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The problem is that Publishers still tend to recruit Oxbridge first eng lit grads whose computer knowledge is probably about the same as Jenn from the IT Crowd.

Unfortunately as Publishing is now having to deal with online and electronic it means they are not best placed to deal with the changes.

And book publishers have sclerotic processes (makes teh Laudry service seem slick and efficient) to take a book from delivery to publication and extra month or so playing with word is't going to make much difference
Oh, no; sorry man. I thought his joke was pretty funny.
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"Besides, most importantly, the Waltons earned it, most of the wealth locked in China and Russia are either ex political power players or their friends."

The distinction here is arbitrary. When we talk about such amount of wealth, I think the verb "to earn" lose some his significance. As a society, I don't believe we should accept that a few persons own such a huge proportion of the wealth (regardless whether they "earned" it, stole it, found it...).
"Sometimes you have to get comfortable with the idea the non-programmers are as good at their disciplines as programmers are with theirs."

I'm not under the impression that "programmers" are good at their discipline. Myself included. At the same time I wasn't trying to imply that the lawyers didn't know what they were doing. I was asking for conversation purposes about something that I didn't understand: The relationship between the two documents. You brought up an analogy seeming to show that you know the legal side, so I was asking further questions because I was interested in learning.

I think this is more nuanced than you're making it. What if the summary actually contradicted the terms? That summary could definitely be grounds for a lawsuit. I was just curious where that line was.
Although very rarely, it does show the BSOD in Windows 7 for me. I think it's like 3 to 4 times in total, in past 2 years.
> you can only control the first derivative of the position, the velocity.

Seriously? You should have stopped at "velocity-based"
These comments...they are completely awful. I don't want to be associated with this place anymore. How do I delete my account?
You might be taking his point too literally. Another way to look at it is, if the owners of factories in Bangladesh were maximally generous and civic-minded, how much could they improve the lives of garment workers? Is the answer "not very much"?
One of the issues is how you define "defensive" purposes. If you are locked in an ecosystem battle with opponents who are fighting on multiple fronts over years (Microsoft shaking down Android vendors, Apple suing to ban and restrict competition), then you yourself may never be sued directly, but your interests are nevertheless, still being attacked indirectly. It's like a Cold War where your client states are fighting it out against other superpowers.

Thus, is it "offensive" if Apple sues one of your customers over a stupid patent on phone number extraction via regular expressions, or Microsoft sues over FAT32, and you retaliate by suing them because they built a bill-splitting app into their product? Or must they launch a nuclear missile directly at your capital before you're considered justified in a counter-offensive?

The hope I think of asserting these kinds of patents is that mutually assured destruction results in detente. You build up a nuclear arsenal so that it becomes unthinkable by your opponent to attack, and this is undermined if you hold yourself to some kind of pledge never to use them, or never to use them unless your capital is bombed directly.

What the EFF is asking for is a nuclear non-proliferation treaty and test ban, but they are asking the weaker player (who has fewer weapons) to give up their weapons and give up making, and not the superpowers.
Being a Bangladeshi myself and having spent the first two decades of my life there, I can't agree more with the three points you made.
And the question is... why not just use secure card swipe devices? You load an encryption key onto the hardware, and then key loggers don't work any more. Sure, it won't solve all your problems, but nothing does.
> Functional programming is very closely tied to the notion of immutable data. "Don't modify data in place" is one of the pillars of the functional model.

I don't think the Lisp fans here at HN agree.

> Datomic is much more than a time-series, although that's the aspect that arguably makes it "functional."

Not really. Time-series are not 'functional' by any stretch of the imagination.

BTW, an add-on to Hibernate, the (in)famous OR-mapper, tries to do something similar: http://docs.jboss.org/envers/docs/index.html
Facebook still uses PHP bro...
Another cool hack with Bluetooth from MSR. Emulating a long-lived connection to a smartphone even when the phone is blocking incoming Bluetooth connections:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/ssaroiu/public...
I am aware of the difference between methamphetamine and amphetamine, but the reality is that methamphetamine is used medically and that in small doses the harm is below the measurement threshold. I do not doubt that harm is caused at recreational doses, but vastly more harm is caused by the adulterants in black market methamphetamine.
Completely. Fucking. Irrelevant.
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> what the hell is wrong with you all, seriously.

What the hell is wrong with you is that you dont understand economics(supply and demand). The world is the way it is and as long as there is a vast supply of workers competing for few jobs the situation is not going to change. No amount of pipe dreaming is going to change that.

