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Pairing with an iPhone may be an issue for anything which is not an audio device. Apple requires all non-audio devices to have certain 'authentication' hardware which is only available to MFi-licensed developers. My information may be out of date, but please do check this out before you invest too much effort in this, as it may be very difficult. I went through MFi, but ended up developing for Android.
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Strikes me that a lot of renters want the advantages of property ownership but none of the responsibilities.
I would agree with with the author in gnenral. Django is very powerful, but it can be painful, simply for the mental capacity required to get up and running with it. Sure after you spend a few (at least) hours wrapping your head around everything it becomes pretty easy to use...but still a high barrier to entry.

This is part of the reason I'm becoming more and more of a fan of web.py and peewee (https://github.com/coleifer/peewee). They are simple but still powerful enough for the majority of use cases.
It's a clever tool for creating Ascii art. Not for everyone, but if you've ever tried to create boxes and lines in ascii, this is a tool that makes that so much easier .

This is something I might use in source code to describe / draw the relationship between elements.
Or a basic income: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_income

GMI is typically means-tested, which can mess up incentives.
If you stick with digital hardware and interfaces, the materials everyone else has suggested are pretty useful. The TI MSP430 is a nice, cheap microcontroller and they offer something called a "Launchpad" which used to sell for $4.30. It is one of the workhorses of engineering design, and there are legions of websites about it.

Check out sparkfun.com for parts. They have lots of stuff and most of what they sell is accessible to the programmer type. They will have micros and BLE components and whatever else you may be interested in, and a bunch of nonprofessionals are using them and talking to each other about how to use them.

You can probably find an EE friend who would work with you if you're good. In that case you might be able to combine strengths and build something awesome. I know you want to prototype right now but if you get to a "good idea" you'll want someone who knows how to build hardware.
ahem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_Cosmos
Yeah but much much more passively aggressive when compared to schemies from Edinburgh.
Show HN: Streamable 2013 Oscar Nominated Films
>" Most staunch opponents of wealth redistribution oppose it on principle, not practical terms."

Please provide a citation for this claim, I have not seen any evidence either way.
It's arguably better to feel empty about million dollar occupation vs. feeling empty about poorly paid occupation.
There is already regulation governing the minimum pricing increment ("tick size") for financial instruments.

It would not take to great a stretch of the imagination to imagine regulation covering the maximum frequency at which trades could occur.

We would have to decide what sort of delay we consider tolerable, then (perhaps) hold auctions at that frequency - perhaps once per millisecond, perhaps once per minute, maybe even once every 10 minutes?
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We're a team of 6 programmers, 3 of which code Typed Racket. We all started here as Rails devs and got tired of it. I'm always pushing to invest time in research for better solutions and our team seems to be open to that (after weeks of discussion, though - we're no heaven). Typed Racket is the solution we found after surveying the field. Our management has recently told us they believe we're now a good-sized team given the projects we have to maintain. If it gets out of hand I'll be glad to know that there are people we can hire to work with these technologies. We're based in NYC.
I wonder what would happen if you gave a stipend to kids with a high IQ, just take a test monthly and get a bit of cash no questions asked. They could eat and support their family or wahtever. start a business with it. Also would motivate them to study hard.

Steve Jobs was supposedly given a few dollars in exchange for performing his schoolwork, by one of his teachers. Could that have had a positive effect on establishing a virtuous cycle of hard work for him?
How does static typing help you to tame the use of classes, reflection, configurations, rest interfaces, db interfaces, ...?

Just on friday I was talking to someone, where he said that his developers don't like the code and feel the constant urge to rewrite it... with the core functionality being a huge mess.
Starting with "Goodbye, static analysis" it was pretty hard for me to take this article seriously. Macros desugar into primitive forms - this means most macro language extensions are amenable to static analysis! Clojure has Kibit, Eastwood, and Typed Clojure (a whole type system via ... macros!) for static analysis. In addition Clojure and ClojureScript now both have fairly powerful analyzers that catch bad style and errors today and can be extended to do even more.
Nothing that requires the end user to perform the installation of the OS is the real anything.
Actually, separate moral rights on copyrighted works do exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_rights

They likely do not apply to a University's course catalog and, but FYI moral rights are real.

Also, under US copyright law, all 'works' & 'creations' are automatically protected, and the creator owns the copyright. This very likely can and does apply to databases the same way it applies to art or music. It would be a really bad idea to assume you have the right to copy someone's database just because copyright law doesn't mention databases specifically! ;)
Anyone know what kind of technology this system is using?
> The device contains a projector that beams an image up onto a screen, which in turn vibrates up and down at a rapid speed. The rapid vibration allows the image to appear as though it’s a 3D asset.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/174772-voxiebox-a-real-lif...

