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my co-founder and myself met similarly through IRC, but we never exchanged irl names. Much much later, by coincidence, we ended up in the same grad school program and that's how we started our company

I think at a certain age/time, you tend to spend more time with friends rather than family and that's when it begins to happen. For non-hackers it's when they develop lifelong friends in work or school, for hackers/internet-people that's when you start thinking of your ICQ/IRC/fandom/LJ/pick your ancient platform as your true friends even if you've never met in person.
Nope, probably not ever going to be profitable, but I barely have any operating costs either. My project is called Simple Blocker, and it's an extension for Chrome that lets you block websites to help you concentrate. It was designed to be as simple as can be (hence the name), while still having all the essential features.

I don't really have any plans to monetize it, and I think asking for donations is a bit tacky. But who knows - it's good practice with Javascript and the Chrome API even if it never breaks even.

http://simpleblocker.com/
Does C have the ability to locally silence warnings in particular sections of code?
"The way I want handwriting recognition to work is to take notes by jotting them down inside an app like OneNote, and have Windows recognize that automatically, behind the scenes, optionally without replacing my handwritten notes with printed text. Then, I want to be able to search my handwritten notes using full-text search."

OneNote actually already does this! Try searching in OneNote for things you've written in pen and it will show those notes.
They don't usually run an OS. But are structured like

void setup_code() {
// configure SPI
// analog to digital converters
// timers
// fix internal and external buggy hardware
}

void interrupt_handler() {
TURN_OFF_INTERRUPTS;
// packet recv
// time expired
// etc
TURN_ON_INTERRUPTS;
}

setup_code();
register_interrupt_handler(interrupt_handler);
while(1) {
// application code
}

Microcontrollers like this only have 2k of working state, the presentable complexity is in the code, not the data.
Fantastic response.

I just want to say though that wrt

> ...are violating the law...the public has a right to know.

There may not be a legal obligation for the public to know, if no violation of the law has occurred, however just because something isn't illegal, does not make it right (abusing animals)

I know that reasoning does not hold from a legal standpoint, but without standing up to unjust laws, the civil rights movement, or marriage equality, and even gender equality would have been severely hampered.
With an external base station that talks a different variety of RF, I think you could get an IoT system to "stacks on a coin cell".

Heck, Electric Imp is close to that size. https://electricimp.com/
I feel like a lot of the knee jerk negativity comes from the implication that the event is 'good', 'great', 'inspiring' because of it being <under-represented group> only.

Since when is that a bad thing?

On the flip side, there is an equally powerful emotional appeal to support an event like this when wife, daughter, girlfriend, female friend would like to attend.

That's a very Christian take on the subject and one that more people need to get rid of. A woman is not "made of man"; a woman's worth does not come from her relationship to a man. No one's worth comes from someone else's existence.
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Thanks
Ironically, Whatsapp started out by using ejabberd — the XMPP server written in Erlang — as their main chat infrastructure, and then modified it to the point where it no longer implements XMPP.
Hack yourself into writing a blog
Can't wait to find out who'll be the first alt.teens billionaire, but I suspect we were just wasting our youth.
Well, some of us just happen to be graduate robotics students :)
Two wrongs do not make a right.

FWIW however, I am a big proponent of exposing animal cruelty.
The author's point about impedance between the iPad's design and creative tasks is not made in the context of statistically unlikely tasks such as writing poems or Caribbean reef diving travelogues or skydiving tutorials. His point is about creation that falls within a standard deviation or two of ordinary life:

Consider a creative task that almost everybody has to do: writing a job application.

Like responding to a business email or writing a Perl script to process network log files, there tends not to be some app that facilitates the work and iOS by design intent does not facilitate mashups.

Historically this divide between Windows and Apple's in house operating systems might be said to go all the way back to the development of OLE and Apple's proposed long-dead OpenDoc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendoc
Absolutely. All day, every day.

There is no better way to coordinate. Clients for every platform are available. You can have new tickets, bugs, announcements piped into the channel. Discuss everything instantly and in real time, while leaving a log for those who are offline, highlighting them when necessary.

Running your own server is perfectly feasible. And if you connect to a known ircd with SSL forced, it's reasonably secure. There are even OTR plugins for many popular clients (♥irssi♥). There's also FiSH but that's on the inconvenient end of the paranoid spectrum.

It is perfect if people you're going to communicate with are proficient computer users.
For someone who doesn't torture animals, you're awfully worried about somebody seeing how you treat them.

Your farm is not a house, it is a farm. A house that might happen to sit on the same land parcel is of absolutely no interest to anyone. Your private life simply is not that interesting.

