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Because at some point you stop being a feature of the landscape, and you become the landscape - or a big part of it, at least.

That's where GitHub is now. If GitHub closed in the same way, that would be... unfortunate.

That seems to be where Google Code was trying to go. For whatever reason, it never quite made it.

But if you're part of the scenery - and Google Code was, for a while - and not just a shack hardly anyone visits, a burden of responsibility goes with that.
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The interesting part of knowing Obj-C is knowing all the Apple system stuff, because no one uses it outside the Apple ecosystem.

Incidentally, I've been using Go lately, and it's much closer to the "modern C" feel that I want than either Obj-C or C++. It's a remarkably reality-driven language.
<i>may the tide of law someday turn against you with vigor.</i>

The government should force unwanted treatments on informed, responsible adults?
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I'd be quite surprised if someone told me they didn't think Business Insider was clickbait. I think part of the issue is people thinking of clickbait as only lists of N things, or The Shocking Truth!!!. It can be more subtle than that but often it's just different.
In an ideal world it would be nice if you could go work from country to country without having to deal with things like this.
It's a lot of fun at robot comp with amazing teen teams!
Does it? I dunno.

Honestly, I'll probably just download the archive and take it offline. I don't want to think about this shit.
> The government should force unwanted treatments on informed, responsible adults?

Of course not. It should punish people for peddling shams.
> Seriously, if you were interviewing a filmaker who proundly said, "I haven't owned a TV in 15 years, because I know it's all shit", would you take their opinion seriously?

Consider a lot of people went and saw a comic book movie done by a man who doesn't read and, it seems, hates comic books, I'm not sure that's a disqualifier of the filmmaker's opinion.
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No, he's saying that those that sell alternative treatments that don't work should be persecuted for fraud.
I may or may not have threatened to do this after having had one too many drinks, but when I sobered up, I... sobered up. ;)

While I love a good 'burn the world down re-write,' it's a _lot_ of work and isn't guaranteed to succeed. It's been tried before, and in other languages too: check out wheels in Python.

That said, Rubygems did replace what came before it, and Gemcutter replaced what came before it... so it could be done. It's just non-trivial.
Jesus, that's basically a 6x increase.
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>> Shame onto those who offer false hope. May the tide of law someday turn against you with vigor.

This is pretty clearly referring to purveyors of alternative medicine, not Steve Jobs.
This is typical for a high-importance API that a company starts as private or closed.

Generally these are big B2B partnerships.

They might go public eventually with it, but until then most people will probably experience this.

Source: Have run (and do currently help run) a couple of private API programs for large companies.

EDIT: Part of the reason they are doing it is because their API might be crap right now, or rife with potential security/use case holes. They don't want open apps out there either yet. Basically they are trying to control the experience.
I think the problem is also that companies are no longer as willing to train new hires. It can take a lot of work to take an entry level employee and train them up to the point where they can do the job you really want to hire for. When people worked for the same company for decades it was easily worth it, but now that workers hop around every few years fewer companies are willing to make the investment, hence the fact that everyone is looking for experienced engineers, and recent grads from all but the best schools can have a bit more of a tough time.
Sponsoring an H1-B employee, in theory, is always more expensive than an hiring a local because not only do you have to pay an H1-B visa employee the same wage as a local you also have to pay the lawyer and visa fees. Often times employers will also have to provide an employment contract guaranteeing x number of years of employment in order to increase chances of visa approval.

In practice, this is not the case. H1-b visa workers have poor mobility and little recourse when employers cheat the system by providing lower than market pay and requiring the employee to pay their own H1B visa fees. Furthermore, there is little (if any) enforcement that the employer seriously considered domestic applicants at market rates over the H1B applicate. 99% of the time the H1-B is already hired and the employer is posting a job 100% tailored to that H1-B applicant.
Maybe it's implying that real programmers have some sort of cyberpunk synapse plugin
What are the advantages over Keepass?
>e.g. Grim Fandango would never have happened if someone had to justify it with a spreadsheet.

>if you're not strict to spritesheets, you get bigger chances of stuff not being delivered, but you also get bigger chances of stuff being brilliant.

