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But the most important thing is not the directive, but the fact that monitoring would by contrary to the Charter of Fundamental Rights.

The directive could be amended much more easily than the charter.
Everything you are saying is correct, except that: "Different perceptions and motivations can lead quite easily to people making decisions that are deleterious to the community and the wikipedia project, even if at every step they are acting in what they perceive to be good faith." applies equally to those who submit non-notable page, as well as those who over-zealously edit.

You draw a false distinction between: " the people who make the big decisions and the people who are building wikipedia." Both the "people who make the big decisions" and the people who contribute content are "the people who are building wikipedia". They are two complementary, but seldom complimentary parts of the machine.
1. only root can write to /etc/hosts (it's root-owned, 644, with no ACLs)

2. authopen(1) grants privileges for a particular action

If gaining a right you did not have before is not privilege escalation, I don't know what "privilege escalation" could possibly mean. So using authopen(1) to write to /etc/hosts qualifies as "escalation to root privileges".

The rule states:

> 2.27 Apps that request escalation to root privileges [...] will be rejected

Therefore the app is non-conformant.

Besides, the author is extrapolating intent behind the rule to risks taken by an application takeover:

> "As they stated, it does not matter that none of the code I wrote ever runs as root, thereby neutralizing any security risk"

An example from the top of my head: adding an entry for say, google.com and MITM'ing stuff.
I think Dell makes money the same way other scammers make money, produce as much hype as possible with half truths, and by the time people figure out what is real, you'll have already cashed in.

I guarantee he is optimizing his entire company for fancy demos. He'll sucker some idiot big company into buying his technology, then we'll never ever see it in a product.

These things are predictable as clockwork.
What's more surprising is that Windows Phones still exist. Would be interesting to do a poll to see if anyone on HN has one. I'm skeptical.
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Yep. They (and everybody else) did not have Siri-like functionality, they had/have basic voice command: serviceable, but pretty inflexible. The point of Siri is to make the machine work harder to understand the human, not to make the human work harder to be understood by the machine (it's not quite there yet, but multi-step contextual commands are pretty nice for instance)
... and what happens when you attempt to correct the Wikipedia articles?
Of course. You're not under the impression that Obama is more for the people than Bush was, are you? [1]

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/07/bank-earnings-obama...
It doesn't say "PhDs", it says "Doctoral degrees", which may mean (it isn't clear), that EdD (Doctor of Education, a common degree for public school administrators), DBA (Doctor of Business Administration, usually from Harvard), EDB (Executive Doctor of Business, typically offered to already successful business people) and other similar specialized but not necessarily "professional" degrees (which I interpret to mean MD, JD, DDS, chiropractic, etc.) would be in this group.
The problem isn't how to create a large-scale wireless network. That's not simple, but it's been done. The problem is creating a large-scale, ad-hoc, mesh wireless network, without a central hub that can be shut down.
Much likewise, I have two categories on steam:

* Stuff I buy on sale because it looks ok and at that price it's nice. That makes up 90% of my library

* Stuff I buy right at release because I want it now because it looks/feels/seems that awesome. Recent examples in that category are Binding of Isaac and Bastion, which I bought at release.
Wow: WebGL, CSS/Dom and Canvas renderers.

EaselJS has been considering it[1], and even Three.js has it[2], but as Canvas gets more widespread and Hardware acceleration by default, these multiple renderers may not be that helpful. On the other hand, how long until then?

[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/easeljs/renderer/...

[2] https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/
If we truly have senior members of the software community who feels threatened by a guy who picked up the basics of their trade in 12 weeks, they are perfect examples of why we should not have barriers to entry to our profession.

If you, after doing something for five+ years, isn't demonstrably a lot better at it than the guy who did it for 12 weeks, you have thoroughly squandered the opportunity given to you and, yes, you are extremely selfish for suggesting there should be external barriers raised to protect your advantage.

I, for one, am proud to work in an industry where the barriers to entry is only a cheap computer and an internet connection. Bring on the masses!
In fact, there was a dodgy moment a few years ago when Wikipedia pages would display an advert for Virgin Unite. The argument was that since it's a charity, it doesn't count as advertising, but for me there's a big difference between the charitable arm of a corporation and a "true" charity. The main one being that Unite is obviously at least partly an attempt to improve the Virgin brand. He didn't call it The Branson Foundation or just Unite.
I think you can, and I think they do; but that still doesn't solve the memory issue, actually it makes it worse since now you have to store multiple 'resolution' versions for the same data.

