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I think it's cute, and therefore a bad idea. You're probably going to defeat any common dictionary-based password cracker...

But "Itsasmallworldafterall" is a lousy password.
feel sorry for reading this article, this guy is a huge dipshit. so much for my karma.
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Favorite Quote: "Lots of people are trying to create location-based services and using GPS," said Nguyen. "The problem with GPS is that it doesn't work."
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"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely." (c) John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton

even if current Google will not use this patent immediately, future Google (5 years, 10 years, 15 years, ...) will use ever patent in its pocket to hinder competition.
Yeah, that is amazing. I think we get more trolls too now, but probably not 11x. I do worry about some of the kinds of comments that get upvoted now.
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The next Diaspora. Doomed to fail.
The middle ground between right and wrong is wrong. Anyway, neither of those alternatives is right.

I like hackers who point out flaws in any system, but this article does not do that.
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Sarcasm is useless for real discussions; I have no idea what you're trying to say.
http://www.albartlett.org/

Does some cool work with it. I've seen many examples from his lectures where it worked quite well.
Communism is a terrible idea, not a lofty one. Capitalism is a lofty idea that is misunderstood both in theory and practice.
Bruce Lee's "Definite Chief Aim"
Concise and measurable with a clear objective.

---

My Definite Chief Aim

I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

Bruce Lee
Jan. 1969
I have a few although I'm not sure they would be good for you. If you can tell me what sort of domain name you want (some theme, keywords etc) I can find good names which are available.

Trust me, I'm really good at this.
So you're not going to make the code public?
Concise and measurable with a clear objective.

---

My Definite Chief Aim

I, Bruce Lee, will be the first highest paid Oriental super star in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting 1970 I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession $10,000,000. I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

Bruce Lee
Jan. 1969
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I thought this story was about paying someone that could influence the unions. The unions have serious political clout. I don't see any evidence that anyone on the unions were paid to change their stance. They basically paid this guy to be a lobbyist, but to lobby union leadership rather than Congress.
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They're nice but I find them to be much too crunchy. I'd suggest the additional step of removing the calcium carbonate coating from ingredient #8 before it goes into reactor #2.
"thank you" for agreeing - as in for being 22 and still feeling that way. Phew, it isn't just the age.

I think that there are plenty of people interested in tech with nothing to do with any "social" aspects - it is just that social is new to the technology field and has attracted a lot of talent and money.
I used to think, and still do somewhat, that "social software" is almost its own field of interest and study - which will feed into other areas of technology but still be distinct. Thankfully there are still plenty of other engineering problems to solve elsewhere (there is, isn't there?) for people like us to work on !
I recently had this thought that even with a distributed system, probably some centralized monopoly would emerge - the search engine, like Google for the web. Following people works OK in a distributed way, but search and analytics would be a problem. Unless an efficient distributed search engine can be built, too.
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They settled out of court:

> He was with the head of their security team, who I knew slightly because I'd reported several security holes to Facebook over the years. The attorney said that they were just about to sue me into oblivion, but in light of my previous good relationship with their security team, they'd give me one chance to stop the process. They asked and received a verbal assurance from me that I wouldn't publish the data, and sent me on a letter to sign confirming that.

The robots.txt part was just Facebook lawyers trying to grasp to a contract with them; the actual issue was that the EULA allows Facebook to make basic information available, but users do not expect such a database to be freely available. Although I personally regret there is so little done by the data team to help research, legal consequences were not worth the prank; what actually matters is usage, and Facebook clearly police the spirit of the platform rather then the law, even beyond their contract partner—see RapLeaf.
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Not just yet - I might post it to my Github account (https://github.com/aaronontheweb) once I get a chance to push a few changes and sanitize my repo so it doesn't contain my debug and production .config files

Would you be interested in checking out the source too?
Yawn ... The syntax of OCaml is tremendously regular once you understand it (and the examples he gives there are using the toplevel which indicates he's not used it very much).

Compare the syntax of OCaml (and ML in general) for:

(1) defining functions

(2) defining ordinary variables

(3) static variables

(4) variables scoped to two functions

with the same for your favourite imperative/OO language.

Here's the OCaml syntax:

(1)

let f x = ...

(2)

let v = ...

