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I don't think Stallman cares about convincing -- his role is to be an uncompromising extremist, which he does quite well.

In any movement, you need people to set the goalpost so far away that others can seem reasonable by comparison. They serve a purpose to the movement, but they themselves risk being ostracized and marginalized.

On the facts, I think he's wrong about Jobs -- Apple has done a lot to make it possible for free alternatives of some important software to exist. What they are doing to make the web (HTML5) a reasonable alternative to Flash is almost enough. In fact, closing iOS to Flash is the main reason that it's happening.
I missed that part on my first read. Rereading it makes me think that ethnicity would be used along with age, gender, height, and weight to find a baseline for the 'indicative' factors like heart rate. I agree that once any genetic factors are used as indicative factors we have crossed a dangerous line. I sincerely hope that this phrase in the article was simply worded poorly.
quick link to Chris Lattner's response: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2011-October/0437...
The real problem is that it presupposes thought-crime. The DHS document in the sidebar says FAST will "identify individuals with malintent ... *Malintent: the state of mind of individuals intending to cause harm ..."

Whether it's really scientific, I doubt we'll ever find out. But people will be more likely to believe it's scientific because it comes out of a box that uses 'algorithms'.

Another problem is one that Schneier writes about: profiling leaves vulnerabilities that can be probed, discovered, and exploited. In the case of trying to sense malicious intent, it could be sending someone who doesn't know they're an attacker. Or someone who doesn't exhibit the outward signs that are being profiled.
Steve Wozniak was the real tech wizard, but Steve Jobs was the visionary. Job's ability to empathize with users is beyond belief. He knew what people wanted before they even knew what they wanted. Bill Gates also had a strikingly similar vision. He famously said that "We have to figure out what a person needs that he doesn't know he needs. Then we make him realize that he does need it and we're the only ones who could give him the answer." Maybe he was copying Steve Jobs, wouldn't be the first time.
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I was replying to "no Steve = no web", which seem a good sample of irrational exaggeration I'd rather not see on hn, even on his death.
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AllThingsD has official word:

In an updated statement, the companies confirmed they were making the move out of respect for Jobs.

“We believe this is not the right time to announce a new product as the world expresses tribute to Steve Jobs’s passing,” the companies said.

http://allthingsd.com/20111007/samsung-google-cancel-launch-...
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Take D as the karma factor. Isn't it the doing factor(D)? Doing is spreading goodness, getting more conscious and ultimately awakening. Simple - Karma is accumulated Points from your past births + Present life deeds also plays its part.

So D is the karma you've got inside from all your births(Birth1 + Birth2 + ... + Birth7).
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I will compile an installer version later. Keep an eye on the github page for updates.
I think that comes from the desire to find out if it's even worth exploring the project on a given hardware/software setup.

It may be a throwback, but it's still a good idea.
I dunno why after a person's death everyone has to talk only of their good sides. It's a social convention but it's kinda dumb.
He did a lot of good stuff, and also quite a bit of bad stuff. That's ok by me.

Google and Samsung did not comment by saying this is to pay respect to S.Jobs, because they wouldn't know what the reaction would be. Now that the reaction is positive, they might comment on it that way.

Otherwise, people would know and start saying "it's in fact because the news would be overshadowed by S.Jobs death, and it would also taint our product launch. It's an extraordinary event, Lets launch later".

There's nothing respectful in not launching a product, a week later.
There has been many cool marks of respects instead, all over the worlda and the web, which mean a LOT more and make a LOT more sense than a product launch delay.

I know, unpopular opinions gotta be downvoted, and criticism bashed. Heh. That's pretty much against what S.Jobs believed in, ironically.
I'm sure this is going to be a very unpopular stance, because it's been unpopular almost every time I've asked it:

Why do artists assume that every instance of something that doesn't involve the typical exchange of work for money is somehow harming their industry? The most vocal of these people are those 'No-Spec' who thinks sites like 99designs are invariably killing everything they stand for. It reeks of that same mentality and resistance to new revenue models that's turning so many people off to the music and movie industries.

