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I think RMS is doing perfect trolling to get more attention to his GNU/FSF/commie stuff.

The net effect is the people talking about RMS, about FSF and GNU. More people get to know about this stuff, more people get involved.

Just a little trolling replaces zillions of bucks spent on advertising, PR etc. Commies don't have money to pay, so they must troll.

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Just don't spread this hype and don't feed the troll.
Great, I just bought it. Any chance of incorporating Private Eye into Radio Silence, at least for the purpose of selecting the apps I want to block? Or being able to drag and drop an app from Private Eye into Radio Silence would be enough. It's just that selecting those apps is really painful from the file dialog, especially if they're obnoxious system services like helpd.
> but it doesn't make me want to spend an entire Saturday trying to get Linux to recognize my sound card.

Stuff like that is FUD though, linux sound support is pretty good these days and the amount and variety of devices supported dwarfs the best the commercial world has to offer. In general, Linux support of legacy devices is amazing.

Newly minted hardware without a factory supported driver is a different kettle of fish but you can't really blame the Linux driver writers for that, they need information to work with and if manufacturers are not going to supply that info it needs to be painstakingly recovered, which is not always possible and almost always incomplete to some extent.
Yawn. Don't like it, don't use it! Problem solved.
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What Stallman said is just, analytically speaking:

1) I don't like when people die.

2) But this happened to Steve Jobs, unfortunately.

3) However from my point of view he was doing so much damage to the world of software that this is a good thing. Not the fact he died but the fact that we no longer have his influence.

Note: I don't agree. But I don't think it should be a problem to say the above.

It is like if you are the leader of a movement against the practice of killing whales, and there is one guy that kills 100,000 whales every year. If he dies you can legitimately say: "I'm sorry he died, but this is a good thing for whales".

He used the wrong words, the wrong time, and so forth, but the concept is nothing of extraordinary from his point of view. It is important to have the freedom of saying what we want.
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$20M seems really low for Mixpanel. It's a reasonable multiple of what they've raised, but they've built a really good product that seems to be getting a lot of profitable traction. Especially in this market, I'd expect an acquisition to be >= 50M.

I genuinely believe that they don't really want to be acquired, but obviously a good enough offer (probably ~100M) could make them reconsider
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You're the second person to suggest that today. It's a great idea, and I'll implement it as soon as I can.

Radio Silence already supports drag & drop. You can drag apps into its window, if you don't like the file dialog.

Private Eye doesn't yet support dragging stuff out of it.
>It is not legitimate for the mass of HN to be "in grief" because of Steve Jobs's death. You may be sad, but certainly no grieving period should be necessary for strangers.

When was this decided? And by who? Did I miss a memo?

I've never owned an Apple product in my life, but the computers I have used, the smartphone I own, the tablet I will eventually get, the world I will live in 20 years from now, probably would not exist if it wasn't for Steve Jobs.

The world has lost an exceptional human being, and along with him, we have lost a chunk of the future he would have created if he'd lived longer.

So who's deciding how we are to legitimately feel about that?
It's certainly a gamble - our (successful) YC application took a couple of days to put together, partly because the video was a real pain to get right.

That said, answering the questions in the application form really is a very useful exercise whether or not you make it in - it made us think about our company in a bunch of ways that we hadn't necessarily considered before we started applying. That's the difference between a YC app and the lottery - a lottery ticket isn't going to teach you anything.
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"He offered the Apple II to Atari... we said no. No thank you."
Answer: no.

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> There are no waiting lists, doctors sell it to the highest bidder.

I think that translates into: the waiting list is invisible, it contains everybody that is poor.

This is reminiscent of the quote by Douglas Adams: "no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.".
Substantial discussions from 3 weeks ago, and over a year ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3003841

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1540567
To answer your two questions, it is possible to mathematically prove, using certain tools that are admittedly rather academic (my argument is that we should consider using them more), that certain behaviors are impossible in a program. For example, a buffer overflow, or some form of data leak. This has been done, though admittedly not to programs anywhere near as complex as, say, the Windows kernel.

And, if there's a bug in your math, you will, of course, have some bug. Garbage in, garbage out. But! You can write your mathematical proof in such a way that the computer checks it for you (for example, static typing is a weak form of this). So all you need to have faith in is that program. Now we've exchanged faith in all programs to faith in one program. Which is an advance. But then we can formulate a proof that that program is correct in its own proof language. We hand-check this proof once, and then from then on the program can check later iterations of itself.

That's the dream, anyways. Some of the machinery to do this is available today, but some not.
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> le has always been the most aggressively locked-down computer maker.

Actually this isn't the case. Back in Apple II times, they provided the most hacker-friendly, fully documented hardware and software, together with the built-in rom assembly listing. But this was Woz' creation (über-hacker par excellence), not Jobs'.
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Easy to use; took only a minute to set up a connection. Just played Battlefield in my browser that was viewing my roommate's shared desktop (very low frame rate, obviously).

