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You mean an actual bathroom or a room with a toilet and sink in? If it were the latter I would understand but three rooms with an actual bath? In a three bedroom house? That is absurd.
I had computer science and electrical engineering in my high school, they taught the CS majors c++ and the EE majors do networking (what was then the ccna) and both of us got digital logic. I was an EE who loved both, I'm very very happy I had this available to me. So were most of my friends. It was the first kind of classes where we could be good at it and see a purpose.
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And then there's the strongly subjective nature of happiness. Can you really compare the happiness of a Norwegian and a Texan in any meaningful way?
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That's pretty slick. I've pretty much always stuck to Grails when doing Java web stuff, but Groovelets may get in my bag of tricks some day.
Ah, okay, your experience is different than his, so he's lying. Gotcha.
Well, your ISP is shit.
Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2520371
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Taxi companies are against this kind of competition because of the licenses they had to pay in order to be authorized to take passengers. These start-up companies operate without such a license. I believe the same charge was brought against UberCab.

Taxi licenses are outrageously expensive. A driver in Paris told me his was 190,000 euros, and it can get even higher in touristic towns on the Mediterranean coast: http://www.licence-taxi.fr/prix-licence-de-taxi.php
Great work! This is an app I have been waiting for. I'm looking forward to you covering other plants, flowers and mushrooms.

Another app I am waiting for along the same lines is Shazam for bird song!
Badly for whom?
Thinking since @joehewitt left @facebook he's going to be drinking @milk with @kevinrose soon.
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Are there any examples of inequality fueling social unrest in otherwise free countries? The US is frequenty touted as the least equal free country, but social unrest is pretty absent. The unrest there has been (the LA riots and the fight for civil rights) was fueled by pretty blatant cases of non-financial inequality.

And are walls to keep out the "poor" really a consequence of inequality?
i spent a half hour reading that skype reverse engineering pdf a week ago and just for kicks took a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype_protocol and it doesn't appear to me that the private keys are shared nor that they're generated in an insecure manner... so how would skype be eavesdropping? the article makes the case that skype is evil due to an intentionally weak protocol but doesn't back it up with a technical argument as to what's wrong with it. i'm not defending skype, just confused.
A warning is probably the most potent type of meme. A brief, well-worded warning can travel far, grabbing a lot of attention along the way.

An overly alarmist marketing campaign is considered FUD. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt)
The company I work for tried incorporating Groovy into several of our projects, but we started getting random permgen JVM crashes as a result. I believe this is due to the large number of classes it creates behind the scenes. This left a bad taste in peoples' mouths and unfortunately groovy will now be a hard sell.

Edit: Yes, we increased the permgen size and whatnot, but the outages it caused just left people with an unfavorable view of groovy. Which, as I said, is unfortunate, because I think it's pretty cool.
"Personally I'd be happy to see any markup language becoming the default."

I don't agree with this. All lightweight humane markup languages are not born equal, some are better others, and Mediawiki's is not in the list of the best ones. Now there seem to be a trend towards Markdown, but it should be improved and then, migrating Wikipedia to this Markdown2 could be a real good thing.
They are morons... Funny stuff should always be on front!
We have the rest of the newspaper for the really serious stuff ;)
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This was posted in 2007, worth keeping in mind before jumping to conclusions.
...which the kernel and OS have no need for.

That's the entire point, that there is no usefulness to this outside of very specific applications.
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how did this get upvoted?
i didn't catch what was fancy about them. fancy advertising in your face for the whole ride?
Problem is, that argument doesn't apply to inequality. You can be perfecty dignified on the bottom of a highly inequal society (and most poor americans are), and those that aren't very often have a non-financial reason (such as drugs).
Copyright law prohibits distribution of derived works. The LGPL is a license which gives permission to distribute software if certain conditions are met. In this case the license is from the many authors of Webkit and it permits Apple to distribute a derivative work (the iOS browser). If you think about it that way then "immediately" doesn't really come into play. If Apple provides a copy of the source when asked, they're complying with the license. If they don't they have no license. Technically, they are infringing copyright every time they distribute a copy of iOS.

If someone sues, would a court award damages for the copies distributed or enjoin distribution of iOS until they comply? I doubt anyone knows because AFAIK no case has ever made it that far. Typically (L)GPL disputes are settled long before they make it to court, because the cost of litigation for both sides is high compared to the remedy desired (release of modified source).

