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Supermanning It – Cutting the fat from your Life
Governments consist of the same people like you and me. Your imaginary "modern country based on libertarian principles" would consist of the same people and it will look the same (if not worst) after short time. Problem isn't government. Problem is "we, the people".

(my old country was the leader in implementing "modern country based on best principles known to the humanity at the time". The main mistake people do when look back is blaming the principles, saying that these principles were bad and these are different and better. Nope. After all, the best principles of yesterday - communism and fascism - looked very different (with each claiming to be the best), yet both produced the same result, and today we do understand how much they were the same. The best principles of today (libertarianism according to you, Sharia Islam according to several hundred millions of some other people, ...) will be superseded by the best principles of tomorrow. It isn't the principles that kill millions of other peoples and make lives of other people nightmare. It is other people who do it. It isn't modern country that we need, it is the modern people. For example, people who just wouldn't compile the big database, wouldn't run the analysis and wouldn't issue the order to act upon the result of analysis. It is just that simple and just that hard. )
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I'm not sure how unique Apple is in supply chain human rights issues, but I will say that it's appalling how little anyone seems to care about who we are literally killing to have nice things. I'm just as hypocritical and evil as everyone else, too, so please save your ad hominem responses.
the wrong shade of yellow in the second “O” that this story mentions
https://plus.google.com/u/2/107117483540235115863/posts/gcSS...
* There are more reasons to hate it from a designer's/artist's point of view, but that's the core of it.*

I can somewhat understand the 'harder for skilled designers' argument (though I heavily disagree with it), can you relate what some of the others are?

I'm just wanting to understand I suppose what can best be described as the vitriol of why someone conducting their business in a competitive/cost effective (for the client) manner should mean the demonizing of an industry that allows a company to pick what they want, considering they're paying for it to represent their brand.
You have small hands. :)
I somehow suspect that they aren't reading RMS's blog right now...
It seems pretty trivial to me just to string the cabling into a lockbox with the computer inside to prevent people from screwing around with your ports.

That said, i'm not in charge of physical security of anything. I'm sure the guys with missile launching computers figure anybody that can get to the secure terminal is trustworthy.
Sed has -i, too! Well, at least GNU sed.
No modern UAV has hardware capable of running an entire Windows installation. Think of arduino boards; those things can control huge robotics systems and they are very simple (and thus simple to debug). If you're designing a robot from the ground-up, why would you scale all the way to Windows? No one is going to be playing minesweeper inside the plane
$79 in the US. £89 (~$140) in the UK. That's far a far bigger markup than can be explained by import tax / VAT. Anyone know why we have to pay almost double?
I wish that the bio at the end, which promotes the author's Steve Jobs monologue ("scheduled to open at the Public Theater on Tuesday") hadn't been added. It lessens the power of some of the points he brings up, and makes his argument seem more like an advertisement.

In addition, the safety, health, and compensation of workers at suppliers' factories in Asia could have been explored more. The fact that workers' rights in China and elsewhere are so poor is one of those uncomfortable realities about global manufacturing that most consumers -- and fans of Apple and Steve Jobs -- would rather forget.
yes, that's why i said "not all seds".
It does not have a potentially unlimited budget. As was mentioned above, these are often contracted third parties who develop the systems. They put in bids on government jobs and undoubtedly have their own margins to look after. Once the job is awarded, my understanding is that you can't change the price-tag it was awarded at. (At least, not easily)
GCC is still marginally smaller and faster: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=gcc_4...
What about the massive strides that Chrome/Mozilla/WebKit are making? What about the innovations in programming languages such as Clojure and Arc and Erlang? What about the innovations in frameworks such as node.js and sproutcore?

I could go on all day. IMO, it's a lot easier to find innovation in the open source world than it is in the commercial world which seems to be more about copy & polish than it does about innovation.

If you were arguing that open source lacked polish, I would agree with you. But innovation? Hardly.
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I understand the need for diversity in the database and you can argue that not filtering by blood type would expand the diversity, these appeals almost always ask for people of a particular race or heredity which limits diversity and seems to conflict with that notion of increasing diversity.

A compatible donor has to have a compatible blood type and matching leukocyte antigens. The later is expensive to test for but race can be used to exclude a large segment of incompatible donors. Blood type is harder to check obviously but compared to leukocyte antigen compatibility test it's cheap an easy. We're talking less than $10 vs $100+ for a leukocyte antigen test.

