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It's one thing when we're all going up the ladder together, and another when those higher up the ladder are stepping on the heads of those on lower rungs to get up faster or maintain their position.
Don't count Apple out -- yet
Loaded hand guns are not allowed in hand luggage, only checked.

Cultural note: sentences like "A loaded handgun is a fine thing to take on a plane" are the reason many people in many countries think that Americans are batshit insane.
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Laughter and joking is a coping mechanism for dealing with uncomfortable and hostile situations. It's a way to blow off steam and accept things without reacting as aggressively as the humiliation you feel. Take out that release valve, and people are going to start reacting more badly than a simple joke, which will escalate security's perceived need to be there in the first place. I'm very glad I don't fly any more for my job twice a week, because I never bothered to restrain my comments in the face of such misdirected, useless, and intrusive delay and obviously unconstitutional search. I will continue to take 500-mile road trips rather than fly with my family, because there's no way I'll teach children that being either irradiated or caressed by a uniform agent is acceptable.
That's quite touching.
"The more you rely on other people's code the less you are the master of your own fate"

To head it off at the pass, comparison with shared libraries and the like are unfair.

A typical library has one, usually simple, well documented demarcation point between your code and it. A framework is a global construct where you interact with the filesystem, the combined sum of all code in the entire framework (most of which you won't understand unless you're a dev on the same framework...) AND everything else in your app.

Using a framework is often like writing one big app all global variables all one giant function. Everything interacts with everything else and when it works thats nice, but when it doesn't...

Finally a framework is the ultimate SPOF single point of failure. Don't like the play! framework router? tough cookies do write your own entire framework or forklift upgrade to Lift. On the other hand if library implementation #7 of a base64 decoder doesn't work or you hate it, try ten other implementations or write your own, its just one small-ish function not a giant overbearing framework.

Finally don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. If the syntactic sugar of MVC design works for your app, run with it. You don't need a framework to tell you how to design to split your views and controllers and models. Or if you're just in love with the template engine component of a framework, go for just a template engine.

Someone should write the framework to rule them all which supports multiple plugins. An infrastructure.
Man dances and slows down time with an orb of light
This Is What It's Like to Be in a Stop and Frisk [Article + Video]
Should editors update 80 columns guide to something wider?
With wide screens, 80 characters/columns guide seems unreasonable. Don't you think so?
This should be the rule, rather than the exception.
Instead of shutting down these guys should contact this company...

https://laundrylocker.com/

and see if they can sell/partner with them.
MOOCs in 2 years: 150+ universities, 900+ courses announced, 1000+ instructors.
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You're assuming that's the only option. What about every single one of us making sure we buy from companies that demand more from their suppliers? What about more innovation around social change and activism and less around things like sharing photos and building "free" websites that ride on the evil that is advertising?
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"...the pendulum seems to be swinging back to a more...physical place..."

Agreed.

Hardware, hackspaces and many people I know are taking welding and machining courses.

As mentioned up the tree, I'm walking about with a Cray 2 equivalent in my bag.
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Yes! People in Bangladesh need money for development desperately. It would be better to just mail them checks, but if you aren't doing that then buying from their (crappy) factories is better than nothing. Even if you are mailing checks the extra that gets contributed from buying clothes made in Bangladesh helps.
you should see a lawyer.

but the black letter law as of when i was a lawyer (2010) is that you can trade on an overheard conversation (see the switzer case involving the famed oklahoma football coach).

you don't have a fiduciary duty to the company and you don't inherit the duty from the tipper because the tipper tipped without personal benefit.

edit a reliable reference (contra some of the other sources cited in this thread): http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2009/08/insider-t...
Need to include a qualifier that they're identical size/complexity. I find it hard to believe an app exists for a serious "bulky" framework that uses 99.999% of the code in the framework. Once you get down to 0.1% or so it starts getting easier to maintain your own ten lines than to cooperate/tolerate someone elses 10K lines.
Please explain how anything in your link classifies this as insider trading. My interpretation is that finding information in a taxi means I am not a corporate insider, therefore I could not be guilty of insider trading.

Note, I agree with the currently most upvoted comment that you should see a lawyer. If you wouldn't make enough money by trading on this information to make seeing a lawyer worth it, then it isn't worth taking the risk of making the trade.
If it's anything like Africa has been over the past 100 years, agricultural tribes and hunter-gatherer tribes simply don't mix.

