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Bazaar caught me by surprise, too. I've been enjoying the DVCS world lately, having finally decided that I had outgrown SVN.

Mercurial grabbed me more than Git did. My first experience with Mercurial was very natural. Everything that I tried worked the first time in the way I first tried to do it. Git left me fumbling about and googling for answers, but I was able to acclimate quickly. Ultimately, I decided that I would need to use both: Mercurial for my own tastes, and Git just because it's the dominant player.

Bazaar looks like a strong competitor, even for Mercurial, in terms of usability.
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Detroit is not really a major city anymore.

Cripes, remember when Flight 587 went down over Queens? 5 people on the ground were killed and Queens is about 4 times as densely populated as Detroit is.
The "terrorists" aren't the reason he prefers the train. Terrorist attacks on both are so rare that they're not a real reason to prefer one over the other. However the overly invasive, rude and ineffective airport security is a strong reason not to fly when there's an alternative available. For some reason the trains, malls, schools, libraries, churches and stadiums around where I live aren't getting blown up by terrorists and they have little or no security at all.
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"As a UC Berkeley graduate student, Joy worked for Fabry's Computer Systems Research Group CSRG in managing the BSD support and rollout where many claim he was largely responsible for managing the authorship of BSD UNIX, from which sprang many modern forms of UNIX, including FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD. Apple Inc. has based much of the Mac OS X kernel and OS Services on the BSD technology.

Some of his most notable contributions were the vi editor, NFS, and csh. Joy's prowess as a computer programmer is legendary, with an oft-told anecdote that he wrote the vi editor in a weekend. Joy denies this assertion.[2]"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Joy
Geeknet (formerly Sourceforge) is trying to do a lot of what this guy describes. Aside from owning an e-commerce site and several news/community sites, they bought Ohloh.net. They are working toward understanding their user base and selling ads that target them intelligently w/o alienating them (not always successful, but that's why it's a challenge).
Since Bazaar "transparently supports foreign branches for Subversion, Git and Mercurial repositories", I have to ask: does it matter that they don't use Git?
Very interesting explanation, thanks!

I would imagine that text messaging probably wouldn't be subject to these issues since it's just a quick burst of data. It would also be a little easier to get away with using too.
This puzzle reminds me of the Alcatraz puzzle: http://www.alcatrazthepuzzle.com/wst_page2.html

And I thought that puzzle was stupid; though, probably because I solved it in seconds.
http://crookedtimber.org/2009/12/28/political-correctness-go...

All the terrorists are engineers too, they are clearly ingenious and totally unmanageable. People should start reading sites like this one -- engineering is obviously the oldest form of prescriptivist demagoguery!
Do those doors still have shades if they're never allowed to be closed?
Shhhhhh! Don't let the authorities know, or they'll start silly security theatre there as well.
30,000 names at $1 per is a pretty poor business model.

I go with the "crappy puzzle from a clueless company" explanation.
The point being, if a few train attacks occur, you can expect similar TSA regulations being issued for that mode of transport.

Not that its very likely in the USA; with a few exceptions rail service is abysmal. It took me 48 hours to travel from Nevada to Chicago last time I took the train, what with mechanical breakdowns and other unexplained delays. Lost my luggage too. Never again.
I hope this means bazaar performance has improved a lot. With the first imports they created, running a 'bzr log' command could take more than a minute before showing output. Funny enough, the developers didn't seem to mind, because 'it's only a bit slower than cvs'
Yes, but for some reason that extremely rare event doesn't attract the same level of paranoid security theatre that other, even rarer events do.

There's something about planes. Perhaps it comes down to ground-dwelling-mammal hindbrain psychology: We're intrinsically more comfortable when we're close to the ground, even when we're theoretically more vulnerable there. I suppose if birds ran our transportation system they'd think differently. ("I'd sure hate it if someone set off some fireworks when I was on my feet on the ground -- I'd be trapped! Only two dimensions to maneuver in, low potential energy, I can't even move my wings properly, and just think how vulnerable I'd be from above! I'd far rather be 20,000 feet up, where I can jump out a window in case of trouble.")
> I'd imagine that's a really easy way to gain admittance to the no-fly list.

And that's probably your best case scenario.
I still really want someone to try and blow up a plane by dousing their clothes in some flammable/explosive/unstable chemicals.