Passion for the rhyme can be cheapened by feedback, and I think that's exactly what's happening with these 'artists'. They're looking at what other people are doing, seeing that it doesn't line up with how they think the industry should work, and then pull these statements out of their arses that it's killing their livelihood.
If they re-schedule and launch soon, I'll think it was respect. If they don't have anything for people to buy for Christmas, I'll think the product simply wasn't ready. Business is business.
Unfortunately, when you are right but don't communicate it well, people will tend to discard your truth.
Stallman has never been able to convince people. In fact I've argued his cause is worse off because of him. For as good of a programmer he may be, he seems just as bad at human interaction.

I consider this another fitting tribute. To be despised by Stallman in this way is something to be proud of -- IMO, it means you probably did something right.
Fair distinction. Half-Life 2 SDK open sources a decent amount of code. Take a look at his source code, a lot of it is a re-implementation of Valve's map and model data structures in Javascript with similar naming convention. Hence why I called it a "minimal port" or "ported just enough components" to load a map.
Thank you for doing this - we need more stuff out there like that.

I've had a quick scan through the code and it's very well written, thoughtful c# code. It's also nice to see something that uses MEF.

Great work!

Please can you clarify the license though
No, I don’t think Stallman furthers his goals in any way.
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Ideology should never compromise basic decency. I should hope. It seems people in this comment chain are assuming they are mutually exclusive: they are not.
So could a space elevator in theory be self-powering from the cable?

I mean there is going to be 36,000km of it.
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I wonder if this guy thinks there is ANY software that is worthy of being purchased or is it all tainted in some way? Has he ever purchased a can of soda, a movie ticket, a laptop computer, etc.? How does he even subsist in our corporate consumerist society without compromising his highly developed sense of right and wrong? I don't know but gathering from his hateful disposition it must not be easy.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he has a cellular automata that can write blog posts given an input of a subject "Steve Jobs" and happens to churn out shameless self promotion as a result.
I dont know if this off topic but is there an utlity that can parse C files and print all the function names or local variable names for example.

I know it can be done through sed,but a perfect regex for parsing functions and nothing else can be complex and I am wondering if someone has already done it.
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The real problem is that it presupposes thought-crime.

The problem with that is that it's hysterical bullshit, and implies that people will be prosecuted for thoughts. This is a tool for helping to target effort in the screening process.

To be fair, the article itself was guilty of being nonsense first. Mentioning 'ethnicity' as an input to the system was the give-away. Even if true, this would never be admitted by whoever was developing the system in question. When I read that, the red flag went up, and I assumed the entire article was untrustworthy. But then, I wasn't on the lookout for sensational stuff to get worked up about.
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> This isn't "racial profiling".

The CNET article says it's a system that [DHS] hopes will use factors such as ethnicity, gender, breathing, and heart rate. In the CBS News article linked from there, essentially the same claim is made.

There's no actual evidence in either article that ethnicity will be used.

One of the documents on the EPIC site (fastinstallation.pdf) says "The system is gender-, culture- and age-neutral".

I've skimmed through all the documents linked from there and can't find anything that admits to using ethnicity or gender. (There is one paragraph that says that a FAST trial will collect ethnicity and gender information "to understand whether the technology performs differently with different demographic groups", which is a different thing entirely.)

If the system is ever deployed, I wouldn't be desperately surprised if it turns out to use ethnicity as evidence of malintent. But it does look as if Declan McCullagh may be making a dramatic claim for which he lacks evidence.
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What about this pre-existing view?

http://news.ycombinator.com/best
Why should people be stifled just because somebody died? What exactly are we concerned about? Steve Jobs becoming disgruntled, rising from his grave, and sucking the blood of virgins during the night?

This "dead people are off limits" thing is a relic from the superstitious dark ages. If we can praise the actions of dead people, we can criticize them too.
Mostly because freedom is not really accessible for most people, in matter of computing.

You can have freedom to install what you want, the way you want... only a minority ultimately knows how to. The rest is left without a clue in front of their supposed freedom.

