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The last time I touched (or saw) a trackball was a dozen years ago, so it's hard to say - but on any acceptable trackpad its dpi should allow to move across the screen in a single motion, shouldn't it?

I.e., if I move my finger across the whole steam controller right pad, then the sensitivity should be high enough to move across the whole screen in that motion while still allowing enough accuracy to click where I want.
RubySpec is a huge success in the Ruby community amongst implementations, I'd hardly call EY ending sponsorship a blemish for RubySpec.
I don't think this is true. He explained that we would write a travelogue (that would be published), explore the music scene, visit his aunt and play free shows (where he might receive tips).

The article you linked says: "participation by amateurs in musical, sports, or similar events or contests, if not being paid for participating"

It sounds like he would solidly qualify for that, considering it does not sound like these were shows contracted specifically for pay.

And even if, somehow they suspected that he was in violation of these rules, it does not justify their actions.
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I'm not sure it makes much of a legal difference, although maybe it might be a more accurate description of Lavabit's viewpoint. But as the article points out, a business model or ideology isn't a basis to challenge court orders or subpoena power...regardless of what it might be.
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Clojure has been my go-to web dev language for a less than a year.

My Clojure workflow is much better than my Ruby workflow. It's easier to glue things together. My feedback loops are faster (like being able to eval code in my source file). The domain is simpler. So are APIs.

You don't hear about people using lisps because the communities are small. There's a self-fulfilling barrier to entry. And it certainly is a smaller world. The good part is that the quality/intelligence per capita is high. But the bad part is that I'm bringing the average down. I definitely feel it in #clojure.
I don't have knowledge about the US border and visa requirements and procedures.

But even if he did made a mistake wouldn't it be easier to inform him before he enters the plane? And avoid interrogating him without letting him know what the problem was? The process he got ranks pretty high on the crazy paranoid side. I'm sure there are ways to solve the security and visa issues in a way that does not leave traumatic memories in every casual traveller that maybe or maybe not misunderstood the rules.

It's obvious that the border control knew what the problem was. Why not tell him the problem in a polite way? Or why is there no process that avoids that the person has to fly overseas in order to be scared and not allowed entry? I'm sure there are legitimate security related cases where such a behaviour would not catch a few illegal immigrants but all these stories read like they tuned their ROC curve to maximize the true positives and forget about false positives at all. It's the same idea behind the NSA spying an the no fly lists. A huge false positive rate no matter what the costs are.

Looks like this decisions are not the result reason and careful consideration but instead full paranoia mode. But it's easy to say that from the outside. We don't know.
I feel bad for the guy, but having been across the US border a few times it's important that if you're travelling for anything but spending money in the US you'd better phone and find out if you need a work visa.

Volunteering? VISA.
Working for free? VISA.
Might ask someone for change? VISA.
Speaking at a conference? VISA.
Having coffee with someone and may discuss business? VISA.
Friend might buy you a beer? VISA.
You plan on bringing your bags to your hotel room yourself? VISA.

Exceptions:
If you are going straight to your hotel, then going to disneyland, going back to your hotel and back to the airport then you might not need a VISA, as long as you also know the flight number, airport, airline and seat number you'll be leaving the US on, then you might not need a VISA but should probably phone the consulate and find out anyway.
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No, I think there is a need.

If the definition of what it is to be American is warped, specifically, that it takes more than citizenship to be welcomed home, then that should come into the discussion of these cases of mistreated foreigners.
An optimal strategy may be to wreck the other cars. This would be a great (if not an expensive sport).
According to their rules, performing for free is acceptable:

"participation by amateurs in musical, sports, or similar events or contests, if not being paid for participating"

http://travel.state.gov/visa/temp/without/without_1990.html
I'm posting on this topic at:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6530536
I'm not sure what exactly happened, but this is what I gather from the translation.

John was visiting the United States from London.
He was planning on traveling through California with his girlfriend, then traveling through the south on his own, eventually meeting up with his aunt in Alabama.

After landing, he had a problem in customs. He had a guitar with him and told the agent that he would be playing some shows in the US.

He was then sent away from the US because he didn't have a work visa and he was here doing work.

It sounds like this was a perfect storm of shitty situations. Take an overworked/stupid/bad (take your pick) security agent, someone who doesn't speak native english and may have had some trouble explaining his situation, an expired student visa (adds to confusion) and a weird "working" on vacation situation and you have a recipe for a bad time.