Then we'd all be told to fly naked, or in airport provided suits.
The fear is the use of an airplane to crash against a building with people inside--i.e. to use the airplane as a weapon. The train can "only" be used for terror: to threaten to blow up some people. If you cynically add that government high officials are unlikely to use a train and very likely to be targets of an airplane used as a weapon, you get why traveling by train is still a pleasure.
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I just heard about bazaar. Could you elaborate? It feels very mercurial-esque at first blush, and it would be nice to know what to look out for.
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Storage is cheap though, so this only becomes an issue when you want to cache gigabyte sized movies. Why not cache your whole photo and music collection now? In 10 years you won't even worry about huge videos. You'll be carting around terabyte sized flash in your phone and more on your cloudbook SSD.
Keep in mind this is only about flights originating in non-US airports with destinations in the US. None of this stuff applies to your flight back home to New York from Kansas next week.
Let's say you are a terrorist organizer and have found a novel way to get a bomb onto a plane. Assume also that if you abort the mission before detonation chances are good you'll get the bomb off the plane without detection. You probably also realize that any method you use will only work once, so you want to make sure that one use is used to best effect. Given this I can see the logic in aborting a mission which would give a sub-optimal result given that there is a reasonable chance you can try again for a better result later.
Most likely it's based on the profit margins from selling you a series of silly puzzles and keeping you engaged in the 'Isis adventure' so they can sell you even more stuff. This explains the prizes, the availability of a second puzzle solution prize for which can only be collected if you have the first puzzle, etc. There will probably be N of these, should the first couple be successful. And for that business model, contact info is essential. The whole thing is closer to a sort of subscription game in which the lame puzzle is just a prop.
Maybe he'll just use a chronometer.
Well, the issue is even having the phone on since your phone needs to been in communication to cell sites via the control channel (which determines how to send an incoming call to you, what tower you should be using, and allows for sending/receipt of text messages). So, you might not be causing problems for the traffic channel and the speed issue probably wouldn't be a problem, but you'd still be causing problems on the control channel even by having the phone on. Granted, if a few people did it, it might not matter, but if everyone did you'd have the exact same problem where you'd be defeating frequency re-use.
Using svn with Trac, for example, one can use "r1234" to refer to a revision from a ticket, or "#123" to refer to a ticket number from a commit message.
Nice, I tried photography for a while and that kinda went to backlogs. Only thing I really seem to enjoy is coding.
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Airplanes have windows.

Also, I could write a computer program to use my cell phone's GPS receiver to activate an electronic device at a given location. (Hell, I do this to turn off my ringtone at work.)

Stuff that into the overhead compartment along with your bomb, and the plane is finished... at exactly the location you pre-program. (You don't even need to be on the plane. Put your bags in the overhead compartment, stuff some other bags in front of it, "oh shit, I forgot $foo in the terminal", done.)
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All planes that I've ever been on have had shades, likely for the same reason that you still occasionally see ashtrays (although slightly different since they're usually screwed shut) on planes. The price to disable/retrofit simply isn't worth it to the airlines. Again, I'm not 100% sure that it's an FAA regulation - do we have any pilots/flight attendants on HN who could weigh in?
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And how do you know how much I care what other people think? Maybe I care exactly the right amount? Maybe I don't care enough?

I really, really wish people would stop telling me what to do and offer evidence based advice and observations.
The more scared people are, the easier they are to control.
In euro style fast trains, you arrive 2 minutes before, walk in, you can go have a meal, there is electricity for your laptop, there are toilets everywhere.

Or for those stuck on last Friday's Paris-London Eurostar, not so much toilets everywhere as everywhere a toilet. I payed a premium to use the channel link to get me home this Christmas and, after 3 days of travel hell and sheer incompetence before I finally got on, I can't see myself ever using them again. In fact, after reading what actually occurred under the channel on Friday - tunnel operators seemingly asleep, staff going AWOL, passengers urinating on the floor, not to mention Kent police interrogating those who finally made it out as if they were potential terrorists (save for Claudia Schiffer, who got a police escort home and a free croissant) - I'm not sure I actually trust them to even run a safe service, let alone a convenient one.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/22/eurostar_eurotunnel_...