These are personal appeals and the two factors that can be used to cheaply and quickly narrow the field of potential donors the most are race and blood type compatibility.
I don't know how I can be any more clear here:

If they are not smart enough to keep malware off of what should be the most secure systems around, perhaps they shouldn't be building the fricking FLYING REMOTE-CONTROL DEATH MACHINES for a while, until they can figure out the basics.

Capisce, guys?
Despite being as fucked up as it is, that's not how the military works.
Way more invasive than harvesting tissue, so the risks are going to be greater.

Marrow does regenerate. (otherwise your small donation couldn't possibly fill the reciever's bones!) Supposedly will take a month or so for the donor.
Breaking a MacBook in memory of Steve Jobs
Without Him, There Would be No Us
IMHO, YMMV, etc. Oh man it's so easy to wind up HN kids with anecdotes.
It was also a low blow given the fact that the author owns an iPad... so he's enjoying the fruits of what he describes as abusive labor practices. If you're going to be principled, be principled. An iPad isn't a necessity in any way.
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I don't think that is really an 'or' case. Either someone with authority to disclose makes an official statement or someone lacking that authority leaks it.
I believe you're looking for the WTFPL:

http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/
We're probably not as hot on it, but I still think there are big new things to be built that will rely on Twitter.
On the other hand, the incentive to sign up would probably improve.
What Everyone Is Too Polite To say About Steve Jobs
At the level they are supported at least in one language they are not hard in many other languages e.g., `import something` solves many established problems in Python. http://xkcd.com/353/
missed it. sorry!
Ok I don't feel so bad now. I was stationed on a nuclear carrier and one day I accidentally deleted the entire supply/logistics/personnel/maintenance database cluster.

I mean come on, the menu option was labeled "Re-index databases". I thought it would make it go faster :)

I ended up just making something up and restoring from backup.
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It'd be interesting if Apple were bold enough to pursue Fair Labor Certification even if it meant pricing their products even higher, but I think Apple has the exact customer base that'd be willing to pay the Fair Labor premium.
From DONOR FAQ (http://www.samarinfo.org/donorfaq.asp) by South Asian Marrow Association of Recruiters:

Marrow donation: Marrow is removed from the bones on one or both sides of the upper hip area using a special syringe. The procedure is performed by an approved collection center, usually under general anesthesia. The entire donation process lasts about one hour. The donor usually spends a night in the hospital for observation. Approximately 3-5% of your marrow is extracted with a syringe and needle. The body naturally replenishes the donated marrow in a couple of weeks.

See other questions/answers on the same page for more info.
If this is Skynet I am going to be very annoyed.
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At least in the US, look on the bright side- the odds of anyone needing your marrow are low, so there would be no sense in a systematic harvesting of marrow prison-wide every month. Inmates already work in labor gangs. So, if you are a prisoner and you get selected, strike a deal and get out of labor gangs for a month (because you just earned as much as if you had been in a labor gang). It'd be a good thing to get picked!
I think the (anticipated) trouble with targeted ads is that they compete for your attention with the content that you were trying to view in the first place. Imagine you sit down to read a book and are first hit with an ad which, at that moment, actually seems more compelling than the book, because unlike the book, it has been perfectly refined by analyzing your actual behavior to attract your attention.
"(loading time ~2-3h)."

So, pointless demo. It probably run everything from the HDD.
How about an over-cage for the physical machine?

A literal chicken-wire-style cage that encloses the PC case, with openings too small to pass the head of a USB device.

The cage would be locked to prevent removal of the machine and have a locked backpanel which allows certified staff to install the various usb devices -- with some sort of cage mount inside to loop the cables around, so that a tug from the user wouldn't pull the usb connector from the machine and cause an obnoxious number of calls to 'the guy with the key' to plug a mouse back in.

The cage would neatly deny access to any and every port or drive that may or may not be present in one fell swoop, which would likely simplify OEM contracts and final installation as well as increase security.

You could build the cage physically larger than the general range of whichever flavor(s) of ATX cases are being used, so that the cages could be manufactured in bulk without too much worry about a switch between PC OEMs causing problems.

You could even add a screw-style bracket or two to hold the PC case firm within the cage and put some acoustic foam pads here and there to cut down on any extra noise.
Call me cynical, but I think the only reason the more expensive option is available is so that most people will accept ads on the cheaper version. If they actually allowed me to put my own images onto the screensaver I might actually go for the more expensive option but as it is I'm bored with the screensavers on my current kindle and wouldn't mind nice looking ads that were constantly changing.
And my opinion is that RMS is being a D-bag.

Freedom to express isn't freedom from bad responses.
The Soul of Apple by Kevin Kelly
My first inclination was "the web" it is not a good analog due to its lack of curation.

