a setting for that!

It's in the settings with the "focus policy" slider (click at one end, hover at the other) labelled as "focus stealing prevention". IIRC it was in KDE3 too.
It's a false statement, if he did increase the shareholder value the share price wouldn't stay flat. And share values not just about profits but future potential as well.
A very alarming future when you consider the digitization and electrification of everything. Imagine prescription eye glasses that turn off myopic correction when you miss a payment, refrigerators that report their contents to the local health labs, automobiles that find it unusual for you to be driving after 1am, cell phones that overheard you say, "the government is too big".

Electric chains more binding than anything our forefathers sought to escape from.
Video decoding is one of the things you really don't want to run in javascript (although it has been done). Besides a lack of ints, you have no access to SSE and other speedups. This is exactly the kind of thing that nativeclient would be good for, however.
I am sorry to hear that. Could you please email details to pavel.karoukin@myedu.com so we could figure out what was going on and possible make it right?
God I hope he goes with the $10 option.
Not surprised. Are the love interests ex-girl friends?
I think that the benefit of the Tails option is that your monthly mortgage payments are more in line with what your home is actually worth, as opposed to the inflated market value of the original mortgage.
From everything I've heard I fear Google is next up on this Ballmer path. They are turning off R&D and looking to capitalize on what they have after a decade of crazy growth from new things that fell out of R&D. It's bizaar to watch them do this, but this at least explains their motivation. As to how they let this start happening to themselves... oh well. Slippery slope
Ask HN: Is HN implementing a new comment ranking system?
My comment on this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6271264

was top rank for a while and then suddenly bottom ranked, even though more plus votes had been added. I am not for a moment complaining as I believe that some sort of system that removes top rank comments from remaining top ranked is desirable in many circumstances.

In some threads top comments tend to remain top because people read and rate them first, even though they may be far from the most "valuable" comment. They tend to stay top ranked because of inertia.

I am surprised that my comment was considered "worthless" but I don't care, just curious to find out if some tweaking is going on with the comment ranking - a good thing in my opinion.
What bothers me is that the NSA often acts adversarially with its oversight committees. As Techdirt reported[1], the LOVEINT violations weren't reported to the Senate Intelligence Committee until just a few days ago, despite occurring over a period of years. Without a watcher, there's nothing to stop more instances of operator abuse or expansive interpretations of the governing legislation (despite the Constitution). The EFF has put out a good post on the flaws of the investigations into the NSA[2].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130823/18432024301/nsa-a...

[2] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/three-illusory-investi...
The closest I've seen an ORM come to this is Squeryl: http://squeryl.org
What window management features, exactly, are impossible to implement because OSX is proprietary?

You obviously have a visceral and emotional opposition to closed-source software, and I respect that, but what exactly is the functionality that you need that OSX can't be made to provide?
You can use the data url of the image, I made a small test here: http://cuenca-stuff.s3.amazonaws.com/jpgtopdf/index.html

(I don't know if by "base64" you mean "data url", which usually encodes the raw data in base64...)
There was nothing in his post about saying "I could do that". Only that the improvements made from slashdot to reddit were marginal at best.
'select <star>' also doesn't always do what you expect.

I recall a problem with some Oracle views that were based on 'select <star>' queries. What we didn't realize is that the '*' is evaluated when the view is compiled, and if you later add columns to the underlying tables the view did not automatically include them.

Edit: OK I don't know how to include a literal star in text here.
Oh, so the homes get refinanced in the process? Does that happen every time the market cycle goes into a down turn, or just an one and done in the kick the can down the road kind of way?
It's not just this. Developer relations have gone to shit and visual studio on large projects like ours (2mloc c#) is a liability. Oh and add the schizophrenic nature of devdiv and it's just not worth it anymore. Need we say more: SQL licensing, Silverlight, windows workflow rewrite, EF is a piece of shit, MS11-100 (demon hotfix from hell). I could go on for days. We have blown over 24 days in the last 2 years on just phone calls to Microsoft.

We threw out partnership agreement in last year (we were gold).

Not going near Mono. It's another ghetto.

To be honest, our front end is going to python and the back end to postgres. Any critical sections go to C++.
Have had Ubuntu on my ARM chromebook since late last year. Only issue so far is that the version of Slim dm that is available for it from the 12.04 repos is b0rked and doesn't speak to consolekit properly, resulting in all sorts of hard to diagnose fun with reboot and other permissions.
Some of my relatively obscure favorites:

Io: http://iolanguage.org/

Dylan: http://opendylan.org/

Euphoria: http://www.rapideuphoria.com/
Yes, but DIAL requires a centralized registry of whitelisted apps (and they're using their own registry for ChromeCast, not the dial-multiscreen.com one); my reading is that Google is un-whitelisting any apps that allow streaming of local media.