Agricultural tribes find the hunter-gatherer tribes to be dirty, lazy, uncivilized -- not a lot of sexual attraction going on. And the hunter-gatherer tribes think the agricultural people work way too hard for nothing, with their priorities all wrong, and don't want anything to do with the lifestyle.

At least that's how it was all explained to me during time I spent in Kenya and Tanzania, where I spent a couple weeks with a hunter-gatherer tribe.
You'll be able to stream your games from your Windows PC to your living room SteamBox
Downvoted. This is exactly the anti-intellectualism that makes me sick.

Every university has terrible students, pre-bankers and pre-consultants who just want a cake walk, and I'm sure there are many who take the course just for the easy A. I also believe there are others who get a lot out of it. Education is, largely, what you make of it.

But this idea that Chinese philosophy is "feel-good aphorisms" is the sickening anti-intellectualism that I fucking hate about business and, increasingly, the tech industry. If the only thing you get out of your study is the superficial, that's on you, not the material.
This type of negligence should really be illegal.
The clojure community has great meme: libraries over frameworks.

In my mind java is notorious for having frameworks that box you in. You have to think like the framework or you will have major problems. Think spring/hibernate.

The library over framework idea is that external tools that you use should solve a problem and be composable. You should be able to mix and match easily if you want to throw something away or introduce something new.

Composable libraries can reduce NIH and keep you flexible.
Big fan of TED Talks but Reggie Watts (vocalist, comedian, beatboxer) does a phenomenal parody of one:

http://www.ted.com/talks/reggie_watts_disorients_you_in_the_...
This is a good comment overall, but I dislike the way it starts off by blaming levity itself for being a problem, when clearly it is not.

We in the US have an expensive, shitty security apparatus, and nowhere is it's shittiness and expense more visible than at our borders, where thanks to vague laws these shitty security organizations have expanded their own powers as much as they think they can get away with.

At this point in time, all security and law-enforcement organizations in the US will use any and all actions they are legally allowed to use to their full extent. There is no value given to self-restraint within security organizations any more. None. And this, I fear, is the central problem in our government today: losing "self-restraint" as a cardinal virtue will be our undoing.

Note that the responsibility for this lies ultimately on Obama's head. He as the leader of the executive branch, he appoints the head of the DHS who appoints the head of the TSA, and so is ultimately personally responsible for the actions of the TSA. Congress can choose to defund the DHS, but that's a very clumsy check on the President's power. Obama needs to issue clear guidance to the TSA: do not threaten people with arrest for joking. Show self-restraint. If an organization or individual show self-restraint, and heaven forbid a terror attack gets through, you WILL NOT be held personally responsible.
Not necessarily. Space research and a few other special programs were different from the rest of the industry (both in the USSR and the USA). Greatly simplifying, I would say it like this: the top level of the industrial development in the USSR was on the par with the rest of the world; the average level was below that of the West.
Okay, yes, random matrix theory is a type of mathematics that was developed largely for its applications in physics. But it's still a branch of elementary mathematics! You don't need to know anything about quantum mechanics to wonder about the average eigenvalues of a random matrix.

I was hoping this was a case of a quantum physics experiment shedding light on the Riemann hypothesis -- now that would be impressive! And actually not that far fetched, either, although clearly beyond the state of the art (see: quantum computing).
What is wrong with you? Ask a lawyer.
From close up some innovation looks exponential. Take a step back and it looks like that exponential growth in one area is preceded by a breakthrough (or a series of breakthroughs), and the "exponential" growth only lasts until the ecosystem is filled.

Now take another step back. Breakthroughs themselves seem to be happening at an ever increasing "exponential" rate. Perhaps this is driven by increased wealth and education, which leads to a bigger population of researchers. In which case this trend may also eventually be limited (not "exponential").

But taking another step back reveals another trend: information is getting more available and searchable. And the burst in communications enables the formation of all kinds of creative communities.

I can't take another step back, but I can guess that it might involve artificial intelligences, DNA, and a broadening of what we consider a person. Maybe even the Singularity.
As I mentioned in my comments, the problem here is that its for any joke. Furthermore, being Danish and reading through the article it says:

"The woman kept repeating the word 'bomb' after the security pointed out that they didn't find it funny." She also said "I'll just leave my bomb here," while placing her cell phone on the X-ray belt.

