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Please, no politics.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

You can go to reddit to talk about that stuff if you want.
I'm thinking of getting a cheap printer/scanner combo: HP Deskjet 2010 and running the whole process in Linux. Are there any downsides to such a setup when comparing to more featureful scanners such as ScanSnap S1300 or the Doxie?
>> > presumably the US govt is better off making the sale
>>This is a remarkably large assumption.
>Not at all. If follows from the prerequisites for that case. If you don't agree with those prerequisites, you choose the other case.

The good of the people, the government, and the politicians/cronies brokering the deal are all unrelated. Almost always the insiders profit, often the government (this party, not that - or this system, not that) does, but only rarely does this percolate down to the people.

>> So now you've defended Exxon from being the charge of thievery.
> Since they're not guilty of thievery (in this case), why are you offended by them being defended from the charge?

They are guilty though. If I buy a TV from someone's home-care nurse, knowing the nurse doesn't have their patient's consent to sell it, I'd be a thief. Legally and more importantly, ethically.

If (the hypothetical) Exxon knew this $300M value was far below an honest evaluation or that the sale was achieved by kickbacks they'd know the public didn't actually consent, and thus they couldn't legitimately take ownership. But hypothetically they did, and it's theft.

> We're assuming that govt officials have the relevant authority. If they exercise it poorly ....

What a dumb idea that is. What precedent have you ever seen for that?

Seriously, a vote isn't a sign-off on anything a government does, it's a last-ditch effort to keep things from going really badly. Nobody I know has ever given consent to be governed, including abdicating their right to chose a better political system first. I know people who have changed their citizenship and who theoretically have agreed to the rules of their new country, but only because there were no other ways to have some say in the government that was already taxing them and claiming to act in their name.

Assuming anything, let alone something as monumental as a mandate to rule, from such minor and infrequent actions, is ridiculous.

Remember, if you buy a stolen TV it's not yours, and if you knew or should have known that it's stolen, you're a thief too. It's not just common sense, it's the law.
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Been there done that. I spent over a year to create something that was supposed to be better than facebook. It took that long, because whenever I believed i had an idea that topped facebook- they went ahead and bought out another startup that offered the exact feature you were going to offer on your site. So you think of something new, and pretty soon, your site becomes as bloated as what facebook is now.

Like many posters, Facebook isn't "technologically revolutionary" - it simply went along with the flow and had the right people at the right time.

The reason why my social networking site failed was because users don't find another reason to jump ship from facebook to yours. All your close friends would definitely go and invite people, but there's a limit to how far people go to collect users for you before it's considered spam.

The top response I got was " Oh another social networking site?"
Microsoft's translator api -http://www.microsofttranslator.com/dev/
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Thanks for the sass inline tip..dont know why i didnt think of that
I have never, but have actually made profits before from affiliate marketing using Google AdWords. I've never been inspired to click on any paid advertisements, but IMO, it definitely does work considering how many people obviously click on those ads.
Unfortunately this is another case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, and incidentally not really solving the problem.

Firstly there are various kinds of cookies. There are ones that are stored on your hard-disk, and others which exist only in memory (for the life of the browser instance.)

There are ones used for marketing and tracking purposes, and others (notably session cookies) that allow the server to track the "state" - thus allowing for "web apps" as much as web-pages.

So their idea is to just "ban cookies". Or, as they have done, get all sites to have a "allow cookies" switch. Don't turn that on? well then you can't use any part of the site.
And if you do turn it on, it's "all or nothing" - I can't allow say _just_ the session cookie, while banning the tracking cookies?

As to the possibility of enforcing this? Let's not even go there...
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But why? "[tick] I accept cookies from this site... what is a cookie?" a user may ask.
There is no 'EU law'

Pedantically, The EU has 'Regulations' that become law immediatly in all member states. (cf. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_(European_Union) ). However EU Directives (which this 'cookie law' is), are much more common.
With adsense they can still sell ads even if they do not have 'you'.

... only guessing of course. have no idea if gmail makes more with ads than the whole of adsense.
I had an email idea before- don't know if this might help.