Honestly, it's really silly since the built-in Chrome casting webapp is basically "throw arbitrary content at the screen via WebRTC" -- so hypothetically you could write a local WebRTC client that pushed your local video content to the device (and sidestep any whitelist restrictions). Unfortunately, WebRTC looks like a needlessly complicated protocol to implement.
So, the big fix for lawyers and bankers acting badly is to have more lawyers and bankers acting badly? What could possibly go wrong?
>Why would anyone ever think OS X has "world-class interface design"? //

Because it sells worldwide to people who describe the OS as being ergonomic and beautiful?

I wouldn't know, I seldom use it and so find it clumsy and strange.
US spy agency broke encryption on UN communications, report says
"In each instance, the employee was punished either with an administrative action or termination."

Am I the only one to think this is a slap in the wrist? Such abuse of power should be more than enough for felony charges.

At the very, very least, stalking.
Where was the opposition to all these houses selling at over-inflated rates 7-8 years ago. Cities weren't complaining then at all of the new tax revenues being brought in by new construction sales. They were rubber stamping new housing developments left and right. Cities have to be accountable for the mess that they share responsibility for letting happen (not just blaming the banks).
You know, morals are relative ;)
I was there as an employee. It absolutely had a chilling effect. Up until then Microsoft was aggressively finding ways to tie the browser closer to the OS and make it more integrated. In IE4, they went so far as to rewire the OS shell to use IE in all its rendering. After IE6 it was clear the government was only going to punish the company for pursuing this.

As commenter have suggested the market has since validated that Microsoft was probably on the right track, doing what was in the best interest of consumers. No one would buy an OS today that cannot browse the web out of the box. Furthermore, MS was lambasted for "forcing" OEMs to not bundle bloatware. Once they were prevented from doing this, PCs were packaged with all kinds of crap and you pretty much had to format them to get a decent experience.

I left the company 5 years ago, partly out of frustration with the EU regulation. Our team was forced to spend hours documenting internal DB stored procedures so that some competitor could reverse engineer our product. Every year Microsoft donates thousands of man years of effort doing this crap that serves no purpose for Microsoft's customers.
This is something that has ramifications everywhere. For example it drives me nuts that I get handed pieces of paper with every purchase but stuffed if a supermarket till will mail me a reciept. Want to drive adoption of reward cards(+) at your supermarket? Allow every holder to get downloads of their spends. Now hook that in for all your partner orgs. We will happily throw away out privacy for that !

(+) and for the love of Zeus, stop calling it a loyalty card. I am loyal to family, friends and the Queen. Your coffee shop does not even rank.
Does this go against the spirit of code golf?
Three years in the mobile space is roughly equal to fifty years anywhere else. The experience on iOS has changes a lot in that time and is just as awful.
Ask HN: What was the name of this programming mentorship website?
Awhile ago there was a link posted for a company that pairs programmers with mentors and then uses google video to do lesson conferencing. I can't remember the name. I googled like crazy trying to find it.
That's the way it works now. In earlier versions any added columns would still be retrieved, shifting all the other column values to the right.. So all the data would wind up having the wrong column names.
No we have spoken to our partner support rep. It's what they've been told as well.

There are a number of other issues as well (obviously). See another reply in this thread root from me.

We've had 2 audits. They are a reality when your licensing hits the £500k/year which ours does. they check to make sure they have screwed you out of every last bit of cash even if they know you are compliant.
This is why you can't form a stable society based on a tier 1 group of watchers (they call it intelligence gathering) who make sure we don't do things we're not supposed to. Because ... who watches them? Instead, you need a circle where we are all accountable to each other. Thus a government ran by the people. If we were able to see into this secret world, well, it would have never happened.

There is a way to educate and mobile every citizen to ensure the safety of our country where we would not need the TSA, NSA, and CIA. I'm not talking about vigilantism. No, but rather the safe and effect reporting they could train us in.

We have dangerously passed over all our of responsibilities onto those who do not seek the common persons best interest, rather they seek your enslavement to heap luxuries upon themselves. Please don't blackmail me anymore. More tea sir?
Trademark problem? splice.tv and splice.com
Only in the strictest sense. The mere presence of the switches does nothing on its own to improve the workflow. You need a development environment that is aware of why you're running the compiler: basic syntax checking, deeper static analysis using expensive heuristics, unoptimized code generation for quick turnaround time on correctness tests, or optimized code generation for performance testing.
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper, USNR, (1906-1992)
The way I read it, the author is asserting that Microsoft did exactly what a corporation is "supposed" to do, by focusing on maximizing shareholder value, and in the process stagnated. Meanwhile, Apple and Amazon are held up as examples of companies which culturally value customers more than shareholders, and as a result do better for shareholders as well.