As the security said (kindly!), it is not fun. If someone, after kindly being reminded that this kind of humor can be misinterpreted, continues - then I agree you asking for trouble, especially when the so-called joke involves a threat against the employees.

That being said, this is a good example that even bomb jokes are tolerated in Scandinavia, obviously to a certain extent where they have to take action.
Yeah. It's a good start, but steno feels pretty kludgy to me, and a ton of work needs to be done to make it usable for programming.
That article would make a great TED talk. Has pretty much the exact right levels of focus, clarity and eloquence.
> and lobby your local representative

Do you really need someone special to say what you think, or you can express your thoughts by yourself wherever and whomever you want to?
I can't/won't say much more than that I worked on this project, and it's not entirely true that CGI Federal didn't start working on code until this spring. It is true, however, that the vast majority of the requirements were not finalized anywhere near early enough (and even then not truly finalized), causing a significant amount of rewrite and churn.
Here's the scary part. As you said, technological innovation and progress are continuing, but 99.99% of humans play no part in it.

If the world were post-scarcity and those "unneeded" people didn't have to work, that wouldn't necessarily be a problem. But what's happening is that, while industry and technology and innovation continue, the percentage of people who get to be a part of those things (and therefore have a chance at a decent income) is plummeting.

Also, taking a standpoint that focuses on humanistic creativity and the arts, we see that that is dying off. The 0.01% with the talent to contribute to innovation's forefront are an elite and bright group of people, but there's not enough bulk creative energy to solve the problem in an artistic way. And having taught classes before and realized that most of what society needs is education (not of the formal kind) I will say that aesthetics really matter.
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Most deaths from flu epidemics came from secondary infection. The flu has become a political and distribution problem like food.

There are some very promising vaccines in the pipeline (including end of Phase 2 or in Phase 3) that protect well against even flu strains not specifically targeted. The risk is that, before the new generation of vaccines come out, an epidemic occurs and affects poor nations without adequate distribution of antibiotics. I know that is not what you generally hear, but it is where we are currently at.
You get an email with the sizes the calculator calculated for future reference when they are needed and once the product launches you will be notified. We probably worded it bad, we're not native speakers :) But we're not going to spam folks.
While this is the safest thing to do and people should probably do so, I think this shouldn't be used as a "hey, we DONT want you to know".

The simple fact that we have to tell people to go see a lawyer for protecting themselves just shows how wrong the society is (in the USA in particular) regarding laws.

But more than that, people should at least be able to get an educated answer on what to do, other that "go pay money to that guy, he knows AND this will shield you from legal issues that could ruin your life."

I mean, seriously.
Well the coding universe is divided into 3 galaxies. The C galaxy that dominates desktop , the Java galaxy and the Javascript galaxy. Of course there are other galaxies too, but I think those 3 dominate currently.

For C libraries you can use Pharo. Pharo has inherited 2 FFIs from Squeak and has implemented 1 additional FFI called Nativeboost which also allows you to inline assembly code for best performance. There is also the extra option of making VM plugin with smalltalk or C code which in turn interface with C libraries.

For Java there is redline smalltalk, but it does not come with the IDE. It can use Java libraries out of the box.

And for Javascript there is amber, it comes with the smalltalk IDE but its still a WIP, so its not as extensive as pharo. It can use javascript libraries out of the box.

Smalltalk is a chameleon , its a language and an IDE made to fit in any case scenario. I think you will have a real hard time proving that its tool best used for specific scenarios, even in cases where OO approach is ideal, smalltalk approach could be ideal because it still has one of the most powerful OO systems plus refactoring tools, plus IDE, plus many nice toys.

Smalltalk is that extremely rare case of software that it makes coding just flow, with no interruptions and no small annoyances. We call this style of coding "Live Coding" and its definetly the biggest reason to try smalltalk and even more try Pharo.

Give a try and register in our mailing list, you will find many people passionate about smalltalk and yet a very welcome atmosphere for beginners.

I am also a recent convert to Pharo from Python. I love Python but I dont miss it. So far Pharo has been very productive , fun and eye opening experience.

