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> I believe Britain already has restrictions on knife ownership.

I'm not sure about laws, but I've recently noticed that establishments that do sell knives and razors usually keep them behind the counter, instead of on the shelves. The idea being that you can't just pick a knife up off the shelf and make off with it.

[Knife crime is a serious issue in the UK - The Guardian even has a dedicated section to it! - http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/ukcrime]
My personal favorite here is, without doubt, the analytics chart. Amazingly vacuous visualisation. Doesn't really matter what you think of Tufte's work, but this type of presentation amounts to not much more than wasted space.
When Apple has a mishap (e.g. "antennae gate") it really doesn't hurt anyone in the long run.

When Exxon has a mishap (e.g. the Valdez in 1989 and ensuing punitive damages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exxon_Valdez_oil_spill), where in turn "J.P. Morgan created the first modern credit default swap in 1994, so that Morgan's would not have to hold as much money in reserve (8% of the loan under Basel I) against the risk of Exxon's default."

In a weird way, Exxon triggered the beginning of the madness.

That all being said, Lion's new "natural gestures" could come back to haunt us all in about 10 years.

EDIT: To be fair, Apple didn't have to do anything. Over the past 2 weeks, Exxon has lost around 17%. They've simply passed Apple on the way down.
Looks like node + socket.io for the push updates. Very snappy.
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It's by a German judge and it doesn't go for the Netherlands (tomorrow is the case in the Dutch court). Why would a German judge get to say this for the entire EU I wonder though?
Interesting to see more people looking at this business. I didn't quite get it when Bloomberg Ventures set up "Link"[0] to go after a niche segment of this overall pie, but I guess there is a lot of money being thrown around and room for new players to step in.

[0] http://bloomberglink.com/gatherings.php
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We still have the stealth bombers though, right?
> SFW

Duh, indeed. Edited title, thank. And it is awesome, totally agree :D
People are more likely to buy umbrellas online on days when it's raining.

Though it will certainly rain again, whereas hopefully we won't see that many riots over our lifetimes.
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Not bullshit: Motivation.

Gamification is one way to motivate people. There are others.
> PHP will start to look a lot like Perl.

You had a typo, there.
I'm talking about a beautifull user interface and user experience, that would make your life on Linux more enjoyable, be it using a text editor, browsing your file system, watching a movie or even clicking a button. I'm not talking about applications, nor about what you can run or what you can't run on it, and no, I don't use photoshop, nor play Portal. I have a mac, and I have a Gentoo too. Tried Ubuntu, and fell in love with fedora once. If you are happy with your GTK, I am not. I'm sad for the limited options I have. And don't tell me "build it yourself" this is the way open source works, because I've been there, I tried, and it didn't work so well. Projects like this need financial support. Long financial support. And no, Linux is NOT a desktop. And finally, please, stop being against the idea of a beautiful Linux desktop.
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Grandma does have another option: She could leave the city.
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Yeah, I have a feeling this is going to be worse for Apple than it is for Samsung.

Like you said, Samsung's tablets aren't really selling that well (more were returned last month than sold, I heard), so it's not going to be a significant blow to them, financially.

Now Samsung's failure in the tablet space is going to be big bad Apple's bullying fault, and Samsung will play the role of the martyr. Samsung were failing anyways, but now it's Apple's fault.

The only way Apple wins here is if this prevents other players from imitating them.
No hyperbole here, but Underscore.php might actually convince me to start taking on PHP projects again. I got spoiled by other languages.
Wait, Exxon has a P/E of 8.86 that's rediculusly for such a stable company IMO. Am I missing something obvious or is it a great buy right now?
I would guess that many, if not a majority of the rioters lack a credit card, and quite possibly a registered permanent address for deliveries. These are people on the farthest margins of society, often with very little to lose.
Are rectangular shape, size and weight the only similarities you can find? Check out the side by sides: http://thisismynext.com/2011/04/19/apple-sues-samsung-analys...

I'm sure you could hire a creative team to come up with 100 iterations of tablets and icons (as I'm sure Apple did) that would look nothing like an iPad. In light of those 100 the similarities would look more apparent than ever.
No, an increase in the money supply directly leads to inflation (other things being equal, notably the velocity of money).

It's right there in the terminology: money supply. What happens when the quantity supplied of a good increases? With a constant quantity demanded, the price goes down. So it is here: if the quantity of money supplied increases, the value of that money decreases.

Thus, paying one's debts with inflated currency means that you're giving yourself a discount off the amount you owed. And that creates lower safety/willingness to lend.
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If the looter is alone and there is police squad nearby - there is no need to even beat the looter - catch him and send to prison.