Your commercial operations, which occur outside the house, are an entirely different matter.
Thanks for the information about the cancelled law. I haven't seen it mentioned before.
Maybe it didn't have a name? After all, A New Hope was only released a few years after C, and earlier languages (BCPL, Pascal) used a different expression for assignment (:=), so they didn't suffer from this problem.
> Predicated on what? What's your proof that such prejudices exist, or that they're applied more so to women than men? Furthermore, what's your proof that discrimination is the form of social activism required to fix this unproved prejudice?

Oh, you want proof? Here you go: http://programmersbeingdicks.tumblr.com/.
Toot away! I'm working on an MMO which will have a coding component, so code like this is exactly what I was looking for!
Since building stuff is both a career and a hobby, I've always had 3 types of "projects":

* One or more services that are intended to make money. Some of them never make it; I've more failed ideas under my belt than winners. But the winners really win and pay for all the time spent on the rest; Improvely and W3Counter are doing really well and provide a comfortable lifestyle financially.

* Projects that are never intended to make a profit. I have a few open source libraries used by thousands, but I never intended to build any business around them, and I don't ask for donations. One did once generate so much customer support e-mail and customization requests that I made a commercial version that sold well, but I was never passionate about it so I ended up selling the rights and probably wouldn't bother doing that again.

* Projects that I know full well will run at a loss, but I build them anyway for various reasons, from "it's fun" to "maybe it'll be good marketing for the paid stuff". I've hosted website guestbooks for people since 1996. I run the contact form and some other widgets for about 4000 Shopify e-commerce stores, which costs a VPS and some Mandrill/Sendgrid fees to send a few thousand e-mails a day. I just felt like hacking on their API.
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This isn't an equal society, though, so your argument is invalid.
Provided a rich range of integer types, with specifications in the standard. Leaving it unspecified is really the worst choice if you trying to interoperate with real applications and libraries. Supporting "what they can" is great for crappy implementations, and terrible if you're trying to consume this stuff and get work done.
I like the thinking here: https://globality.be/blog/diversification-personalization--r...
Enough other people pointed to flaws in the explanations that I didn't feel the need to beat a dead horse about those things.

The whole article was a joke. The stuff about Dogecoin seems less a joke than the rest of the article.

It is clear the author owns Bitcoins or Dogecoins or both. I can't prove this, but I'll bet 1 cryptocoin of my choosing on it.

I don't currently own any Cryptocoins. I sold just shy of $950 after the first fall from $1000 to nearly $550. I bought 10 at $650-ish. It was a good deal, I did not make any comments about BTC while I held with out disclosing my investment in the currency. (I have some journalistic ethics)
I don't know Ruby, but this caught my eye:

true.class #=> TrueClass
false.class #=> FalseClass

Why would they have two different classes (types?) for what I consider values of a boolean/bit type?
Actually, the difference seems specific to US English. My OED includes vise only as an alternative to vice, which carries both meanings. A quick Google also turns up this [1] article, which claims (without citation) that "In the U.S., the word for the clamping tool comprising two jaws closed and opened by a screw or lever is spelled vise. Outside American English, the vise spelling rarely appears. The gripping tool is instead spelled vice."

--

[1] http://grammarist.com/spelling/vice-vise/
> Farms cannot be reasonably secured.

Correct, it is an inherently non-private location, and therefore not entitled to any "privacy".
Some of the most significant issues with the iPad have to do with two areas: user management and the Apple "wall"

The first cuts across a wide range of applications from consumer to business. The lack of multiuser capabilities (with permissions and all the things modern multiuser OS's can do) seriously limits usability.

At home I would like to make a distinction between my usage of an iPad, that of my children and that of guests. No, i don't want to buy a separate device for each use case. Accounts for children could have limits set to restrict usage to a pre selected set of apps, time limits, app store settings, etc. Guest accounts would have the ability to setup similar restrictions. A house guest should not be able to open and browse your email, facebook, paypal or whatever.

The same issue applies to business usage. An iPad is a security nightmare in lots of business scenarios. Adding a layer of user management would be a huge step towards fixing this problem. For example, if I use an iPad as a cash register I don't want the cash register user to be able to use any other app. Perhaps i also want them to be able to browse the company website in order to assist customers and that's it.

The Apple "wall" is how I've been descriibing the Apple's control-freak hold on the device and the OS. This goes from the lack of USB and memory card connectivity to the lack of access to a file system, impossibly cumbersome file sharing between apps, totalitarian control of the one-and-only connector (leading to ridiculous hacks such as using the audio port for data communications, something that dates back to the early '80's!).

It's intersting to walk into an Apple store and see the iPads they have locked down to a single app that tells you about the device next to it. Apple themselves understand there are business cases where you need a device that is very tightly controlled, even to the point of limiting it to a single app. They get it. They simply have no interest in letting us through the wall.