(3)

let f =
let v = ... in
let f () = ... in
f

(4)

let f, g =
let v = ... in
let f () = ... in
let g () = ... in
f, g
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Well c) isn't really the case in Mr. WhinyUser's second request, to add SHA256 hashes. He originally claimed it was "really easy" to do, but balked at actually providing any code unless the maintainers promised to accept it. A couple of days later Dan implemented the change -- without any help or thanks from Mr. WhinyUser.

I don't know that the union argument really works in the Linux distribution realm. After peeing in the community pool Mr. WhinyUser went off to a fork of Arch that supports signatures (for their additions only, which doesn't appear to address his original concerns about Arch repositories, but apparently for some the appearance of "security" is enough). But even if he didn't have that fork to go to, there was nothing stopping him from adopting one of the many Debian offshoots, or Redhat, or ... The Arch maintainer union -- really an odd term for a handful of unpaid volunteers -- have no control over his actions or desires, but there are plenty of Linux distribution alternatives out there.
So...anyone have a mirror of the data?
DropBox for photos? It's a great idea.
I feel there is a large part of that explanation that is missing or wrong.

The secret is near the end of the 1st film. Neo was not supposed to try to destroy Agent Smith with his newly discovered realization of power-over the matrix. That was the difference "this time around" that the Oracle realized, and perhaps triggered unexpectedly by causing him to care about Trinity and wanting to protect her.

He overreacted and went too far. By trying to destroy Smith in the way he did, he instead cloned some of Smith's code and Smith took some of his. That was never supposed to happen in the Oracle's scheme.

Then they became two parts of same force trying to cancel each other out, each gaining an awareness they were not supposed to have, Neo gaining deeper control of the matrix and the machine world, Smith an awareness of the human world and physical existence.

The Oracle can predict the future because she's seen the five previous versions of the Matrix and knows the permutations. But she cannot completely predict the current version of Neo because of how he's changed the rules by taking some of Smith's code. To get her scheme back on track, she has to sacrifice herself to Smith in this permutation, which never happened before.

ps. The Merovingian was not the first Neo (second itiration) he was the ruler of their version of hell, a "fallen angel" from the first/second version of the matrix and Seraph was his "right hand man" an Agent enforcer that left to protect the Oracle from him instead - hence "the prodigal child returns" when he takes Neo to the nightclub.

pps. By the way, isn't the Architect the same guardian that told Neo to "SPEAK" in the realworld? Because the Oracle asked the Architect if he was going to "keep his promise". In his Architect form, he never made a promise to Neo. Only the guardian's physical form made a promise to him. Aha?!
Okay, then that's not a monopoly, it's merely an onerous contract.
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Interesting...but haven't Chrome extensions always been able to communicate with content scripts (and back) through chrome.extension.sendRequest?

If I understand correctly, what you've managed to do is communicate with embedding page's scripts, in a cleaner way than the one suggested by Google.
Indeed. I work on several open source projects. When a user wants a certain feature really bad, can't code it himself and can't wait for my schedule, then they can always pay for my time to implement it. Problem solved.
A camera in the back and some video tools could make for some really awesome desktops. Seeing a virtual Godzilla stomp around the city would be so cool. Bonzi Buddy 2020.
To make it especially realistic, they could offer a physical address to which you could send gifts. As an add-cost feature.
Good plug for launchrock - this should get some visibility, surely.
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Sorry but I side with Facebook, a freely available public graph of millions of users could have been used for re-identification attacks.

Frankly you should never share your friends list publicly.
http://dustin.github.com/2011/02/27/dropbox-queue.html -- works for me. :)
What's wrong with Ubuntu's direction, according to you?

To me, it seems they are fighting really hard to make Linux a user friendly desktop platform. Even if it leaves behind some ways of working that us older Linux users are accustomed to, I think this is a worthy cause.
Google puts its own e-mails into the spam folder :)
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Spoon.net runs any software without installing it (incl. IE6/7) (spoon.net)
Interesting
Another question:
Why does my country have the right to be occupying Libya?
Strange, why is the eff link https? The site only appears to work on http. I can't be the first to click through to the article surely?
The Boost Interval Container Library (ICL) is relatively new; it's new from 1.46.0, which came out on 21st February 2011, hence it's quite likely few people have heard of this before.