I don't see how this technology can really scale very well. The plane that you project on has to move through the entire depth, so if you wanted something that was deeper than the 4-5 cm in the demo video you'd have to really increase the speed, or you would start to lose the persistence-of-vision effect that makes it work.

Edit: I found this video of a TEDx talk the team did, it's pretty interesting. Their original prototype projected onto a sweet potato.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Tdta2...

According to this video Ken Silverman (of BUILD engine fame) is on board, which is pretty huge.
This is a quick IPython notebook I made to parse the list of Oscar nominated films and search various movie streaming services for them. You can view the output of the notebook at the link above, or grab the notebook from my github repo https://github.com/tdicola/Oscars_2013 and run it yourself (I tried to make it reasonably easy to add new services to query). Sadly I could only include Netflix, Amazon, and iTunes because I found almost every movie streaming service doesn't provide a public search API. Also it's not perfect and gets a few false positives from Amazon (the release dates they provide can be very odd).
To be clear, I'm not suggesting it's an important question per se.

_delerium presented an argument that the things people do with macros should be implemented as language facilities instead. Ve used racket contracts as an example.

I was saying that if racket contracts are not implemented as language facilities, it's not a very good example.
Is it possible to boot FreeBSD-10.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img directly on a Raspberry Pi? Or do I have to compile my own image for the Pi?
https://pay.reddit.com. Don't know why HTTPS Everywhere hasn't included it.

It's such a pain to type by hand.
He's addressing the copyright issue, the problem is with out the copyright issue Yale has to make a claim based on censoring speech.

Once Yale starts censoring speech you gain friends with tenure and/or alumni.

He isn't trying this in the court of law, but the court of public opinion.
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Did you read TFA or simply fold it into an airplane and launch it towards the dustbin?

1. This is not a dynamic vs. static thing, the languages cited in the article with classes are all dynamic languages. Metaobjects are typically found in dynamic languages like Common Lisp and Smalltalk.

2. The difference between a class as described in this article and a prototype is the same as the difference between a C struct or Pascal record and a Smalltalk object. I do recall people saying "potato/potato" about that when OO was first going mainstream, but I think over time people accepted that encapsulating private state is more than a nuance.

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I am just wondering, are these Wall Street traders smarter than an average techie working in Silicon Valley ? Are they so irreplaceable that they are offered so much salary and bonuses ? It just doesn't seem right. I am afraid to even ask for 150k salary in SV for the same amount of cerebral work.
It appears to be presenting the one of their repertoire of expected SSL certs: http://imgur.com/rzzG5Hz
Yeah, but that does not make it 'better' or more useful.

Lisp-based operating systems are no longer used, because they were quite complex (coming out of a research environment) and provided LESS functionality in some crucial areas (for example they were not multi-user - they were one-person, one machine, one 'world'). Additionally they were expensive.

The Xerox Lisp and Xerox Smalltalk workstations one could buy were severely underpowered (RAM, speed, ...).
Yale is actually pretty good as an environment for learning.
didn't even know that.

BTW the people on #haskell are quite active, and nice :)

(maybe a pointless counter-example, I once went onto #ruby, and asked about an easy way to make a function name refer to a function( to be able to do things like list map f easily, without the superflous do |x| f x end ), and I got yelled at because I was trying to write "non-ruby code".
Racket is a lisp that has a specialized macro debugger to help in that very task. The point is that instead of throwing away a potentially good tool, there are people working on making that tool more reliable.
A large number of hedge funds lost a lot of money in the crash. This is proof of a sort that their heads did in fact not understand the system well.
For the "catrank" case, could you use std::str::raw::from_utf8 to skip the utf-8 validity check?
The problem with this idea is that in general, smart kids come from smart parents, and in general, smart adults earn more income (and thus are less in need of a supplemental income)
This is the best feedback so far.
Try this instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20131205044817/http://www.asciif...
"[Y]ou always have plenty of liquidity when the market's good."

There are a lot of products, especially outside equities, where that's not at all true.
Again, yes "liquidity providing" might have some value, maybe. But it's just really hard to see it having anywhere near the social (or simply wealth + capital-generating) power, of say, nurses/medtechs, schoolteachers, effective policing, sane environmental management etc.

That was the original author's point (give or take a few work categories, which I'm taking the liberty of throwing in for the sake of illustration).
For a sensible and mature owner-manager partnership to flourish, investor holding periods need to be aligned with business planning horizons. Many significant projects need between 6 months and 5 years to come to maturity, and holding periods should reflect this pattern (according to the needs and nature of the business).