This sort of thing sounds like "creative genius" wishful thinking, but is completely unsubstantiated.
What I'm saying is that this is applying a "rape culture" label to something that I'm not really sure should be considered rape culture. I can point you in the direction of countless men and women that have had drunk sex and enjoyed it and gone back for more... many of whom proclaim the joys of morning sex and being woken up that way.
How do you differentiate that from someone who is only having sex with you because they're drunk and waking up the next morning and regretting it? They're surely equally as likely to wake up the next morning, think they've scored and go back for second helpings...
There is a morally fine line for sure... but I think "legally incapacitated" is reaching. She wasn't drugged to the point that she wasn't able to make decisions. Arguably she was drugged (by her own alcohol consumption) enough to make shitty decisions (perhaps). Lord knows we've all done that to ourselves at some point or another. But being drunk and making shitty decisions comes in the realm of don't drink and drive. It's not illegal for someone to get in the car with you while you're drunk at the wheel. Stupid, for sure, but if they get behind the wheel drunk and you get in the passenger seat equally drunk and they get in an accident and kill someone, are you an accessory to that crime? If they kill themselves because you let them get behind the wheel is that your fault? They made the shitty decision, you let them. Sure you'll probably feel terrible for letting that happen, their family might blame you for not keeping them out of trouble, but legally...? At what point does being drunk excuse you? How much alcohol do you have to consume? Did she initiate? Did he? Was he that drunk too? Does that matter? Can any of it be proven either way?
In a court of law, being drunk doesn't legally excuse you from the ability to make decisions... which is why when you drink and drive, they're still legally able to charge you with "Causing death by careless driving when under the influence of drink." (in the UK) and "Driving While Intoxicated" or "Driving Under the Influence of Alcohol" in North America. If you are legally culpable for decisions contributing to a crime when under the influence of alcohol, then you cannot claim that someone is legally incapacitated from making decisions regarding sex when they consent to do so. You can have it one way or the other, but not both. If they're legally incapacitated from making decisions about their sex life, then surely they're legally incapacitated from making the decision to drink and drive, and thus are not legally responsible. Where does legal culpability draw the line?
My understanding is that mobile is so over-saturated that its the equivalent of gambling. I have no proof other than my limited experience in the industry, but Steam tends to be more of a meritocracy. If you make a good game in a genre people want to play, you have a decent chance of making some good money. There are people waiting and wanting those types of games. They'll forgive the lack of 3D graphics or fancy voice overs, etc if the game itself is solid. The top sellers in 2014 were almost all non-AAA titles.

With mobile, your marketing budget is more important than your game. Anyone can code a ad-driven clone of $popular_game, like your friend did. If anything, mobile is a lesson in attracting the wrong kind of developers (quick cash kiddies making clones) and a lesson in how poorly organized and run the various App stores are. Not to mention, how unsophisticated the mobile buyer is. Its grandma looking for a distraction, not the next Half-Life.
In addition to the CTRL/CMD + Enter shortcut mentioned in a sibling comment, you could also use your arrow keys to select a choice from your recent history.

I personally disagree with you that searching and moving a hand to the mouse or trackpad in order to click a result is faster than using only the keyboard and the appropriate shortcuts, bypassing a search engine.

This is a matter of understanding the features of your application and operating system. If you choose to only learn the features at the surface, that's your prerogative, but I don't think you can claim a particular strategy is faster or more efficient if you don't really grok the alternatives (I don't think you do judging by your various claims).

With your hacker news example, you would have to simply type news.y and if you visit frequently enough or have the site bookmarked, getting to the site should only be a matter of hitting down-arrow and then enter.
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I watched it too. They showed aluminum and stainless steel, but no gold.
Exactly. And it's possible that he attributed his successes/happiness in life to his previously mentioned all fruit diets, meditation and other less mainstream practices.

If you believed those practices made you who you are, it makes sense to stick with them when facing a medical crisis.
I'd probably think about returning the device, if I were you. Keeping an API closed is their decision, and they can build proper authentication around it if they want to, but keeping all knowledge of the API behind bars is a bit excessive.
My questions is why can't someone else offer these same programmers >$35/hr and steal them away? What's the friction in the market preventing this?
H1B's earn at least standard wages, so companies wouldn't bring them here if they weren't noticeably better than average.
IANAL, but I think that (drone photos of real estate) falls under "flight in furtherance of business," which is legal for those without a commercial certificate.

Taking photos of real estate and then selling those photos to a real estate agent would still be illegal, thouigh.
I'm becoming more convinced over time that having engineers learn MATLAB as their first technical computing language really hurts them in the long run. You always end up in a state where you have to do very convoluted tricks to do anything that isn't straight up numerical linear algebra.

There ends up being a lot of aversion where I work from some engineers towards the use of new non-MATLAB programming tools (even Python), I think because many simple believe that all general systems programming is going to be as convoluted.
That's in reference to the Beagle 2?
because they are scammy crooks? duh?
Interesting and well written article.
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Kudos to the DjangCon Europe organizers for setting this up. I was recently listening to a sermon on Abraham Lincoln (the U.S. President in office during the civil war) who suffered from such crippling depression during his life that there's no way he'd be electable today.