It was to create a tagging system where you would tag the emails you find important with words of your own choosing. For example, if you get a lot of dinner invites, and you need to find a specific one- it helps tagging that email as Mary, Japanese festival, banana to show results that filter out those keywords
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Mike did say on the list that he was considering at some point adding the ability to natively mix assembler code into Lua, that might give you an opportunity!
What you are saying makes no sense. Why do you need more than one dimension for time coordinates to express time dilation? How is time an outcome of gravity?!?
Now Google Translate could pass information to their search quality team so that they can recognise this stolen content. Might be computationally/resource expensive, though.
I just tried the SCSS trick but the generated CSS was:

background: lime url(asset_path "rails.png") no-repeat fixed center;
So it's like we humans have made up time and it's acting as a mental block to truly understanding what's really going on.
Time as a man-made metaphor gives a meaning to our world in a way analogous to religion?

The above thoughts are purely my real-time ramblings, I am clueless but interested :)
Nothing ever stops moving. Ever. To do so would violate the uncertainty principle. So we'll always have time.
also -- the DSL trick doesnt seem to work on heroku (?)..ive had to force 0.8.7 there
And while we don't use github internally, people can and do submit issues and pull requests there:

https://github.com/rabbitmq

(N.B. we need contributors to sign a contributor agreement.)

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I've seen a show about him. He is famous even in Australia. Is there any pressure on prisoners to volunteer into the chain gang?
The graph is disjoint. I remember when I was in school and teachers were asking me what I wanted to do in college, and I had known not one single professional individual ever, other than teachers, with a teacher/pupil ratio of 33/1. How was I supposed to know?

The problem with being poor is that everybody else you know is poor and also doesn't have an iota how to get out of it.
unlocked phones != unlocked bootloader.

"unlocked phones" mean that you are not restricted to using one service provider and you can just change your SIM cards to subscribe to a new service.

But this still does not mean that you can change the operating system of your phone hardware.

This is the bootloader. Unlocking the bootloader gives you to freedom to flash community developed Android variants.

HTC's commitment is to unlocking the bootloader - not the service provider SIM unlock (though you might be able to do so - however they are NOT the same thing)
I really want to know what there jurisdiction and who this effecting.

Does this apply to all EU traffic?

OR does this only apply to websites hosted within the EU?

OR does only apply to EU companies?

Plus how on earth do they plan to enforce this?
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I think that says it all. Clueless.
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If anyone else is bugged by the lack of control on your referrer headers, star this http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=84177

For the address bar, i had no luck finding a bug. anyone?
Fitting, since spacetime is the most widely misunderstood concept of physics. n-dimensional vectorspaces is really something most people don't get.
I'm so not looking forward to seeing jsessionid in my urls again.
Ah, yeah I forgot, that syntax is used for SassScript. I guess erb is the way to go then.
Your first link is full of fail.

You [a hypothetical poor person] don't have a car to get to a supermarket...

70% of the poor own a car, 25% own two cars.

When you are poor, you don't have the luxury of throwing a load into the washing machine...

64% of the poor do have that luxury.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf

It only gets worse from that point on. The poor can't get free supermarket discount cards?
There's no reason to have a URL bar on the top of the screen all the time, just to enter a url manually.

A "Enter URL" menu item would Work just fine.
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They can be 'upset' all they want it doesn't necessarily mean the case won't be thrown out, remember this is merely paypal's side of things.
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“I want to deliver a warning this afternoon: When the American people find out how their government has secretly interpreted the Patriot Act, they will be stunned and they will be angry,” Mr. Wyden said.

Another member of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Mark Udall, Democrat of Colorado, backed Mr. Wyden’s account, saying, “Americans would be alarmed if they knew how this law is being carried out.”

That's two senators who are on the select committee, so they really know the nuts and bolts of whats going on, basically shouting from the roof tops. And they're even the same party as the executive branch that's using it. And they aren't even allowed to tell us what the problem is.