It sucks.
What court thought that? My recollection is that there was a settlement, which I think means there was no finding of fact.
i have no idea either why you are moved make this comment, or why you are making it here. rubinius needed a test suite to ensure that they were compliant with a language whose 'spec' consisted of the mri implementation. they decided to do so in a way that would be useful for everybody, and started what is now the rubyspec project.

both rubyspec and rubinius are alive and well, so there's really nothing that has "broken on the shoals of reality" or would justify your evident schadenfreude at the prospect.
the standards are on their own development cycle. then city/county/state adopt the standards and make any alterations they want.

My original post talks about what orginizations like nfpa offer in return for the publishing of the standards.

I also want to point out that I would put money on NFPA standards being used in India, they are currently used in multiple countries.
It's also trivially broken, IIRC, it's a drm of convenience.
He ways saying if they breached his box, they still wouldn't be able to identify persons. But they can if they have his box (the exit) and the entry node.
You probably read far too much into my statement and ignored the one following it as well. You probably also ignored the word "slowly."

There was nothing sensationalist about what I wrote. People generally don't leave Facebook, but when they do, privacy concerns are one of the frequently voiced reasons.
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Just hit run and type in "psr.exe" or "psr". I have tried on Windows 7, I can not attest for later or earlier versions of Windows. Thanks!
Would you be so kind as to name three significant businesses created by IT firms from stolen ideas? I have never heard of this happening.
Does LT evaluate expressions as you type in python or you still have to submit each line to the interpreter?
Yes, the overall organization of the alphabet is similarly logical. But for the physically written letters, you don't get from "ch" to "chh" by adding a line or other small graphical element.
So much wasted time, money and energy and much freedom lost.

Welcome to the land of cops and lawyers.
Ask HN: What can I learn in Bay area for a month?
I graduated in 2012 with a Masters degree in Computer Science, and I'm currently working as a Software Developer (making android apps). I totally love my job and also the people at work. But for various personal reasons, I want a change of place for a month (October, November) to refresh myself. So I want to move to Bay area and learn/work on some cool stuffs related to my field, and then go back to my workplace. I see that most of the Continuing Studies options at schools are only for Execs. I think I am an artist by heart and hacker by profession. What are some interesting options you would suggest for someone like me?
What does 'neat idea' mean?
I asked someone to provide some feedback on a project I am working on. Two of them start with 'This is a neat idea'. One person did give useful feedback. It sounds to me that 'neat idea' is an ok idea but not great.
> A horror story about how YouTube video thief is making money with stolen and re-uploaded videos

What is a video "thief"? Really? Why the video was created and released? So that the people can watch it, right? The "thief" is advertising the video and the things in that video, what's wrong with that? If the "thief" is getting more hits showing your video than you are getting with your delivery system, then I think something is wrong with your delivery system. And I also think you are certainly not losing anything when somebody is watching your video - you are just getting more popular. Now try and monetize it instead of blaming those "thieves" who are working for you for free.
Even if this were the case (and there are challenges as outlined by other commenters), it is entirely and obviously disproportionate. Do you seriously find it acceptable for your tax dollars to be spent this way?

Secondly, this all misses what I think was the real point of the story - that this is an outcome of the surveillance dragnet.
All I can say is, good luck with that attitude when you get married and have a family. Your perspective on what is important in life will completely change.

Believe it or not, you can be serious about your career without sacrificing your personal life.
Ive been at the border several times, non us citizen, and i've always been treated with respect. In fact, the guys at the border were always nice to me, sometimes dared a joke or asked me for help to translate something to someone else.

So yeah, i'm sure there's horrible ones and troubles happen, but i wouldn't make that a generality just like that.
Having worked in a shop in ruralish Indiana I can tell you that winters are long, no one comes in, and the internet is a magical wonderland.

We made pixel art, checked every webcomic to see if anything new was published and raced bicycles around inside the shop. And we read a bunch of bike blogs, all the time, every day. We sure as hell would have been on twitter if it existed, if only to mock other people.

Also, only a fool stands on concrete all day. You put down a mat or at least some cardboard.
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I don't understand the reason, but from what I've seen the US and Canadian rules on these things are explicitly set up to screw small musicians. Like getting a VISA to do a single gig in a bar or restaurant costing more than the venue would normally be paying the musicians: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/08/29/canada-foreign-worke...

And I know our local (US) maritime music festival didn't bring in a Canadian duo the organizers love because of the expense of getting them a Visa to work here. (And when I later talked about it with the duo, they told me they now also have to deal with the IRS to play American shows!?)
This trust was within 48 hours after (not before) Ardin was allegedly raped.
And such tacky behavior on the part of border security, if the description is accurate. It sounds like there had been a genuine misunderstanding.
"Insists" seems very misleading here. Defaults to? Sure. But insists on? No. If they were insisting, there wouldn't be the "unless we mutually agree otherwise" clause.
Time to change my image to Goatse.
I thought that that the original discussion was about how the house increased in value, not about costs of acquisitions. My mistake!
Key point:

"The result was that I was denied entry because I was on a business trip unannounced. The payment in the form of a warm meal at one of the shows in Nashville at a restaurant with ten tables is apparently illegal."