And while the cynical part of me wants to point out that Pepsi co-opted the spirit of a generation idea a generation ago, Wikipedia's editorial convictions are no less obvious even if they are necessarily less personal both due to the scale upon which information is available and the fact that today's hippies often have computer savvy.
Bespoke hardware for government agencies with unlimited budgets is nothing new.
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The investors couldn't care less. It's about finding the next cash cow then doing the usual pump and dump.
I'm mostly through 1.2 but not on 1.3 yet.

Paging just basic algebra back in was more annoying than I expected it to be (highly recommend for those like me that you grab some cheat sheets; most of the exercises in 1.2 are very straightforward if you have systems of equations in L1 head cache).

I'll try my best to keep up with you. I'm in NYC next week but I can kill some hotel downtime with this too.

Very yes, regarding ass-kicking tactics.
If you're talking about the China hacks, they were using ie6. I'd argue that would preclude the "top notch engineer" label.
Urgently hiring for a Senior Systems Engineer:

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Job Responsibilities:

-You will be responsible for the overall health and performance of our platform.
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-Tools development. We want engineers that can automate the deployment, administration, and monitoring of our large-scale Linux environments
-Gain deep application-level knowledge of the systems as well as contributing to their overall design
-Work with development teams to enhance, document, establish process and generally improve the operability of our systems
Authenticode and Weak Certificate Chains (signed using MD2/MD4)
This looks interesting, however I have several reservations about this. First and formost is the pricing issue. In the recent past Google has not been very smart about pricing it's cloud offering and the Google Cloud SQL appears to be making a similar mistake.

The official announcement says that it's free for now but if/when they change that you will be notified in advance. I know that sounds good but to me it screams vendor lock-in. My thought is that 6 months from now Google will want $6 / second or something ridiculous and I'll be scrambling to move platforms.

The other thing is it raises the spectre of the future of MySQL in Oracles hands. Who knows how much longer MySQL will be viable?

Both pieces of information make me feel like I would be building a system on a pile of sand that can be swept away in an instant. That's not a comfortable feeling...
no not entirely, but a lot of assed up things (especially with compusec) can happen because a 4-star wills it so.
Debriefing my first iOS game.
Seconded, and I'm 26.
Ironically, Jobs would be perfectly acceptable in Stallman's world -- he (Jobs) took free software and did what he wanted with it, exercising his right to tinker (and profit).
Scripting WP7: Touch Studio now has "Pin to Start"
you can disable any removable device, except the drone itself which seems talking back to the base using [non-encrypted] regular TCP/Ethernet and thus is a very plausible vector of continuous re-infection. The problem is well known and dates several years back:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126102247889095011.html
Colbert tribute to Steve Jobs
I think there remains a tremendous unfilled space in the computing world for usable "prosumer" programming, in the spirit of Hypercard.

I would argue that such a thing already exists. If you want to do 'easy', low-hanging, easily-prototyped design and development, the kind of experience you had as a kid with Hypercard, you can still do it, and mostly for free: it's the web.
Owning Apple hardware doesn't mean you have to be blind to the dark side of Apple. If anything, it just tells me the author is capable of analyzing the situation critically.
I just stumbled across this app today and while the usability looks fantastic I haven't been able to find any real reviews from users. Any thoughts?
This is probably the best article I've read on HN. It digs deep and explores many concepts and has examples to show for it. Its long but very easy to read. Thanks

uxmag's articles got a lot better since the last time I visited them. Somewhat related: http://uxmag.com/articles/pleasant-things-work-better
If you haven't validated or ensured that your string is a string you've already lost.
People in this thread would enjoy reading the following excellent short review of what drones are doing and their implications:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2011/sep/29/predato...

The statement you quote is impossible to rate as true or false. But here's a fuller quote from the article above:

"But there are also quite a few things about drones that you might not have heard yet. Most Americans are probably unaware, for example, that the US Air Force now trains more UAV operators each year than traditional pilots. [...] As I write this, the US aerospace industry has for all practical purposes ceased research and development work on manned aircraft. "
I would say that the very fact that they join "tell apple to unban..." groups makes them non-representative.
So all that terrorists have to do is commandeer a drone (thanks to this virus) and then they can rain terror anywhere they want? This is scary.
Stop offering the cloud version while you work on the client version. Re-offer the cloud version later once you've got your feet under you.
This is fascinating and very relevant -- do you have a source?
Thanks, I just may consider signing up then.
The audio-jack based interface is very clever- the whole package is wonderfully simple and straightforward. I hope that mass production can bring the price down a bit, though.
No. GPL doesn't mean that derivative works source needs to be available. Thus Google may very well have modifications which are never made public.
I find myself wondering which one you're referring to with that quote - Jobs or Stallman. That's probably a good thing.
World's leading patent troll sues Motorola over Android phones
Stallman is admittedly rather tactless, particularly in his recent comment about Jobs. To him, there is no freedom but absolute freedom; any compromise whatsoever is unacceptable, and he will not sugar-coat his opinions to make them more palatable to those that don't think the same way that he does. That is undoubtedly a shortcoming on his part.

