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Part of this has to do with the cost of Ubuntu. I'm not talking paying developers to make sure it works on the machine, but the actual cost that Canonical charges for the ability to use the Ubuntu logo and becoming "certified"; It's not a trivial amount of money by any stretch.

Anyone can preinstall Ubuntu on a machine and release it, they just can't say it is Ubuntu specifically or use the logos.

And I don't advocate not paying it or not becoming certified, we are considering it currently but I can say that management has balked a few times when we've brought it up has been due to the amount of money required up front.
just amazing "....But not every boss thinks he needs more time for thinking. 'You can hire McKinsey to do that for you,' says one."
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It's crazy, I've gone rock bottom and offered a one-page redesign for $500 (for a restaurant whose site was just a logo and a link to a PDF of their menu), and it's still like pulling teeth. I understand that they're very cash-conscious (my father owns a restaurant), but they lose way more money than that on those dumb coupon books that mainly attract cheapskate customers who never come back.
Definitely interested! Have sent you an email.
Welcome to China. Soon police will be beating up and imprisoning non-violent political protesters for spreading dissent. Oh, wait.
Same thing happens in Argentina, I tried some times to buy certain games online, but for some weird reason for digital content, the purchased is limited to the US and Mexico. Why does this limitation even exist for digital content?
Those numbers don't represent browser market share.
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It's also interesting that this utterance by Sony has shifted the whole discussion away from their own security failures.

Sony, in blaming Anonymous, has asked theem to prove a negative -- that they did NOT hack PSN. The onus isn't on anonymous to prove a negative. Sony knows they can't. It's just an effective way to shift focus on this issue away from their failure to protect customer data.
Haha that's kind of funny. They go through all the trouble to make a canvas-based html5 game but they won't use the audio tag?
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Yep what I would do is just `ssh -C -N -D <port> <host>` and then tell my browser to use the SOCKS proxy at localhost:<port>.

(BTW, -D create a SOCKS proxy, port fowarding is done using -L :-).)
Sadly, folks, I have received two responses. There's clearly not that many of us stuck in Central Jersey :(
I see no difference, or impact on my life, between this Google/Facebook billionaire's catfight and any Twitter-borne beef between two or more millionaire celebritainers.
Funnily enough, I can get through to the site just fine at work.
Thanks, the article was intended to be more of a "I don't understand why developers don't appear to be as interested as me". I was really just explaining my reasons why I like boardgames, not trying to say that it would work for everyone.

You have helped have answered my question though - since I'm not a full-time developer I usually have the brainspace ready to tackle a boardgame. I could see how you guys would rack your brains all day and prefer to take your mind off things - such as watching a movie etc.
Wherever Mt. Gox is storing people's bitcoins (the exchange's wallet.dat) and their deposits in USD and EUR, as well as wherever trades, deposits, and - especially - withdrawals are processed. Lots of people have large non-bitcoin deposits in the exchange, and if a raid on a small number of locations in Japan can prevent them from withdrawing or result in their money being seized, that's a serious issue for the bitcoin project as a whole.

Edit: Also, it looks like Mutum Sigillum LLC, the company that processes Mt. Gox's deposits and withdrawals through Dwolla, is incorporated in Delaware. I wonder if they process those transactions in the US?
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The best way to use these sites is to find the one developer on there that is actually competent and then make a closed project that speaks directly to that provider. Sure you will pay $25 to $60 per hour, but you will get damn good service and quality. The rest of it is a crap shoot.
At worst, BitCoin at this point is a scam where people who got involved with it early who are sitting on lots of BitCoin need to keep up a level of interest to cash out BitCoin for coin, as the curious poke around with it.

Like any currency without intrinsic value (like paper money) it only has value when people believe it has value.
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Confirmed no access at 06:51 PDT, but was able to get through via a proxy server.

By the way – the web experience is just that the page hangs. There's no 404, or 'server can't connect' or any other warning message. This type block is indicative of someone throttling the connection to the server. Likely Comcast hasn't outright blocked the site, they've just made the pipe so small that no one can get to it.
from HN comment guidelines (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)

"That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3"
can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

Parent comment can be shortened to "".

Please avoid introducing classic flamewar topics unless
you have something genuinely new to say about them.

Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never
does any good, and it makes boring reading.
1Password handles this type of login form without flinching, which suggests LastPass could too.