Also, the underlying implementation (http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/icl/doc/html/boost...) relies on STL sets and maps, rather than using something more exotic like R-Trees or kd-trees, so this might spark some discussion about alternate implementations and their respective complexities.

I say might because intervals...well, don't really do it for me. Anyone have interesting applications?
> Or c) those who want it don’t have
> enough skill to code it, and those who
> have the skill aren’t interested.

As others have pointed out, this would be more correctly stated as:

Those who want it, but don't have the skill
to code ti, want to demand that someone that
has the skills, spends their leisure time
creating it for free because they don't want
to pay for it.

Aka

If it is really that important to you, and
you don't have the skills to do it, you always
have the option of paying someone that *does*
have the skills to do it for you.

Apparently in most cases it's just more fun to fire up the email client and rant and rave about how it's 'unfair' that the feature isn't being implemented. And in the more interesting examples claim that the developers are 'Nazis' because they won't heed your bid and call.
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Be aware the sarcasm of your post is easy to miss with cursory read.
I am with you on this and with IgnorantGuru on the issue (I don't even care about the lies).

There is no rational explanation that justify why a really major issue, or for that matter even simply an issue most users want, should not be implemented by the core developers for 6 freaking years. If you are too busy to code, you should step down and leave the position; same thing if you think the bug is not one of your personal priority: you are the maintainer and you have taken up a responsibility towards the users. Abandon if you cannot do it.

I had my own little delusion with nautilus developer, of which I talk here ( http://gilest.ro/2011/patches-for-nautilus-move-to-trash-bug... ). Same attitude there: lots of people want the bug fixed, patches exist, won't fix.
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Hah, this is a lot more fun than generating dot files. I should do Twitter mentions again. http://pepijndevos.nl/2010/03/tweet-o-graph
People are going to reddit looking for borderline-underage porn
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Part of the beauty of Linux is that people that don't like the direction of a particular distro can jump ship to another one. Does it really matter why? If enough people are jumping ship, then it's probably time to question your roadmap, but a few people here or there (especially if they are not your target audience) aren't an issue.
AFAIK, Hong Kong is a fairly safe place earthquake wise. The main natural danger there is the typhoons.
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Or Google gets bought by someone who would like Oracle's use of Sun's patents (although imagining Google being bought out is hard at them moment). Would be nice if there was a way of actively public-domaining patents (so you can use them defensively, but no-one can ever use them offensively. Would be a non-issue if prior art was more reliably a defence (or IMHO non-obviousness was more rigorously enforced)).

(edit: Maybe there is already, IANAL. Like what Manfred does in Charles Stross' Accelerando).
Someone convince me what facebook said here was wrong. I don't think robots.txt gives you a license to do whatever you want with web content. If it did wouldn't robots.txt effectively put everything into the public domain?
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A predictable result. I'm surprised though, that the Indian government (or any government for that matter) was able to react so fast.
Are you American? I'm not, but it seems to me unions are important force in american politics.

From time to time, news surface how unions surprisingly stand up and take strong stance on something unrelated to protecting the empoyees. <weasel words>Which makes some suspect corruption</weasel words>. This story seems to validate that.
i emailed you.
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http://burri.to/~joshua/fut.html

i should update this old thing
-10 for piggybacking on the color hype

+100 for a spot on idea.

(and no it's not just dropbox for photos - it should find and deduplicate and centralise them. Plus it should be able to read the libraries of all of the major photo organisation apps - iphoto and all the others)
I didn't use "lofty" with a qualititative judgement about the morality of communism. "lofty" has a Germanic origin, "luft", which means "air". It can be used to describe idealistic but unrealistic endevaours or ideas. One man's idealist is another man's tyrant.

"Capitalism is a lofty idea that is misunderstood both in theory and practice." - what does that even mean? It definitely doesn't say much in my opinion.

Capitalism can be defined in many ways. If you attack capitalism you first have to define which definition of capitalism you mean.

Now, there certainly exists a public discourse about what capitalism is and means. Certain definitions are loudly being trumpeted from the roof tops. As someone with an advertisement background, I can assure you that the form of delivery and the presentation of a message usually clash with its intentended meaning. This is not about conspiracies, it's the modus operandi of people. How often are you truly open and honest in your daily interactions with other people? How often do you lie?