It would be cool if there was at least an option for the shared computer to resume sharing once one session has ended.
I feel sorry for the guy, however from the looks of the story he signed up to a new service with the company...probably without reading the terms and conditions
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It is still clear to me that all of the people complaining about Paypal as a merchant account provider have not dealt with regular merchant account providers.
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> GNU/FSF/commie stuff.

Bingo, you've just made some tasteless, insulting passing remark. Some sort of reverse-Godwin point. So much for not feeding the trolls.
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I cannot tell if you are serious. Are you saying this is appropriate on Paypal's part?
They don't do everything that Paypal does, but Amazon Payments is working out very well for me with LiberWriter, so far. Anyone who wants to publish with Amazon is going to have an account already, so that makes for a very natural overlap that not everyone would have with their service, but... so far so good.
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I know that people do study and learn things at university in the US, but culturally we tend to elevate going to a 'party school' above going to a school that is known to deliver a good education.
Most great inventions/products start out being available to the wealthy before being cheap enough to be accessed by all. I'm sure you think of lightbulbs as commodity items now, but back when the first few lightbulbs were manufactured, only the wealthy could afford them. 50 years from now, smartphones are probably going to be so available you'll buy one from walgreens in their discount aisle.
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The reserve isn't to offset the risk of stolen cards. It's to offset the risk that the merchant will not remain solvent over time, leaving the acquiring bank responsible for the merchant's debts to the credit card associations and issuing banks.

It's not at all clear that merchant account providers are banks as far as state banking law goes.
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I think (granted to a lesser extent) we gotta hand it to RMS

Why "to a lesser extent"?

I'm honestly curious because from my outsider's perspective (being affiliated with neither Apple nor FSF), RMS is vastly more admirable than CEO of a for-profit company.

The ability to cater to customers and sell them expensive products is precious and certainly good for the shareholders. And, to a lesser degree, even for the customers I guess... but why this worship and e-drama? How can turning huge profits be comparable to FSF's mission -- lofty even if you don't identify with it -- and why are non-shareholders so ecstatic about it? (leaving Job's death aside now, R.I.P. man)
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I still can't believe he passed the day after the presentation. At a loss for words
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Indeed. My reading is primarily that Jobs and Woz had an internal battle over the hackability of the Apple II and that Woz won out (as far as I'm aware, for unspecified reasons). Subsequent projects (Mac) have not followed the same pattern.

RMS's gripe with Jobs seems to be that he played a very active role in transforming computing from an open, academic activity based on information sharing to a completely proprietary profit center.

In the early 80s, some openness was expected. Releasing a computer without expansion slots then is like releasing a phone where you can't even replace your own battery now.
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That's quite a story and I wasn't aware of it. I'm quite surprised by the following passage:

"Jobs never did a lick of engineering in his life. He had me snowed," Alcorn later recalled. "It took years before I figured out that he was getting Woz to 'come in the back door' and do all the work while he got the credit."

Jobs convinced Wozniak to work on the game during his day job at Hewlett-Packard, when he was meant to be designing calculators. At night the two would collaborate on building it at Atari: Wozniak as engineer, Jobs as breadboarder and tester.

Allegedly, Jobs told Wozniak that he could have half of a $700 bounty if they were able to get the chip count under 50 (typical games of the day tended to require around 100 chips). After four sleepless days that gave both of them a case of mono (an artificial time limit, it turns out: Jobs had a plane to catch, Atari wasn't in that much of a rush), the brilliantly gifted Wozniak delivered a working board with just 46 chips.

Jobs made good on his promise and gave Wozniak his promised $350. What he didn't tell him -- and what Wozniak didn't find out until several years later -- was that Jobs also pocketed a bonus somewhere in the neighborhood of $5,000. Though it's often reported that this caused a rift in their friendship, Wozniak seems to have no hard feelings."

This doesn't diminish Steve Jobs for me (maybe it should, but he was what he was and it's ancient history anyway), but it definitely enhances Steve Wozniak's stature.
You do have to log-in to share/connect to a remote desktop session. It seems to be utilising Google talk gadget (https://talkgadget.google.com/talkgadget/blank), this is probably why it requires a Google account.
There's a pretty good interview with Michael Clear in todays Irish Times:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2011/1008/122430...
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That's a gorgeous bit of video there. Thanks for sharing.

"Since 1947, Edwin Land and Polaroid have pursued a central concept, one single thread: the removal of the barriers between a photographer and a subject."

The ubiquity of the cell phone camera has delivered on Land's goal in a way unguessed at when the SX-70 came out.
That's a creepy article. We don't need to know what their "source" thinks Jobs was eating at the time.
A follow up to https://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/10/03/141011155/did-a-r...

Which was discussed in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3068991
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>Actually, I think this may be an issue with your monitor. Could you take a screen grab and email me a bitmap if you get a moment? I just want to check there isn’t a colour rendering error

What? How does that work?