I would argue that investors with a 3 month holding period are actually exerting a pretty corrosive influence on businesses: emphasising a focus on the next quarter's results at all costs.
I recall GitHub redirecting external media through their own servers to deal with MCW, but I can't find the link to the blog post. I assume you've tried this, but what made that infeasible?
coming here to work for a startup has been awesome but i couldn't imagine growing up around here or even settling down here. i am here for the experience and then im outta here
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Macros are used quite rarely in Clojure. In general they swing between two extremes, either as a means of providing some simple syntax sugar, or as what effectively amounts to a language extension.

The author cites Korma as an example of a library that uses macros, but Korma only uses macros to provide a small degree of syntax sugar. So instead of writing:

(exec (where* (select* people) `(> :age 18)))

One can instead write:

(select people (where (> :age 18)))

It's an extremely simple transformation, and can be expressed in a few lines of code.

There are some libraries, such as core.async or core.logic, that make more extensive use of macros, but these libraries are relatively rare, and take a lot of work to get right. It's something I'd expect to see in a dedicated library, not as part of a solution in a large software project.

Worrying about overuse of macros in Clojure is a bit like worrying about overuse of FFIs in Python. Sure, it's possible to abuse in theory, but it's not really a problem in practise.
Well said. I think there are valid arguments on each side. What, to me, seems to hold back a lot of healthy discussion is a reliance on anecdotes by both sides. It is very easy to assume that if you give an alcoholic father some money, he will spend it on alcohol. I am sure this is the case in some situations, but I think your point about applying resources well, especially when children are involved, is critical and true.
The point is it doesn't work anyway.
I started with Feedly then switched to Ino. One interesting (paid) feature of Ino is essentially a "killfile" -- just like in the good old Usenet days -- for RSS feeds. E.g. say you want to read the newest Penny Arcade comic, but you don't care for the news articles also on the same feed, you can automatically mark those as read.
I keep hearing this "bitcoin isn't privacy/anonymous". That may be true if you consider bitcoin by itself but I think it's important to look at the whole landscape of crypto-currencies. Consider the following:

I buy a bitcoin, I send it to BTC-e.com and sell it for $800. Now I have an $800 USD balance on my account. I wait for 4 days then buy Litecoin and send it to my offline wallet.

Now, how would you track that? Note in my HN profile I have a BTC & LTC address that I've done exactly that with more than once. I would love for someone to show me the blockchain transactions that prove that's what happened. Alos note, this is pretty much how the SheepMarketPlace thieves got away. Some guy tracing the bitcoins until it was revealed that he was just following a BTC-e.com's internal operations address. Also note that you don't need to give BTC-e.com anymore more info than a valid email-address. Just get your coins from some other place like mining or whatever, send them to the deposit-address given to you on BTC-e.com.

For people not familar with bitcoin, consider this real-world example. I steal a $100 bill from your wallet but you have a paper-thin tracking device inside it. So you watch it physically move around in the world. Now, if I go to an Airport and exchange the $100 for 89 EURO... you've lost track of the original thief. The thief still is holding the funds he gained from the theft and you're just following a $100 around in the Airport exchange system that may end up anywhere. You know where the $100 bill is but you'll never find the thief. Mix this with stuff like localbitcoins.com(equivalent of just finding a random person on the street that will exchange currency) and you'd have a pretty tough time finding out exactly how the original person spent the funds.
It seems that on the web, the common opinon is GET OUT. Which is clearly the way to go. But I cannot believe that with an NPD incidence >1% there's no one else trapped in a similar situation. Do anyone mind sharing tricks for survival? and stories?
That they need google to deliver the eyeballs.
It's not investment, but it may be legitimate market making. If the only people in the market are investors, it is significantly harder for me to liquidate my stock when I need to and significantly harder for me to buy stock when I want to.
Generally when HN cheers someone skirting regulations, it's because the person/company is doing so to produce something of value rather than to avoid having to work.
The are all sorts of ways to measure aid. Have a read of this if it interests you. I stumbled across it while looking to see if I could find a $ given per head of population graph I saw a while back. I didn't find it. http://kriswager.blogspot.co.nz/2007/03/is-usa-biggest-forei...
I don't want to sound callous but ... market forces shape and reshape cities all the time. When the facets of city-life in San Francisco that initially drew people fade away, people will flock somewhere else and the rents will stagnate or reverse. And if San Francisco is losing its allure as an artist's hub, perhaps other places (such as downtown Detroit) are compensating?

I live in a reasonably affluent smaller city and the problem of affordable housing for the "working poor" is about the same here ... but I still haven't seen what I think is a viable solution (developers were compensated for building low-income housing and maintaining low rent for 10 years, but now the rent for those houses exceeds my monthly mortgage).
In 2014, targeting mainly Western users, what am I using as a "real connection"?