But if they still need to use 'traditional' techniques like LoD, rendering at various resolutions, etc, then the complexity and running speed can't be all that much faster than a traditional approach. The way I've been reading these articles is that somehow he's got a very fast method of deciding which voxels to show, without any pre-processing or optimisation - just brute force. I'm curious to see the first demo they'll come up with, especially since they only now seem to be at a point where they can render without shading, animation etc, and they make it seem as if those are just implementation details that can be added on an afternoon. We'll see.
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He meant only having a choice between those two big carriers.
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The displacement of the voxels can also be done with a simple matrix transformation, as far as I see it

Yes, but the point is that you have to displace much more voxels than you'd have to displace vertices otherwise. Vertices are only on the boundaries of the object (and quite sparsely at that if you use normal mapping shaders etc wisely) but voxels fill the entire object densely...
It's not my primary phone, but I do.

The Lumia 800 is also a brilliant phone that I can see gaining some decent traction in the next couple of months.
I think there are two parts to the article. The specific issue of whether Ms X the SEO person is notable - I think you can ignore that as a bit of a rant.

The other part of the article - the critique of the usability of the site looks much more useful and contains issues that could be addressed.
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Oh thank goodness. I'm a happy (and life long) T-Mobile customer, and I really didn't want to become an AT&T customer. T-Mobile has the best customer service of just about any company out there, and I feel that they really help to level the playing field a little here in the US, even if they are only a small segment of the market.
The only one I can think of is if you’re not in the US. The UK (for example) has the more locally focused Open Rights Group ( http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ ).
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Most likely. They already got a $2million innovation grant from the government. Now they're working on better shadows and fancier worlds... mere demo stuff.
I don't think there are many people making good indie games (or music apps, my domain) that are willing to work for nothing. We're all just slowly coming to the realization that venues like the App Store and Steam have eaten the middle out of the market. If you're not one of the anointed ones you might as well not bother. Things weren't nearly so lean before this.

The problem is that an "app" has now become a generic commodity, with an expected value that has zero correlation with the amount of work that went into it or the size of the potential audience.
Everyone is really misinterpreting that PC manufacturers are dominant line. They are saying that in the market besides the iPad, HP/Samsung/Acer/Asus are doing surprisingly well compared to HTC/Motorola/Nokia/Blackberry considering these devices usually run what were originally mobile phone OSs. But because everyone is up in arms about the fact the iPad wasn't considered, they miss that point and assume it is saying something (that PC makers are actually dominant) that it clearly isn't.
Gassee says it best: https://twitter.com/#!/gassee/status/139458990731046914

That tweet also seems to link to the original article: http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/11/23/mundie.insists...
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This may not be as big an issue as you think. We had the same issue in in the Crash Bandicoot games: the background was rendered a completely different way than the foreground (animating) elements. We made it work by approximating where the foreground elements should "sort in" to the background polygon layers. Where the heuristics were wrong, we tuned it manually, by pushing a foreground element forward or backward in the scene until it looked right.

Remember: you can hack stuff in games until it looks right. It doesn't actually have to work perfectly from a theoretical standpoint; it just has to work practically without too much additional tuning labor.
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I don't what the problem is here, if you watch the interview he was asked about Siri and he explains that Tellme allows you do very similar features, ie you can say 'send text to bob' and it guides you through that process, or you can query things with Bing. He even concedes that Apple has far better marketing around these features, but makes the point that it was the only real new feature of the phone.

All of this is true, and it is hardly newsworthy. What else was he to say when asked about Siri?

PS, interview is here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/11/23/microsofts... skip to 1.50
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Has anyone actually read what they spend their money on? Just about 10% on 'travel expenses' and 'awards and grants' together.... Also (overlapping the previous - but only by $63,000) almost 10% goes to fund-raising activities.... Seems to me (from a distance) that there is plenty of bloat here and these are not things that the average wikipedia user cares about....

And thats not mentioning the over 7 million (40%) on salaries and wages..... I'm not sure you can describe this as a 'small non-profit'....

Sorry if that all sounds cynical - but this is a not-for-profit institution here... I think that they have a duty to provide an efficient (value for money) service, which I am concerned is not being done....
I think the GP is confusing an interesting general knowledge piece with something that should be immediately relevant to his day-to-day work.