I can hear you say minimum wage and regulations. Guess what, while this might improve the situation of those who have a job, it will only make it harder for people who a looking for jobs.

There are no simple solutions but in a world where tens of thousands die of hunger each day having a job and being able to feed yourself is better than nothing.
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This guy is dreaming. He thinks that other countries will just sit, waiting their turn to be attacked by China as China attacks them one by one.

My guess is that USA will rally them all against China during the first war dealing China a royal defeat. Then, of course, instead of India, China might break up.

The funny thing is that Russia has more to fear than anyone and that's because of.........S I B E R I A. China desperately needs lebensraum /natural resources http://metaldetectingworld.com/05_photo_gallery/singles/russ... and Siberia is perfect. Pout 50 million Han Chinese there and it's all taken care of.
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It's absolutely still victim blaming, though thinly veiled under the guise of societal expectations being the reason for her supposedly blowing the whole thing out of proportion. Even if you pretend to be blaming society as the main culprit, your argument still essentially boils down to "it's not that bad, deal with it" and there is no denying this. I'm not saying there isn't any validity to your original argument, but don't back off and act like you're not saying that it's her failure to psychologically cope and deal with it that is causing all of this suffering. I've never had any person close to me experience sexual assault, but to argue that it's a societal problem and to imply that it's less psychologically traumatizing than it actually is is a dangerous argument to make without any kind of experience or knowledge of the actual psychological impact.

The solution isn't to make society believe that it's not a big deal, and that people are expected to make a timely recovery. I feel like this would lead to even more victim blaming and even more self hatred for those who don't meet the societal expectations of quick recovery. The proper message isn't "you should get over it quickly", but instead "you CAN get your life back"... and unless I'm mistaken, I believe this is what people helping those with rape try to teach the victims to believe.
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Another possibility is some quirk in the file permissions, .htaccess or some other configuration file, which could lead to vulnerabilities like HTTP verb tampering.

It may have been more subtle, but of a similar nature.
Nuclear weapons are mentioned in the very last paragraph and are not taken into account in the first war where the US may intervene.

I am trying to imagine the US fighting on behalf of Taiwan and even entering the Chinese mainland all without nukes being used.

It might sound cliche to bring up nukes but they are a deterrent to the major powers entering each others land masses directly.

The question really is: Will China want warfare with nukes involved? We are talking end times here, unless the leaders of China are insane I cannot understand how this risk is worth the reward.
That's actually what we are doing @ Kivo.com :p
As to your first point I think it is very, very important to keep in mind that this is the best thing available because of Western influence. Long ago, and up until today, Western power and money priced local populations out of being able to afford to buy a piece of their own country.

Out of the dumb luck of currency exchange and local corruption that happened a couple centuries ago the most ancient investment vehicle is no longer available to poor 3rd world populations anymore. Blithely pointing out that this is the best situation available to them without acknowledging that we are the ones who made it the best available situation is excusable, but needs to be corrected.
It's a very real problem for some individuals, no quarrel there. But it's not a "real social problem". As a matter of fact I could so far as to say that I would be hard-pressed to find any "real social problems". They really all boil down to individuals making bad choices but asking society to foot the bill. And of course "social problems" are very much welcomed by the political class and various others busybodies , do-gooders, etc. who earn their livelihoods (and sometimes much more than that) by "fixing" "social problems". And please don't play the "it's about the kids" card. If the effects spill over to non-consenting adults or minors, custody can be removed or charges can be brought just like the case of parents copulating in front of their kids without having to criminalize sex.
What, no phone call to verify the changes with the account holder on file? I would have hoped that was standard procedure...
"Is a secure registration and login system that at least gets people started on the site too much to ask?"

Evidently so, even given 3 and a half years after passage of the bill that's this Administration's signature accomplishment to date. While it's hardly unknown in other sectors, I've read one of the problems was HHS/Sebelius making important decisions way late in the process, and I think I recall the usual required changes as well.

But unless the signup process hooks into outside live databases for verification or what have you there's as you note no excuse, especially since disallowing window shopping is one of the biggest modern UI hindrances, something pointed out to the people doing this (some information gathering is needed to offer the right plans, but others and I have compared it to the medicare.gov Part D sub-site, which collects that but doesn't require giving all your information prior to you officially selecting a plan, after which the site informs the chosen provider).