Also, other people see bugs and faces: I see goatse. :-(
> Not just free software; but free software as RMS defines it

Trouble is, RMS is the guy who defined free software in the first place. If you want to do something else than what he intends, it's probably better to pick a different term.
I'm saying the underlying behavior of holding a reserve is reasonable. I can't comment on whether or not HOW they did it is appropriate--I don't know if they did a poor job of documenting how it works (most payment processing companies have crappy documentation), or if he did a poor job of researching before deciding to use their virtual terminal service.

Other services suggested as alternatives in the Reddit thread, such as Google Checkout, also can hold reserves. This is not a PayPal thing--it is a credit card system thing. The system is designed so that if you end up owing money to the credit card association and member banks (say, for chargebacks), it is the responsibility of your merchant account provider to collect that money from you, and if they can't for some reason (e.g., you are involvement) then THEY have to pay it themselves. Essentially, your merchant account provider is guaranteeing to the credit card associations and the issuing banks that your debts to them will be covered.
Please dude. iTunes was very late to the game. eMusic? Most early music stores had no DRM.

Jobs leveraged the popularity of the iPod with iTunes (which, by the way, is not allowed to talk to any other program under normal circumstances) to make Apple a ton of money. As was the case with iPhone, Apple was big enough to force the hand of the industry-controlling posse into accepting things on its own terms. While they eventually rolled out DRM free, this should be a basic expectation and does not qualify Apple for bonus points. For years they sold exclusively DRM'd content while there were others attempting to make it on DRM-free platforms.

And by the way, afaik (not an iTunes user), television and movie content is still provided exclusively in DRM'd formats.
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JIT compilers have to make a tradeoff between time spent on analysis and time spent on execution; this is what makes them hard. It makes them hard because it means they need different levels of optimization, depending on how often a piece of code is going to get executed. If the code is only going to get run once or twice, it usually doesn't make sense to translate it from an efficient interpreter encoding (which LLVM does not have); if it's going to run a few hundred times, it can get a little bit more analysis, while if it's going to be the core of a loop, it makes a lot of sense to run analysis that may take multiple milliseconds.

Using a static list of analyses that are always run before execution would be a static compiler approach, not a JIT approach. A JIT will generally profile the code, optimize it when it gets hot, and deoptimize it when assumptions made during optimization no longer hold (e.g. virtual calls in JVM being optimized to static calls because only one definition of a virtual method exists, but subsequently a new class is loaded that overrides that method). All this dynamic runtime modification of the code (not just initial compilation, but modification of existing, executing code) is where JIT technology is distinct from static compiler technology.
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I like the idea.

suggestion: your own vote should probably be given automatically to a site you post. (or you shouldn't be able to vote your own ideas in the first place)
I don't see how the notion that other merchant account providers are worse than paypal somehow justifies their poor service.
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And in 1981 there were already application servers, running in multiprocessor machines using Multics, UNIX and VMS, just to name a few operating systems.

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> Would you mind explaining how OSL is as close to something like Clang or GCC as you can get? I just don't see it.

It seems that Open Shading Language is not really Just-in-Time (JIT) compiled. It's compiled from LLVM IR to native machine code Ahead-of-Time (AOT) but at runtime and then executed. This is actually not very far from a static compiler, the only difference is that the target architecture is known at runtime and the LLVM IR is compiled to machine code using that information.

What is the difference of JIT and AOT here is that in a JIT situation, there is some form of an interpreter that is executing byte code of some kind (probably not LLVM IR). When this interpreter reaches a loop of some kind, it will attempt to compile it (from bytecode to LLVM IR and finally from LLVM IR to native code). The interpreter then calls the compiled code, which will run for as long as possible and finally return control to the interpreter which will continue interpreting until it finds another opporturnity for JIT'ing. A JIT compiler is typically employed when the original source language cannot be compiled statically to machine code, because of e.g. dynamic typing.

So from what I can tell, OSL is just a static ahead of time compiler, with the final stage of compilation taking place at runtime.

Please tell me if some of my background facts were incorrect (in particular about OSL).
This is great, I wondered how the Atari stint really fitted into the Jobs story. Sounds like a crazy kid who just stuck at his dream of making computers until it worked out.
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Etc? Why don't ends justify means?
Following on to that, farm runoff is a widely known source of contaminates to rivers and lakes. It's a non-point-source pollution, and the EPA says "agriculture, including crop production, animal operations, pastures, and rangeland, impacts 18% of the total river and stream miles assessed, or 48% of the river and streams identified as impaired". Agribusiness has generally been against increased restrictions on non-point source pollution.

There are solutions, but most are expensive and with no immediate local gain. Farmers, like everyone, balance risk, time, and money. In this case the risk is literally downstream and several years or decades in the future. To follow the original metaphor, it's someone else's problem in a different world.

It's easy to see how a distant risk might not be considered worth minimizing.

The common solutions to that are laws and financial incentives, both of which bring either the risk or reward closer to hand.

Therefore, to say that "they aren't going to do anything to pollute their world" reflects a simplification of the issue. If there's no longer EQIP, CRP, CREP, or any of a large number of other programs to encourage good land management practices, then do you think the farmers will continue to do so?

If so, then let's cut that funding since obviously it's not needed.
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