My faith in international rail travel from the UK has been destroyed completely in one fell swoop, and it has nothing to do with the engineering malfunction that instigated it all.
fyi - article is @ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/opinion/28raff.html

and thread discussing op-ed is @ http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1018148
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It seems odd to both fake the glowing eyes and edit the EXIF. Why not just give the wolf normal eyes? And why reduce the credibility of the fake by claiming that the flash went off in a photo with no visible flash effects? I just can't see how faking the EXIF is at all plausible in this case.

edit: From a reddit comment:

> Notice the focal length. The camera was set to its maximum zoom, and probably has an underpowered flash. Other than specular reflections off a piece of plastic (purse?) under the woman's arm and from the creature's eyes, there wouldn't be any visible effect from the flash.
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That assumes the list only ever is sold (or licensed) once.
100% of terrorist attacks are committed by terrorists. That sounds like a better filter than religious beliefs.

You have to look at it the other way. 0.00% of Christians commit terrorist attacks. 0.00% of Muslims commit terrorist attacks. Therefore, it doesn't seem too valuable to discriminate in this way.

a prime example of "things you can't say"

You can say it, but legalized discrimination goes against every value a Free society has. Liberty is more important than a little bit of temporary safety. It's that simple.
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I'm not convinced of that, actually. We have historical precedent -- trains were bombed in Madrid, and there have been all sorts of transit bombings in the Middle East. But riding on the train is still not a big deal as far as I can see.

Passenger aircraft may be uniquely suited to inane security theatre. They're already so inefficient and uncomfortable that it's relatively easy to get away with piling on additional inefficiency and discomfort. And the problem of securing them feels almost tractable -- they're only vulnerable at the start and end of the trip [1], they have very limited entrances and exits, they carry so little stuff that you feel as if you actually have a chance of screening it all. [2] The problem with security theatre on trains and buses, to say nothing of ships, is that you just can't make it plausible without making it so expensive that you might as well just shut it down. Theatre is no good if the audience can't suspend disbelief.

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[1] Well, technically, there are surface-to-air missiles. But somehow those are easy to handwave away. Theatre is a mysterious business.

[2] You probably don't, of course, but reality is not at issue here.
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The terrorists have won.You don't have to bring down an aircraft to make flying a nightmare.

I know this sounds insane and the Terminally Stupid Administration will not allow it, but if someone came up with a "low security" airline, where screening was done by the airline itself using their own guidelines, I would be an enthusiastic customer.

We only need two things, an airline that values it's customers but is not willing to lose any planes and passengers who are alert and ready to take on any threats in the air. The latter attitude has been there since United Airlines Flight 93, the former is a mirage.
Is this a legitimate insight into the possibility of an Apple tablet? I have seen so much tabloid reporting on it, it's hard for me to tell if "Foxconn is makin tablets!" is real news.
No particular comment on the article (which looks, er, dull). What I do like is Bruce Sterling's take on this topic: "<i>Artists are interesting people with dull ideas, while scientists are dull people with interesting ideas</i>"
From the NYT article:

>Because of its domination of the global search market and ability to penalize competitors while placing its own services at the top of its search results, Google has a virtually unassailable competitive advantage...The preferential placement of Google Maps helped it unseat MapQuest from its position as America’s leading online mapping service virtually overnight.

Alternately, it was a better product. Remember the first time you were able to drag a map? It wasn't in Mapquest. Let's see which is better today. I'm looking for New York City. I go to maps.google.com, and see a single search box. I type in NYC, and I see, within a second, the five boroughs I was looking for. Well done you, Google.

Next, I go to mapquest. They've got multiple search boxes, so I have to break up my search into address/city/state/zip code boxes? Ugh. Is it still 1998? Ok, I put in NYC into the "City" field, and the whole screen dims, with a box saying "processing". Even after the processing box goes away, the screen is still dimmed. How ugly. I scroll down to the map, and see that nothing's changing, even after waiting two minutes. I click, and the dim screen lightens, but I haven't gone anywhere. I go back to the search boxes, and again, search NYC. Oh, it's popping up a "which did you mean" alert next to the search box where I wasn't looking. 2 results: 1. Nyce Lake, AZ 2. Nyctea Hills, AK.

If this is their example of "unfair competitive advantage", I want more of it.
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> through threats of physical harm

No, physical harm is not a necessary element of extortion. All that is needed is a threat of harm. In this case, the threat of harm is to deny the customer access to the manual for the product they bought and can no longer return.

It is certainly not the most serious extortion ever perpetrated. But it is extortion nonetheless.
Maybe someone should create a group for hackers who formerly worked for an MR-started company.
Because there is no user-controlled local storage under ChromeOS, at least as described now. But even if there was, no matter how much local storage you have (and the assumption is that you'll have more on the cloud and your cloud dataset size will be larger than local storage) you'll still want to make explicit storage decisions based on the availability of bandwidth and connectivity.

