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Could Firefox change their default search engine to Bing? Without losing users and causing a huge flame war?

I doubt it.

Google should stop paying just to see that flamewar, would be fun.

'Losing' firefox wouldn't be a massive blow, people who use firefox know how to change the default search engine. All that will happen is that they'll be a massive amount of hate directed at firefox for trying to force bing down their throat.

I expect Google to keep paying so they can pretend there's some sort of competition in the search market though. 'But we had to pay for firefox's search box!'.
Any time you have a massive government subsidy to an industry, people will eventually line up to scam it.

In this case, it's a shame because there are a lot of innocent bystanders who get scammed. In addition to the taxpayer footing the bill by providing lower cost loans, people graduate the schools with worthless degrees.

I am a big fan of charter schools, and in theory support for-profit colleges, but I wish I had more data points on where they succeed. Perhaps there will be a collegiate disruption similar to Khan Academy.
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"On the one hand, the article can be depressing - each fallout is a dream that died. On the other hand, one of the things that makes the Valley succeed is it's capacity to celebrate failure. A mistake? What did you learn? Now move on!"

The way I think about it is this: in order for the successes to occur, there have to be failures. In a lottery, it is the unsuccessful tickets that fund the winner.

I'm not saying that running a business has as much to do with chance as a lottery (although there is certainly a strong element of chance) but the way I see it is that I'm taking part in an exercise and just because I don't end up the "winner" doesn't make my part less important to the exercise as a whole.

I think this can be re-applied to one's whole life: you start to feel less a sense of individualism and victimisation and more like "shit just happens, let's have some fun in the meantime".
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No, but the OP specifically mentioned twitter.

More generally I think we should wait until the government comes out with a formal proposal rather than getting all hung up on a soundbite.
From http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/aug/11/uk-riots-day-f...

...Godwin and his team came very close to issuing the order for firearms teams to use plastic bullets.

At that point the Met's officers were "stretched to an extent never seen before," deputy assistant commissioner Steven Kavanagh said. "We did absolutely consider it through the night," Kavanagh said. "But these were very fast moving mobile groups and by the time we got baton rounds there this groups would have moved away."
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The best evidence for the reasons I've seen, as gleaned from the rioters themselves, is "fuck the rich" and "fuck the police" respectively.
I think ericb's exactly right. That wording - "In this particular project, we are studying how choice and context affect the quality of online interactions" - sounds like a psych study. If this isn't a psych study, why add that in there? Just to get funding?
I love the variable coloring. Been using Kate for one C project (inside the KDevelop) and had no problems with it.
site about "dead" Flickr is dead :-)
"Mental health treatment is very expensive and is not covered by the government."

For people suffering from actual mental health problems I don't see why they can't get treatment from the NHS like everyone else - ability to pay not being a factor.

However, if by "mental health" you mean the feeling that people "deserve" new trainers/DVD player/etc. without doing anything to earn them I don't see why that is anything to do with the government.
If you resubmit and your first submission worked, it will tell you (and let you proceed).

I was surprised by the repeated page, too, but I just thought it was my mobile browser. Guess not.
Just one more thing to take away from photoshoppers. If you're a visual designer, I'd start learning to code.
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So Google owns Firefox pretty much. That's a bad situation for Mozilla.
"sufficient wealth to have children"

Since when does (relative) lack of wealth in the UK stop people having kids?
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Hmm, according to that, it sounds like cubes should work better if the employee is facing outward. Computer on the open side of the cube with the screen facing into the cube, rather than computer on the far side of the cube.

Is this common anywhere?
Yeah, that's what I thought, too. That is the one thing which would make me get off my armchair.
I got taken to a page saying:

"Thank you for requesting a copy of "Version Control by Example".

"Before your request can be processed, you will need to verify your email address. You will be receiving an email from us shortly with instructions to verify your request."
The computer that keeps getting better...
Probably the most underrated text editor. It pains me to no end that KDE and its applications don't get the attention they rightly deserve.
The beauty of this discussion is not just "How to create memorable but hard to break password?" but "How much deep insight can a 4-6 frame cartoon contain?"

The signal to noise ratio of xkcd is fantastic! They've again zipped a great discussion in just a few frames.
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WHATWG is a sock puppet for the browser vendors. So saying 'the browser vendors ought to support something only if WHATWG approves it' would effectively be to say that 'the browser vendors should support something only if the browser vendors collectively want to support it'. That's obviously an argument one could make, but it would be better if one started by dropping the fiction that WHATWG is some sort of neutral party or independent source of legitimacy.

