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This is even more useful for renting US movies, because the German iTunes movie store completely sucks. I hate it that there's no good streaming service in Germany. Or do you know one?
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I've got something similar in mine;
The use-case is to allow indented comments (in languages where '#' is the comment delimiter)

Normally, when using auto-indent/smart-indent, pressing '#' on a blank line will change the column to zero, deleting any existing whitespace. By typing a character and deleting it, you override this behavior, allowing you to have comments at the same indentation level as the rest of the code.
I totally agree with you. i personally would never want to spend all of my time adding people on G+. Why does google want me to add people on G+ in such intrusive way? gimme a break!!
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I would love to watch that. Sounds really exciting.
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This is why I love HN. See something that blows my mind. Read comments. Meh. (When I say "love," you know I mean "hate" right?)
There should be a government body to whom security breaches like these can be reported. Companies can not be trusted to police themselves when it comes to private data.

You could try the DSD CSOC. They're mainly interested in threats to Government agencies but may pass it on.
It's nice that you can disallow the permissions granularly, for example, I didn't mind it accessing all my data, but posting AS me on facebook? No. Disabled. Happy days.
Keeps cutting out part way through, but VERY well done.
These slides summarize pretty much all the recent developments in shortest path algorithms:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/goldberg/erice.pd...

There are example with maps overlaid with the nodes visited by each algorithm before finding the solution. The difference between Dijkstra, A* and landmarks-based algorithms is impressive!
> I just think this point tends to be overlooked when talking about "social" websites, almost like it was not polite to point out where these businesses make their money.

I am not sure that this is overlooked. I think most people know it is as so obviously true that it doesn't need restating anymore.
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The problem is not that enthusiasts who want to run an open source operating system won't be able to choose appropriate hardware to run that OS. The problem is that Secure Boot may remove the option of buying a Windows PC and then at some later time deciding that you want to run an open source operating system on it from those who weren't thinking about open source operating systems to begin with.

At the moment, every PC sold is a potential target for a Linux distribution or other open source operating system, and hence every PC sold increases the size of the potential market. Secure Boot has the potential to disrupt this: a PC with Secure Boot may deny the owner the ability to install and run an unauthorized operating system. This could significantly reduce the potential market for open source operating systems.

Look at it this way: at the moment if your mum/dad/grandparent/whoever is willing to try a different operating environment, you can install pretty much any Linux distribution (or other open source operating system) on their hardware, or if they can do so themselves. And by 'can' here, I don't just mean that you personally are able, but also that the original manufacturer allows that kind of thing to happen.

In the future, computer manufacturers may sell computers to people on which you (or they) will no longer be allowed to install an open source operating system for them to try out, even if they want to.
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How many teens use Gmail? Despite Gmail's popularity among techies, I seem to recall that they only have like 5% market share, so I'm guessing most teenagers don't use Gmail.
This actually just freezes for me/nothing happens after I click "Connect with Facebook". Chromium 12.0.742.112 (90304) Ubuntu 10.10.
Can someone make a video of this thing ?
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No love for Osaka. Bummer.
>The original debate started when developer Mojang decided to make the working title of their new CCG-like game "Scrolls"

Not exactly. The debate started when Mojang decided to trademark the single word "Scrolls" and put themselves in a position where they could take to court game developers who want to use the word "scrolls" in the title of their games (or already use it). That's when Bethesda Softworks counterattacked aggressively.

During the whole process Mojang successfully managed to spin themselves on social news websites as the victims of a David and Goliath fight when they were in fact the ones who started the Trademark offensive.
I'm not sure that it is, but now that you mention it I feel like this could actually be a REALLY effective viral media stunt for a new TV Show/Movie...
That genuinely probably is true and is not a cherry picked statistic.

I reckon it's due to the highway drifters, who are reckless idiots. They are probably using their blackberries to organise drifting events which inevitably result in accidents.