Such is the exposure to the details of a persons life in the 21st century, but I feel like that makes it even more important to publicly address mental health issues. Folks should not suffer alone, and should not be made to feel less capable or important because they struggle with mental health.
I suppose the question would be: Are you truly "informed" if you believe false information about particular treatments? I'm guessing the laws being suggested would relate to fradulent claims about the contents or efficacy of particular substances or treatments.
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What's to stop you from fudging the results on DemocracyOS and making whatever choices you want with The Net Party?
Wasn't the Amazon Echo service also voiced as "Ask Alexis" (the phrase used to activate it, like "OK Google", or "Siri")
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Not in the short term. They want to limit exposure, and probably collect feedback and make changes before throwing it out to everyone.

There are version guarantee considerations to make.

Also, having told my current company this, people will find the API and expose it anyway.
Agreed. Ride sharing is a faceless commodity and people will take the cheapest option. AirBnB is slightly different because sometimes the apartment is nicer than the hotel, or offers a full kitchen. Or is an entire house and you're planning a trip with a group of friends or family. The reasons go on and on. But the original comment's point about Lyft is spot on, it's a shame we have to derail that thread because of his misreading of Airbnb.
At the time of the story in question, no one knew how much time Jobs would gain by such a transplant. It might have been two decades rather than two years. Or two months.
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Religion was born when the first con man met the first fool.
What really interests and fascinates, and impresses, me is that because of Apple's ludicrous scale and huge profit margins, they can actually afford to manufacture their products in the best way possible. They don't have to cut corners, they don't have to worry that their EMS partner doesn't have the absolute best and newest machines, they don't have to worry about contention in their supply chain (except perhaps at the macro level with things like Samsung chips and Corning Gorilla Glass).

I work in high tech manufacturing and these kinds of things happen to normal companies all the time. An essential part of every BOM is the "alternates and substitutions" section, which lists the 2nd, 3rd, etc options for components if the first choice isn't available. Another is the potential inability of an EMS partner to build any given product at any given location because they literally do not have plug & play equipment at all of their facilities. And if a customer forces the issue, it could takes months to 1) spend the capex, and 2) wait for the machine suppliers (Fuji, Siemens, Yestech, Saki, Orbotech, Agilent, etc) to deliver it. To give you an idea of why Apple chose Foxconn as their premier partner, Foxconn owns their whole supply chain outright, and they operate at a scale similar to Apple, which allows them to drop a billion here or there on capital investments at Apple's request. Others have tried (Pegatron, Jabil), and failed.
Some people value friendship and family more than their stock price. They were already wealthy and had lived good lives.

Was it best for Apple stockholders? Maybe not. However I can see that they were truly friends and I envy it. Most ego-maniacs at the top are willing to cut each others throats and heres two who would do anything for each other.
Joe Rogan interviewed Alex a couple years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OusYaNWBy08
Am I mistaken in recalling that this information was added to the story after the fact? Like it was an afterthought thrown in to try and give weight to an accusation that wasn't going to stick in the first instance?

I will admit that without going back and digging through the all original news stories again that my memory could be misleading me here... but I recall at the time that everything about this charge seemed sketchy to the point of suspicious.
(hackerne.ws also redirects to news.ycombinator.com, in case you guys didn't know)
It offers one advantage: You can run it in a GNU Screen session on a remote host.

(Unless it is somehow possible to run a graphical emacsclient over network)
I don't see how NOT "moving out" is a bad anything.

It's a cultural agenda pushed by some folks, but there is absolutely nothing wrong with living with your mom and taking care of her like she took care of you in your younger days.

Combining your 2 incomes, you could quickly move out of debt, make a smart property investment together with your mom and through that, set her up for a decent retirement income on top of any pension she receives.

You may not get to live out "experiences" like all the hipsters that promote that lifestyle, but life will carry on as normal (unless you decide to relocate yourself and your mom to a place with better weather and cheaper living).

In the end, take my advice with a pinch of salt, but don't forget your mom and what she has done for you.
And yet, the US will never convert to a system of measurement invented by the French. Remember freedom fries?
Oh, an automated SMS chat number? How very original... If it were the early 2000's.
I like this idea, but I don't know if a trojan horse in the footer sends the most positive political message.
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Echo used "Alexa" as the activation word.
What startup could make me a millionaire in four years?
SourceForge?! how about hosting a zip on geocities? :-)
We need a tech union to help prevent this sort of thing. It would be nice if it could also help prevent bad practices in the industry (like building backdoors into code for the nsa).
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> Unless you're already in someone's WOT, there's nothing to verify against.