In fairness, the argument you actually made is 'the browser vendors ought to support something only if WHATWG or W3C approves it', which expands to 'the browser vendors should support something only if the browser vendors collectively want to support it, or if W3C approves it'. But that leads to obvious questions. Why is W3C approval critical for technologies of which the browser vendors collectively disapprove, but of distinctly secondary importance for the technologies they collectively like? And when was the last time the browser vendors shown much sign of meekly accepting W3C-approved technologies of which they disapprove? It seems very much as if the WHATWG HTML coup was not only about adopting features which the browser vendors wanted but which W3C was slow to standardise, but also about stymieing features which the W3C approved of but which the brower vendors don't like (like RDFa, namespaces, and HTML modularisation). So setting the W3C up as an alternative gatekeeper here seems almost as cheeky as advancing the WHATWG.
Well, I hope you learned your lesson.
yes, on august 6th i sent a DMCA takedown notice, based on one of many templates I found online. I wasn't sure how long it should take, but it seems like 1-3 days is what people consider reasonable.

I also found a number of article suggesting that Amazon has ignored DMCA notices in the past, which is what caused me to escalate it.
Thanks, I'll try snail mail. However, I did send a DMCA takedown notice to copyright@amazon.com (the address they have registered for such complaints).
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I believe that Bateman was the most difficult task of playing a much more rude and crude Reynold, but doing very well. In fact, while Bateman plays very arrogant and offensive,
I think the article actually makes the opposite point, i.e. that Google needs Firefox more than Mozilla needs Google.
Actually, "Sold by: Amazon Digital Services" only means that it's a digital file delivered via the Kindle ditribution platform. For example, our book http://www.amazon.com/Programmare-Python-Italian-ebook/dp/B0... lists ThinkCode.TV as the publisher but it's still sold by Amazon Digital Services. This is true regardless of whether the book is self-published or not (e.g., http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B004IYIUN8/).

What's happening here is that someone took the freely available book and published it via Amazon KDP (Kindle Direct Publishing, http://kdp.amazon.com/). Violations like this happen all the time and Amazon hates them. Simply contact them with a DMCA notice and they'll remove it right away.

It used to be common for people to publish no longer copyrighted classics and other freely available content through KDP. Nothing illegal about it, but people were so eager to make a quick buck for no work that it quickly got out of hand. The Kindle Store was inundated with such content, so Amazon had to become much more selective about it.

PRO Tip: Always include a message in your free ebooks (unless you allow commercial use) that if the digital copy of the book was sold, and not obtained for free, the reader should ask immediately for a refund and let you know about the violators. Most scammers are too lazy to go into the book and change it.
For gaming this is a big thing. One thing that limits cool 3D Games on the Web is the lack of good engine technology that can be used without plugins. Unity 3D has shown in cooperation with google that they could run without a plugin through NaCl.

I'm really looking forward to this possibility, making the Chrome Webstore as a sales platform even more interesting in the long run.
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They had me at the heart but then the infinity blew my mind.

For the record it works in what's now the "old" Firefox 3.6 (Firefox 6 final is out in 4 days)

Everything made of triangles works in IE8 (ie. star and pentagon work).

Unfortunately IE6 does not support background:transparent but if you know what solid background color you do want, you can fake it.

If I remember correctly there is also a way to fake the transparency in IE6 with a chromakey and filter. You basically make the parts you want transparent a crazy color like bright pink and then have the filter make that color transparent. Almost not worth the effort anymore though.
exactly. And after blocking it all down, the rioters will be all like "huh, what now? Oh well, we better not start a riot then".
Yes, instead of being connected to somebody who doesn't want to talk you'll be connected with somebody who does.
I wish we knew more details on which "clean tech" firms were going under... sounds buzzwordy.
Great outcomes for those patients, but it has to go >3 patients, and survival >5 years before people get worked up. This is a difficult disease and people will get hyped up quickly.
Maybe it's just because I'm not a photographer, but I'm surprised that something like photo sharing can generate this much passion.
Anybody know a way to hook windows/cygwin into the terminal on the windows version of kate?