Here's to give you an idea:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUTlKaliW90
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Most Apple stores around us ran out of stock within approx 4 hours. I couldnt get to the mall till after lunch anyhow and since i cant afford to by a phone outright i went to a telecom operator. They're the only one that had stock on launch date. The operators were on a pre-order policy.

So everyone was queuing here unfortunately.
The other lesson is that incompetence of this magnitude on one issue is always a symptom of incompetence generally.

I have seen this over and over again with multiple companies. It's not like everything else is first-rate and somehow just one glaring thing slipped by them. That's what we'd like to believe.

Instead, there is a systemic problem with horrible decision-making that will infect every level of operations, until the organization finally collapses into a black hole of infinite stupidity.

Well, that may be a little extreme. Some of them putter along as White Dwarfs.
If a lot of people are buying bitcoins then that should push the value of them up (depending on the available supply of bitcoins) regardless of whether they exchange them back in to traditional currency shortly afterwards. It is a form of utility.

All currencies are valued against each other, it is no surprise to see the dollar value used most frequently to determine value, since dollars are the worlds reserve currency.

My opinion is that bitcoin is probably ahead of its time, the technology is amazing, and could be used in many different ways, and I am not yet ready to count bitcoin out just yet.
Revoked access to tons of applications.
If you don't want sites like this to view your stuff, please also set the privacy setting for applications your friends use to a better one. Or else you would be next.

P.S. Since you connect to that application by yourself, that is pretty clear that they can read your friends list, your feed and post as you.
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it feels so good to be bad.

Or, they (lulzsec) think they are doing good and ignore when the police et al. say they are being bad, because those same police and agencies also say this guy in the submitted article is being bad.
Not that I know of. I usually use "unblock us" (http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2011/04/07/hulu-and-iplayer-outsi...), but I guess that's mainly for TV series rather than movies.
Interestingly, these horror stories are assumed to be from US by default.
Making threads collapsible via JS would be good, but better might be to collapse third-level and lower comments by default.

Reading more than a couple levels deep on a highly-discussed submission is no longer reasonable, since you can't tell what's insightful or not. Myself, I now only read the top-level comments and maybe their children.
Can you imagine something as popular but less addictive? I wish I could...
The problem is how can you be sure they will treat you nicely?

I will grant you tarsnap is pretty safe since it is a one man operation and Mozilla and Chromium are both depending on the goodwill of the community, but Facebook is company which has been pretty aggressive in the way it shits over its users (I can remember about 3 or 4 privacy debacles).
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No I can't :) But some societies have quit drinking hard or smoking, so getting off a widely accepted addiction is possible.
That could be advise from the police. As in "We're looking into it, you say you are innocent, but if we find out you are hacking around that website again, then we might not be so sure"
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Yeah, good luck to him finding "X5, Cardiff".

There isn't an "X5" postcode here, nor is it anywhere near where I was last time I did a location based update. The inaccurate google map thing is what made me lul.
Now that seems weird. Thanks for sharing, but, really:

Unless Google can pull something revolutionary out of their
hat (or Facebook has a major blunder) in regards to chat

Don't you know about GTalk? Or what would you add to it, to get to FB chat level? Because it's basically the ~same thing~, based on the same technology (xmpp).
I would also like to mention the common use of Linux on recycled or older computer hardware. There is a mountain of hardware sitting in warehouses or going into landfill. Many of these machines are usable with Linux. If restrictive boot-loaders become common on consumer grade hardware, that option is closed off.
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On a similar vein, I recommend Terry Pratchett's 'Making Money'.
You hit the nail on the head.

I can't bring myself to get rid of my circa 2008 Nokia 6303 phone and my circa 1995 TI92 calculator. They just work, even though they are both "not state of the art".