You probably don't want to be crafting GIF binaries directly anyway, there are tons of libraries that take care of the plumbing for you very competently.
As a user, I really, really dislike this sort of deceptive advertising. I'd like to explain why.

The defense I've seen so far starts by "Well, Google does that too, so by your definition they're also evil." Here's the first problem with that defense: appeal to authority. Do you really expect anyone to say, "Oh, Google does it too? Shucks, then, I retract what I said, because we all know Google isn't evil."

Second, there are significant differences between how Google "blends" their ads and Patrick's example. The background color distinguishes the ad from the rest of the search results. You might argue that some users have crappy screens or poor vision, but the fact is that the background color is different. The intent was to distinguish the ad clearly. In Patrick's example, there is no such intent.

Another thing that has been downplayed is the "Ad - Why this ad?" text. On its own, it probably would have been less noticeable. But when you spot the different background, you automatically look for other differences. The "Why this ad" text is one of those differences and it's prominent not by virtue of its size, but position: it's separated from the rest of the information in the ad.

But really, it's not just about the background and the "Ad - Why this ad?" text. It's also about the fact that Google always puts this stuff as the first result, whereas in Patrick's example the ad was snuck into the results.

The fake rating is another problem. People try to defend it by saying "It's not fake, it was based on real data." Nobody said the data was fake. The rating is fake, because for every other result the rating was computed by the site, based on the data the site has, while here it was supplied by the advertiser. By the way, if I'm wrong about this, if it is also generated by the site, please let me know.

Finally, I'm perfectly happy to adapt to the way Google presents their ads: they're sort of my "doorway" to the rest of the Internet. I'm not as happy to have to research and adapt to every site's unique way of "blending" ads. But this is really a minor point for me. The most important point remains the fact that Google has made at least some effort to distinguish their ads from the content, whereas in Patrick's example the effort was invested in doing the opposite.
Lots of these are misleading. It doesn't do any good to compare annual sales to market cap.
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> Dell refuses to say what the engine can't do yet.

I'll go out on a limb here, and suggest it can't do real-time animation, texturing, lighting, shadows, collisions, etc. All the maps / screenshots shown seem to be static, procedurally generated and not artist-created.

Dell keeps throwing around this 'Unlimited Detail' marketing phrase which is very offputting. Until it's seen in action in an actual game it can be nothing but snake oil.
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That was my thought when I saw the sales/tax comparisons. Comparing Apples with Oranges, if you'll pardon the pun :).
To be fair, these aren't the "ads" this inflammatory title suggested... these are not AdSense ads displaying directly inside of Chrome, these are links to Chrome and the Chrome Store... inside of Chrome.

Just like you might find an iTunes link inside of Safari someday... or down at the bottom of your launch bar on Mac... or the Windows store in Windows 8... or the Ubuntu Store inside the Add/Remove software app.
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This is of professional interest to me and I thought it might be worth sharing with HN.

The interesting thing here is how widespread the use of data mining/machine learning etc sw is becoming - most people think that only the CIA, Mossad etc have access to such systems. Not true. Many non state/semi state actors - including drug cartels and (as shown here) terrorist outfits are beginning to use sw as a weapon.

Interesting times ahead.
Also, Ohms measure impedance, and an impedance value is noted Z.

Most of the alt/alt+shift combinations on the Mac keyboard layout make sense.
The Foundation thought about this, and even did it during the fundraising drives (see http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Fundraising...). The most (in)famous example was Virgin Unite.
Steam sales are what convinced me to stop pirating games. I'm perfectly happy picking up 1+ year old games on sale for under $15 (and usually much less). Doing this I usually buy about 6 - 10 games a year, and that's about all I have time to play. Heck, I've actually gone overboard the last couple of sales and I currently have 9 games waiting to be played (4 of which are indie titles).

I see where you're coming from though. It sucks when you put your heart and soul into something, and then you gently release it out into the world like a smiling parent only to then watch it be mauled by a cruel and unforgiving world.