Unfortunately looting mob during mass riots puts store owners into totally different situation. They basically have only two options: run vs fight.

I'm not sure if I personally would choose to fight in that situation, but if business owner chooses fight option, I would support him even if he kills looters during that fight. In part because that would make my neighborhood safer.
Nintendo offers the "Virtual Console" on the Wii and 3DS.

Unless my knowledge is out of date, Nintendo's business model revolves around licensing for publishing software for their hardware, so it's in Nintendo's best interest to sell hardware, and not to support emulation on other hardware.

On a related note, when Sony sued 'Bleem!', it argued that running the software on other hardware destroyed Sony's control over the player's experience, and as a result hurt their brand.
I was in Clapham all morning with the cleanup crowd. There was nothing to do and the police wouldn't let anyone through to the damaged areas, which were full of forensics squads, firemen and surveyors. The last thing they want is the general public trampling over the crime scenes (i.e. the damaged properties,) The council had already cleaned up most of the other debris. I went home at about 13:30.

At some point they probably let the crowd in for the photo op, but all the real work had already been done.
Why are we hearing about this in a public magazine? Shouldn't this be need-to-know information?
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Great comment. Gamification turns work into play. Removes guilt from play. Play is ego gratification or "flow" or a combination.
Easy, Because it's a YC company. and everyone knows Paul Graham farts unicorns.

To get real for a minute. They may be able to make this into a nice money making niche product. There's plenty of open source products that people still pay money for. Just look at OSS content management systems.
If a looter sees that someone has a metal baseball bat and doesn't decided to walk away, then they are responsible for what happens to themselves. Anyone with two braincells to rub together knows that if you go up against somebody with a giant metal club, you might die. Let's be honest here, these are not sniper rifles, in order for someone to be killed by someone wielding a bat defensively they have to opt-in.

What I find more disturbing than anything else here is the prospect of a violent individual too stupid to properly analyze such a situation.
I'm sure there's plenty of people who have referred to OSX as "Windows." Might not be the case so much now that Macs are becoming more popular, but I think my point still stands: calling for either tablet to be banned is just as absurd as calling for either OS to be banned.
Most of the compromises of Bitcoin-related systems have been made with fairly unsophisticated attacks. It's not that there's no way to build a reliable system -- it's just that people are trusting their bitcoins to services that are not tested very thoroughly. This is expected to some extent, but as the value and popularity of btc shot up, the service providers didn't flesh out the important security bits that had been omitted previously. Interested parties proceed to execute script-kiddie level attacks and make off with a nice bounty of btc.

The moral of the story is that you need to be careful about where you place your valuables. Don't trust a service that hasn't been thoroughly tested and audited if you are going to store a large amount of money there.
I agree. Way too many people are calling for the deaths of these looters. If that's society's answer to these events than I find myself forced to defend them.
So their competitors are just

Google docs
PiratePad
collabedit.com
primarypad.com
TypeWith.me
Sync.in
EtherPad Foundation
iEtherPad.com
titanpad.com
etherpad.tugraz.at
etherpad.mozilla.org:9000
sketchpad.cc
okfnpad.org
pad.telecomix.org
twiddla.com
...

Now the real question that I'd love to be be answered is - why would anybody fund this?
From the install docs for etherpad-lite on Github, step one:

As root:

Okay, two words and we've just lost 98% of the computer users in the world.

Install all dependencies. We need the sqlite develob libraries, gzip, git, curl, wget, libssl develop libraries and python:

... and now we've lost most of the remaining 2%.

"SUPER easy" for you, "SUPER easy" for me, but the other 99.98% of the potential customers would also love to use the product.
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Never underestimate the British ability to pisstake anything, especially themselves :)
In 2010, Apple bought $5.7B of components from Samsung. The 2011 estimate is $7.8B. I doubt Samsung would stop selling components to Apple, but are there other manufacturers that could delivery compatible parts for Apple's iOS devices if Samsung did?
They're actually swapping places back and forth, since the market hasn't closed yet (as of 2:54 EST).
Creating novelty accounts is a practice best left at the door here. This isn't reddit.
I have no way to check it, but I think that they just delayed delivery of this product on purpose because of the riots.
Two reasons to care:

1) This is a YC company after a couple months. They'll continue to refine the product; imagine if Facebook had gotten set in stone back in 2007, released code, and didn't themselves continue to develop. I love F/OSS for some things, but this isn't the kind of software which usually gets developed well entirely by the OSS community -- it's design/UI/UX heavy.