It's highly unlikely but doesn't hurt to ask. :)
Perhaps take this under advisement ...

You might want to consider creating a blog post outlining carefully the situation, the steps you've taken, and the responses you've had. Be careful to state only what you have concrete evidence for, and/or mark very clearly bits that are supposition or deductions.

Mark things clearly with the date and time - make your records of the progress (or otherwise) public. After a few days, start to publicize the page.

Be visible.

When the whole episode is over you will have a documented story of your interaction with Amazon - this could be priceless to those that follow.
Look up agent provocateurs where both sides can be innocent but played against each other.
This one is quite tricky. Google shares Webkit with Apple, so they sure can ram new stuff through that way. Together they control the majority of the mobile market.

The Amazon Kindle reader was a nice example of that, working on Chrome and Safari, but not Firefox, due to competing web-database standards being implemented.

H.264 vs WebM is another one. Google made a lot of noise about dropping H.264 for WebM, Firefox actually did so (because they had no choice, anyway), but Chrome still ships with H.264 support.

So I don't have the impression there are real fronts as far as promoting web standards are concerned. For better or worse.
I submitted twice using different browsers and both times the form came back empty except for the address. No sign of any error or missing fields. The PDF will be then.
Rather ironic that at least one of the looters actually came from a rather wealthy family:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/08/11/london-r...
What's so weird about it? I walk into stores all the time with 2 pistols open carry on my side. I've also had an open carry assault rifle in some shops. Big whoop. He has no mag in it, and odds are he has no round chambered.

My how people flip out about guns. Wonder why no one has taken a picture of me in a mac store yet...
I'm from Tottenham. It's not much better. But it was never an excuse.
Can you go into more detail about how js on front and back helped? What percent of your codebase is actually shared? What type of functions are they? Many people claim that it's a big win while others call shenanigans but I haven't heard empirical data from anyone.
Only n00bs use if statements. :-p
Both Flickr and Facebook had awesome interfaces when they first became popular. They just didn’t change enough or went in the wrong direction afterwards.
Thanks...I'm glad the company named is cleared up.

I did send a takedown notice on the 6th and haven't heard anything back.

Re the pro-tip..I did stick the license at the top..but, ya, that isn't very clear. In The Little MongoDB Book, I very clearly state that "You should not have paid for this book"
You could host Mono once at a single URL and then include it. It will be cached by the browser just like any other resource.

Unlike javascript libraries, there will be more of an incentive to use a single CDN/hosting point, since the package is likely to be a bit larger
See also ...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2874651

... where some of the many submissions on this are documented.
I should have pointed out that on the 6th of august I sent a DMCA takedown notice to copyright@amazon.com (the address they have registered for such complaints) and haven't heard anything since.
Interesting that they put the referrer url at the top of the page for some reason. And they don't allow you to view the source of the page, <C-u> goes and redirects you to the article again. Why?
Thank you for mentioning 500px. I didn't know of it, just checked it out, it has some incredible photos.
Think of Chrome as just another OS platform target - in the same way iOS, Windows and OS X are.

there will be many more chrome-powered devices in the near future, it is already ~15% of the desktop
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So it this a question of:

Learning new tools and understanding their idiosyncrasies vs. building new functionality on top of existing tools?

Where learning new tools is more interesting, so it wins? :P
Was that surprising ?
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It's the NonCommercial part that they are breaking. You can sell Creative Commons stuff on Amazon's KDP if it allows commerical reuse (obviously you'll have to turn off the DRM option)
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Yes, please do that. It would be read by everyone else who has encountered this problem and help them resolve it too. I can spread it around eBook and writing sites.
If a system does not work for the population it is intended for, who
is to blame? The population, or the system?

It does not matter. In any case, to make it work, you need to change
either the system or the population. I am quite sure that changing
the population is not realistic at all.

Note that this leaves aside the concrete issue, in which I believe
that the blame rests mostly on the system, which failed to understand
the motivation of people. It does not matter, though (see above).
It's a pity the syntax is so horrendous. After working on native mobile apps with real path support this is not appealing at all.
Ask HN: Google Plus One bug?
If you are not logged in Google, and press a +1 button, you are asked to log in.
If you are logged with the wrong Google account, you get a 404 page, instead of saying that the service is not available for your account.