The fact of the matter is there are so many great indie games out there, and only so many gaming hours in a day and so little money in my wallet.
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Hopefully facts like this will encourage the rest of america to realize they should be voting tech guys into office and not jackass lawyers.
He's not referring to those, he's referring to the top message:

> Get a Chromebook for the holidays: the computer powered by Chrome.
"For the people" is frankly a bullshit metric. Different presidents can and will act differently even if they're both on the same "for the people" level. Even with a completely cynical view, they'll at least have a different set of lobbyists who they're loyal to.
I was spammed with so many of these emails that I never really cared to check what Badoo is. I just created a filter to delete them as soon as they hit my inbox.

And I don't think I will ever try. I'm still pissed at it.
I'm not in Switzerland but I'm a Frenchman in the Netherlands, and I believe the situation is the same.

Basically, there is plenty of content with geographic limitations. Something that might be less visible from the US but that can be pretty annoying once outside.

And that's without counting missing services such as Hulu or Netflix, for the same reasons.
You are looking it from the wrong point of view. NeXT IS really successful. Its technology is the heart of millions of devices, from computers to phones, and even part of the culture of the manufacturing process spill over to Apple. NeXT's team as well, starting from Jobs was the starting point of Apple renaissance.
I think the OP is referring to the yellow bar at the top that says ‘Get a Chromebook for the holidays’.
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Well, the French 3-strikes law mandates that to ensure you won't be attacked in court for downloading, you have to install a monitoring software on your computer. So I think in this case, it could apply.

Of course, in such a case, the devil is in the details so maybe it does not apply because it's not asked to the ISPs to do that.
Binding of Isaac and Bastion had a fair bit of hype surrounding them at launch; is it fair to say that this is the case for all indie games you bought at launch?
I am wondering why there is no response to this post for such a long time. Did scala guys decided to show their disappointment by ignoring this post here?
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People seem to forget that wikipedia already has ads - giant
ads showing what Jimmy Wales' stylist has managed to conjure up this year, and more importantly very partisan text (note for instance Jimmy Wales assertion as wikipedia 'founder' where his wikipedia page lists him as 'co-founder'....)
Which version? What operating system? What plugins have you? I see several plugins in the screenshot - are you sure it isn't one of those plugins?

With what is known at the moment, I would not believe Google is doing this.
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Almost, but not quite. As far as I know, svn doesn't support rebase -i.

Also, part of the point of the workflow is to make sure all commits to the official repo are clean code. Using a feature branch means that the official repo contains commits like "Halfassed implementation of foo, joe take a look at it".
I got this a couple of days ago. It links to: http://www.google.com/chromebook/index.html

Despite the panic in the Google+ comments, there's a cross next to the ad, just click it and you don't see it again.

It's no big deal, IMO.

Edit: this is the yellow box at the top of the screenshot on the + page. I'm use the current version of Chrome on OSX, in the UK. I have no plugins / extensions.
This is laughable. I tried voice commands on a Windows Phone 7 device and it could not even make out the simplest of commands, whereas an old iPhone with the pre-siri "voice commands" was at least able to call people and control music playback. Microsoft has plenty of budget to get some decent voice recognition technology; it was just never a priority for them.
Yes and no, I obviously have to know about the game to buy it at launch. And I have to be confident it's not a halfway chance of shooting myself in the foot. This has improved since I started regularly reading RPS, but before that Steam Sales were actually a great way to discover small Indie games: they're often featured pretty prominently, and /r/gaming and neogaf tend to have massive reco threads around sales, that's how I discovered gems like Atom Zombie Smasher.

But I tend to buy indie games at launch more often than "big name" $60 stuff.
Did Gruber made your Android phone cry? lets keep the "tool" part out, please. Completely unnecessary.

Gruber's point is obviously biased towards Apple but it doesn't lack truth or facts. NPD report is sketchy at best and gives a distorted view of the current scene, which is the opposite of what this kind of reports should do.

As for the marketshare it's interesting because so far what we are seeing is that the iPad is not behaving like the iPhone but more like the iPod. It makes sense, after all. The phone market its heavily subsidized and people choose phones based on carrier availability and special deals. A lot of the growth of Android can be attributed to 2x1 deals, middle range phones that are not used as smartphones and the lack of iPhone on Verizon and Sprint until recently. Im not saying that Android isn't a great OS or that Android phones can't be awesome and cutting edge -lots of them are-, just that when you analyze the Android growth you cannot discount these things.
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It is really an ad, no plugin or other trick. I also noticed this two days ago, I have a screenshot with it on my blog (link is on my profile, not posting it here). After a while the ad seems to be disappearing for good.
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