Something seriously bad is going on.
I think they are saying that they don't need to crack the encryption due to the encrypted data containing patterns that still matched phonemes. It's basically a failure in the encryption for skype that the stream is not mixed up enough to avoid fixed patterns. Makes you wonder how long they have been decoding skype messages for intelligence reasons.
small correction:

"the delay between e10^100 and e10^200 precisely equals that between e10^50 and e10^150"

Between e10^200 and e10^100 there are about 10^200 events, but between e10^50 and e10^150 there are only 10^150. However, I understand what you mean and it is bizarre.
That could be one solution, however there are some problems that spring to mind like deploying to different architectures (common if you're using EC2) - I guess this fits your point about your CI env resembling prod.
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FWIW, on Firefox I use the refcontrol addon, and I've not experienced any problems yet. If the referer domain is different to the domain of the request, it modifies the referer to be the root of the site being requested.
I don't get what's so hard about the concept of "strictly necessary". If you take the cookie away and the site ceases to function such that the user cannot complete tasks they are there to do, then the cookie is strictly necessary. If the site continues to function, even if your business analytics are somewhat impaired, it's not strictly necessary and you need to gain the user's consent to set it.
There was at least a time when Coca-Cola was in a sharp downward spiral - this led to the creation of "New Coke":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke#Background
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here is my comment on the google code blogpost http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-cleaning-for-s...

i recommend posting your disappointment there, too - as google obviously does not care about developers anymore (and so does also not care about hacker news discussions)
If you block cookies on that website you don't see the message.

If you don't click 'accept cookies' or 'continue' but simply browse the site, you've apparently accepted some cookies.
I don't really know Microsoft's C compiler well enough to answer why your specific example fails so spectacularly, but I can make a guess: You are using inline assembly containing a computed jump instruction. In this situation the compiler no longer has a complete view of the control flow graph of your function, and it is likely that all optimizations which need a control flow graph will be disabled. Common subexpression elimination needs a CFG since it determines if two computations are the same for all paths in the program.

Now I'm reasonably certain that the C standard does not allow inline assembly like this. However, given the decades of legacy software that Microsoft has to contend with I would not be too surprised if this was part of the reason.

By the way, GCC's computed gotos are not actually much better. In this case you get a control flow graph where you cannot split all critical edges. There is a workaround for this, but it's probably easier to just disable all optimizations that depend on it.
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I think the person is trying to point out it is you need to be a good programmer to write good assembly, and the a assumption that you will always have a good programmer can be broken sometimes. An algorithm may be an algorithm, but sometimes an inexperienced programmer could easily make it slower.
Well, just for the record, I bought a heavily subsidized Galaxy S sim-unlocked with a 2 year contract (the cost was something like $30). Gave it to my wife, then bought myself a SG II. And I'm happily paying for my contract btw.

The carrier I'm talking about is a smaller one from Europe. It's unthinkable to ask this of Vodafone or Orange (the 2 big ones) since their heads are really up their buts. And the unlocking prices they charge are freakin` insane! It's not as if carriers can't do this, they just don't want to.

I really don't understand what's their problem. If I'm terminating my contract I have to pay the phone's subsidized price for the months remaining, their only loss is me as their customer, so WTF is the deal with sim-locked phones? I hate it when companies, instead of pleasing customers, are innovating in better lock-in methods.

But yes, I was talking about bootloader-unlock in my previous message. Really, Nexus S is the best Android sold right now, unfortunately it was only available from Vodafone and I'll never make a contract with Vodafone again.
This is exactly why we are currently cutting back on bloated Government departments in the UK. I can see this being repealed in 12 months, it's a ridiculous, unenforceable law.
Late night, thanks for the correction.
Oh, Xen and other baremetal hypervisors are actually very closely related to exokernels. I work with Xen for a living.
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"unless the cookie is strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user"

Isn't this open to some interpretation? Seems like a pretty wide loop hole. Seems that this will allow a site to set/read it's own cookies no problem. Third-party ad-networks and trackers though, yeah, they would not fall within this definition I think. And isn't that a good thing?
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Sounds handy, but much did the wife cost?
Makes one think that we are moving from a world of corporations to a world where only people matter, and everyone works as a contractor directly with a VC.
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So we get all up in arms about the likes of Google knowing what we buy, and Apple knowing where we are but this information is already collected and I'm not convinced that it's always thought through. To pick two random examples from the hundreds that come to mind:

why aren't senators demanding the cell companies be explicit about what happens to data (who have the exact same information as iphones have for everyone on their servers already)

How do we know that Google doesn't already buy this information from Visa or from loyalty card schemes?