As others have said, filing a bug with LastPass would seem a better option than trying to persuade the entire web to ditch a popular sign-in method.
If this thing could run Emacs, I might be tempted to get one.
I suspect this is something to do with LastPass. 1Password has not problems with popups as long as the form is on the page (but hidden) it's fine. It works on twitter, not sure about etsy, I don't go there.
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Simple: The higher up the chain you are, the more meetings you attend. It's not unusual for managers to have their entire day filled with meetings.
In that case, don't worry about 100. Get your first user, through your friends who have ties within the agencies. See if your solution works for them, and then go from there.

So ... One customer at a time
At least, I can say I called it, when people were blaming Microsoft as behind it.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2532918
I think it will make the middle class and below broke, but the rich will, as they always do, come out OK. By all measures I've seen over the last few years, the top earners in this country are doing better, by far.
I'm not quite sure how changing the login manager counts as a controversial decision unless you were meaning just the unity issue. The login manager has one main job and really shouldn't be a huge convoluted mess of code (from experience GDM is). I'm excited about this change although I've never heard of lightdm until this story.
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"The law was written way before there was possible to make an exact copy of something while leaving the original intact and way before the cost of such act is so close to zero than even those who have no money to buy original still are able to make the copy."

Piracy is a form of counterfeiting, not stealing.

"and to top all that I also buy a DVD? How about now, is it still the theft?"

Because most people who pirate don't do this.

"My point is: there is a real difference between an illegal copy and a theft, not just some semantics."

Well, it still has destroyed these industries. Over time, with more and more piracy available, people are going to feel that they should be getting this content for free. The market value will go down, and it will become increasingly difficult to make any money at all. With no money in an industry, that industry will most likely die.

The value of most digital goods are in the minds of the people that want to purchase it (similar to currency or a service). When this is devalued because of piracy, I don't know if I would necessarily call it 'theft', but it's still in the same family. The owners are losing money because of your actions. It's worse than theft because it's not like you can just buy another one. It devalues the entire product, forever.

"If I torrent something "getting for free" is never the reason to do that. The reasons are either availability or convenience. If there was a way to buy movies in digital format (I cannot even buy music on iTunes in my country, only apps) I'd spend a lot more money on them. App Store and Mac App store are the good indicator of that."

Right. Just like music? I've heard all these excuses before. 10 years ago, when Napster came out, the people that were justifying piracy came up with all these excuses too: They wanted to be able to "try before buying", cheap music, and to put a stop to "artists getting screwed".

Now, there are services like last.fm and pandora, music is cheap (99c or less is pretty damn cheap for a song), and artists don't need to be on a label to succeed (social networking FTW). Has piracy stopped? No, there are a new set of excuses and piracy is worse than ever.

I don't think it will ever stop. There will always be a new set of excuses to legitimize selfishness.
1Password works perfectly on Etsy too.
Not anymore, they took that off a while ago. Funny thing is for a while the gmail logo still appeared even though when you clicked it to import via gmail it didn't have the option.
I think asking them to say "I am Real" is a waste of time. You could get much more useful information by asking them to do something else that would also show that they read your instructions.

I prefer to ask them to demonstrate their knowledge or skills in some way. Either:

a) researching something very minor that will only take 5-10 minutes

b) including samples of something very specific they did that is relevant to the task you posted

And then if they don't include what you requested, you can delete them because they obviously didn't read it.
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I guess its been established that this is not a DNS issue. But I just wanted to point out that using Speakesy, no matter what DNS I use, speakeasy's own or OpenDNS, I CAN reach TPB.

I'm not entirely sure if this makes a difference. I just wanted to add that information since I had not mentioned it before. This information may or may not be helpful. In case it is, here it is.
To be more precise, what I wanted was a breakdown by (income, race, immigrant status) 3-tuples.

I.e., I'd like to know how much life expectancy has increased for top 25% white males vs bottom 50% white males, same for black males, same for hispanic non-immigrant males, hispanic immigrant males, etc.
This article talks about Italian bosses. It would be interesting to compare bosses across the top 8 (or so) economies across different sectors and business sizes.
Not anymore. It was removed after Facebook wouldn't share data back to Google.
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Presently I don't hold any Bitcoins, but I think that cryptocurrencies are an interesting development, and are quite likely to be the future of money - especially for micropayment transactions. It's entirely possible that Bitcoin may not succeed, or be subjected to various kinds of political nonsense. In general though I think cryptocurrencies are a phenomena which will persist, at least so long as their cryptographic basis remains valid.
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While I don't doubt that CEOs work a lot, I wouldn't trust the accuracy of this study all that much. The CEOs knew their activity was being recorded by their assistants, so it likely affected their behavior.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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I wonder how the second chart would look if all countries were split into four economic groups, not just the US.
Not very shocking if you ask me.
does this still apply with gnome3? it does not seem very close to a windows experience to me.
I found it sneaky that it's not mentioned in the frontpage pitch, I had to look down in the FAQs to find it:

"Unfortunately, to sell subscriptions on PintPay, you will need to be within the United States."
Jorn Barger's "Logarithmic timeline of the universe":

http://www.robotwisdom.com/science/logarithmic.html
Well, nobody ever said Linus Torvalds kept his opinions a closely held secret.
Thanks :) I was one of the guys working on it.
Linux has more security bugs because it's a tangled mess of spaghetti code, large sections of which aren't particularly well maintained.