Say today at the office I worked on a few documents, shot a gig of video at the office holiday party, bought a couple of mp3s. All were stored on the cloud. Tomorrow morning I, before I leave for a disconnected mountain cabin, I fire up my netbook and tell it to sync. I don't have time to wait around for the video but I specifically want the docs and the mp3s. Additionally, I want an explicit sync of a group of documents from two years ago. They're in the cloud but I have no idea whether they are in the netbook cache so I want an explicit check. The only way you'd stop doing this sort of thing is if you're more-or-less always connected.
That may be true, but it's more than "a thousand or so".
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It has improved, but not a lot. I find bzr to be unusable for working on Emacs (so I don't use it).
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1018414

Large version: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1018276
Not all of us are from the US.
30,000 people who spent $200 on a toy puzzle is by no means a small number. Luxury goods purchases follow a power law, and the value of capturing a portion of the fat side of that curve is huge. If they're willing to spend $200 on a puzzle, imagine what they'd spend on something they perceive they need.
Google's indexing is already scary fast, I'm excited to see what this new update they've been testing for a while will do once they roll it out completely.
Algorithmic trading is already the norm with most any of the large investment organizations.

And from the other side, if you're not already using program trading for your investing or otherwise investing ginormous sums, you're probably not big enough for the CEO to take your call.
It's a low number in terms of # of profile listing for a telemarketer. Telemarketers buy on the order of hundreds of thousands or millions.
"You can say it, but legalized discrimination goes against every value a Free society has."

I completely agree. I was careful to make the point that discrimination is NOT ok even if 100% of terrorist acts in the world were by Muslims because the number of people who are decent citizens far outweigh the terrorists, just as the number of decent communists far outweighed the Red- Terror-kill-all-capitalists folks and McCarthyism was not an acceptable solution either.

I was reacting to your "But only Muslims commit terrorist attacks." That is an exaggeration of the claim made by those who would advocate legal discrimination. Mischaracterizing your opponents' arguments (no matter how distasteful their ideologies are) isn't the right way (imo) to refute their ideas. You do it again with

" 0.00% of Christians commit terrorist attacks. 0.00% of Muslims commit terrorist attacks. "

Most muslim terrorists are educated in madrassas where they study their religion for a long time. Saudi Arabia and Iran (and to a lesser extent, Pakistan), where much of Islamic terrorism originates are the terrorism originates are theocracies or hevaily theocratic. Their motivation, training, goals and methods are all influenced by religion are religious. To deny that there is a religious element to Islamic terrorism is an extreme position not justified by facts. You could argue that this isn't "True Islam", but that is a different argument.

Again I completely agree with your idea that "Muslims must NOT be discriminated against" idea. Such discrimination is against everything Western Democracy (and human decency) stand for.

I am still disturbed by Islam as a political and social ideology dictating how others should submit to the "true believers". I guess I just don't go to extremes in either direction. Some social visions are dangerous.

All that said, I will now follow my own advice of keeping politics off HN! Peace!
Aikido is extremely effective at protecting against the kinds of attacks that Aikido practitioners practice with. However those attacks are launched by people who are not really told how to hit, whose muscle memory is all geared towards the experience of throwing a punch then getting thrown all over the room. Those techniques aren't going to help you much against someone who is throwing a proper punch at full speed. You simply won't react fast enough, their reactions won't match your expectations, and (very importantly) the first solid hit they get on you will leave you in shock because your body is not used to it.

Seriously, if any of the ideas were at all helpful in real fights, they would be borrowed by other martial arts. But they aren't and haven't been.

Aikido is excellent form of exercise and entertainment which might help you when faced with someone with no training at all. Thinking of it as anything else could be a dangerous mistake.
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I'm waiting for people to start blowing up expressways. Then maybe we can get some decent public transportation.
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This is not a bug.

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Being able to blow up the plane in the sky is terrorizing enough I think.

You don't care about the death toll, you just care about the fear.
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Hi JS,

Why do you think I dont want to start a company. I really do and it "seems" like the fact I cant work full time on it is making it hard for me to create a winner product.

I've never really calculated how much I save. I'd probably have a lot more if I didnt have any hobbies and hadnt partied so much in my younger days.