In this regard, a-Joon Chang’s talk would probably have been pretty interesting, because it seems to analyse certain assumptions and notions that inevitably come up when people talk about capitalism, especially in a western context.
I actually built something to generate nice word-sounding nonwords and found hundreds of interesting domains. Maybe i should build a product out of that.
Like the toggleable idea. Since a big part of it is about gestures, a '^' gesture (their logo) can toggle it on, and 'v' for off.
If the users were seriously demanding the feature, then at least someone would have stepped up to code it. It's my understanding that most of the users of Arch Linux are not exactly a technically challenged bunch.

There's also the lack of any chatter on the issue for long periods of time. If this was such a serious issue that so many users wanted, then why only a handful of discussions about it over the past 6 years?

I find it a little disturbing that you've just latched on to the part of the issue that hits home for you (developers ignoring a patch) and are ignoring other stuff (e.g.):

> (I don't even care about the lies).
The other half is keeping up.
I'm simply interested in what his reason is, not trying to question the wiseness of his decision :) I agree that there is nothing wrong with switching to a different distribution if it suits you better.
The Reps need the money. More money means more ad campaigns and better chance to stay in power. The system is to blame I think. Not enough oversight or regulation?
In this case, it seems like the user is more interested in trolling than anything else. He claimed that one of the features was 'easy' to implement and that he would submit a patch, but then never did. Presumably because it was too busy writing a blog post about how the developer was being 'difficult' because they asked him to write a patch for such an 'easy' feature (e.g. "encryption is easy, right? you just take a piece of information and then you encrypt it! Pow! It's done! Easy as pie! What's so hard?").
The author of the article only spent about 5 minutes with the language, not enough time to find out about delimited overloading (http://pa-do.forge.ocamlcore.org/).

Update: Ignore the above, pa_do is from 2008. Nevertheless focusing on a single feature of the language is a good reason to reject the entire thing? Even when it's like that for solid performance reasons -- ie. you want to know what integer type you are using because it greatly affects how fast your program will run.
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It is a Rene Girard line of thinking - worship is closely related to envy. If you think about envy - it is not really unconditional but it can be seen as such.
The fact that you can only browse apps by total popularity or most recently submitted sure makes the market feel like a lottery.
Literally: It's 2am and we're still at it :-)

Figuratively: All I want to do is drink a beer and celebrate the coverage, but there's so much to be done!

(I'm one of the co-founders of Thinkfuse)
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Why would you see behind your TV while watching a movie ?
One thing's for certain: leave that thing on the kitchen while food's being prepared and your iPad will soon smell of chopped onions and garlic.
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I agree with the sentiment. If we only worry about the social, society gets tied up in trivialities. It extends the echo chamber for the same old things.

On the other hand, this is simply what the media is obsessing over. It's easy to understand convenience apps, but not new technology for which the implications on large scale are still pretty unknown.

It's all still happening: Better and smaller chips, commercial spaceflight, more efficient solar energy, interesting developments in DNA sequencing. Real high tech. Just look past the attention whores.
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Beautiful. Something oddly fun about fluid draggable objects. Kept me occupied for a good 10 mins. Maybe useful as an idiot detector as well :P
Do you have a hammer in your hand fuzzythinker?. Cause I think you hit the nail on the head.

Definitely our logo and symbol '^' means to fly and that is what the app gives, power to fly. Invoking it on a friendly scenario for you with that gesture and using it would be really cool right?.

Many good ideas guys. Lots of stuff to consider today.

Excellent!. Lets fly!. Kind regards.
The unions and other special interest groups are just proxies, since directly contributing requires conforming with disclosure laws
I hope my grandchildren get to play DNF.
This looks cool but why would people use this instead of pinch,zoom,click?

I feel the whole point of touch interfaces is to move away from using a mouse. Instead of mobile touchscreen devices replicating desktop gestures, websites will move towards designs more suitable for the new dominant platforms. OnSwipe is a case in point.

The kite metaphor is interesting though. If this multimouse idea doesn't fly (pun?), you could turn it into a kite wars game. Use proximity sensors (it's the in thing) to pick up fights with people near you. Sharing photos with strangers is not for me, but I will pick up a good kite fight challenge any time.

Good luck!
I'd suggest that all people who want to try out rstat.us post something with hash tag #hackernews, such that we can connect there.
> someone must be buying it or it wouldn't exist

That's assuming that no product is ever a failure.
google for "fbnames".
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