Somebody's been trying to fix that with https://keybase.io/
Wow, I've never used slides.com. It looks really nice.
You have a finite amount of smart people in the USA, the only way to increase supply is by importing them. You can teach skills but you can't teach talent.
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I don't think this is too bad until the official release. Amazon probably doesn't want public discussions about unfinished products.
You missed the part were Sweden has illegally handed people over to the US before, perhaps.

They've shown a willingness to blatantly violate both Swedish and international law to satisfy US requests in the past. Why should Assange trust they won't do the same in his case?
> But even if there is a slightest mistake, it is guaranteed that he is going to die. I mean, why take such risks ?

Interestingly, free soloing actually eliminates quite a lot of potentially deadly mistakes. Protected climbers die usually when they make stupid mistakes in their protection routine, or when their protection fails in unlucky ways. That can't happen to a free solo climber, since he has no protection to rely on in the first place.

A (sane) free solo climber will only try to free solo a route which he has finished multiple times protected and is absolutely certain his stamina and skills are sufficient to complete, and which has no holds of dubious quality.

If you don't misjudge this, the deadly risks that remain are things you cannot really prepare for, like rockfall, cramps, or holds that come loose due to some invisible crack.
I'm one of the maintainers of this project - basically the idea is that if you want post a job, just do a GitHub pull request. The job board is run like an open-source software project.
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Excellent!

Any other synths you could put in? I'm guessing a PPG/Waldorf or Prophet VS or DX7 would send the CPU to 140 deg. Celsius.

BTW /r/edm liked it: http://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/2yphc8/a_303_... (pretty funny)

________

oh, and anybody want to tweak on a basic 2 oscillator analog, here's one in Flash: http://www.audiosauna.com/studio/
The majority of H1B's are here working for body shops and they aren't noticeably better than average. Average is quite good enough for the type of work they do.
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Ask HN: A lot less traffic from China logged by Google Analytics
I just noticed that after two years of having China as a Top 3 country in Google Analytics, since October it started to decline sharply and now is in place 48 out of the 107 countries we get traffic from.

Traffic volume from China reported by Google Analytics seems to be now 10-20 times less than it used to be.

However, I am positive that Chinese users are still there. For example, we get a 15-20% drop in application usage during Chinese New Year's break time.

Why do I have this effect in Google Analytics?

Are Chinese web visitors using Tor or blocking Javascript Google Analytics code?
sign the nda and don't disclose your work until the api is made public. this is really not a big deal.
Wrt the first paragraph: it's almost as if Steve Jobs knew what he was setting up to do. :) I find it a very rare occurrence of respect towards your craft and your customers paying off in the long run.
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I do find a few job posts now asking for Go. Guess one should prefer it over Rust or Elixir?
Contractor often connotes low status like a tradesmen in construction work. Business development (sales) is a learned and practiced skill. Can you teach yourself how to pitch your skills and expertise to a potential client like a consultant? It will raise your status.

I've found the bigger the company, the dumber they are and more insular the culture. Smaller and mid-size companies may be more receptive to you.
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We agree, and the good thing is, we do! You can have public projects on GitLab, and projects like GnuTLS and F-droid are already there.
Weighting for US and Canada is available in the document posted by bengali3.[1]

See pp. 23-25, "Local Variances".

[1] http://s3.amazonaws.com/DBM/M3/2011/Downloads/RHT_2015_salar...
and equally... every other "friend" and "ally" are as strong as France. It's meaningless filler, it doesn't mean that the French are their strongest friends and allies... just that nobody is more of a friend and ally. It's like a hat tip to one of your friends, but nothing more. Even if you do take this statement literally, it's meaningless.
I don't think it's worth a fight. Either you are willing to agree to Amazon's terms for access or not. I agree that NDAs are usually dumb, and this one is as well, but I also doubt that access to this developer program is worth the effort it would take to change the practice.

My guess is that Amazon realizes the capabilities of this device are toeing the line of acceptability to most people, and they are taking whatever steps they can to avoid bad press (such as an app developer revealing how much they can eavesdrop, or what security or lack-thereof exists).
> Seriously, if you were interviewing a filmaker who proundly said, "I haven't owned a TV in 15 years, because I know it's all shit", would you take their opinion seriously?

If he were French, I would. French TV is shit.
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