With respect to the 486/33: in about '03 my hefty desktop blew up leaving me with an old compaq pentium 100. That did me for 3 months running NetBSD with no major pain. In fact it gave me more time to do other things so I got more done at the end of the day. It wasn't any less productive than the 1.8GHz P4 I had at the time believe me.
The way moot promoted "the Twitter way", I find it hard to believe. Twitter's multiple-disjointed-throwaway-identities model is completely useless to advertisers, and as such it will never be adopted by commercial websites on the same scale as the G+/FB model (unless you prescribe it by law).
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I gave the guy all those details and pics while authorizing the app!

There's no way too see those things without being my friend.
Looks like it's connected with the ad agency Evolution Bureau ("EVB") (clients: [1]), the same people who did the Office Depot-braded "Elf Yourself" sensation [2].

Why do I think it's EVB? This is the only other site on the same IP as manipulation.com, and manipulation.com is registered clearly to EVB. The agency's creative work is consistent with this project too.

[1] http://evb.com/work/
[2] http://elf.evb-archive.com/
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That's a secondary, and arguably unwanted purpose of voting.

The primary purpose is to push a valuable comment up towards the top of a page (or, conversely, push down a non-contributory comment).
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Bullshit. Mojang was willing to drop that registration. Mojang and ZeniMax (well, their lawyers) were actually negotiating before they went to court.

And where do you get the crazy idea that someone with a trademark for “Scrolls” can successfully sue others with a trademark that also contains “Scrolls” in some way? What matters is whether customers might be confused.
We have already seen this before .. I have a stack of Panasonic Toughbooks that have a locked BIOS configuration, and absolutely nothing can be done with these machines (they were thrown away, stupidly) because nobody knows the password to re-configure them to boot properly. The BIOS is completely locked down.

So, we will start to see this happen on a broader industry scale, and in my opinion the benefits of "secure boot" definitely do not outweigh the liability of making hardware that won't be useful in the future, simply because 'the OS it originally had on it was such utter shit to require such measures in the first place'..
Quality is fantastic, I too am curious as to how they are generating the pages into the movie.
He kinda has to, being a Googler.
Relevant xkcd that also perfectly summarizes my personal opinion on the topic:

http://xkcd.com/137/
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I /do/ share location with Facebook, but I sent the guy off looking for " , (null)". I doubt he'll get there soon.
Should also mention that Hulu, MySpace, Fandango are also in that area
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Another useful way to see A* is as the synthesis of two different search algorithms. To compute which untraversed node to choose next, A* uses the function

f(n) = g(n) + h(n)

where g(n) is the actual traversed distance from the start to n, and h(n) is an (optimistic) approximation of the distance from n to the goal. Now, without making any other modifications to the algorithm, if we substitute

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[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best-first_search

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%27s_algorithm
"Trademark offensive" is a somewhat coloured representation of the situation. See; http://notch.tumblr.com/post/8519901309/bethesda-are-suing-u... and http://notch.tumblr.com/post/10990169550/a-short-response
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Yeah, I actually had to send one of my passwords to one of my friends in SMS (I know, totally insecure etc, but time was more critical at that time than security). I felt a little.... embarrassed afterwards.
> Not exactly.

Not like your comment is any better. A critical part missing from it is that, soon after Bethesda indicated their displeasure, Mojang offered to drop the trademark application (and to move from just "Scrolls" to a composite title).

Apart from the trademark application (maybe, which they've yet to even remotely misuse or abuse with Minecraft, so I'd be more than willing to give Mojang the benefit of the doubt) the only actions I've seen them taking so far seemed to in good faith and in trying to resolve the matter as painlessly as possible for everybody (and somewhat humorously in the case of the Quake 3 match).

> and put themselves in a position where they could take to court game developers who want to use the word "scrolls" in the title of their games (or already use it)

Trademark law is nowhere near as insane as patent law, "scrolls" has been used numerous times as a sub-part of game titles (so the historical record is strongly against such a case), and the only people who have made those claims were trademark trolls (Tim Langdell) who got away with threatening people generally without needing to go to court.

