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I am. Using a rMBP. No scrollbar on latest Chrome, and worse yet, two-finger scroll is broken. I have to attempt to two-finger scroll, mouse over the scrollbar quickly before it disappears (this took two tries because it goes away that quickly) and then click/drag to scroll (which I'm embarrassed to say is amazingly cumbersome now that I'm trained for the multitouch gestures).
Public electricity supplies on parking lots are on the rise - I personally would consider a wall outlet on a parking lot without a lock or sign as a free-to-charge-my-car outlet.
Undiscussed: the paying customers would understandably be outraged to discover live code which they paid for was created by non-employees operating without pay under adverse conditions. You want to work for a company that would do that to their customers?

ETA: I'm referring to product integrity. Do you want a highly complex and specialized product developed, at least in part, by people whose total exposure & involvement lasted less than a day and had basically no incentive to do it right?
APIs change out from underneath you. Code can't last forever, even with versioning.
They did cut the feed. The actual video feed kept going until range control fired the FTS to destroy the SRB's that kept flying along after the shuttle was blown apart. You didn't get to see that back in the 80's. That footage had only recently been released.
As a scala fan:

Sequence literals, intersection types, type aliases, declaration-site variance, functions and methods? Got them.

Modules? Meh. The OSGi thing has always struck me as hideously overengineered; I've never understood what problem it's supposed to solve.

Nullable types? The trouble with doing this at the language level is that you can't then treat them as plain old objects. Can I write a method that's polymorphicly nullable? Can I write a method that polymorphicly handles "nullable" or Future or Validation, like scalaz's "sequence"?

Union types? Yeah, proper union types would be good.
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I game on my iMac. Currently just played through BioShock Infinite, and play StarCraft 2 daily, and really should get back to Guild Wars 2 at some point... but yeah, I'm considered odd by my friends for doing so.
Burglary, and theft in general, is a non-violent crime. If you're caught 3 times for that, shouldn't the punishment be more severe? Similarly, selling heroin is a non-violent crime. It would be helpful to see a more detailed breakdown on the effects of the "war on crime."

By the way, I understand that the "three strikes" laws have had some unintended consequences and should be revisited.
An appropriate response would have been for Cambridge to have written him up for trespassing.
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> And Linux may or may not run on the latest generation hot stuff

I've now installed Linux on two custom built machines, both with new hardware, neither of which were specifically built for linux. I was very surprised, compatibility was really good, and hardware issues were almost none...

> depending on how much time you want to spend to get your newest graphics card working.

Other than the one that had a dedicated GPU (even here, worked out of the box on Ubuntu). But then, this is an area that Valve seems to be focusing on heavily, and throwing steam support behind linux is a good reason to get Nvidia (et al) involved in better driver support.

It's still a longshot overall IMHO, but I do agree that the potential user-base is higher. You can't get a budget gaming Mac - the closest is the iMac for >$1,000, and that can be easily out-performed by a $5-600 custom built box.
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Iconic looks really nice, and I especially like the component documentation.

When it comes to the overwhelming number of mobile js frameworks its hard to get an idea of speed without running each of the demos individually and comparing. Do you have any rough stats compared to Sencha?
Thanks for compiling this faq, btw. The unstructured nature of HN tends to work against any sort of historical or accumulated knowledge. I have a vision of people stepping up and doing this for different CRTs (Commonly Recurring Topics) on HN and pretty soon we're the StackOverflow of... well, something.
Plea bargaining is a bad system and open to abuse. However, it's incorrect to say Aaron Schwartz was faced with 35 years in jail.

I've always wondered if the felony conviction aspect of the punishment wasn't just as unacceptable to him. It would prevent any political ambitions in the US, I believe.
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It's not a bug; it's a feature :-)

The code "pulls" the middle sample down, to the bottom of the window, and then the simulation runs.

As for the 2D simulation, you were right - I just pushed a version with more contrast.

Thanks for the feedback!
Remember, freelancers don't get paid unless they deliver.

Contract developers on a day rate very much do get paid time (and materials). If they can't afford a day of his time to figure out if they want him they shouldn't be interviewing him.
I'm not sure why you felt the need to bring race into this. I'll concede to you that some people in the South are racist. I never said otherwise. Nor have I or anyone else that I've noticed ITT suggested that lynch-mob style justice is what Ken Anderson deserves. What people have said is that Ken Anderson's crimes are serious, and deserving of more than it appears he will get. To use a prosecutor's rhetoric, a deterrent is needed.

I think what they (some people from the South) believe is that police, prosecutors, and judges are well-meaning professionals and that they conduct their duty with the intention to "do what is right" and with some degree of professionalism.

