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This is wrong on two important levels:

- the UCI limits bicycles so that it's a race between cyclists, not bank accounts. Currently, a top pro's bike costs about $10-15k, and a competitive bike can be bought for as low as $2-3k (even lower at the amateur level). If they removed the technical limitations, that number would be at least an order of magnitude higher, and potentially two or three.

- bike races are not just about speed, they're about speed and tactics

I think a relevant comparison is the America's Cup race. Back when they raced tubby, slow, antiquated 12 Meter yachts, there were dozens of countries competing, viewership was high, and the races were exciting tactical battles from start to finish. Then they switched to super high tech wonderboats costing 100s of millions. Those boats are amazing feats of engineering, no doubt, but after you've watched them for 5 minutes, there's really nothing left to see. The costs are so high that there are now only two competitors, and the event may die entirely next go round, as there may be only one (Ellison) willing to pony up so much money. Viewership has plummeted as a result.
But their website doesn't render the styled icons with javascript turned off. I think it is a bit misleading for them to say "CSS based SVG styling".
E.g. the Robert Downey Jr movie where he controls a fighting robot. Bigger and nastier risks allowed than human boxing.

I still haven't seen that, though...
Probably the top reason someone would fix app instead of volunteering physically, is regular volunteering requires working on someone else's schedule.

For example if you are on a volunteer ambulance squat, then you got some hours assigned to you, and you have to be available at that time. (Plus you are in contact with people who may have diseases and exposing yourself and loved ones to them, but that's not common to all volunteering.)

Making a patch to open source can be done on your own time and from your own home.

A much smaller issue, is the issue of familiarity. Most of us know how to change and check in code. But if you'd like to help a child orphanage, it requires stepping out of comfort zone - or at least present knowledge zone.

And final issue off the top of my head could just be awareness. It's easy to find a request for help in open source projects. There isn't a bug list for helping around community ... that I know of.
Knuth on his air gap: "I currently use Ubuntu Linux, on a standalone laptop—it has no Internet connection. I occasionally carry flash memory drives between this machine and the Macs that I use for network surfing and graphics; but I trust my family jewels only to Linux." : http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1193856
When microwaving a CD, the induction stops when the track is cut. There are usually big chunks of surface (~2cm²) unaffected. You can't read it with your drive but it's reasonable to think that some data can be retrieved from it, with enough work and money.
I don't anymore.
Back in 2008 my friend and I were going to enter an instructables.com contest with a 3D printer made from an all-in-one. It was going to be the Z-corp (powder) style. Total feasible, but we ran out of time and was a lot more focused on his senior design project.

A few weeks later, we did come across this http://web.archive.org/web/20120121054050/http://homemade3dp...
Every time I help the poor up close & personal, I observe behaviors which clearly lead to destruction of wealth and/or avoidance of opportunity. No, it's not scientific, but personal anecdotes can be personally persuasive.

The real eye-opener was when I spent an afternoon helping a poor family a variety of ways. I was repairing their couch, a bit puzzled at the damage thereto but continued fixing it; when almost done, the early-teen girls came to me and asked for a large sheet of plastic. "Uh, don't think I have any...what do you need it for?" "We just tore out the screens in the bedroom." I don't know if that means anything to you, but I was startled at the notion that these kids were deliberately destroying their home. I realized, with plenty of confirmation in other poverty-assistance encounters, that much of poverty can be linked directly to ongoing patterns of self-destructive behavior.

Yes, many poor are there as a result of "not their fault" circumstances (abuse, IQ, financial/medical disaster, etc.). But many of them will overcome poverty precisely because, whatever their condition/situation, they still embody self-improving behavior. Yes, they need help/food/money, and I try to provide it as possible.

Now, with those points in mind, it's pretty obvious that if you give everyone the same wealth and income, some will squander it unto poverty, and others will make wise choices - with financial results reflecting their personal choices.
Looks pretty neat. I'm at work so I only had a few minutes to play around with it. It seems really smooth and fun. I'll bookmark it to play around later. The concept is really cool. I want to see what some people have been able to come up with. Do you have limits on the size of the world people can create?

I wonder why you "brag" that you don't use canvas though. I would think that's the correct way of making a game now-a-days, in lieu of web-gl not being widely supported.
I did the no-soap thing for awhile. I wouldn't recommend it, unless you're looking to live some kind of counter-culture lifestyle and purposefully alienate people in the mainstream who aren't as open-minded as you are.

Once I stopped, cut my hair and dressed more nicely, I noticed everyone around me, even the open-minded folk suddenly being a lot more friendly.