Anyway, I am a "right-winger" who's upfront about wanting to ... eliminate many parts of government, and just from memory I can point out several massive and notorious IT procurement failures that would kill or cripple most private concerns. E.g. last time I checked (which is some years ago):

The FAA is still using their 1940s (sic) techniques, and every attempt to really modernize the initial system architecture that automated it has failed. (They famously hired a couple of retired IBM engineers to make microcode patches for some of their old machines for Y2K). This one has really serious economic consequences.

Every comprehensive attempt to upgrade the IRS following their very first system has failed. They're still using code for the 1959 IBM 1401 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401) in their front end processes.

The FBI is legendary for their failures to ditch paper. I remember at least one failed attempt pre-9/11, there's one acknowledged failure after it, and I don't know if they're really using the Sentinel system as they claim as of 2012, after 7 (!) years of troubled development.

These are the really big ones that come to mind. Which of course is not to say the government is always incompetent. The Census Bureau was famously cutting edge, using punched cards in 1890 (sic), buying a UNIVAC I in 1951 (sic), and when I talked to some of their people in the mid-90s I got a sense of serious competence.

As noted in previous discussions, the same contractor operations CMS.gov and Medicare.gov, and I can attest that the latter site, while a bit clunky, works just fine. CMS's backends seem to work as well.

Off the top of my head, the CDC and FDA do well in getting out timely info. The DoJ's statistics sections are good, the NIH's sites are stellar. Heck, the BATF has a nice web page where you can type in some of the numbers of an FFL (firearms dealer, gunsmith, etc.) and confirm it is legitimate and still valid. Etc.
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> The reason they don't pay more comes down to simply business principles. The objective of a labor intensive business is to drive costs down the lowest possible amount legally.

This is only true if you take the "corporations are psychopaths" view. Getting away with everything you can under the law and adhering to a fairly obvious social morality are not nearly the same thing. Famously, Oscar Schindler ended up running labor intensive businesses so that he could save the lives of his employees. There are many fair trade businesses that operate in developing economies under similar principles - profit matters, but so do the employees.

That was my only real objection, the rest of what you wrote is great, thanks for the perspective.
You seem to be okay with children being crushed to death or burning up in fires from substandard building construction. Construction that is known to be unsafe. It's accepted because it is convenient, not because it's necessary. These factories aren't turning out bare essential materials that are sold for small profit margins. They create luxury items that often have the markings of vapid pop culture and are sold with huge margins. First world countries know these conditions are abhorrent, because we do not allow them, but first would countries do allow the thirst for high profit margins to come at the cost of human lives overseas.

Your inability to understand the depth with which poverty strikes those in the U.S. is astounding. Poverty in the U.S. means that you don't have clothes to wear to school, that the school you go to is underperforming, that you live in a neighborhood where you could get shot, abducted, propositioned for drugs. It means going hungry on a day-to-day basis. It means the power being shutoff. It means probably not having a parent in the home because they are either absent or working two or three jobs. It often means the environment you grow up in is likely to be rife with psychological, physical or substance abuse. It means taking two hour bus rides both ways to get to a minimum wage job. It means no or substandard healthcare. It could mean living in a car, on the street or being under threat of such outcomes.

The videos linked are pretty disgusting and make libertarians sound like horrible people. Maybe you should also put some videos up about how libertarians justify slavery or indentured servitude because the slave or servant would have died if they weren't being exploited. Maybe an article could be written about the exploited workers in Dubai, and how it's still mutually beneficial to have their rights stripped of them, pay held for months, because the alternative is possible starvation in their home country.

Raising awareness and demanding better standards can improve conditions. If you are coming from the point of view that there is no problem with sweatshops and things don't need to change, then it's likely workers will continue to be exploited. How long have China, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia had sweatshops? Why haven't sweatshops brought supposed prosperity to these countries yet? How many generations more will have to endure sweatshops and possible death? No one should have to put up with a sudden and horrible death so "Keep Calm Carry On" shirts can make it on to Target store shelves.
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That's incorrect. The entire system, far beyond just the website included those costs. The company that actually built the site got it for a $93.7 million contract. The HALF A BILLION DOLLARS you are remarking also include exchanges facilitated by the government for individual states. Finally, that $93.7 million was over 3 years, 2011, 2012, and 2013.

Now, you can armchair things all you want, but the technical elements of building the healthcare.gov website did not cost HALF A BILLION DOLLARS.

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> Do you have an alternative explanation for how the results for those particular obscure random text strings propagated from Google to Bing?