This would imply that doing what's best for shareholders in the short term looks very different from the long term.
If this is what they do to the people they love, imagine what they do to the people they hate...
Heroku is claiming that the issue is resolved. Our site is still down.
>Oh, so the homes get refinanced in the process?

That's what they're selling. Whether it really happens...? It wouldn't be the first time a gov't entity promised a plan that would 'help' homeowners and that plan failed to actually do so.
> Streaming has nothing to do with mp3 players.

No, but I was saying that mp3 players and Apple are analogous to streaming and Spotify; Apple didn't invent but helped make mp3 players popular, and Spotify didn't invent music streaming but helped make it popular.
I don't claim to understand a lot of this, but I know if the principle of my home was altered to current market value & mortgage payment was made to match(looking at zillow.com's numbers) I'd be paying 1k/month less. That would be life-changing for my family. I wish someone would come seize my mortgage. That being said, I don't fully understand who's getting negatively impacted by me not paying so I await replies to my comment to enlighten me.
> argument that the value of an underwater mortgage in repayment is worth less than the house is so obviously wrong

I'm not so sure that it is so obviously wrong... For the individual home, yes, it is a stretch to think that the value of an inflated mortgage is less than the value of the house. But, they are thinking in terms of the population of all underwater homes. There is an increased rate of default on underwater mortgages. So, you could argue (and they are), that the lost value when spread out among all underwater mortgages, makes the pool of them less valuable than the value of the homes themselves.

To know the answer, you'd have to know the normal rate of default, the rate of default for underwater mortgages, and the average amount the bank looses when a mortgage defaults (as well as the average value of the homes and the inflated mortgage valuations).

It is very possible that when all of the numbers are calculated that offering below the appraised value of the home for the mortgage is approximates fair market value over the whole population of underwater homes. A loan wouldn't necessarily have to be distressed to fall into that statistical population.

If you think in terms of one house, this plan doesn't make sense. But, when you think in terms of an entire city, it starts to make more sense (if the numbers and rates line up). It's probably short sighted for other down-stream effects, like lack of future investment and loans, but for the short term, it might work.
One good argument I can think of would be compile time. C compiles slowly compared to almost every other language not C++. And of course you get the C compile time on top of the compile to C time, so I expect the Nimrod compile chain to be quite slow.

Doesn't mean that I am generally opposed to compiling to C, it's often a good trade-off.
This. Our model is quite volatile due to the nature of what we do (compliance management) so we can evolve it all quickly to new platforms.

Its been PDS7, C, perl and Java before (product has been around since the late 1980s). It could be Go or Haskell one day.
Seriously? Why are there multiple posts like "xyz is down" on Hacker News every other day? Isn't there "downnews.net" or whatever?
This is what happens when you really love what you do
Yes. (from the article) The city buys the original mortgage and then sells you a new mortgage for a more appropriate valuation. This would hopefully be a one and done deal, but it does kind open a pandora's box in the process.
What the 5th Amendment actually said is "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

Kelo notwithstanding, "benefit of the public" is not "public use"; the former can be stretched infinitely, to the ending of the rule of law.

You're also ignoring that they admit they're seizing the property for less than it's value:

"Richmond, working with San Francisco-based Mortgage Resolution Partners, offers $150,000 to buy a $300,000 bank loan on a house that is now worth $200,000 and is in danger of foreclosure.

If the bank agrees, the city and the company then obtain the loan at $150,000. Richmond and the company then offer the homeowner a new loan of $190,000, which, if accepted....

If the bank refuses to sell the loan to Richmond, then the city invokes its power of imminent domain and seizes the mortgage. It would then offer the bank a fair market value for the home."

See the Naked Capitalism posting that cynicalkane brought to our attention for more details and a view from a very different angle: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/08/beware-of-private-equ...

Also mentions that California has a property owner friendly way of establishing "just compensation".
Algorithms, Part I: Kevin Wayne and Robert Sedgewick
I agree, but once you start putting a price tag on freedom, human beings are too willing to make compromises.

I guess humans just like paying for freedom with blood, rather than money.
Well, when all of the evidence is classified, that becomes an issue. The prosecutor probably doesn't even have clearance to see the evidence.
Did the recommended size change recently? If so, I'm a bit curious about when, and what changes were made that resulted in lower memory consumption.
Replying to drivebyacct2, nope, the protocol doesn't expose where you log in (that was one of their explicit goals). It's also one of the reasons I like Persona so much and decided to make this.