My take-away: don't cut your nose off to spite your face. Soap is one of those things society believes we need and it's not all that harmful, even if it doesn't really help things much. So just use it.
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Start up time. You can't write cli programs if the JVM takes 100+ms to start up.
In my opinion, Braintree would've made even more sense than Square, as they could've tied that more directly into iOS.
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Improved security is a major feature that most people should care about (but they don't).
> I wouldn't mind. Peoples' lives are on the line. I'd rather it be 99.99% right than the 90% as it currently is.

The justice system has two basic functions: to punish the guilty and protect the innocent. False positives means there is a trade-off between how well it can do both functions at the same time. Society makes the decision about the appropriate balance between the two. If courts make it too burdensome to prosecute and punish the guilty, people will respond with harsher laws, longer sentences, etc. You might be okay with setting the burden at 99.99% certainty, but the history of votes on the issue suggest that most Americans want a lower burden than that.
Would you mind using a stronger font/color? This is unreadable for me.
Neither of those though, move Java off a VM/JIT basis.

That's the thing; the Nailgun workaround to an extent avoids the startup overhead, but can create other problems. E.g., when you're starting multiple builds on the same server (because the Nailgun server listens on a port, so you may have to sort out conflicts), if you have multiple users on the same machine (because anybody can connect to the socket, so you have a potential security problem), etc.

With a native option, this can be avoided (note that IBM offers an AOT compiler for Java).
Lack of GC makes concurrent lockless programming extremely hard (and most of the examples on the internets are subtly broken). RAII doesn't work at all besides trivial cases when there is no sharing at all. Reference counting incurs additional contention, due to interlocked increments/decrements and is also very hard to do properly. Where in a GCed language a single CAS is often enough, in a non-GCed language you need to resort to less efficient and often completely unsupported things like DCAS or CAS2.
I could just imagine that conversation with my CTO...

Me: CTO, we're switching to Linux instead of Windows 7

CTO: Great! How much functionality will we lose with our applications?

Me: All of it!

CTO: Let's do it!
This showed up on a list I am on. I don't imagine anyone else would post it here. The information age is fostering patient/family driven health solutions. I think that is noteworthy and relevant to some of the apps people here write. Unfortunately, I don't know how to frame that in a way that is likely to be a big aha moment for anyone here.
Saying Dilma Rousseff "has been intensely critical of the US government and the NSA spying program" is a big overstatement.

Regardless, let's hope this segregation happens and the internet can get a little bit of freedom from the greedy hands of the US Government.
Yes that has always been the case. Unfortunately that was a business decision from our clients which we could not get away with. This reply may help us prove our point further.
> Has any big acquisition ever made for a positive integration?

Exxon/Mobil, AT&T/BellSouth come to mind.
We put humans into the legal system because of the assumption that some common sense goes into their decisions. So now every time some legal decision here is questioned on that level, the recourse is always "according to the law, not [..] moral". (on a supreme court case, of all things!)

The brilliant thing then is to go back to "mistakes will be made by all human beings" and deny all legal recourse in the end.
It really doesn't. I mean, after awhile you'll get used to bathing without soap and you won't think you'll smell, but you will. Especially if you stop using deodorant as well. If you're an anti-social sort and don't really care what people think about you, then knock yourself out, but if you like people like I like people, do them a favor and get some soap. It's cheap.
Apple should buy TomTom and get their maps sorted out.
I guess hoping for a dramatic dismantling of Bluffdale and Clapper's arrest on perjury charges was always unrealistic.

In reality, we've already started to win. Jewel v. NSA, rather than being dismissed under executive privilege and placed into the realm of "paranoid nutjobs" is proceeding strongly, as are a multitude of other lawsuits with strong merit.

There's been a renewed interest in stronger systems, which will ultimately be the only way to prevent against surveillance. After all, policy changes only are secure and trustworthy of the government that makes them.

The transfer of Internet institutional power away from the US is just another step, even if it's probably a bit less useful than you might suppose, given that every major technological power has also participated in similar surveillance schemes.

So while I still wish for political reform in the short-term, I am continually re-assured by other efforts which will solve this issue in the long-run. So long as we don't forget about this issue, it will be solved one way or another.
What differences will this make now?
It's one thing to show that some ability can be attained in a controlled, toy-model environment, it's another thing to say that excellence in a field can be achieved solely by environmental factors. In the nature vs nurture debate, it's not fruitful to argue for either extreme.
Auditors would be a lot cheaper than opening prosecutors to civil liability. The basic problem is that you'd be putting a powerful retaliatory tool in the hands of a group of people (convicts) who are: 1) very likely guilty; 2) have all the time in the world; and 3) can't effectively be sanctioned for filing meritless litigation.