In Australia, even UMTS can drop below 1 megabit on some carriers.
The problem with focusing on the system is that it gives you an excuse to procrastinate. Last set too hard? Well I workout everyday anyways! That bag of chips is irresistible? Well I ate healthy all week!

The Goal vs System approach work for two distinct types of people. If you generlaly like laid back, passive work (ex. stable job with a a few nice sideprojects, worksout everyday, has a nice rythmic life), then the System approach is for you. You're already pretty content with your life, and everything you do should work toward maximizing stability and hapiness.

The goal approach is different. If you're a frequent procrstinator; if you have brief bursts of productivity followed by long lulls of laziness; then goal is for you. Goal forces you to deal with situations that you'd rather procrastinate, essentially keeping your energy in check.

For most entrepreneur, I'd imagine the second approach would work better.
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But HFT's don't play much in those products, so they don't provide liquidity or make markets there either.
>>>"But is any particular billionaire (or any other particular individual at all) somehow obligated to fix the homelessness problem? No."

As you get wealthier, your ability to affect society expands. I'd argue that, in the same way one can feel responsible for members of your family, society is your larger family. Humanity, an even larger one. Perhaps a wealthier individual should feel as though more of society is their 'family' as he/she gets wealthier — and treat them as kin.

Instead, what you often find is self-involved individuals becoming more and more distant from their society as they get wealthier (large households with gigantic yards, vacation homes, remote travel).
Ok, I bite: Explain how the poor college student with too little bitcoin in his account to buy a coffee can buy a coffee.
Ugh, is that why I never see old articles? How hard can it be to keep a reference in the database?
Probably because, from Microsoft's point of view, the main reason Access exists is as a gateway drug to SQL Server. There's no SQL Server for Mac OS X (and no point in making one, since hardly anyone runs Mac servers), so no reason to port Access.

The parts of Office that were ported to Mac are different in that they're money-makers in their own right: people will happily buy Office just to get Word or Excel, but not just to get Access.
In my mind it's not so much that they're smarter but rather the value they add is more easily measurable. If the trades they make for a hedge fund creates a 10 millions dollars a year profit then it's easy to demand a million dollar bonus. The value of a startup engineer is much harder to determine in a year by year basis.
> that copyright licenses aren't mutable by anyone but the owner

Well, sort of. Certainly if you've released something under CC0 or WTFPL, any derivative work can be "relicensed" however they want. MIT and BSD and CC-BY have some fairly trivial conditions that must be respected and fulfilled, but otherwise a derivative work can still use a different license.

I don't think many people care about the particulars of open source software licenses except in the context of producing derivative works.
The MSP430 Launchpads are great (we give them away at school events). Also, if you're interested in the MSP430 architecture, we've got one online for you to play with:

http://microcorruption.com
Those moral rights are the opposite of what I mean. They are restrictions on the copyright owner. The moral rights I meant are if copyright exists from a moral point of view rater than a legal one - and it doesn't.

> It would be a really bad idea to assume you have the right to copy someone's database just because copyright law doesn't mention databases specifically! ;)

It does mention it specifically. It specifically mentions that it doesn't exist. There is no database copyright in the US. (There is in other countries.)

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_copyright
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Thanks! If you look closely at the requests we're generating, it's pretty easy to see how to get direct access to memory and to the disassembly. Just don't abuse it.
I was wondering the same. How hard is it to go from a programmer to a trader in a bank?
I'm working at an HFT that mostly trades commodities, some of which have awfully thin books.
Decades of experience dealing with HR/IR issues Women dont "present" in the same way - that attitude expressed in the SO Q is very male.
> I think that's pretty well refuted by noting that the U.S. is #1 in charitable giving [1]

After browsing the PDF, it seems to not account for many things. No idea why you think it is 'well refuted'. E.g. It does not account for higher taxes, which are funneled to help the poor. It also seems to count everything binary, either you helped or you did not. No mention is given as to how much time/money you actually donated - and to whom.

Additionally, weighing all three things (giving money/helping strangers/volunteering time) the same is rather odd. The us is #10 at giving money. And this does not even include taxes! Way to fight poverty.

If it weren't for the dubious 'helping a stranger' the US would not be anywhere.
I can imagine some of the technical difficulties can be challenging to overcome. Especially how do you identify your user? Often you don't see which user is fetching a feed, but only the service through which they are fetching it. For example I'm using Gwene to access my feeds in the same format I access my news groups.

But honestly is something I would pay for: provide me access to your raw content (with images, tags, categories and some mark-up) so I can just present it to myself in whichever fashion I want. I'm allergic to most web design and prefer things to be plain text, now I could do that without having to reverse engineer APIs or strange deals so the content-provider still gets page clicks. You also get a whole new eco system for third party applications.
They (FreeBSD) typically do builds a few days before announcing the release. See: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/10.0R/schedule.html