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>You're telling me that, pre-snowden, you assumed that governments were inserting moles into open-standards processes and working to weaken ciphers ?

Yes. The first conversation I had about this was in the 90s

>Or, pre-snowden, you assumed that they were intercepting cisco shipments to alter network gear ?

Yes. I know the TSA goes through my luggage when I fly, why wouldn't the NSA go through my mail? Intercepting physical communications/packages has literally been going on for thousands of years.

>Or, pre-snowden, you assumed that on-chip crypto functions from Intel and VIA were intentionally flawed ?

Hadn't thought of that but it's really not a revelation. We do know that when companies are contacted by the NSA, they are barred from even acknowledging that they were contacted. Again, the first conversation I had about the NSA inserting back doors into consumer technology was in the 90s. This is a novel approach but the general modus operandi is expected.

I think most people just don't appreciate what the NSA is. This is the organization that invented public key cryptography a decade before Ron Rivest and didn't publish the results. It wouldn't surprise me if they had made large advances in quantum cryptography that let them crack any cipher based on finite fields. I can imagine that all of this conventional spying is just a red herring to distract from much more insidious capabilities.

I can imagine their capabilities extend beyond computer networks to the power grid...

The point is that we funnel huge sums of money into an organization that hires the best and the brightest to spy on us. Why would you assume they aren't doing that well?

But, at the end of the day, I just look at the Snowden "revelations" as another Bengahzi or Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The political opposition will use it as a tool to further their interests but no one really cares. No domestic representative is going to cut funding to the NSA and no foreign government is going to act any differently when it comes to their security. They will get on the news and make a lot of noise as they use this as political cover to advance whatever ax they have to grind. But, I can't imagine them actually caring that the NSA spies on US citizens.
The single announcement you make isn't statistically likely to make a difference in your product's success. You're better off just getting something out the door and iterating based on actual user feedback.

"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is now." - An old proverb
Fully agree. Contributors like Aaron patterson and jose valim are the accelerator which keeps the Rails project healthy today.

I rather say that I adore DDH just because he has entrepreneur, hacker and developer which i want to became in near future.

Furthermore, i very much inspired with Aaron Patterson peepcode screenshot.
Another great tool to help with this process is Pivotal Labs' LicenseFinder: https://github.com/pivotal/LicenseFinder

Disclosure: I work there
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But you do realise that .NET is not only C#? And that F# had many (maybe even most, but I didn't research enough to say this) features that Swift has?

(And, on the related note, that Swift has not even one (or maybe? as I said, I didn't do enough research yet) novel, unique feature which wouldn't be already explored and implemented in other languages.)

What you're saying is an equivalent of "there's many things wrong with JVM, for example lack of type inference".
Fruit is actually a poor source of fructose. There's too much fiber, it can't be absorbed quickly.

Compare that to cola, which adds salt and bubbles so your mouth can't even taste how much sugar/HCFS it's swallowing.
I know that depression increases the need for sleep and napping. I also remember reading of evidence that long term depression shrinks the hippocampus. Could the increase in need for sleep indicate a poorly functioning hippocampus under conditions of depression? And could such a connection, if it exists, be an avenue for finding better chemical (or electrical) treatment for depression?
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a) Fructose is only metabolized by Liver, and not brain nor muscle. The liver converts it to energy form like bad cholesterol. In small quantities that exist in fruits with the fiber limits the speed of absorption so it doesn't overwhelm the livers primary mechanism for dealing with it.
But moderation of sugar is impossible without actually spending time to find how much sugar there is in different products, and cutting those that come with mercilessly until you consume 15 grams of it a day. Its about 1/3rd of smallest coca cola bottle here or single serving of yogurt. I remember some study that majority of food items in market have added sugar in USA so moderating it is extremely hard without spending time to think about it.

Also sugar messes up the system that tells the brain that you are no longer hungry, which means if you eat stuff that has sugar in it, it takes longer for you to feel full.

Also while there is health reason to exercise burning more calories isn't it. Single snack is often more than hour of exercise.

You should watch "sugar bitter truth" lecture by dr. Lustig on Youtube.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM
Should I use AMDclean instead of Browserify?
I think .net is a great framework that is misunderstood.. I think every developer should dabble in .net MVC before working there way into rails.. because so much of rails is abstracted and .net is not you can learn a lot of things from working with this framework that would take you a lot longer on rails
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Hey llamataboot, we have a bunch of things on our list to share and I promise its more than just beer recipes. A lot of it we have to work through since our business is so regulated and deals with a lot of 3rd party partners. I do appreciate you even mentioning the type of things you are interested in. I'll make sure to keep track of your feedback and see what we can do in the future to open some of those items up as well.
I personally would be absolutely hamstrung without a laptop in meetings. My own handwriting is notoriously messy (I am only to blame for not practicing it enough to be any good, but that's almost a tradeoff for working in front of a computer nearly 24/7) and FAR slower than typing. I'm also unable to use text editor style shortcuts,reformat after the fact for clarity, or readily keep track off/move around documents. I found the exact things they claimed happened to laptop note takers, being a 'zombie', to be what happened when I tried to take notes by hand. This also doesn't convince me when taken in concert that when aggressively pushed onto the "YOU MUST TAKE PHYSICAL NOTES WITH NO DISTRACTIONS" bandwagon for most of my primary schooling, which was, to put it lightly, less than successful.