> During the whole process Mojang successfully managed to spin themselves on social news websites as the victims of a David and Goliath fight when they were in fact the ones who started the Trademark offensive.

Please, how is trademarking the name of your next game a "Trademark Offensive"?
I've made one, it's on the app store for free, as well as open source on github, feel free to fork and improve it:

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I don't see linux on the platforms list, which really disqualifies this for me. A pity.
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I have built a little prototype for an idea I had last week about simplifying resource handling in android. The prototype can be found on github: https://github.com/dtanzer/resdroid

This prototype of resdroid generates layout XML files and base classes for activities from simplified layout XML files. It ensures that IDs of widgets are unique within a project by prefixing them. It also creates protected variables containing all the widgets. I wrote about using it on my blog: http://davidtanzer.net/node/102 - there is also a summary page for the project: http://davidtanzer.net/resdroid

The functionality of the prototype is very limited at the moment, but from the blog posting you should get the idea what I want to do with it. My question is: Is this something you would use as a developer? Do you have any ideas what I could do better or what other features would be desireable?
I don't know. For me this sounds like a very bad idea.

What is putting me off (tried building small things in Haskell a couple of times) is the already heavily buzzword compliant community, throwing not only a new language with new concept at me, but adding words that at first seem to be made up on the spot.

Additionally, as others have said here, I'm having most troubles interacting with the world (IO!). Pure functions (Math!) are ~easy~ to represent.

You suggest starting with that language and learning 'new math concepts' on the go?

(I'm sure this works for some people and hats off to you guys, but for me this increases the mental complexity immensely)
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Unfortunately, "financial incentives" are the basis for any business. Are you arguing that Google and Facebook should be run as charities, or by the State? Or should they simply shut down their social networks and tracking, including Like buttons etc?
I'm not criticizing, i'd like to know the alternatives.
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1. OpenInvites - It does the job well but it uses scraping instead of oAuth.

2. CloudSponge - Not free($25/month) and no support for facebook.

Which contact importer you guys are using? Is there any better alternative to these two or I need to develop my own contact importer?
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There's at least one other way... make a creepy viral lollipop site, get it on the front page of hacker news, et al.
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And that happened because those things have some very visible bad effects (images of cancer all over packages in Europe) and even then there are like 30% smokers on my country. Assuming shock and visible pain are the only way to end such a popular addiction it's going to be tough to end our digital ones.

But at least you showed it's possible, that's something!
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http://www.crunchbase.com/company/groupon

Funding Total	$1.14B

Series D, 1/11 $950M
Digital Sky Technologies
Morgan Stanley Venture Partners
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The only thing more ridiculous is Twitter.

Funding Total $1.16B

How much hardware would it take to clone Twitter, if done efficiently?

A year ago they were at 1,000 tweets per second and 12,000 queries per second. http://engineering.twitter.com/2010/10/twitters-new-search-a...

The Steve Jobs news set a new record of 10,000 TPS. TPS Report: http://techland.time.com/2011/10/07/twitter-breaks-tweets-pe...

As of 7 months ago, they were at a billion tweets per week: http://blog.twitter.com/2011/03/numbers.html

If the average message is half the maximum length, then that's around 70 gigs/week naïvely (not counting multibyte characters or metadata).

Around 3.6 terabytes per year. Older tweets are probably almost never accessed so they can stay on mechanical HDs, and stuff that IS needed can get temporarily promoted to SSD storage which can handle all that random seeking. And older tweets can probably be nicely compressed.

Search is the only real challenge, but they "solve" that by not indexing most tweets. A subset of recent tweets, not indexed in real time, pushing out older ones.
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> The problem is that Secure Boot may remove the option of buying a Windows PC and then at some later time deciding that you want to run an open source operating system on it from those who weren't thinking about open source operating systems to begin with.

Exactly. This is how I got into GNU/Linux in the first place, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. Removing this option will severely hinder the adoption of better, free operating systems.
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