I wonder if there's a role for "Copyleft Trolls", i.e. litigators who acquire copyrights to GPL or LGPL source, then sue license violators with the intention of collecting damages rather than just compelling release? US copyright law allows statutory damages of up to $150,000 per work infringed.[1] If each source file is a separate work, there could be a lot of money at stake. In other words, the Righthaven strategy[2] applied to source code instead of newspaper pictures. Perhaps I should apply for a business method patent on that idea.[3]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statutory_damages_for_copyright...
[2] http://www.google.com/search?q=righthaven+site%3Anews.ycombi...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_method_patent
Well, the main message still holds true though: if you need to make sure nobody can eavesdrop your communications, you'd better off with open source software.
Even if the default is to only accept messages from friends, worms certainly spread this way. If you want an example, see one of the MSN worms: they simply send a link, which if clicked it sends the worm through to all of the people in the contact list.
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As long as you understand the code line by line and as an overall entity, otherwise you are no better off. Just because you can read the source doesn't mean you actually can.
Intel sold their XScale line to Marvell in 2006, so they're not actively developing it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XScale
I was looking for something like this for ever.
Any reason you didn't just increase the permgen size on your JVM? It's hardly just a Groovy issue.
That is because you picked an example where an old school HTML table shines and CSS looks complicated. But likewise there are many other things you can do with CSS that are pretty hard or impossible to do without it.

If webpages were always only made of box-like structures, CSS would have never made it. But you will admit that it offers a web designer much more flexibility.

That flexibility comes at a cost though, because some examples (like yours) that were very easy to realize with the very limited layout options pure HTML offered have now become more difficult. But that's because it provides a more general approach that takes care of many problems, not just three-column layout, and must thus be flexible. And flexible is what old timer HTML was not.

I'm not saying that CSS is the best or even a very good solution to the problem. I'm sure there are a lot of different approaches how to address the general problem of dividing content and layout. But it's there now, and it's bearable, I think.

Besides... all of what I wrote has nothing to do with the w3c :-)
It wasn't explained in the video but I got the impression some sort of 'liberalization' of the licensing laws has occurred to make this possible.

I did some Googling and found some discussions about licensing liberalization in France but no specific mentions of how/when it was implemented (if it ever was).

It wouldn't surprise me if it were, though, since here in the UK getting a license isn't particularly tough (added: with some notable exceptions, see reply posts).. so maybe there's some EU harmonization going on in this regard.
If the service is as good as it is for Virgin 50Mb I really would not recommend it to anyone.
Great idea. Looking forward to the inevitable name change to something more...palatable.
> In countries where there is actual competition between ISPs

How do you define competition between ISPs?
You sound like the only person who's dealt with this problem before :-)

I remember the Visual Studio setup team and their stories about the woes of trying to make downloads as small as possible. You're fighting with:

- wanting the file download to be one step

- what version (or sets of versions?) can you upgrade from? Does this include the one-off patches you were mandated to provide to top-tier (guaranteed bug turnaround time) Fortune 100 partners?

- how do you handle corrupted files or munged bits of the installation that were unchanged between versions?

The list goes on. You'd think things like Setup are boring, but trying to make the experience smooth and good requires and incredible amount of amazingly unglamorous work. It's one of those pieces of the product that nobody notices until it is slow/buggy/has picture of people who are way too happy to be using your product flash during installation.
Fancy underpaid drivers and fancy low low fares.
It's about 120-150k€ here in Madrid
It doesn't automatically send back any cookies the client sends, only the ones that have been modified by the application code (eg. via Request.Cookie("name", "new value")).

Making the parser split input lines on both "\r\n" and "\n" is a good idea. Thanks!
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"UK getting a license isn't particularly tough"

What about "The Knowledge" required for London black cab drivers - which apparently takes between two and four years of study and exam attempts to pass:

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/businessandpartners/taxisandprivatehir...

[Edit: I sometimes wish they had something like this in Edinburgh - I've had to tell taxi drivers here where to go a few times and the taxis here are very expensive compared to Glasgow and London].
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I wonder if this has anything to do with that "bug" that gives root access to Macs.
Inspiring website built in HTML5, could you do this in Flash?
With open source, the chances that somebody will catch a security flaw are generally much higher. It's not necessary for each individual user to understand the code as long as some people do.
I'm so tired of articles how bad/evil/insecure Skype is, while not suggesting any usable alternative. Skype, whether you like it or not, has no viable competition, almost 8 years after its initial release. By "usable" I have the following requirements in mind:

* Cross platform: It has to offer clients for Linux, Win, OSX.