This overly rambly anecdote should serve to illustrate not that I think laptops are "the right answer", but getting rid of them unilaterally will really harm those who actually have learned to incorporate them into a useful workflow. Why not address some more root causes, e.g. why engagement is so low? Facebook doesn't "force" you to browse it, and maybe I'm acting snoody in this, but there are certainly classes that I wouldn't be caught playing my favorite video games during for the subject matter being so interesting.
Also use Uber in Chicago (and now many other cities during travel, woo!) and I don't really have much else to add.

I can't stress how important the airport thing is. Radio dispatch by cab is the most unreliable horrible mechanism ever. It almost may as well not exist, because a cab might show up in 5 minutes, it might show up in 15, or it might show up never. Impossible to rely on. Due to Uber being reliable I've taken more car rides than usual to O'hare on days when I'm running late, or otherwise don't want to deal with the Blue Line or waiting outside for a cab.

Basically, cab companies did this to themselves by being horrible at customer service and not giving a shit. They are up there with Comcast in the "giving a fuck" department. Ever call to complain that your cab didn't show up? Ha!

And if you think this is great for a well-served city like Chicago, it's utterly game changing for under-served cities like Minneapolis. I now can actually take a ride to the airport instead of driving and spending $250 parking my car for a week. Why? Because I can depend on the Uber showing up when they say it's going to. Cabs, I'd have to give at least a 2 hour buffer in case the first 2 I call never show up.

Basically if this puts the cab companies out of business, it couldn't have happened to better people and I won't shed a single tear. Good riddance.
We could also use tritium for dating the water.
Very cool - coworker worked on a similar thing for Android a while back, should ask him to publish it.

Looking through the source, it seems like it only supports 1 frame per second[1]? Would be nice to make it variable based on available bandwidth.

[1]: https://github.com/radialpoint/ringo/blob/master/Ringo/RGOSc...
Are you saying that its shady that it has a free trial period (with nags) or that it used to be free and then became a product that the developer charged for? And how are either of these things shady?
Uh, infrequent meals increase insulin sensitivity. Are you saying he's going to get diabetes?

Just because X causes Ketosis doesn't mean Ketosis implies X.
The last line often has something extra - a semicolon or parentheses - or something missing, like no comma in an enum or no `&&` in a long chained conditional. Maybe that triggers the "gorilla on the basketball court" effect, and we miss the error in the meat of that line because we're focusing on the difference.
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I feel your pain, but you completely left out the option of the train. I usually use it to get to the airport. It is slower, but it costs a lot less and runs 24 hours a day. If you're lucky, the train will even take you up the escalator.
I concur. It wasn't until I started working with an OSS guy that I realized how different (sometimes frustratingly so) the OSS mindset is.

I wont try to draw any conclusions here because I don't know how much of our personal conflicts are caused by our platform ethos, and how much is just personal; but I can say that the way we execute architecting and building novel solutions is completely different.
I'm not defending the pretentiousness of claiming to speak for a group that doesn't wish to be spoken for, but a view being a minority view doesn't mean it's an incorrect view. Maybe some minorities know something the majority doesn't, or maybe the experience of being in a minority alone provides an insight that the majority lacks (the inverse of which is sometimes referred to using the IMO insufficiently specific word "privilege").
Have you guys seen the SUPER SUPER LARGE sealed ecosystem. It's called earth. It's amazing how long it has lasted without any significant mass coming in or going out.
> you're paying money to a third party for mojang's work

Most servers are run using Bukkit [1] which is licensed under GPL [2]. The client and the protocols are Mojang's but the server's code is free to modify without such restrictions.

[1] http://bukkit.org/
[2] https://github.com/Bukkit/Bukkit/blob/master/LICENCE.txt
It's just an opinion, not "the thing", whatever that would be.
Stripe has amazing marketing, because their marketing is an expression of their identify. They are a developer run shop and it shows. Props to the team, and congrats to the grant winners.
Yup. This is like getting an `ls -R` from a source code directory and someone calling that open source. In the case of the Pumpkin ale we're also given an obfuscated binary.