Personally I am less worried about google having this information because they explicitly use it to advertise at me. All the other organisations collecting my information - and lets be clear I use a cell phone and pay for things with cards so there is very little I do that is not known by someone somewhere - I am not at all clear where it goes.

If politicians and activists are demanding action - it should not be against any single company it should be that all companies have clear privacy/data usage policies and a lot of transparency (and no the idiots at the EU: I don't want to click lots of stupid dialog boxes saying that I understand - I'll opt out totally if I don't like it. But I would like to make an informed choice)
A pretty clever attack. I wonder what the Skype people will do about it. (It seems like any algorithm that has e.g. a variable transmission rate will be relatively easy to attack.)
In their privacy policy they list the cookie that 'Is essential for their site to function'

"Essential site cookie|ASP.NET_SessionId|This cookie is essential for the online notification form to operate and is set upon your arrival to the ICO site. This cookie is deleted when you close your browser."

They also say that they've left it there because: "as we’re unable to remove it from one part of the site without affecting another"

So apparently incompetence is an excuse for leaving cookies in place. Problem solved!
I think you two actually agree, the grandparent is saying he is tired of seeing that for many morally questionable practices happening in the world, there is sadly similar conduct sometimes happening in the US and he would rather this wasn't the case.
We value polite conversation here.
Ok, I see what you mean.
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I think the pentadactyl[1]/vimperator[2] ui is nice; I can see the URL of the page I'm currently browsing, but it claims minimal screen real-estate.

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All I can say is give Micorsoft a try: http://www.microsofttranslator.com/dev/
People seem to be misinterpreting the article, so here's a technical explanation:

- Skype's encryption algorithm is not, itself, broken;

- Skype uses a "prediction" algorithm to compress voice streams;

- therefore, words have a specific pattern of bandwidth use (toy example: "techcrunch" spikes around the "-crunch", since you'd expect "-nology");

- bandwidth use of encrypted compressed data is equal to bandwidth use of data that has only been compressed;

- these patterns (which can be detected "through" the encryption) allow fairly good reconstruction of the voice stream.

If you like this kind of thing, Google "ssh keystroke timing attacks", or, more generally, "traffic analysis".
It's called traffic analysis

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Traffic_analy...
I doubt they'll drop Sense. Many people like it (as you can see by looking at the demand for custom ROMs with it).
My old analogy:

Start with a barter society. Suppose one apple is worth two oranges, and one orange is worth three lemons. Then one apple is worth six lemons. So, say that one lemon is worth one penny. Then one orange is worth three pennies, and one apple is worth six pennies. So, we now have prices for everything.

So, what is one penny? It's a 'common ratio'.

My analogy is the same for time: One tuning fork vibrates at 100 Hz, another at 200 Hz, and another at 600 Hz. So, call one time 'tick' the time of one period of the 600 Hz tuning fork. Then the one period of the 200 Hz tuning fork is three ticks, and, of the 100 Hz tuning fork, six ticks. So, one 'tick' of 'time' is a common ratio.

Seems okay to me.
Perhaps it's time to upgrade my HTC Hero (rooted, of course)
These favored clients are huge customers like funds. They pay the brokerage millions of dollars just in transaction fees every year.

In this context, an undervalued IPO every once in a while is more like a perk to a valued customer -- it's the equivalent of the bouquet of flowers or bottle of wine a company might send to a regular Joe.
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Is that why they ask for more money for "cyber warfare"? So they can use it to start cyberwars with other countries? I thought the point was to protect Americans against attacks, not cause them themselves.
A great idea especially if they try to attack one market at a time.

They should mandate a very small (but popular) set of hardware that will be supported so if you want to use it that's it and then it reduces their support issues (they could even sell pre-installed boxes). Possibly create some drivers for Virtualbox drivers to allow people to dabble with it prior to building their own compatible hardware.

I'd like to see them include much needed secondary features in Intel optimized C with a roadmap for them to be reimplemented in ASM as time permits.

If they could develop/get a static web server with the speed of Nginx (or better) I'm sure this thing would explode in popularity; I'm sure CDN's etc. would see the benefits.
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Ditto ditto!