* It has to support voice and video.

* Easy to install: Even grandparents in Australia have to bee able to install it. No NAT and other configuration bullshit, just enter a name, a password and ready to go.

Skype has helped connect my all over the world scattered family for more than half a decade now. I am absolutely willing to give up any kind of privacy and security in order to be able to video-phone my family living thousands of miles apart whenever I want at absolutely no cost. No, absolutely no free software system has yet been able to provide the above 3 minimum requirements for me to consider ever leaving skype.

P.S. Thanks for the immediate downvotes.
My point is also to counter the outrage over usage-based pricing. What is so unfair about the idea of ISPs charging per/KB similar to how an electric utility charges per/KWh?

I don't have any problem with usage based pricing. ISPs don't really want that either though. They want to push users to a high priced tier and then hope the users don't use the entire bucket each month.

Look at AT&T cell phone data plans for example. They used to have a $30 plan that was 'unlimited'. This plan really had a soft cap of 5GB, so $6/GB. I find that a very fair price. Then they changed to 2 plans, one for $15/250MB or $25/2GB. I bet they did some analysis and found out that most users use 300-500MB/month so they made the plans to push people into the higher plan with the hopes they would not use the data. If they were really concerned about high usage they would have just moved to a flat $6/GB (or something similar), but then most people would ended up paying $6-$12/month.
If we continue to label everything "Evil" when it is clearly not the word will lose its meaning.
Thanks for informing us. Unfortunately, Firefox extension doesn't work for Firefox <4.0
Not that that guarantees anything, of course...

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TheKenThompsonHack

If you need to _make sure_ nobody can eavesdrop on your communications, you better be ready to design and manufacture all hardware and software you're using yourself.
http://www.google.com/chat/video
I am not the only human being on this planet, you know (And if I were I would not need skype anyway).
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Crashed Copter Sparks Concern About Secrets
Even if you can not read and understand the code you are still better off with the open source. Due to the fact that independent researchers or programmers unaffiliated with developers will be able to audit the code. While with the closed source software, the only information you have about the inner workings of the software is provided by the developing company.
Good point. It's night and day between different areas. It's hard work to become a 'black cab' driver in central London, as you say. But just a few miles away in a different borough of London you can get a license with barely more than a criminal check and some other commonsense precautions (these are often called "minicabs" in London and can't call themselves "taxis" for a number of legal reasons). I used to do a lot of work for several south London cab firms and becoming a driver for them seemed pretty easy - you just had to do a certain amount of "account" work for free and you then got the lion's share of the remaining take. No "medallions" or crazy expenses beyond insurance and car maintenance.
> If you don't agree with the idea that wealth should be distributed according to contribution then please let us know why.

an individuals contribution is largely a matter of their innate dispositions coinciding with their innate aptitudes coinciding with the particular labor demands at the time in which one is alive.

society perpetuates bring people into this world without any guarantee that they will be able to contribute at a certain level. yet you expect that only the individual should carry the burden of that throw of the dice?

i put A LOT of effort into training myself as a software developer and now make a reasonable living from that, but i also simply found myself at a young age with a passion for understanding computers and a reasonable aptitude for the kind of thinking involved.

other kids found themselves with a disposition for sports, or painting, or french literature, etc., but maybe their aptitude doesn't make the cut in those winner-take-all fields.

tragically, other kids simply never find any disposition or aptitude.

they don't deserve to be in that position any more than i deserve to be in mine.

so yes, there ought to be systems for redistributing wealth from those who are lucky enough to find themselves with financially remunerable dispositions and aptitudes. there ought to be guarantees for certain standards of living, and those standards ought to be damn high given that no one asks to be born, no one asks to be afflicted with attachment to being alive.
"Do I know that NSA helped fund eBay’s purchase of Skype? No, I certainly do not."

It then links to an April Fools article (http://www.oreillynet.com/etel/blog/2007/04/skype_revenue_fr...) to help support that there's a link between the NSA and Ebay anyway.

EDIT: Maybe I missed the joke, since the name of the blog is ultra paranoid, but that article was garbage.
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Personally, I don't see this happening soon. 64-bit ARM is in it's infancy (http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4210884/ARM-64-bit-C...), and in the timeframes given >4GB of memory is going to be standard.