When a random citizen calls for the death penalty for some accused individual, they are always doing so with the caveat that the accused is actually guilty of the crime. They are saying "baby raping murders need to die" not necessarily that "smelly bums need to get framed up" or in the case of Morton "innocent fathers". What person (besides policemen and prosecutors) wants an innocent man convicted?

The problem is not human nature (well, maybe it is, but that's not a problem we can reliably solve). The problem is that prosecutors, judges, and cops are themselves human, and that there is little to safeguard us all from their mistakes, and even worse, they are incentive-ized to make these types of mistakes.
Just because you don't have a Github account, doesn't mean there aren't a plethora of other ways to demonstrate the ability to code with samples etc. Don't conflate no Github account with no ability to demonstrate code.
Sure, he voluntarily resigned after of being called an asshole and sexist by the project owner (Joyent), seems totally expected in my opinion.
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In my industry (copywriting), candidates demonstrate their abilities to employers with a portfolio of their best work. Would this work for programmers?
Distinctions like that are meaningful to the unemployment office and in a court of law. They actually said they were firing him, publicly, and he left the project. The fact (of law) is probably that he resigned, voluntarily. I actually came to say "I don't care" but after critical analysis, I think you're wrong. He was fired.
I try very hard to overlook stuff like this in my own comments, but in this case it's so distracting. I agree that the culture here is a bit too strongly biased toward giving this kind of feedback, but as someone who's been on the receiving end of it, and as someone who's a complete design idiot and always looking to others mistakes as examples of what not to do, I find it incredibly valuable.

I'd like to see the volume knob adjusted down just a tad, but not so much that I can't hear that sweet, sweet music. ;-)
well someone caught with a tiny amount of crack cocaine is sentenced to (I'm paraphrasing since I am on my phone, don't have the stats) like 90 days vs 30 for cocaine. Alternatively I think there should be more emphasis on rehab. Real rehabilitation programs, mandatory drug rehab for even first time drug offenders perhaps.
Great description!

The main thing that confuses people is grouping. Prosecutors charge a large number of counts because they don't want to lose a conviction by being imprecise in characterizing the specific set of acts out of an overall course of conduct that was illegal. If you add up all the counts you get some big number, but the sentencing guidelines (3D1.2) clearly state: "All counts involving substantially the same harm shall be grouped together into a single Group."

I think the sentencing guidelines are ridiculous (look at that big list of meaningless factors in the sushi chef example!), but its much more sensible to calculate a guideline range than to add up the theoretical maximum sentences.
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Ok...that's cool. Somehow I think this will become something serious and plausible vs. the cyber Monday drone package stunt.
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Why not just click the mouse wheel and drag the mouse down?
You can find pretty much all you want over XDCC and Bittorrent, which are the primary methods which fansubbers distribute their videos.
10 years in prison is a lot for a non-violent crime. He might have withheld evidence but in the end it's the jury who found him guilty.
Some of it runs okay under Wine, some not. A shame, I wish a startup would try and tackle the Adobe Collection at some point, but I guess the capital requirements and network effects are too great :(
So true. He's not even the worst. My team would be rocking a fantasy hospital league right now.

Yeah. Suppose so. Maybe next year we can get one going. Good to know there are other fantasy NBA fans on HN, though.
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Here's my post about the same positions: http://www.ultrasaurus.com/sarahblog/2013/12/work-in-governm...
Wrong, wrong, wrong.

Many of the counts would have been grouped under the guidelines.
Most of the people who really are affected by the provider shutdowns are "ordinary" people who may occasionally download stuff from youtube but don't know much else about computing. They just see the facade of the hosters and don't know about the "back side" - and when the fuck-up happens, they're caught cold.

"We", as in "tech-savy population", know about SPOFs, backups and such - but not an everyday person.
After you added your app on itunesconnect you can upload the binary. You need "application loader" for that. I haven't found another way, but would be very pleased if there is one.
URLs are not the only component of web APIs.
> All the cogs of the brain are well known and documented since years and their interoperation as well. But we still don't know how it all work together and what function is implemented by it.(I mean publicly. Some people may already know and keep it secret)

I don't think there's a single correct thing about anything in this sentence, it's also a little bit conspiracy crazed.
I know that feeling. Thankfully, thats why I recently decided to get my hands dirty and help :)
I can't even begin to fathom what you could be talking about, unless you're talking about some "three strikes" circumstance, which is in fact unrelated because Aaron didn't have two strikes.
I tried Ionic on Friday last week. The example code didn't work 'out of the box', and there isn't any documentation explaining how to use it. I tried with PhoneGap, with Cordova and running it in a browser both with and without Ripple. I got pretty much nowhere. Contrast that to trying jQM 1.4 RC1 and having a working example running on my phone in about half an hour with Phonegap.