I'm very glad you like it, I am always looking for feedback and would love to see Persona/Persowna gain more users. Please don't hesitate to email me about anything (email is in profile).
Is fun comparing two of the arguments being put forward by the bank people here -

"The banks argue the plan would "severely disrupt the United States mortgage industry" because many other cities would likely adopt the same program to help homeowners who owe more on their mortgages than their houses are worth."

and -

"Cameron said pension funds, banks and other groups that made loans in Richmond stand to lose millions if the city is allowed to use eminent domain to force lenders into accepting less than the original terms of the loan.

He also predicted that cities using eminent domain will make lenders wary of doing business there.

"There's a domino effect in play here," he said."

If many other cities decide to do this, then the financial services industry is not going to be able to avoid doing business in those cities. One or two cities maybe, but not if many cities do this.

The financial services industry is always fond of threatening that it is going to take its ball and go home if it doesn't like the decisions being made, but really it can't actually afford to.
oh, language, so happy to find you, Matt
> What they're doing is flatly unconstitutional

Not so sure about that... the Supreme Court has given wide leeway to municipalities in their interpretation of eminent domain. This is just one of the slippery slope side effects of their earlier decisions.
There is a short, free mandatory trial period on every app in the play store.

The first time you purchase an app you have 15 minutes, during which time you can go back to the store and hit "refund" to reverse the charge and uninstall the app.
doubt it, since they probably properly set up their infrastructure with multi-az setup
Given their earlier decisions, this isn't so radical of an extension. In fact, it might not be an extension at all... municipalities can use eminent domain to give land to private companies if it is in the economic interest of the city.
Have you played around with node.io? https://github.com/chriso/node.io

Encapsulates all this functionality in an easy to use interface.
What do you recommend as an alternative for hosting large DBs on?
I am I the only one to not give a damn about this?

It isn't really the NSA that gives me the heebie-geebies anyway - it's all the others out there who are trying to do the exact same thing - with much less (if any) oversight, and every incentive to act maliciously.

Now, it is not exactly like I am a concern-free zone as far as the NSA goes, either, but the nexus of my stress and worry tends to centre around the (presumably sanctioned, presumably legal) economic and industrial espionage aspects of their mission.

In any case, the really scary stuff only starts happening when the IoT really starts hitting it's stride ... so we have a few years yet to get our act together.
The term "loyalty card" is descriptive, the goal of the card is to increase your loyalty to the store by targeted marketing.

I'm surprised that your supermarket actually uses that name because it should twig anyone who thinks about it that something ain't quite right. The stores I know all call them discount cards.
The point of the app that got broken was to play media directly from your phone. The way Koush describes the breakage makes it sound pretty intentional to me. It makes sense why they did it though, and even if it's limited to Youtube and Netflix for the price that's still a great deal.
> The constitution explicitly permits eminent domain, provided it's for the benefit of the public.

No. The Constitution provides that property taken for the public good must be fairly paid for. Property can be taken for private use without compensation. For example, the adverse possession laws in many jurisdiction.
Async route handling with Nany
I'm tired of these posts too.
Perhaps their product R&D has slowed down a bit ("more wood behind fewer arrows"), but their academic research is still strong. Their collaborations with Hinton, Thrun, and Ng are just the most obvious and recent examples.

On the other hand, Microsoft has for a long time made a serious investment in basic research, both on the programming language side and on algorithms, but that hasn't stopped them from misfiring in multiple product categories.
"The banks have filed two lawsuits alleging that the plan is an illegal abuse of eminent domain, which allows governments to seize private property for public use — like a house in the path of a new highway or a piece of land needed for a new park."

That's consonant with the plain language of the 5th Amendment, Kelo notwithstanding: "nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

I take the article's language as the author knowing this is scamming the Constitution's provision for eminent domain, even if it's pretty clear he doesn't care. Hence the quote starting this thread.
Mob rule is not authoritarian.
Try typing 3 stars in a row: * :).
Well, if apple hadn't been forced to release iOS sdk, it probably wouldn't get any significant market share as he predicted.
Mark Rober left NASA to make wearable tech Halloween costumes
No need to hack a whole analytics stack together - just use Snowplow with page pings turned on:

http://snowplowanalytics.com/analytics/catalog-analytics/mea...

(You can't measure visit durations including bounces accurately without a JavaScript tracker that pings back on-page DOM activity.)
I used "grep" in a generic way. My comment referred to whatever grepping tool available on that platform, which at the time was indeed findstr, as you suggested, and Powershell.

Of course it'd have been silly to expect a Windows-only-ever person to be familiar with Unix tools, that was not the point at all.
"Most of the incidents, officials said, were self-reported"

Imagine the amount of people who have done this but not voluntarily admitted to it.