Well, yeah, sorta. If you come to perform a task and be compensated they might construe that as work. I'm not sure what he means by privacy violations - if his name is Googled, are there no results for his stage name? Did he have nothing in his items with his stage name? It seems odd to just assume CBP agents are doing something secret when this seems like public data.

I'm Canadian, and I was detained at the border as one CBP agent felt I needed a work visa (not just stating I'm there for business reasons) to represent my company at a tradeshow. (OTOH the unions at conference centers also agree that lifting a box or plugging in cables is work so...) Fortunately his supervisor disagreed.
I took the Dasgupta's algorithms class at UCSD a couple years ago. I don't know the legal status of the PDF there, exactly, but he gave the link out to the class and almost everyone in the class used it instead of a physical textbook.

I thought the text (and class) was pretty good, although I'm sure being in the class helped. You should definitely have some experience with basic data structures, discrete math and graph theory before diving into it.
It's like saying about Rodney King, "well, our police are brutal, but after all he was speeding and resisting arrest." This kind of statement is a sophists trick, knowingly or not, to justify the unjustifiable.

I don't care what this guy "did", he shouldn't have been treated this way. If he broke the rules and we need to deport him, fine. Then do it. Don't strip search him, threaten him, go through his personal effects, harrass his friend, unjustly limit his ability to contact his people, and generally abuse someone who's trying to visit our shores who comes in peace.

The worst thing they should have done to him was force him to pay for a work visa and a "processing fee", and let him into the country.
No, if they suspect you of lying, then of course they're not going to coach you on what's allowed so you can say the right thing. That makes no sense.

Their overall reaction seems way out of proportion here, I agree. But the general tactic of questioning someone seems sorta like the entire point of having these agents in the first place.
I bet the tourism companies inside the USA are over the moon with where this is going.
I find it very interesting that in the globalization of trade, capital is free to flow across borders without hassle. Labor, not so much.
MerchantOS.

I do appreciate your passion, I would love if you would contact me through the contact form on our site https://bikeindex.org/contact_us

I'll respond immediately, I feel like we might be able to figure out our disagreements if we just chatted together.
I only commented on NFPA b/c that is the heart of what I use in Fire Protection.

NFPA does allow you to access many of the current standards for free online.

I know in my hometown library they keep a copy of the current adopted additions on hand as a way to have it published, but how often is it used by people outside of their job duties. Being that I would expect very few people not involved in contruction or design would pick up a standard. Same way how open source code is not something you expect to be read by people who have no professional interest in the process.

Lastly NFPA current edition of NFPA 13 for fire sprinkler systems is approx $80. And very few other codes that would be required to operate as a fire sprinkler contractor (to clarify I know some contractors that have only NFPA13 in their office and other that have the whole set but both can properly operate).
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Single member districts and plurality vote make it very hard.

Only if there is huge local support in some areas this could happen. For example Tea Party could break from Republicans and get several representatives.
I'll interject at this point for a bit of my philosophy on language adoption. There's something called time-to-market in the business world.

D and Scala have seemed to have missed it. It has nothing to do with technical excellence, but with tech-cultural perception.

D gets alot of play over at /r/programming but it's going nowhere. It's been around for a long time and the systems that are naturally conducive to D have been evolved to the amazing re-invigoration of C++.

Jim, it's dead.
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Do you need a visa to visit the US for a couple weeks? He did have a passport.
While I agree on the overreaction, no, it's not just about paying for a work visa. It's determining eligibility and whatnot. He even admits that it's "very difficult" to get such a visa. Certainly you don't want to encourage people to attempt entry illegally (under false premises) with the fallback of paying for the visa.

Going through his "personal effects" is one way to determine is someone is lying. Strip search seems ridiculous unless they felt he was smuggling something.
Land of the banksters, home of the sheeple ...
We don't know how good the translation is but I've read the article in German and there it clear that he studied in the US and presented a paper at a conference: http://www.euce.org/eusa/2011/papers/9d_farneti.pdf. I'd say it was not a communication problem.

Also: How did they know about his musician alias and his concert dates? From the article it looks like they read his emails. He could also have posted the dates for all to see on Facebook.
What the frail are you talking about? Why the hell do we have such ridiculous laws to begin with? What the hell kind of country have we become? It's certainly not the land of the FREE! The terrorists won. We lost.
He was explicit in that he was demonstrating 1:1 legacy mouse support, presumably there are other options for non-legacy games (and perhaps legacy games too?)