How about this link from the very article you quoted?

http://searchengineland.com/bing-why-googles-wrong-in-its-ac...

I know you work for Google, so you must have the technical competency to see the nuance; can you say with a straight face that this was "copying"? Is it any different from the tracking Google of Facebook do across the web via their various products?

Like I said, the truth is more nuanced, but people only remember the scandalous version.

> Amit Singhal

You're right, my bad. I completely misremembered.
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Two days ago, my phone's screen turned a snowy blue-on-black; what I suspect is the LCD's test pattern when no data is being sent to it. Then the phone rebooted, showing the Apple logo and then the unlock screen.
Just read the rest of the comments, there are plenty of alternatives. The author isn't complaining about a lack of choices, either. Instead, he is moaning that other people have made a different choice from him.
Motorola, and HTC to some extent, are companies that were on their last legs, almost bankrupt, and the world's most profitable tech company, with half the market, and $150 billion in cash, is engaged in offensive lawsuits against them trying to enact import bans. Who is the bully here? It's like a billionaire punching a street bum in the face, and then whining when the bum fights back ungentlemanly. The two biggest bullies, Apple and Microsoft, have cross-licensing agreements and a behavior of ganging up on Android.

I find it absurd that FRAND patents are practically valueless, but "obvious" patents, which are effectively standards essential because wide applicability, are worth billions and import bans. Apple sued HTC over a patent which is a college algorithms homework question, the first strike on the Android was launched by Apple in 2010. I would view all suits against Apple since then, not as trolling, but as an attempt to negotiate a cross-license by forcing them to the table.
All you establishment types. Always banding together to oppress the little guy.
What is the difference between the GM version and the App store released one?
The problem I have with your comment is that you describe something auspicious and then slap a derogatory label on it and thus unfairly decry it as problematic. If insight equates to truth, and counter-intuitiveness equates to challenging our flawed assumptions, and 'face-value' equates to lucid and well-argued, then what exactly is there to complain about? Just because you find a formula behind something, doesn't make it a problem.
It's actually showing a blue screen. The color blue.
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There is currently a great course on Coursera named "A Brief History of Humankind"[1] that is exploring those ideas. If you have another source that goes deeper into the subject I would be interested to know it.

[1] https://www.coursera.org/course/humankind
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Really wish there was a way I could test the API without giving my CC info to Mashape. Even for the Freemium plan, I can't do a single request without giving payment info. Thus, I'm skipping this API, despite how cool it looks.

Edit: the main TextTeaser web site is down right now, which is why I went straight to the API to test.
Humor on HN is strongly moderated in an attempt to forestall the degradation of signal/noise ratio that eventually will evolve it into a sea of memes and pun threads.
"Warning The pickle module is not intended to be secure against erroneous or maliciously constructed data. Never unpickle data received from an untrusted or unauthenticated source."

Storing pickled data on disk paves a path for all sorts of nasty exploits... Case in point:

File contents: "cos\nsystem\n(S'ls ~'\ntR."

How is HDF5, security-wise?
There's nothing to get over. The article is a dishonest attempt to smear iOS with the reputation for reliability that was associated with early Windows,
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Ask HN: What vehicle is best for 3 infants that need car seats?
Just had baby #3 and my compact is to small to hold 3 car seats. Anybody have recommendations for a vehicle (make/model) that works for 3 car seats, specifically what you like about it. Also what to avoid and why.
So far, laws that have tried to rein in software and the persons using them have been laughably impotent. Take Hadopi for instance. The legal profession and the people elected to the government are light years behind the current tech development.

My post was partly sarcastic, but I was trying to illustrate just how little the opinions of 95% matter to "winners", i.e. powerful magnates and people who own entire industries.
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What people consume has enormous impact on people around them. Ignoring the negative externalities doesn't make them go away, and it certainly won't convince those who have been affected by them.
Only to those who have been playing during the month of October... So by December there will be a new wave of users who didn't receive the nice charity of half a mil.
I don't think it's a full restart, just Springboard crashing and restarting. After a real restart, I think the phone is supposed to required a PIN, instead of allowing the fingerprint sensor to unlock it. But when this happens to me, the fingerprint is sufficient to unlock.
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It's a blue screen.

http://www.imore.com/ios-7-blue-screen-death-caught-video-wi...

> This is extremely likely to be a paid piece placed by a competitor.

Oh, the way that statement can be interpreted.