When the iPad is presented to people, of course it's no "revolution" to most of us. But for the regular person, it's an easy way to access something which they could have had difficulties to access, before. At this point, choice matters less than the actual possibility to use something, even if this thing is framed and safely guarded, for most.
Yes, but the article appears to be making this claim without any actual evidence. (See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084699 for slightly more details.)
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This comment says more about how Marco sees technology than anything else. I can understand complaints about the page buttons, the cheap cable, and no power adapter.

But tasteful pictures of classic authors? You're telling me that a creepy-looking picture of Emily Dickinson is a large improvement over an AT&T ad? Look at these screen savers and tell me any of them is worth paying an extra $50:

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I agree with the sentiment: ads can be disgusting. I just don't understand how someone could complain when ads mean savings get passed on. Ads make the Kindle more affordable and take us a step closer to a future where everyone can afford technology. That's a trade-off I'm willing to make.
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The economics of bone marrow are different, because finding the match is the hard part. The strange thing is that they often charge the person _registering_ their bone marrow: http://marrow.org/Join/FAQs_about_Joining.aspx#cost This is just insane - how many people would donate blood if they were expected to pay or were hit up for cash donations? (And why does it cost $100 when 23 and Me's DNA analysis is $99? (Is bone marrow typing a DNA test, or something else?))

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I personally don't think Stallman is entirely right, but I think he articulates his ideas quite clearly. Anyone who doesn't listen to him because he has a beard or whatever clearly doesn't care about the truth in the first place.

That's not to say that it's not worth convincing people who don't care about the truth, but rather that you need different kinds of people willing to play different kinds of roles in order to create social change. Just because Stallman isn't going to be the guy who convinces the masses doesn't mean that what he's doing (in general) isn't vital to the movement.
Or just give the attacker Xanax and they'll be cool as as cucumber.
The article literally states that the prototype screening facility will use ethnicity as an indicator

Personally, I'm going to need more evidence than "an article on the Internet makes an outrageous claim, therefore the outrageous claim is true".
Several of these features are already available in current Windows versions (perhaps less discoverable, but there nonetheless):

- "Add to favorites" is an option in the right click menu on Favorites in the left panel, works the same way as the new one on the ribbon shown in the article
- "Run each window in a new process" has been around since at least XP
- "Open command window here" is in the shift-right click menu already

On the other hand, several of the new features do look nice; (re)adding the Up button is good, and "Copy path" sounds very handy.
I gave a presentation about this a few years ago. It's pretty UK centric.

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Exactly. It is important to note that while RMS does hold himself to his own high standards, he's been on the record numerous times that he doesn't actually expect people to do as he does. He recognizes full well that pragmatism is a factor.
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I just spent two years driving from Alaska to Argentina, with no GPS and very basic paper maps. I don't think these tips are useful at all to someone constantly on the move in new places. I'm typically excellent with directions and only got "completely lost" a dozen times or so. (For some reason, Bolivia had me convinced North was South...)
Those six methods assume a lot that doesn't work everywhere.

1. Tons of places have no satellite dishes.

2. Good idea, but you need to find a town to find a church...

3. Surely you need to be a local to know about weather patterns.

4. Assuming people have jobs, are going to work, and there is some kind of mass transit that stops at some kind of known location regularly.

5. You have to already know if you're North or South of the city..

6. What? again, you would have to know which way is North/South before you look at the clouds.
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How do i send you a crash report? - Sorry im rather average when it comes to iOS

I tried the new update, its definitely a little more stable but it's still bombing out on me :(
I'm not surprised by the ghosting problems as I've read about this on Nook related forums as well. Maybe both companies should consider allowing people to alter how often the unit refreshes (although I believe this can be altered on the Nook STR if the unit has been rooted).
Thanks. Not very easy to use, since I'd typically like to just use it on occassion. But at least I know it's there now.
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I think this is just a case of ESL, not fraud.

The second sentence reads: "The official launch comes after nearly one year telecom minister Kapil Sibal flaunted a prototype of the device."

Also: "he device will bridge the gap between the rural India and the ongoing technology boom in the country."

My guess is "in front of us" should be "coming soon", "almost here" or "on the horizon".
VirtualBox running on a Windows 7 host with a Linux guest works great and improves each major release.