People justify opening prosecutors to civil liability by saying that "they need to be held accountable." But prosecutors are already accountable. Their actions take place on public record. They have to justify themselves to defense counsel, a judge, and possibly a jury and an appellate panel. On top of all that, their immunity does not protect them from suits alleging bad faith.
It depends what you can afford and are willing to lose. If you have a lot of money the bank take as much time as you want. How long is it going to take to get this adventure profitable. If it's a service business and your doing the work and you already have a client that's one thing. If you have a business idea and no proof of revenue I would get to work rgith away.
Apple and Microsoft do the same. Apple got a bit of flack over it, too. Microsoft not much so far.
We haven't tried it on a slower computer yet, I believe we should try it on slower computer and connection both.

We do have a mobile app for Android so better redirect user to the android mobile app till we have the responsive site.

Thank you for the pointers.
Correct. The tax deductions make it so that more something over 3% is stupid. Here that's what I find in the communities that aren't exurbs.

Home value increase is not something I count on anymore. The housing bubble was never allowed to fully deflate. The Fed has kept interest rates extremely low to ensure this.

The recent home value increase (my father is a real estate broker, so I'm into this stuff) is mainly powered by an artificially low supply of houses for sale. The reason the supply is so much lower than it should be is due to a large percentage of owners who are waiting for further price inflation to put homes on the market. Many of them are currently underwater.

I really don't like the mortgage interest tax deduction. Its nothing but a scheme to enrich banks by encouraging debt. All the other bullshit about home ownership is warm, fuzzy, and absolutely not connected to reality.
Personally, I'd be all for a league similar to F1 that allowed for much greater disparaties between teams.

We're talking about the most well funded teams in the world; no chance of a small upstart coming in with a low bankroll and making a splash anyway.
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Just read that article. Does techcrunch have short term memory loss? Google had this for a while in their engine, but removed it because it didn't work well. For reference, there were up and down arrows next to the results(believe they were arrows), which allowed results to be ranked higher on an individual basis. This trained the algorithm to be custom tailored for the use and probably was also fed into the overall ranking.

They removed it, because it didn't prove to be valuable when compared to other metrics. Odd TC didn't include this information when writing this piece. Seems fairly relevant.
RBR is certainly one of those teams that is A+ in every facet. Traction control wouldn't explain their consistently amazing pitstop times, and their car's generally awesome reliability.

I've been watching pretty much every F1 race for the past 3+ years, but don't read any F1 blogs. This was news to me. I have been growing a little tired of the Vettel's domination, even if it's well earned.

That's why Silverstone was one of my favorite races this year. Because as soon as Vettel crashed, it was like, "oh, we have an actual race on our hands now!" and the commentators said something similar, something about it no longer just being a race for second place.
Schrödinger's cat comes into mind. They looked at the cat, and it was healthy and alive. If later on, they check again and find it dead, then they can action. Otherwise, if it passes regulation, its not cheating. You can't really accuse anyone of cheating until you actually catch them cheating.

Another angle to consider is that by creating gossip and rumors, the other teams might be creating a competitive advantage. By getting the officials to stress Red Bull and throw them off their game. Its not cheating, because it is allowed by the rules. When they ban gossip and rumors then you can take action against them. Otherwise, the cat is still dead and alive.
Regarding Tesla, this consulting company publishes another book which includes "How brilliant scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla destroyed himself". I guess he needed a better marketing consultant.
Hmmm....I've been a programmer for awhile now and have never really felt the mythos that "you are born a programmer." In fact, I would argue that among professions, programming is probably one of the most merit-based ones around, in which we routinely celebrate those who can hack something clever after a relatively short time of learning programming. What other profession can you think of that would allow (and usually, embrace) a "Learn to Code" type movement, which implies that coding is a skill that any one at any stage can pick up and make use of. The fact that the OP doesn't actually quote examples of "natural born programmer" myths makes it hard to evaluate whether this is really "killing our culture"

In the OP's defense, perhaps the OP is referring to the idea of women being less genetically suited to programming? If so, I agree that that is a problem and a harmful mythos. But overall, I think the programming profession does not celebrate the idea of "born programming"
Closing the loopholes (aka raising taxes) would only drive business out of America. Google provides thousands of jobs to Americans, and raising taxes on them and other big companies will drive more work out of the US.
Mathematicians have no problem whatsoever learning to program, it's just another way to bring reason into action. The other way around is not true though, programmers can't learn to write proofs, that's just an innate ability.
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That's funny - I wonder why we dont see any stats for India, definitely one of the largest markets.

sidenote: For those that believe that these guys can upgrade to Linux, that will only happen on the basis of a single piece of software - Excel. And no, OO/LibreO is not good enough.
It's interesting how some of these (Facebook, for example) are so immediately recognizable. I don't even use Facebook but I immediately recognized the "Facebook blue" thanks to (I suppose) those ubiquitous Like buttons. They've done a good job branding.
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I've not played in this space for a looong time but...