Getting a new CPU instruction set going is hard work - the original AMD64 instruction set took 3-4 years to get mainstream Linux support, and without any hardware or software emulators out there to aide development...
I wouldn't be so extreme. It's reasonable to assume that a properly encrypted connection is secure form entry to exit. You would have to use proprietary tools only at the extremities then, which is actually quite feasible nowadays.

anyway: after learning that not even Osama wasn't even encrypting his shit my view on security is slightly different.
No free software. Theres no point in replacing one closed system by another, especially when the first one works much better. Googles system is only accessible through Gmail, is very awkward to use and has the "irrelevant addon" feel. Had Google _ever_ intended to offer widescale Voice&Video, they'd have built video into Gtalk when they had the chance.
Does any one know any p2p open messaging system that could scale up to size of skype?
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You see the same thing in America. NYC and Chicago have taxi "medallions" (which are physical operating licenses affixed to the cars) and these are re-sold on secondary markets for well into the six figures since the supply is so limited.

They are considered legitimate investment vehicles (pardon the pun) with all the typical market phenomena (speculation, etc).

http://www.characterandwealth.com/public/253.cfm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_States#C...
I used to entertain the idea of trying my luck in the finance industry for my next job.

Thanks to this comment, not any more.
I've been building the web app I'm working on completely in Groovy, and running it on Google App Engine. I'm quite happy with my choice to switch over to Groovy from Java. There are 3 main features of Groovy that greatly speed up my productivity as compared to coding with Java.

1. Closures - items.find { it.name == 'groovy' } is much easier than looping.

2. Language support for collections - Maps can be declared like: [key:'value'], and lists can be declared like: [1,2,3].

3. Easier handling of nulls - The "Elvis Operator" can be used to specify defaults like: (item ?: "defaultvalue") and the safe navigation operator will return null rather than throwing a NullPointerException when doing something like this: (item?.address?.street).
The motorbike cabs allow you to arrive somewher at a given time, that's about the only solution.
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Article is from 2007 and most of it turned out to not be true . When Skype is served a subpoena, they can only return account information, they are unable to intercept or log voice or video calls[1] [2].

This is a big deal in China and Russia[3] where they block the service since they have no way of intercepting it (ie. it is secure enough for two very large governments to have no way of dealing with it).

Further proof is that there are no publicly known cases where skype call or chat logs have been submitted as evidence, while you see google, microsoft, ebay, craigslist etc. appear all the time.

Skype is an independent company again - and the reason why eBay bought it back then is revenue ($850M pa last year), not some conspiracy theory

outside of the odd client exploit, skype is safe. I would trust it if I was a dissident in an unfriendly foreign country and needed to communicate securely.

[1] http://www.voiptechchat.com/tech/34/skype-says-no-to-wire-ta...

[2] http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-9962106-38.html - see skype only IM company that does not comply with wiretap requests

[3] http://arstechnica.com/telecom/news/2009/07/russia-not-the-f...
I'm pretty sure minicabs can't pick up passengers on the street, only black cabs can do that. Don't minicabs have to rely on bookings through a central office?
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It's not that hard, I don't think.

E.g.,

All GPL repositories live in this /gpl/ directory; it gets tarballed and gzipped and dumped into the /other/ location immediately prior to creating the build image.

Maybe Apple's got some whacked-out approach to code management brought on by some funky OS Classic approach, but I doubt it, they are smart people over there.
Actually, Google's video/audio calls work in the browser. Not only is the software free, but you already have it.
I dropped 4Gb of RAM and a 128GB OCZ SSD into my 2008 15" Macbook Pro (2.4GHz core 2 duo).

Didn't stop me replacing it with a 13" Macbook Air and not looking back. The MBA has the same RAM, double the SSD capacity (I went large), same pixel count, and weighs about half as much. It also has about 50% greater battery life and feels screamingly faster.

I surmise that enough of the GUI is running on the GPU that the significantly higher core count in the GeForce 320M is responsible for a chunk of the speed-up -- and the MBA's SATA-II bus running at up to 3gbps seems to be just a little nippier than the 2008 MBP with a 1.5gbps SATA-I controller and an older SSD.
I never denied the relationship between them. I just said that this isn't the place to have that discussion.

If you want to have the discussion, submit a blog post about it.
Could you give an example of Compete.com being off by order of magnitude?

Could anyone here claim that Blippy.com is one of such examples?
I'm getting downvoted for expressing my doubts in Blippy, but so far nobody made direct claim that Blippy is not on decline.

I would normally use Quantcast, but traffic to Blippy is so small, that it is almost off Quantcast's radar:

http://www.quantcast.com/blippy.com