Seriously, try looking for dangling pointer bugs, there's tons, you can just pluck them from the trees.

Here's a comment I posted a while back that might be of interest: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2301830
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Thank you for putting forth this sentiment in a succinct and direct way. If it can be done while being borderline illegal why in the world would the stakeholders not want to profit from this revenue stream?
And which rule is "Oh, the The Linus Circus is in town again. Good times." violating?
It's a funny statement. I like it. I cannot see any flamewar topic in it...
With details like that, I'm sure you could easily get 130k plus stock options and a signing bonus.
It's inevitable because the producers of the content are stuck to an old model they refuse to give up. About a year ago I abandoned DirecTV. I was paying about US$80/mo for a fairly basic package that included the few stations that I watched. I tried to get it lower, but it turned out the 1000's of stations I didn't want and the few I did want.. always came out to the same monthly fee. I would pay a much smaller fee for those few stations (that contain the shows I really want to watch).

Until then, I'll torrent those TV shows, and use my Netflix subscription to watch movies.

And, I would love to torrent the TV shows from the official TV site. I'd do it even if they included a reasonable amount of commercials. Reasonable is hard to define, but if they became annoying, I'd go back to what I have. If they setup their own tracker, then they'd be able to count the downloaders, which is no different than counting people that have their DVR record a show. Well, it's a little different in that they can't spy on your watching habits like TiVo and the others apparently do.

They could deal a death blow to piracy very swiftly, if they wanted. But they don't. They want the current system, at all costs.
As someone who had posted jobs on oDesk, I have to say that even the low skilled jobs (data entry) are poorly done. I've also posted some higher skilled jobs like basic stuff based on Zend and it too was a disappointment. I've now learned my lesson on higher skilled jobs (design and dev) going after HTML chop shops, 99designs or real designers with websites.

I'm still looking for somewhere for cheap mechanical labor (basic writing gigs, data entry etc). Anyone have any suggestions?
Same here. I'm on Comcast and I use OpenDNS and TPB is not reachable. While I've had my issues with Comcast, I've been more or less happy with them ever since I switched to their business class service (faster speeds and no hard set bandwidth limits for them to complain to me over). If they're blocking TPB, they're blocking other things. I don't want my utility service to block how I use the utility.
Wistia does support HTML5, it's just that the current implementation of tweetperview is not capturing the HTML5 version of the video. The video is currently being loading in an iFrame by tweetperview.

We'll reach out to those guys and see what we can do.
> Why should the music and movie industry be the only industries being allowed to keep the middle men when the value they provide is almost nill.

I think it has been clear (specially to musicians) for a long time that the middle men have been providing negative value all along.
Agreed. The correlation between poverty, increased smoking rates, and longevity probably explains the entire difference.
"In addition, its core discount-fashion business is coming under pressure from the recovery in the luxury business."

Interesting, I hadn't thought of gilt as being counter-cyclical until now, but it definitely makes sense.

I wonder how companies like they and wine.woot will survive once luxury brands aren't hurting so much.
Will they keep these deep discounts around to build buzz, or cut the cord?
The blueprint (how features are proposed for ubuntu) is at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-o-ligh...
To be honest, way back when I got my first mobile data plan, it actually surprised me to get the bill and NOT find a list of all the websites I had been visiting, in the same way that it shows each text message and each phone call w/phone number. I was kind of expecting them to be doing this from the beginning.
There's also Medicaid, which is universal national coverage for all children and most adults near the poverty line.
I would really like to see some of those countries that were compared to split out similarly. Its possible for example (although probably not the case) that in Japan the lowest 25% of income people are even far lower, but the top 75% is much higher.
I think that was a part of Google's problem. There was a schism within top management, including on that topic.
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Don't forget, upper management's often unwarranted high pay is in part to incentivize the broad ranks of hopeful middle management.
I sampled enough of the songs to get about 500 points(20-30 minutes) and they really need to increase the variety of samples. Most of the stuff was older pop hits (50's pop), some country, 1 rock song (Disturbed - Ten thousand fists), and a couple of old rap songs.