Windows <n> and Surface are not and have never been perfect solutions. However, they benefit significantly from your ability to do just about anything you want with them, to connect to and talk to almost any external hardware device in the market and to easily design your own for special applications. You can setup users for your particular needs. You can even install other OS's --replacing Windows-- or simply run them in a virtual machine.

I've come to view our iPads more as toys than as universal machines. They get used for web browsing, playing games and reading eBooks and that's just about it.

I continue to be stunned by how bad Microsoft marketing is. Instead of driving home the point that the iPad is a severely restricted and crippled device they actually spent good money making commercials with people dancing around clicking keyboards on and off their devices. If that's what they trully think is the most significant distinguishing value of their devices they are truly clueless.
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I don't think you'd put a full system in a cable, but you'd make smart cables like Apple's lightning cable or their video adapters that actually convert signals.
Small side note, your sites font on a Windows 8 laptop is very difficult to read since the font renders poorly.
To be honest, I think Cook is doing a damn good job considering the big shoes he had to fill when Jobs left. Tim Cook will never be the dictator that Jobs was, nor will he command the same "respect" that Jobs had. When you not only founded a company, but also brought them from the brink of bankruptcy to the most valuable company in the world (a few months ago), you have a certain gravitas that your successor will never have.

Also, Tim Cook seems to be passionate about the company, especially given his emotional rebuttal of activist investors at the last shareholders meetings.[1]

[1] http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/tim-cook-soundly-reje...
Agreed. It's known that Mt. Gox was auto-retrying sends after the txids didn't match.

FWIW, I submitted the 'what most likely happened' post last night: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7328219. It's a bit shorter and seems less speculative.
Yes, must we all have the same interests and be represented in all fields in a proportionate split? This presumed sexism is something that I have never seen in person, nor heard of from female colleagues/friends. If there are groups of women that need to view others of their gender succeeding to be sufficiently influenced, then they need to find another field; versus being pushed and coddled into tech.
A link to documentation https://github.com/owainlewis/frequency-docs
I built a security scanner that scans WordPress installations for threats (plugin vulns, outdated installs, theme vulns, xss, sqli etc) without any installation or code knowledge required. I posted it on Reddit and got a few sign ups, after that I just got bored and I'm not sure what to do next. I'm thinking about partnering with WordPress tutorial websites and give them a recurring revenue cut or something. I really wish I was better at marketing products. Maybe I should just sell it or something. Any WordPress related websites with good amount of traffic please contact me if you're interested in partnering.
You're playing the long game. If OS's end up locally verifying DNS responses then you're out of business.

On the other hand, DNSCrypt is utterly useless and worthless. Wow, my ISP can't see that I'm looking up "www.example.com", oh... but my ISP can see that I am connecting to x.x.x.x on port 443 and sending "www.example.com" in the SSL handshake because of SNI. So now, both my ISP and OpenDNS (double the third parties) can see that I'm connecting to www.example.com, even if I'm using HTTPS. How exactly is this supposed to help my privacy?

DNSSEC and DNSCrypt both attempt do completely different things. DNSSEC is much better at doing what it is trying to do (even though it's far from perfect) than DNSCrypt.
Not as good as pen on paper, but the closest I've ever seen. You should probably go to a store and play with one to see if it suits you. I bought my Surface after I did that.
>>No one would be stupid enough to store their life savings in Dogecoins.

Author must have missed that Reddit thread on Gox horror stories. There were some really awful decisions people made with their savings. I bet someone is going to make a similar mistake with Doge. We already have folks like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7166318
It strikes me as an added thought crime. If I get a job in an ag business and after I get there am witness to moral, ethical and legal violations will I be subject to criminal prosecution because they claim I had prior intent? How do they prove that? That I am vegetarian? Seems like an easy way to persecute/prosecute the messenger.
There are lots of 32bit micros with all those peripherals, I think it's just that the embedded industry moves slowly and adopts new products with caution. I think it's only a matter of time before all microcontrollers are ARM and the various 8/16 bit architectures die off.
I agree that JSON5 misses much of the spirit of JSON's simplicity, but I build a Perl 6 JSON5 parser for fun anyway, if anyone is interested: https://github.com/Mouq/json5

The actual grammar is here: https://github.com/Mouq/json5/blob/master/lib/JSON5/Tiny/Gra... (it would be nice if Github's syntax highlighting for Perl 6 regexes was more sophisticated than "turn it green," but I'm glad it syntax highlights in the first place)
The first step to wisdom is calling things by their proper name. This is not elitism, simply stating facts. He wouldn't be called "Surgeon" if he were to advise a manufacturing company on how their tools should look nicer.