Have any of you seen this too?
No, paying for text links that are not labeled as ads is black hat alright.
Quote astonished to see that this works in IE9 (apart from parallelogram).
It reminds me a little of trading baseball cards. The cards were mostly worthless. But "Tops" published a book that basically defined what the cars were worth, and speculation was done based on what Tops might publish in the next edition. The market eventually collapsed. The same thing might happen with software patents, when people realize that there is no inherent value to owning a patent.
I was trying to figure out how to navigate to the rest of the article, but then I realized that it's just those three paragraphs. I wish the author had developed this a bit more.
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One comment I read on Twitter:

Without Twitter I would've walked straight into a street
that was currently experiencing mugging and violence.

The clean-ups were also organized overnight via Twitter.

Communication can be used for good and evil.
A good question that I was going to address, although I am a long time Emacs user so my experiences are different. A similar question on a much simpler key mapping task is what do you do about cut/copy/paste?

I found that if I had learned the key bindings when I learned to touch type, they were easily translated to another keyboard. Once I disconnected where my fingers were going with what action I was trying to perform, it didn't matter if the keys were in "logical" spots on the keyboard layout-wise.

That being said, vi style keybindings probably don't transfer very well from a comfortability or convenience standpoint. I know that navigation in elm and Gmail is always awkward for me on the Dvorak keyboard.

The Dvorak keyboard can also totally confuse some FPS type games that rely on W, A, S, D for movement.
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Firefox is bleeding market share as it is. Pulling people's favorite search engine out from under them is only going to goose the uptake of Chrome.

Hopefully Google and Mozilla both appreciate they have more to gain by cooperating.
I can agree with a lot of what this guy says, but note his bias: he is an attempted troll who lost and now has a serious case of sour grapes.

Specifically, check the "Odom v. Microsoft" case he cites in this article - the author of this piece is Gary Odom. He attempted to enforce his crappy patent as an NPE against Microsoft for their "ribbon" UI. He tried to drive a very narrow distinction through the court and lost on KSR obviousness.

I guarantee that if he had won, he would be singing a different tune - and acquiring more patents to enforce.
absolutely, we are working on a Unity browsergame and Native Client is a big thing for us as well.
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/flickr.com

I think it's just you.

Stupid sensationalist headline.
thomashawk.com/2011/08/flickr-is-dead.html
Connection timed out

Must have been hosted by flickr then.
> Has anyone actually had problems with RVM overriding 'cd'?

I did, in two different ways. The first time, cd was returning the wrong exit status. (That is, it had become a function and was returning the exit status of its last command, rather than the exit status of the actual cd call. A common gotcha when you override shell built-ins or other commands.) The incorrect exit status caused a number of shell scripts completely unrelated to rvm to break. That made it harder to debug, obviously. The second time I had trouble, TAB autocompletion with cd was broken. At one point, rvm was doing its own autocompletion for cd, although the last time I looked, it no longer does that by default. (Yeah, just checked - that code path is still opt-in by setting rvm_cd_complete_flag=1.)

Having said that, both times when I went into #rvm on Freenode to talk to Wayne about it, he could not have been more helpful.

Having said that, I still wish that as a design decision, rvm didn't override cd.
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Because it's audio oriented. Many of the phreakers in the 70s were blind. Some could whistle the phone codes without boxing. They had massive phone parties.
I have a password file here with several hundred passwords just like that (actually, they're all 12 chars with upper/lower case, digits, and "special chars", as chosen and stored by 1Password...)

Joe Public is unlikely to use passwords like that, but I'm 100% sure I'm not the only hackernews reader who does.
I disagree. For certain tasks, certain types of music, ideally albums I have heard many times before, help me to relax and stay focussed. For others, I cannot concentrate with music.

I find it quite a disadvantage in my current office that when I need to do something detailed in a rigorous way I do not get to wear headphones.
NaCl is supposed to work on ARM chips, too. I think you need like just a line of code to enable it for ARM machines.

Google I/O 2011: Beyond JavaScript: Programming the Web with Native Client:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgbK0ztUkDM
Great book, read it awhile ago. As you've probably figured out, there's been a lot of articles written about content publisher spam and content harvesting...

Seems like Amazon needs to get their systems together to deal with this stuff quicker, much like YouTube.com.
So, Native Client allows you to run out-of-process, sandboxed, _native_ code in Chrome.

Does that mean that the server needs to serve precompiled executables to visitors with different operating systems?
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