I'm used to listening to metal, industrial, hardstyle, house, etc. All my answers are going to be biased towards slow because even though the song may be at 120bpm it still feels slow to someone who normally listens to things closer to the 150-200bpm range.

A better sample to test will produce better results.
Color me perplexed by Facebook's move here. Not only is the blowback from this effort bad PR, but I fail to see what FB stood to gain from this in the first place. Generating a bunch of bad publicity and calling attention to Google's alleged invasions of privacy is just going to bring scrutiny down upon FB eventually -- regardless of whether or not this plot ever came to light.

I mean, did they think it would be a tremendous leap of the imagination for the court of public opinion and/or regulators to ask themselves "Hey, so Google is sketchy on user data...hmm...I wonder what other company might have a boatload of such data?"
It would be interesting to see if this effect held true for other countries too, or if it's prevalent in the US alone.
Awesome. We're using Scala and Akka, and are hiring, by the way. http://blog.getgush.com
How do you know that Comcast isn't just allowing ICMP and blocking TCP?

If they're intentionally blocking TPB traceroute data cannot be trusted.
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Not sure what the big deal is here. Big companies run negative PR campaigns against other companies ALL the time -- running negative PR campaigns is a very common strategy in the large market. But I supposed they usually run try to run them in secret, so it is a bit unfortunate that they got caught.

If anything an article like this makes me lose face for techcrunch, who acts like this kind of PR tactic has never happened before.

If you don't believe me read Toxic Sludge, which is a book about the PR industry.
GEICO is a wholly owned subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, so the ad is appropriate.
I interpreted "what is sacrificed?" as asking which letter of CAP MongoDB was giving up. Coda's article actually explains exactly the tradeoffs MongoDB makes for CP:

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Choosing Consistency Over Availability

If a system chooses to provide Consistency over Availability in the presence of partitions (again, read: failures), it will preserve the guarantees of its atomic reads and writes by refusing to respond to some requests. It may decide to shut down entirely (like the clients of a single-node data store), refuse writes (like Two-Phase Commit), or only respond to reads and writes for pieces of data whose "master" node is inside the partition component (like Membase).

This is perfectly reasonable. There are plenty of things (atomic counters, for one) which are made much easier (or even possible) by strongly consistent systems. They are a perfectly valid type of tool for satisfying a particular set of business requirements.

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You're probably right, but it's not the kind of strategy that is sustainable long term.
My boss sends out desperate emails to the team all day, using goofy platitudes like "we can do this - let's drive our main focus" and "focus and execute", to get us to keep him from losing his job in a top-heavy company with too many managers.
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This is a peeve of mine too, but as long as attention is paid to this problem, jQuery-laden popup login forms can be built that work automatically with password managers.

There a trick to it, though, which is to put the form in a nominally 'visible' state at page load time, even if it happens to be visually obscured by other elements. Autofill will happen at page load, but will only become apparent when you make the popup div visible by bringing it to the front.

Caveat: I need to re-test this with the latest version of LastPass. However, when I built a site using this method a few years ago, it did work across various password managers and different browsers, which didn't happen using the more common method of toggling the display property.

The scope of this problem is more than just LastPass. Etsy's popup fails equally well with Safari's password manager. IIRC, Safari was the pickiest of the browsers about how the login box was hidden, but password autofill did work with it in the end.
Clearly you can't make it equal because some of the people in that group have already died before 65. Of those remaining, almost some have certainly already experience negative health effects that have lowered their life expectancy. One thing to note is that we do have single payer health care for those over 65, so lack of health care over that age is less probable. So likely a lot of the current difference can't be addressed at 65 and over.
I'm in Hungary and it's blocked.
That title makes it sound like the antimatter was on the run, avoiding the law or something.

Seriously though, I've always loved that there is a lot we still don't know about thunderstorms and lightening.
SSH is in active development. It isn't a dead end at all. While Maemo/Meemo will be going the way of the dodo probably.
It also makes you wonder when you are reading this story somewhere if Google has their PR agency running it as a negative PR campaign against Facebook.
Hey, maybe some of you freelance web developers could make a site like Dribbble, but for developers: invite-only, high quality developers, and screenshots/descriptions of completed projects. Maybe client ratings/recommendations too.
my guess is that they hoped to pull themselves up as they pulled google down. they probably feel like they are doing nothing wrong, and that it's unfair that they are criticised more than google. so they want to "level the playing field".

i don't think they thought it through in absolute terms, just as "getting even".

but if you want a pro-fb response, i'd suggest going to quora and asking there (or just searching - there's probably already a discussion). they have a couple of ex-fb people who will provide some "balance" (in particular, look for yishan wong).