I think SKA used to release all their recipes, but their website obscures them and wants me to sign up for a mailing list.
How to isolate strawberry DNA in your kitchen
This is certainly interesting, but it duplicated my own nav on my webpage. Don't know how it could be smart enough to detect that even though I have a very standard setup. In any case, I suppose it would be good for a quick and dirty start to your app and you could flesh the rest out later? I wonder who will actually end up using this for real.
His earlier post "OCaml: What you gain"[1] is also an interesting read.

[1] http://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/02/13/ocaml-what-you-gain...
Co-Founder George Kellerman here. I lurk on hackernews a fair amount (technically through hackurls.com) and just saw this post so that was pretty cool. At the moment the majority of our "open sourceness" is provided in the deep dive blog posts that we do http://twbrewing.com/blog. We have a lot of work ahead of us to be truly open but we do have a couple special projects in the works to help that happen.
JavaScript is perhaps the most broadly and immediately useful language right now, whether or not it should be, and Python is probably the best balance of utility on its own, usefulness for learning concepts applicable to other languages, and accessibility of any language today.

VB is more distant from other languages than Python, more limited in its direct utility, and less useful for teaching general CS concepts.

Python and JS may not be the perfect set of choices, but they are good set, and certainly either is far better than VB.
This smells a lot like arguments people would have made against TV when it first showed up. Comic books, non-classical music, yadda yadda yadda. It seems like every generation thinks that the way they grew up was relatively wholesome and meaningful when compared to newer generations... I don't buy it. People change, habits change, ways of communicating and experiencing the world change, but I think it's silly to compare any of that to actually doing things that are physically unhealthy or harmful to your body.

All that being said, I don't use Facebook or Twitter either, but mostly because I find them tedious.
I have been using it for 6 months, love it.
Sure just added this to the intro. You can download via https://github.com/mtford90/silk/releases or install through pip install django-silk
It would also make sense that bacteria would tend towards stable equilibrium populations - ie a lack of a particular nutrient would result in a limited population in the species that require that nutrient.

By that logic if you had sufficient biodiversity to start there would be some limiting nutrient that would fix the stable state biomass of the whole system.
How to Create Content That Web Users Read
For python you can try a docsets collection of the most popular packages: http://python-dashapp.tk/
At a prior job, we developed in VS10 on a Windows network and deployed to a Mono/Apache stack. I spent a lot of time debugging glitches in the Mono implementation after pushing "working" code to the production's Mono stack, and then writing work-arounds in my code -- not writing features.

I might avoid this by developing solely on Linux (which wasn't an option at the job) ... but you still may paste in someone else's code written for the MSFT implementation that borks your project.

To chime in with chc, there is such a huge OSS presence on Linux with a wealth of useful libraries to tap into. I must save so much time leveraging useful OSS projects in my Python/Django projects. Thanks, internet.
I would like to know how 'many' people are in this pool, and $ per user for Uber.
except GIFs are everywhere.
How about banning classrooms in favor of laptops?

Hyperbole sure, but I was an on class student who paid for distance learning because I preferred the freedom to take the class on my time, on 2x speed, and with the ability to pause and look things up. It was never worth it to go back to class.

It begs the question: maybe it's the teaching method, and not the tool.
This is a great point, and I think it's one of the most powerful things about .NET. You can compile most (many) other languages and use it all interchangeably. Build in one language, use in another.

Each language has its pros/cons, and depending on the project you're working on, you can pick which language is best for the task at hand.
It is one of the more foolish things that programming languages leave around though. If I'm writing an enum which is bracket closed, then don't make leaving in an extra comma an error if it's unambiguous.

As I recall I think most of the brackety languages actually do ignore it now? So it's a good way to mitigate at least that small problem.
Definitely not what we are aiming for! Maybe think of it like 'ls -R' is the first option we support but we are working towards being much more 'ls -a'.
do you have a reference for this claim?
I actually wanted to throw Guatemala up there, next to Iraq, as an counter-example. The USA has from the absolutist point of view an awful track record. But the competition was so bad that from a relative point of view it's like purgatory versus hell. Canadians or Mexicans might not like the US, but there's no neighbor of Russia that did well because of Russia. Any sane citizen which has no vested interest in Russian occupation or is actually Russian (Russia and the USSR have displaced a lot of populations, have colonized large areas and have russified huge populations) will agree.

Meanwhile Canada and Mexico are doing quite fine - those borders have been stable for over 100 years and there's been no major "abuse", as I called it before, that I know of.

Also, arrogance is not a capital offense, discrimination based on it is. From many points of view the US discriminates less than those mentioned previously.
You may find this list of lead management/CRM tools valuable: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7805842
I wrote https://github.com/rory/django-sql-inspector a django app to profile SQL queries done in multiple pages, including showing stack trace of where it's being called. You can find out which function(s) are responsible for long SQL requests.
I love it when native-look-a-like apps give me blue buttons and traffic lights instead of the beautiful graphite I chose in my system preferences.
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That depends entirely on the culture of the University and Company.