What you're witnessing in this thread isn't elitism as much as it is people who've ruined their eyes wanting to set the record clear.

Furthermore, that "Jobs" movie will probably appeal to most people because it's probably not accurate. It's probably a movie that will portray Steve Jobs as that genius who knew the future before everyone else, who've seen how Apple would be 20 years before everyone else. Anyone with more than 2 neurons knows it's a bunch of crap. You can't know how the end result will be designing a really small thing, let alone an empire.

In addition, it's "Cinema", not History nor Journalism. Want to read a good book? Read "Masters of Doom". That's how you get multiple opinions from people involved in the story, not some kind of lame movie based on the only authorized biography of a person, as brilliant as that person may be.

And lastly, come on, attacking Woz? If someone manages to get the respect of Engineers, you can be sure it's not because of his wits or Reality Distortion Field. Last time I checked, this is Hacker News. If there is any place elitism is the de facto constitution, it's in the Hackerdom.
Another interesting small mcu is the nrf51822 which is 3.5x3.8mm , it includes bluetooth low energy transceiver and dc-dc converter + 256K/16K flash/ram and it supports the mbed/arduino. It would be also possible to write/adapt a low energy mesh protocol for it.

Another interesting one: stm32f401, cortex-m4 ,84mhz,512KB flash, 96 KB ram, low power and can run python(micro python) - at only 3X3 mm.
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Definitely not the same but very interesting sounding - there home page says "network of leading tech entrepreneurs from around the world" - looks like they're still in beta.
A good point, though not something we've heard repeated in UX sessions so far. For me the cinemagraphs ease the journey through the three thousand word piece, and help me orient myself in the text.
It's not hard to get wrong. It's almost impossible to do correctly. I have three monitors on my desk at work. At home I use Mouse Without Borders to connect to my laptop. It flat out stinks.
If you extrapolate the raw numbers, then yes, you can conclude there are no Chrome users at all. But no one would accept this as fact knowing the sampling methodology.

You can, however, still build confidence intervals based on biased samples. In your example, with 100% certainty, between 0-1% of the population uses Chrome. Yet of course, even the 99.999% CI will be wrong due to the severe bias. Now, if in your example only a 1% biased sample were looked at, the 100% CI would be 0-99%. Much less information. Note that you may also still see trends in biased samples if the sample is consistent.

If biased samples were meaningless, then how are Stat Counter or Net Applications results valuable at all since they are not random samples?
You say the question is whether it contribute more. Obviously it does not, but that's not the question. The question is what produces the best community on the site. Vapid positivity can be easily ignored (and as you point out is often down voted). But even when it's not, no big deal. Vapid put-downs are vastly more dangerous, because they're mean as well as stupid and thus create a negative and toxic environment for others.
Hate to break this to you, but the law and culture are mostly "someone else's large set of loosely-correlated rules."

Rules against sex with minors. Rules against animal cruelty. Rules against trespassing. Rules against insider trading. Rules against littering. Rules against CFC emissions. There's also cultural views in parts of the US against eating bugs, against cross-dressing, and against promoting atheism, which are sometimes met with social scorn even though neither illegal nor unethical. Miss Manners had a long running column on what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable etiquette, and wearing last year's fashions, or white after Labor Day, can be a grave faux pas for some situations, with possible negative social and career implications.

The original question was "What does his Catholicism have to do with his abilities to think vis-à-vis the confines of the notional "box"?"

The response was that "Of course [religion] has an influence on how "out-of-the-box" you can be."

My counter is that every law, moral, or ethical standard keeps people in a box. That's not always a bad thing. The original question asks specifically why his Catholicism necessarily prevents him from being an out-of-the-box thinker. Must one be outside of every box before one can be labeled thus? Which boxes are okay to be in and still be an out-of-the-box thinker?

Based on watching his show, I do not think Colbert blindly adheres to the Catholic religion. He is quite aware of the internal logic of how the faith reaches certain conclusions in the current cultural context. I therefore don't think your final comment is relevant.
I just tried, but it didn't find anything. Not sure if my handwriting is so terrible, or if there's something else going wrong here.

[Update: maybe the Metro version of OneNote doesn't support all of the features of the desktop version?]
I like my Nexus. I do not tether often, so battery life is not the most important criticism of this phone. But I find it too big. And I find the Google Now feature quite creepy - at the end of each month it shows me how much kilometres I walked and how much I rode on the bicycle.

Nice, but I would like to know that this data is not stored at Google. As well the fact that the phone apparently listens all the time - scares me as well.

I think next time I will go with a Blackphone or a Geeksphone with FFOS on it.