Even if it were just a 100% clone today (which it isn't, it's better and worse in different ways), I'm excited what it will be in 6mo.

2) Social community and network effects are a whole lot more likely for this than for an embedded app. Again, standalone Facebook is way less interesting than facebook.com.
> rule of law loses its grip for a moment.

Really? You're a non-violent, non-rioting good person because of the law? I think you meant "civility loses its grip for a moment."
This doesn’t seem to be about the software at all, only the look of the enclosure. (Also: You are linking to an article about phones.)
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Stable, non-growth companies typically have much lower P/Es. There's absolutely no chance that Exxon will double in revenue in the next couple of years; that's entirely possible for Apple.
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Exxon's income is highly dependent on the price of oil. See their historical numbers:
http://www.google.com/finance?q=NYSE:XOM&fstype=ii

With oil at lower prices ($80/barrel now), their net income can significantly fall.
Etherpad's well suited for editing human-speak documents, but not a good fit for collaborative code editing. This is more in the vein of SubEthaEdit on the web, in vim, and in other editors (I presume).

This is going to be a friggin' boon for phone interviews.
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where is the vim plugin?
What makes you think she has that option?
Pretty sure that if you want to trade BTC on an exchange, there's no other way but to deposit your currency in their wallet. Otherwise, how can the exchange ensure your counterparty that they'll get your money if your bids are matched? Same with real money exchanges, you have to deposit your money into their account before you can trade.
Wow, you ain't kidding.

http://bitcoincharts.com/charts/

There was a three-day spike above thirty dollars in early June and it's been sliding slowly ever since (with a recent small panic in line with the stockmarket). Currently slightly under ten bucks.
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Or, as Carl Sagan often suggested, intelligent life is likely to destroy itself, perhaps if a civilization's technological progress outpaces its ethical capacity.
What are your favorite Paul Graham essays?
Only if you think the entire design space has been explored. Sure, there's only so many ways you can package the same commodity components, but I don't think it's impossible to design a tablet that's distinguishable from an iPad from more than a few feet away (or in advertising). Compare an HP TouchPad or Nook Color to the Galaxy Tab models.
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Do you have any evidence that would suggest that?
Well, they are supposed to be immigrants or descendants of 1st generation immigrants so your comment may not apply.
The hardware quirks, by and large (ignore things like the behavior of undocumented/unintentional instructions on the CPU -- these are a separate issue and easy to deal with), are due to the impedance mismatch you have of emulating hardware on software. When you're emulating old hardware on an FPGA, you don't worry about synchronization, you just have the cycle timing be a multiple of the original timing. This gives you "synchronization" in the same way the old hardware did -- these components are all running in parallel and pushing/pulling data at specific times, which happens implicitly in hardware.

FPGAs make this a complete non-issue. Of course, FPGAs bring in a whole host of issues when you want to make such a thing practical. One thing I've been considering for a long time is a super high-level HDL specifically for emulation like this, which can either be run on the CPU (slowly), synthesized for FPGAs, or burned into an ASIC. You could have a whole catalog of components and put them together just like building a real console.
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This site is already, effectively, /r/technology combined with /r/politics.

I like this comment.
The US government already requires that ISPs retain logs of leased IP addresses for at least ninety days. As lnhh indicates, there is a bill making its way through Congress now that extends this to something like 18 months iirc.
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Looks like it'll end the day still having more cap than XOM.

I don't know if it will stick but this is phenomenal for what is, essentially, the quintessential silicon valley startup.
I lost my Chromebook in an accident some 6 weeks ago. When I got around to replacing it I got an Android tablet instead. I hate to say it, because I respect all the work that went into the Chromebook, but the tablet is sooo much better.
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The assumption is that if Samsung's design heuristic with the iPhone competitor (as linked to) was to copy, then I see no reason why their heuristic would be different on the tablet.

As it is, my point regarding the level of similarity between the Tab and iPad still holds--it's not simply a matter of shape, size, and weight; even if it were, where does the assumption come from that Apple's form factor for the iPad was obvious?
If I operated a fleet of stealth fighters, this is what I'd tell people too.