The University of Central Florida's College of Engineering as entire courses taught by real world professionals from Lockheed, TI, Duke Energy, Boeing, Harris Corp, Orbital, NASA, etc etc etc. They also work very closely with students who are working on unique research projects and connecting them with experienced professionals that can help with the real world side of the research.

I'm sure UCF is not unique, it's just what I'm most familiar with.
Who really uses cab/taxi services?
I grew up in Toronto, Canada (not a big city compare to NYC, but still pretty big) and now lives in SF Bay Area. I took public transportation (sure, they sucks sometimes) , riding bikes, and I own a very basic car (Toyota), I have never really have a need to use a taxi service in probably 17+ yrs of my life so far. I really not sure how this is improving people's life because I don't see a problem with the way I lived now.

What are some advantages that I really need a taxi service? Sorry, I don't drink, so no need to worry about drink-and-drive.

I would like to see someone here can enlightening me.
Doesn't really make sense for his product, given that he scrolls through a series of screenshots. If he was recording a casting demo, then it might.
What a waste of my time - I went to that website and there's nothing there! only <codr> on the screen and there's nothing you can do.
>>What should the gyms do?

Be Honest. They can invent a new business model based on transparency. Imagine if price is not fixed but you are charged per use based on the traffic at the moment. It could be similar to what Uber does, price based on demand.

In terms of ISPs, I think there should be a micro transaction exchange where I can buy X minutes of data transfer. If Verizon is clogged I switch my router to connect with ATT etc. All networks should create a single broker device thats given to each consumer.
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Won't it be necessary to register your LLC as a foreign LLC in whatever state you are actually operating and be subjected to your states regulations anyway?
Thus my disappointment that someone on HN might also inhabit that camp.

Yeah, I hear your disappointment. But, HN is not (and doubt ever was) a homogenous community. It would be pretty boring and even more of an echo chamber if it were. Roses and Dandelions, one more than the other ;-), all form the HN crowd! Sure, dissing redditization is a part of being a responsible HN citizen, but let's not throw the baby out with the bath water!

(now get off my nice lawn all you pesky whippersnappers) :P
I'll admit that it's the most exceptional trademark violation that I've seen today:

http://www.dsource.org/projects/dwt/wiki/Logo
Yahoo Dumps Google, Facebook Logins For Flickr
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That's not a bad idea, it would probably be more natural than the rigid filters that are currently in place for the requests and profiles. As far as having this running in prod I've only really thought of siphoning off the results to celery or something similar to avoid impacting response time, but a spray and pray at Elasticsearch would work just as well.

What's nice about the current setup is that it takes very little effort to get up and running but I suppose could make that configurable...
From the article:

"These examples can be seen as the progeny of an ill-conceived union of twenty-first-century tools (computers, tablets, smartphones) with nineteenth-century modalities (lectures)."
jamieb: here's a sequence of thought that explains why I think TDD creates good architecture.

mreiland: angry rant that seems only tangentially related to jamieb's comment

me: I'm going to say jamieb has a sensible opinion on the subject, though I don't entirely agree with him. And I'm going to assume mreiland has had a bad day, but he hasn't said anything that contributes anything to my understanding of the subject, jamieb's comment or discussion in general.
All indentation ones except the L35-37 ones are lack of go fmt. I will go fmt once I can double-check exactly what go fmt changes.

L35-37 I'm not sure what problem that has; I just put the very long bitmask on its own line.

The underscores in our_xxx_xxx_xxx I don't think would be much of an issue. They unintentionally match the GTK+ naming conventions. I don't know why I did them, but I don't consider it a world-ending issue worth fixing. Same for _xSysData, but in that case the _ is there in case I accidentally said xSysData somewhere else.
I can't unsee how bad that black visor looks on the new icon, though.

They should just throw out the baby and the bathwater and start fresh.
"Why isn't somebody doing this?" - Why aren't you doing this? Provide a service to VC that answers those questions as part of their due diligence. Sounds like a good idea to me.
Yeah huge tech firms reached out to our company. After going out of our way (many miles) & spending a ton of money to demo they were horribly rude. They literally took their huge name/foot and squashed us like a bug. They promised us the moon and the sun and when we arrived it was hell with how they treated us. Saying things as they showed us to door... "You better run fast the race is on." This is after they baited us for our secret sauce with promises of helping us out and or more (we didn't divulge everything). Also, they blocked our tech from working during our demo (wth?).

Well after that experience when other big tech firms reach out .. one recently asking let us understand how your technology works. I'm like HA screw you!

Partnerships are a time sink. One that could go nowhere, get you feeling squashed like a bug or actually provide a win.

Though that's how it all goes with this entrepreneurship game. Game on!