That being said, I've had severe issues with networking on older releases. Often the interface would work on the guest right after install, but would then completely fail the next time the VM was powered on.

It seems that has largely been fixed though.
I feel the presentation and line breaking has a lot more to do with that than the point size.
Wow dkokelley, did you read the article?

In it, the statement is made that the technology will use factors such as ethnicity and gender to determine who was thinking about committing a crime.

I wonder if tech like this will encourage more self-segregation? People, particularly blacks, will discover over time that they will encounter less legal trouble if they behave in a certain fashion. That includes staying away from places where 'people like you' would not be expected.

EDIT: OK ... I see your comment below now dkokelley.
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It's not written; it is just how these voting-based sites (HN, Reddit, Stack Overflow) work.

You appear to be familiar with this: `On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.'

If a particular story meets that, upvote. If it does not, and is severely against it, flag it and move on.

As for getting flooded with Steve posts a couple days ago: we are humans here too, and many of the people here would say that they lost a hero of this crowd. A lot of people needed a bit of time of mourning; that's okay once in a while.
These are nice looking features. I don't always use a graphical file manager, but when I do...

...but seriously, the thing I'm the most struck by is how ugly this thing is. I guess MS blew all the design money on Metro.
I think the real question is: why is putting ads on our reading devices worth $50 to advertisers? We can be proud and say that such ads have no effect on our behavior, but statistics say otherwise.

Certainly I see a lifestyle difference between friends who watch TV and those who don't, and I spend and desire much less now that I only occasionally watch movies on Netflix.

So it's a Catch-22: you can save money on this purchase, but only by ultimately spending more on things you will later be convinced that you need.
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I don't understand why, at least on the non-ad banner versions, why Amazon doesn't allow people to load their own images for use as screensavers. B&N allows this with the Nook and I think that it's pretty cool.
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What was the benefit of such an arrangement? My email server is already "in the cloud" so to speak. As it's a downloaded app, what value was added from a man in the middle, as it were?
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To explain:

D took C++ and improved upon it.

Go went back to C and said, "what if C++ had never existed".
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I don't think redefining established terms like doing stuff in order to suit your argument is going to get you much karma here on HN.
Well not entirely true, that other post is actually about a experimental gmail plugin that I made. It hooked up in gmail and added something that we call the people centric inbox, never released tho
Only kooks consider it a "jail." Millions of mainstream users disagree.
This is a good intention, but unfortunately the way copyright law works, having the license be ill-defined means that nobody can really use it and be assured that they're above-board, particularly in something like an Apache or GNU open source project, or in a company environment.

Unfortunately, there's not really a good, widely used license that does what you want, mostly because you run into problems pretty quickly based on derivative works with what you want. Let's say somebody merges your email client with a browser - can they call that by a different name? Can they sell that?

Anyhow, I'd suggest looking at looking at the Apache or BSD licenses (if you want the broadest use) or the GPL (if you want to ensure that modifications to the code must be distributed with any binaries made from the code). Licenses are a bit of a pain, but you can just pick one of the common ones and it'll really help adoption.
This is kind of disappointing. I broke the screen on my Kindle 3 the other day, but wasn't too worried because I was planning on getting either this Kindle or the Touch anyways. I was thinking of buying the $79 Kindle today, since I didn't want to stop reading on the go for a month (I really don't like LCD screens) while waiting for the Touch to come out, but now I'm definitely rethinking it, especially due to the ghosting - sounds like it would get very annoying.
Yeah, there are quite a few options that seem like they should be native, but I had to hack the device to get. Custom screen savers is one. Another is force left-justify on everything.
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I don't know why people have to adopt the "anti-cultural" attitude to show their 'coolness'. You can be 'cool' without bashing a guy who just passed away; just do something cool on your own.

I'm no Apple fanboi, but there's a time and place for some things. This is not the time or place to be criticizing Jobs or those who grieve at the loss. I can see why people are sad; and that's fine with me. I may not agree with a lot of what SJ did, but this is not the time to bring out his failings. If you have nothing positive to say, just keep quiet; you aren't adding to the discourse by peeing in the punch.
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