There are four things you want to do -

1. Get a herd of cash together. The stuff that follows is not cheap.

2. Set up a hardware data diode (an appliance that only allows data to travel in one direction). [1]

3. Set up an air gap like Whale Comm's appliance used to do (two 1U rack-mount servers, back-to-back, which [dramatization alert] automates plugging a USB stick into one server, copying data onto it, pulling it out, sticking it into the other server, and coping the data onto it - at ~10Mb/s, if memory serves). [2]

4. Any time anything traverses the trust boundary, convert from one format to another, so PDF becomes RTF, DOC becomes TXT, PNG becomes GIF, and so on. The point is that converting attachments into other formats drops malicious payloads, or stops them from exploiting vulnerabilities in the apps that open the original formats.

[1] Tenix used to do one, but they cost crazy money (millions). I don't know much about this space anymore, but this might provide some pointers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network

[2] Whale Communications was acquired by Microsoft. The product is now called ForeFront Unified Access Gateway, and while still a good application firewall, no longer provides that air gap (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Forefront_Unified_Acc...). I've no idea who else can do this.
What did Ballmer do right though? I'm serious.
Sometimes the articles on HN are to fresh to be cached by Google yet, it's what I use as well sometimes. But still when I'm in my flow reading the frontpage I want to see the content as fast as possible, and don't waste time on googling it etc.
We put humans into the legal system to exercise legal judgment, not to substitute the law with their personal moral sentiments. The place for moral sentiments is the legislature.

It should be noted that legislatures have weighed the moral issues, and in most states have set out the recourse for the wrongfully convicted to be statutory restitution, not civil suits against prosecutors. Arizona, one of the two states mentioned in the article, has declined to implement any such statutory restitution.
Social good orgs / projects using API?
Does anyone know of social good organizations (social enterprises, nonprofits, etc.) who have created an application that uses an API? i.e. an app relating to youth centers, that pulls in a Foursquare listing of youth centers. [this is probably a very rudimentary example, but you get the gist].

Thanks in advance.
Insofar as the Internet is an "entity" with any of the kind of agency that would allow it to "abandon" anything, it is governed by telcos, 5-6 major US Internet companies, and the content industry.
Nature or nurture. Programming is a highly skilled trade, requiring creative thinking. It's like a combination of engineering and writing prose. While genetics no doubt plays some role, much larger are the attitudes and aptitudes a child learns in their formative years (mostly before school age.) Everybody can learn to program, but not everyone has the attitudes that will make them well suited to it. You're not born with those attitudes for the most part, but if you don't have them, you're probably not going to acquire them.

I taught myself programming. I'm now very good at it (at least I like to think so) but it took 12 years of constantly pushing my limits and constantly learning. People who like to go out and drink with their friends every day after work, instead of learn new things at their computer will never be competitive with me. You need to be self-motivating, inquisitive, constantly improving yourself, and put in the massive amounts of time required, not just from 9-5.
>Even if this story is a rehash of what has been already said in F1 fan blogs, it is very accessible to people who know little about the sport.

Don't worry, that's just the obligatory HN top comment of: I happen to have more knowledge of the topic, therefore this article sucks.

I also thought it was an interesting read.
Why do you write 'at least'? Isn't this strictly superior to Schneier's light idea?
Wow that explains something I've been wondering about for a while. I interviewed there a few months back (using an email address not tied to a Facebook account) and all of a sudden I started getting emails about how I had joined Facebook using that address, and hadn't added any friends. I guess if you don't already have an account, they make one for you?
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I think he's folding in the "charges sociales" that companies have to pay out to the government when they offer a salary. From what I heard they're roughly 50% of the salary cost of each employee. I'm no expert though... could be different.
I'm trying to think now what would be the opposite of this? Books that are completely counter-intuitive, that forces you to rethink your original Weltanschaunng in the first place - Niall Ferguson's "Civilization: The West and the Rest" and Nassim Taleb's "AntiFragile: Things that Gain from Disorder" comes to mind. Even rereading Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations" can give you this counter-intuitive insight.
Thanks!
Not bragging, totally sorry if it looks like I'm!
At the very beginning I tried to do something very stupid: create the game using only the DOM. All data in it, no variable, just div, data attributes, classes.
It was just to have fun with jQuery limitation (and gosh, I saw them, my Firefox died a lot at this time!). When I started to do more, with a bigger goal, I just kept all I did previously.

I started to do a canvas version for a weekend, but at the end it wasn't worth it, the editor and the game were too far to step back!

Again, thanks for your feedback!
There is no basis for me claiming that artificially modifying one's self is a bad thing, as I never made that claim. I only pointed out an observation.