Open source projects live and die on their community, which springs from examples and documentation that people can learn from. I like the look of Ionic, especially if it was decoupled from Angular, but until it's possible to actually do something with it I (and I imagine many others) can't help out with it.

tl;dr Documentation is critical. Write some, don't just rely on your "doc generator".
> Its free for one app

Actually, its free for anything that can be hosted publicly and open-source on a Git repository
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I think you'd have to have a policy to avoid particular items that get Compliance reaching for the BLOCK IT button - eg strict policy against people offering trading recommendations, for example.
Which third party software do you use to fix the mouse acceleration? I'm in the process of porting some Wx stuff over to OS X, a processes for which work provided a shinny new macbook, but I hated the way the mouse handled so much -- I mean, to the point where I was yelling at the computer -- that I ended up virtualizing OS X on my windows box and developing that way.

I don't know what it is. The Macbook's track pad is miles above its peers -- an absolute joy to use. However, the second you plug a mouse in, the cursor becomes an unusable, inaccurate, enraging piece of garbage.
FYI, it was a Nissan Leaf according to the article, not a Tesla. The Leaf has a more modest 24 kWh battery. (So you're really only lining up ~4,000 people and only letting the first few hundred take a sip.)
Where are you getting the player images from? I had a project recently where I wanted to pull NBA player images but couldn't find any freely available. Ended up hotlinking to NBA.com and hoping noone noticed.
I agree that this would be really cool, although as a hardcore fantasy player, I use twitter as my number 1 source for game-time decisions. It has the most up-to-date information, which is crucial for making roster changes on gameday.

May I ask what the source of the injury news is for this app? I'm guessing it's ESPN.
You don't think software development itself is a highly specialized skill? It's true that what we type might not be PhD research, but just learning a programming language is a rare thing.
A company I recently interviewed for handled assessing my technical skills in a way I found acceptable without having to pay me. I was sent a small Requirements document to program a small app that had nothing to do with their application, but would show off my technical chops. I was told to use whatever language and framework I wanted, but it had to be production ready code. I spent a little over half a day working on it and submitted it. During the on site interview I was given an hour to update the application with new requirements, then I went through a Peer Review as if the code was going out to the customer.

I thought this was completely fair, as I wasn't doing work for them but they were able to receive a fair assessment of my skills through more than, "Write a recursive function to calculate the factorial of a number"

Having an interviewee code on a live code base, whether or not they are being paid, is just a bad idea. They don't know anything about the code or architecture of the project, and aren't as invested in the product as the people actually working for the company are. What happens if the person writes some bad code that works? Do you throw it out? Will it slip through the cracks? What if they change something that was already coded that they don't know breaks something else? Do you not allow them access to the rest of the code base?
The questions go on and on, just save yourself the trouble and don't do it. The fake application idea works great
I agree that this person should not have been using the school's electricity to charge his car. But to have him arrested is an extreme over reaction. The punishment does not fit the crime. That is what I take away from this story.
I think this is taking an easy way out. If every one stops pirating and there is no piracy, raii/mpaa will make it expensive enough that poorer people will not be able to afford it or would be left out. Look at the isps and cable companies where there is no alternative(atleast in US) and they squeeze as much as they can out of the user giving as little as possible. In a way piracy is kind of a competition for media companies to make shows available for a reasonable price.
Yup, sorry you are right. I've heard of people using a service like http://www.appstoreuploader.com but I haven't personally.
Ask HN: What content types do you gzip and why?
I am currently using gzip * at level 9. Standard advice seems to be, do not compress graphics files and PDFs.

I read moot's post yesterday about saving a few transmission bytes and I did an experiment. I got some pages from 6 big web sites and saved all the files and http headers. From the Content-Encoding in the headers they do not seem to gzip any graphics files. When I measured the file sizes with and without compression I found gzip on level 9 gave a total 1.36% saving on JPG, 1.1% on PNG and 6.95% on GIF. Particularly the larger GIFs were worth compressing. I tried excluding the files which increased in size when 'compressed', this could be done automatically on the server, and it made almost no difference to the totals.

I tried gzip on a couple of random PDF files and they gave big savings.
Around here, all such supplies have clear signage that they're available to the public. Maybe it's different where you are?
I hope this doesn't become status quo. Anecdotally, it seems like the vast majority of downvotes are for attitude issues rather than disagreement. Even in the case where someone is outright wrong ("blah blah, because 1+1=3"), they're far more likely to receive replies which (often politely) contradict what they're saying than they are to receive downvotes ("are you sure about that? wolfram [1] says 1+1=2"), as long as the incorrect commenter is being courteous participants in the conversation.