For example, my macbook track pad takes velocity into account. Something like that could make a big difference for covering large distances. I'm withholding judgment until I try one.

But then I play FPS with a trackball now, so it doesn't seem so alien to me.
i play for leisure with a mouse on a pc and I'm not a pro or anything.
Yet, i'm way smoother, faster and accurate at the same time. I mean I can headshot pretty often within 50ms. This guy needs a full second on NON-MOVING targets in counterstrike. He would have zero chance against a mouse user. zero.

Remember that this guy played with the controller for a long time and his job is to make it look like as good as possible.

So yeah, the controller seems ABSOLUTELY fine for a controller (and probably more precise in some cases than a "regular" controller), but please, let's not fool ourselves, this is NOT a PC gaming experience - i.e. this is very far from the level of control a MOUSE provides.
Did you tell them you would be playing shows?
Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals docket and documents here:

http://www.plainsite.org/flashlight/case.html?id=2524335
Please explain "surveillance dragnet" - I didn't see any evidence of that in the translated article. I saw some "I wonder how they found my stage name", but unless he's taken some large precautions, that doesn't seem too far-fetched for Google to handle...
Capital easily bribes politicians, labor not so much.
I wanna aim with my finger and with zero latency. Heck it's probably possible to hack something like that already in fact. Not sure if we'd be as good as with the mouse as you will lose awareness (hand in front of you = can't see as well)

but it'd be fun.
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When you hire vastly too many enforcement employees (I'm lumping HS/TSA/etc all together here), what ends up happening is they find things to do. The reality is, TSA and Homeland Security have very little to do. The threat is not greater today than it was 20 years ago, but we've acquired tens of thousands of new personnel with absolutely nothing meaningful to do (and the tens of billions of dollars in costs to go with them).

You see the same exact effect in traditional police, SWAT teams, and so on. All that ends up happening is they terrorize good people.
Yes. It could be that Amazon insists, but this sure doesn't prove it. To demonstrate that I'd want to see a statement from a publisher.
Strictly speaking, isn't getting tips and food being paid? After all, don't food service workers get paid in tips?
I was surprised no one brought this up. What is your visa situation?
Go to https://www.google.com/settings/account and follow "Delete profile and remove related Google+ features."

It will also delete your connected YouTube channel unless you disconnect it first and later re-enable it.
I would argue go has a terrible ffi due to their tool chain being awkwardly integrated (at best) with the native c abi. Calling into c is expensive.
Because formal specs are open to interpretation, have you seen how much POSIX formal specs differ between operating systems?
How much do they cost these days? I remember they were bit pricy... (and quick search really doesn't reveal how much it is any more?)
Maybe I'm naive but I'd thought along the line that they could issue a warning that he needs a visa to enter and will unlikely be granted access without it. If he gives false information in the visa that process is probably the only option left - but in my opinion this still does not justify the treatment.
Not really, having a few million $ is good enough.
I commend you for being passionate about innovation. I share the same passion; I firmly believe that innovation drives the future. I think there are a few different ways you can approach this, but it depends on what you want to accomplish. I find the idea of 'Innovation as a Discipline' to be interesting, and perhaps something that might help a large range of Startups spanning multiple industries. Making a comparison to fail-fast pivots alludes to the possibility that 'Innovation as a Discipline' may represent a new approach or methodology towards Product Development. If this is the case, you may find yourself in a position to help a large number of Startups. However, if you are looking to work with a few specific Startups and develop Products (not methodologies), then my recommendation is to get involved with the Local Startup Ecosystem. Specifically, events like Hackathon's or Startup Weekend types of Events. Those are the types of Events where you will find a large number of Groups/Teams working on Ideas and Products at the Ground Floor. I imagine you could easily find a few different Groups/Teams working with Ideas and products that you find interesting.

I recently decided to try an IdeaLab approach (or something close). My new approach is to conceptually design new and innovative products, validate the conceptual products with potential customers, and then build teams to execute the conceptual products. So it's kind of backwords, you are working on the product before you build the team. But then you build the team and work on the product. I'm interested to see how this turns out!
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Leftists (and rightists) need to stop being scared of the freaking world.

And that includes internal politics. Stop scare-mongering everything if some park ranger in Idaho is furlod (sic).

This whole freaking planet has become a paranoid (we trust government) freak fest.

Forget about it. It just sucks.

Why do you leftists that sympathesize with this guy vote for a socialist like Obama?
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