"Nope, that blip can't be a stealth fighter, they're all grounded."
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Related, but only vaguely, here's a chart of the connections between PG's essays:

http://www.solipsys.co.uk/new/PaulGrahamEssays.html?HN0
Why would this cause indention level to get bad? Couldn't you simply chain these conditions in a single if statement?
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Thanks for the link to Etherpad Lite - looks like a good project. That said, I set up Etherpad a long while ago for family and a few invited friends and installing it was fairly trivial. BTW, very roughly similar, but: Wave in a Box is also an easy install and I like the slightly simpler interface (compared to Wave itself).
right, so let's all praise it and talk about it in a few months when it's a good product :)
As a recent Reddit convert who would like to follow the rules, why?
Pish, the only people who love cricket more than the Brits are the people in the ex-colonies. It's huge in the Caribbean and South Asia.
Aren't we considering Amazon goofed up their arithmetic? There are a lot of things which are selling way more as per their numbers.
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Having built quite some ecommerce and online ventures as webdeveloper I can say one thing for sure: it takes a lot more then an OpenSource webshop-application or a bunch of PHP scripts to run a multimillion commerce.

It takes time above all. Time to get legal issues sorted out. To have the administration and legislation sorted out properly. To have your insurances set up. To have proper help and support in place. And to have your entire venture -including the software- thourougly benchmarked and security-tested.

The BTC-economy is very young. Most of the ventures you see there now, never set up a proper and professional venture; one that can deal with multimillion of dollars. They are of the order of a few quickly hacked up scripts. Perfect for selling a few socks per week. But not for value-storage worth millions.

We must be patient: the ventures who have stuff properly in place will appear, but later; after they have everything in place and secured to really run such ventures.
This is the premise of HLE, or high-level emulation. You emulate the CPU (if it doesn't match the current one), and then implement all the APIs it hits. It's more like WINE than BSNES.

The one place where you may end up emulating something with precise timing is the audio processor; the Gamecube and Wii for instance used a custom DSP that had to be emulated fairly precisely, after the instruction set was revere-engineered.
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Incentives are not the whole of gamificattion (although I do think they're bullshit in most non-gaming contexts).
IANAD, but I believe there are many factors that go into it. The exact nature of the hit and the elasticity of whatever is doing the hitting are likely rather important (I cannot imagine there is a difference here between a wooden bat and a metal bat though). I've seen numerous people get knocked out in boxing matches, but never seen one get killed (though it does happen). The presence of medical personnel can only help of course.
Isn't this the equivalent of calling the FBI on someone raiding the guild bank?

It's not real currency, in the government-backed sense. The FBI might go after someone for the hacking, but I fail to see how they could prosecute anyone for theft.
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50,000% increase on a riot baton with no name but five stars? It's a broken link. I think Amazon is acting on this.
what will it mean to the world if religion was "proven" to be man-made

A successful and complete theory of the origin of life wouldn't do that. Not every religion claims seriously that God directly created life. To my knowledge, it's really only a serious problem for people who live in the Religion:Christian/Protestant/Evangelical/Fundamentalist folder, which is really not a big fraction of the people on the drive.

For example, I am Evangelical, and I wouldn't be bothered by either the success or failure of a scientific theory of the origin of life. Miracles are a part of my worldview, as are machines. I know that God created life, but whether he used a miracle or a machine, I don't know. I have seen him use one or the other at different times, so I would consider either an acceptable explanation. Now, I'm kind of interested as to what happened, but it doesn't affect my doctrine much either way.
I do agree with you that all of Apple's partners that you have mentioned have continually backstabbed them but I wonder exactly how far Apple can go legally. It seems they could potentially go after anyone with this decision. I'm all for protecting IP but there were tablets before the iPad.
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I found this post from last night insightful: http://pennyred.blogspot.com/2011/08/panic-on-streets-of-lon...
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I don't want to speak for him, but I'll give my opinion of why:

Reddit tends to be overrun with memes and jokes, and HN has always been more about lively discussion and facts. Reddit used to be like that a couple of years ago.
I believe Nintendo intends to profit via software licensing and hardware sales. The Wii was profitable at launch[1].

But I wonder how the Virtual Console works on the Wii. Does Nintendo have an SNES hardware-to-software conversion guide? Do their VC releases turn out perfect? I've bought a few, and while they're certainly faithful, I'm not enough of a connoisseur to spot the flaws.

[1] http://www.next-gen.biz/news/fils-aime-wii-hardware-profitab...
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They are not necessarily storing the password in plaintext. However, they are:

1. Storing it in a recoverable format, instead of a format that only allows verification.

2. Emailing them in plain text.

Both of which are bad.
This is why the NES had the insanely long life it did. Every game was able to provide custom hardware (called 'mappers') to offload computation. I've said for a while now that the next generation of consoles will go one of two routes: completely downloadable titles, or PCI-e-based cartridges. I'm inclined to think the latter, despite the evidence to the contrary. It's just such a huge benefit, and they love shipping physical items. This would also largely eliminate piracy.