As someone who is so often so very, very wrong, I find this piece of our culture incredibly valuable, and I hope that it doesn't disappear.
The legal process isolated him from others because he couldn't discuss the trial with them. Even if he didn't commit suicide because of the prospect of jail time; the situation he was in (limited form of isolation) doesn't help someone with depression.
Wow, I'm deeply involved in the industry and I've never heard of the site.

A quick poll of 20 people on Bloomberg chat indicate that no one else had ever heard of it.

No wonder it didn't do well:) If your target audience has never heard of you, your going to have a hard time getting going:)
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"Many of you already have expressed your opinion regarding recent drama, and I'd like to ask that you please respect our wishes to let this issue rest, so that we can all focus on the road forward."

Sure, please don't talk about this anymore since it can harm to Joyent's reputation and business.
There's such a massive opportunity there for an organisation like GMAT to use PKC for this kind of thing.
Nobody has pointed out that this guy didn't just randomly go up to the school. His kid was at soccer practice there. Presumably the school has reasonable accommodations to be made for the people who are using it. This person certainly pays taxes that support the school.

If he went up to the water fountain outside the restroom and filled a water bottle from it, should he be charged with theft for that?
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I agree with you. The problem is, that is something that will take a massive coordinated effort and systemic change, and frankly will have huge push-back by the prosecutors themselves (everyone likes easy actionable metrics)... It also assumes that all prosecutors are good, which we can never assume of everyone in a profession.

So, I think both tactics are required.
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A full day is unreasonable for an interview. But "working for free" for a while isn't. Of course they want to see you working on that particular codebase rather than some other code. And even more obviously you want to jump on the opportunity to see the code. An hour or two of pairing is completely reasonable.

That said: shipping code written by a person being interviewed is nonsense. Either the person was assigned completely menial tasks which doesn't evaluate their skill at all, or the manager is a complete nutjob that wants to ship features written by someone who has never seen the code before.

If the employer can't provide a person to pair with, and says you should spend an entire day coding features to go live immediately, it would actually seem like the employer believes interviews can be used as free labour. That idea is so stupid it is hopefully rare enough that it doesn't even deserve blogging/discussing. There are tons of useless interview procedures that actually deserve discussing.
The question I've always had in regards to Bot & Dolly - how are they ensuring safety? Industrial robot arms are notoriously unforgiving and kill people every year. Putting untrained actors in close proximity with arms without some sort of safety system seems like madness. I hope I'm wrong though, since the company seems to be bringing robots to an interesting new place.
Sure, let's give out your iTunesConnect password, what could go wrong?
Trust me, we know we need to work on docs and tutorials, and we are. Also note that we weren't actually ready to go live last Friday, so there's that, too (someone else submitted our test site).

The community has actually been more active than we expected, and the forum is seeing a lot of activity in the last week: http://forum.ionicframework.com/
The reason why sites like hotfile are used by people who redistribute content is that they can make money from affiliate systems when users pay for premium accounts to access the content with out the download speed throttling or download size restrictions.
Swartz didn't want to serve any jail time. IIRC, as a political activist he didn't want to have a conviction on his record as it might hinder his efforts (or possible future aspirations of holding a public office).
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Is this sarcasm? I don't think most people care about the conditions workers have to work in. This a problem that bridges many industries from chocolate to diamonds to electronic products to clothing.
At least the car owner was not charged with battery.
A simple video showing features would've been really helpful.
The prosecutor got 10 days? Unless I'm reading your comment incorrectly.

The jury system cannot handle them being liable for imprisoning the wrong people, unfortunately. That's why we have all these rules in place in our legal system. The prosecutor was the one who made the decision to willingly withhold important evidence and lie to the jury to get the conviction, so I personally think he is culpable.

Oh, and by doing so, the actual killer went free, and murdered someone else. :(
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tl;dr; If you take a good practice and cargo cult it, you'll get bad results.
In the US (IL specifically) I saw an article that said $2 per 85 miles (about 140km) driven. So let's say you're in the US and you really care about the cost of driving (one of the main reasons for you getting an electric car) you might compare to a gasoline car getting 30 - 40 mpg. At roughly $3.50 per gallon right now We could round up and say you're paying $8 to $9 to get that same 85 miles with a (by American standards) fuel efficient car. So if you're paying $40 - $50 to fill your car thats' about $10 in electricity. Of course if you've got a 6 cylinder with some regular traffic driving you're probably much closer to 20mpg so you're at $15 vs $2 above. Pretty meaningful. (yes I'm ignoring other costs involved including setting up your house to charge a car and the additional cost for an electric car up front vs its gasoline peer)