Still, I think that if you can look past his poor social graces, the man makes some very valid points. Time and time again, he issues statements that draw eye rolls and sneers, only to be vindicated later when his seemingly over-dramatic predictions actually come to pass.

Dislike the man if you must. Criticize his poor diplomatic communication skills. But his role in our technological ecosystem is vital, and I for one am glad he's around.
> I think there remains a tremendous unfilled space in the computing world for usable "prosumer" programming.

If you are so sure, why don't you start a company to fill that space?

Jobs' brilliance was in recognizing that the needs of both beginners and high-end users are actually quite convergent -- both want a simple beautiful no-nonsense device that just works -- and it's only the insecure "middle-class" who wants something more. He grew a company to prove just that point.

Perhaps you have a point as well.
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$80 Ad-subsidized e-book reader feels cheep, has ads.
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I also agree.

I cannot wait to see how this platform develops ... and all the apps that Romotive and Hackers will create for it.
> One solution could be to keep machine images stored, like AMIs, and use a tool like Chef or Puppet to re-deploy a known good configuration.

It's probably Norton Ghost, and I'd put $5 on the Ghost image being cooked bad.
The accidental minimalist. Four steps to the epiphany.
There are many voices in defense of VirtualBox in this thread already, but I will still add mine, because VirtualBox has been a great tool for me and I feel it deserves to be defended. For the last three years I use Virtualbox to run Windows and Linux VMs on a Linux host. Other than a handful of weird hickups of Windows XP guests, which can probably be attributed to the guest OS, I did not run into any major problems in what must be thousands of hours of guest and hypervisor uptime.

VMware Workstation, OTOH, crashed my host(!) system hard several times, which actually drove me to Virtualbox in the first place. Granted, that was three years ago, but I did not have any reason to give VMware Workstation another try, as Virtualbox works very well for me.
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You can't get the ad-supported version outside the US, so that's an automatic $30 markup.
I've heard the modern version of this called "Moore's Law of Mad Science" - every year, the IQ necessary to destroy the world drops by one point. In practice it's probably exponential rather than linear, but that's not really better.
Awesome. I'd be interested to see results. Email me if you get any data your happy to share (details in my profile).
I use it, no idea what my password is
One little known tip that I've been using for years to reduce bounce rates is to increase the text size by a few pixels.

I've successfully reduced the bounce rates on a few sites with that hack alone. On others it made little difference. I guess the older the audience, the more pronounced the effect.
Yes, iPad, computer or any phone.
> Richard Stallman is putting his feet firmly in his mouth

Is that a veiled reference to him eating the toe jam?
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The Generational Divide in Social
JiveWorld11 had a number of interesting speakers and round table discussions. One subject that came up in various forms was the generational divide with social. It seemed there were two main contexts within which this issue arose. One was that people at the conference in charge of their companies social marketing sometimes would say that their senior executives didn't understand it and therefore weren't as enthusiastic in supporting it as they'd like. The second context was if social marketing was actually reaching decision makers as they generally tend to be older.

The default assumption that a lot of people at the conference, and the population in general have was that older adults weren't as tech savvy as the younger generation. Being older myself,this seemed to be an unflattering stereotype. Then, in one of the roundtables, the head of social efforts of Cisco said that their CEO,so far as I know its John Chamber, initially wasn't very enthusiastic about the social efforts and tolerated them more then anything else.

Well it was hard for me to confront the stereotype and announce that actually I am tech savvy, I always thought I was, but I was confident that John Chambers is tech savvy.

Although I don't accept the stereotype I do accept that there is a generational divide in social. Why?

My new hypothesis, after thinking about this question for some time, is that the way my life is organized and that of other people my age is simply different then the lives of those that participate in the social cloud. For me I would have to change my whole routine, basically live like a fish out of water to engage in the social cloud. Contrary to the stereotype, people in my generation are actually tech savvy, they just have a different life style and work differently; actually better.
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