You can find more info here -> http://www.pharo-project.org/home

also a forum for the mailing list can be found here -> http://forum.world.st/Pharo-Smalltalk-Developers-f1294837.ht...
Even so, the details that aren't supplied in the question (which jurisdiction exactly? what kind of information was it?) are more important than the few details that are listed (where the information was found, that those are printouts).

If you want an useful answer, you need to tell more details to a relevant lawyer; currently this question can only get answers that are either useless or dangerous.
> HTML+DRM is closer to an open web than a locally installed proprietary application + DRM.

HTML+DRM is closer to a fully locked-down proprietary-only DRM -web than a 3rd-party locally installed proprietary application + DRM.
Sorry, who was arrested for that?
I've been playing with Pharo (and seaside) for a couple days now, and I know it's going to be painful to go back to normal tools.
Does anyone else find the doodles incredibly tacky?
that's a poorly written article that, for one, lacks citations. i think the point they're making with the excerpted text is that your "claim" that you merely overheard a conversation is going to be tested and could very likely fail if you have a pre-existing relationship with the tipper.
Umm, I seriously doubt that "almost everyone" in the state of Georgia in 1832 was eligble to participate in this lottery.

Families who won the lottery reverted to the mean in a generation or two

A small event known in the US as the Civil War, which completely decimated the economy of Georgia, just might have had something to do with this.
Why does science have to be published in articles in the first place? Isn't it more fruitful to have a peer-reviewed, citable, machine-readable database of scientific findings? We are no longer in the 1700s and there is too much redundant information in published papers anyway.
Whichever the case, the gp poster still pulled the alleged causation out of his/her butt for no other justification than that it feels "truthy."
Ask HN: Would you pay for an Android development/debugging library?
Hello HN,

I started working on a little debugging library for Android but the work proved rather finicky. so I decided to first make sure I knew what I was doing. Before proceeding any further, I wanted to validate the viability of the idea (and get feedback in general), so I put together a little landing page to present the project:

http://deety.delyan.me/

The list of features is only things I've done/researched thoroughly. I have a thousand more ideas (e.g., SQLite browser, network traffic analyzer, wakelock profiler, possibly an animation debugger) but I haven't gotten around to figuring out how they would work yet.

Would you be willing to pay for a library with the features I've listed on the site (View inspector, logcat, crash logs)? How much? What sort of support would you expect? Would you use it if it were free? Would any one feature make you buy it?

I'll be here to answer any questions or feel free to email me at deety@delyan.me

Thanks for your time!
This makes a lot of sense. None of us can comprehend radically different lifestyles. Regardless of race, a very different lifestyle is almost like a different culture.
I think this is availability bias. You notice the disputes and tricky questions that get referred to lawyers because these are unusual.

The law almost always goes on without anybody having to notice or take additional action. We are always moving through and interacting with the invisible web of the law. It works so well that we only notice it when something goes awry or something unusual happens (like OP's situation -- if it were normal, people would have a better idea of what to do).

Yesterday I entered into several legal contracts. We went through all the legal formalities under common and statue law, created mutually binding obligations, discharged our legal requirements and then went on our respective ways. These variously took the form of buying groceries, hailing a cab, buying dinner, picking up laundry (with the added bonus of bailee-bailor relationship) and getting a haircut.

Because nothing unusual happened, I didn't think about the law. At all. But it was there.
Chris just gave the talk today at Wicked Good Ruby Conf http://wickedgoodruby.com Confreaks recored the video, it might be a few weeks until it is available.
> HTML+DRM is closer to an open web than a locally installed proprietary application + DRM.

No, HTML+DRM still requires, in addition to the EME API implementation, the actual DRM module. The DRM module will be a locally installed proprietary application - not something standardized, not open, not cross-platform not cross-browser.

There are currently 2 such DRM modules, one by Microsoft for IE and one by Google for Chrome. They are proprietary binary blobs, non-standard except for the small external API interface to EME, and are the result of private collaboration with content creation companies.
but doesn't this happen anyway? Business requirements change, technologies change, the tool that you chose 5 years ago is probably not the best tool for the job today, regardless of whether it's a framework, a library or another piece of software in your stack.

A possible solution is to keep your business logic framework agnostic, and write thin wrappers to plug into the framework where required. In theory it should be possible to change frameworks without incurring a major rewrite. This is easier said than done of course.