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Click on "Add your own", and then click go Back in your browser.
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Android uis are made from widgets with standardised look and feel.

The app developer would have a good idea what it would look like.

Our framework at uiq had rather more theming etc than android, but still we were happy with the outcome
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Interesting. How are they not transparent, though?

I still think they're doing good work, so I'm not going to stop my monthly donation any time soon btw :-)

And about your last paragraph, I don't think it's because BoF soaking up expertise that the Dutch Pirate Party couldn't properly explain their position and ideals when GeenStijl/POWnews interviewed them in a very uncharacteristic positive manner (GS wanted them to succeed, but they just stammered).

And even then there was no excuse for blogging "Big Tits Cause Earthquakes" [response to the Telegraaf's "Pirates Caused Pukkelpop Disaster"]--that was the moment I unfortunately could not take them serious as a political party any more. I get it was a joke, but you just can't do that if you're an official political party blog and your 1) alienating some female voter audience with such headlines and 2) communicating to the rest of your audience that you apparently don't understand that [and consequently, how will they be defending their vision in real politics?].

It's sad because I would have loved to have a real good Pirate Party like Sweden or Germany have.
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Except there is NO way for readers to opt out. Please, you promised this five months ago: give us a global cookie to opt out of it everywhere.

Failing that, the minimum barely acceptable option would be to remember when I turn it off on each website.
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I would add that the material tends to be academic without requiring a great deal of prior knowledge, though you do have to deal with a bit of preaching about statistics if your focus is on cognition.
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Well, if the competitor you're talking about is Grooveshark: AFAIK, their adobe air client is for the most part a legacy application. Grooveshark used to be all flash in the past, so they made the desktop app with AIR.

They seem to invest all their effort into the (very good) HTML(5) client and into mobile apps now.
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This headline is ridiculous, this has nothing to do with WePay and I dont think using a bait and switch tactic to raise money for charity it at all ethical.
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Thanks for posting this. Great food for thought and something to learn from. And to make sure you would leave in a relevant situation... where he did not.
Here's some feedback on this specific version: let me opt out of it globally, on every single website on the Internet. Thank you.
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I think the Android version does have a cache beside the offline playlists. At least there is an option to set the size in settings.
> Do I really want to live in a world where great thoughts and works of literature are squashed into 140 characters? Nope. God, I hope not.

Don't worry. As you know all too well, I was cursed at birth to write weighty tomes. If the world gets squashed to 140 characters, just send me an email. ;)
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whether or not the they publish this information - if it exists indeed - will it really matter?

I mean; why bother with a future that does not exist yet? If it gets out and holds to be genuine information then some fascist group (sect, terrorists, whoever) develops it and releases it into the wild... What will happen? WE DON'T KNOW. It could kill half of humanity but also only a few people, we can't say.

All we know for sure is that there may be hugely harmful virus data in some lab. That's all there is to say, future will tell what's gonna happen. Why bother with a future we can't predict?
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Woah. What? The iOS market is a 2.5 billion per year and growing. It is not unusual to only have one type of build system[1] supported per industry (major product line)[2].

[1] Mac with OS X 10.7 with XCode 3 or 4 using iOS API's

[2] The industry is considered the iPhone/iPod/iPad app store only because the other markets, Android and Blackberry, have non interchangeable binaries.
I wouldn't do an attack on Paul that directly (I like his essays), but I agree about this site and the Google snafu.

The 'more' button is just lame (and annoying, intentional or not) and that Google thing was quite weird; what technical person tries blocks Google search engines via ips? But one? Because it overloads their site? It's quite insane if you think about it. It also makes no sense in this 'big scale' world.

I would love a contest for bigmouths who think they can do better than Paul to make a HN clone which scales and have the functionalities needed without 'weird bugs'. Version that handles all HN traffic first without problems for long periods of time wins. Next stop, Reddit :) I know on both sites there are plenty of people (Disclaimer: I am one of these persons) who think they can do better than both, so let's make that interesting so we can have some fun.
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If I was on a limited budget and had to coddle together a demo condom.. use a waterballoon..? Is this a live demo or?
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Riak offers a lot more than the plain HTTP key/value that is S3.
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I assume the cluster is no longer running? I'm curious whether your inconsistent looking bucket had allow_mult set to true?
I think robots will completely replace humans on these kind of factories.
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When I was reading it I thought "Hmm, this reminds me of somebody", then I realized it is exactly who it reminded me of: Kwedit, post a pivot and name change.

That makes me optimistic for their long-term prospects and pessimistic for my dreams of Kweddit default swaps.
Last I was in an Apple store they put a sticker on the purchased goods (this was before the self-checkout).

I assume the sticker was proof-of-purchase (as receipt was being emailed).
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most of them are american educational websites, but there are also some from Portugal, Turkey, Azerbaijan, China etc. which are very authoritative high pr websites. I'm going to write a blog post with a full list of websites.
The issue isn't about whether it's surprising that a wealthy, well-connected Chinese kid goes to a school like Harvard or Oxford. The question is, how did a leader within the Chinese Communist Party get wealthy to begin with?
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But the American senator or German finance ministers aren't supposed communists who should only be earning around $22,000 per year from their positions. This is all what this article is about.
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Perhaps the title should be "How to be more interested" because that is what the tips are for. And in general, more interested people are more interesting.
Don't forget they are using WePay to collect money.
See also: "Battling the Internet Water Army: Detection of
Hidden Paid Posters"

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/1111/1111.4297v1.pdf
As opposed to the whims of a government bureaucracy? Large amounts of the "antibiotics" and other drugs available in the Soviet Union were saline solution, sterile saline if you were lucky. Do you really think any other dictatorial (ie, government run) system wouldn't sink to that state eventually?
You should still change the wrong title.
There's no theoretical reason to dismiss the possibility of a virus that quickly kills 50% of the population, as the article claims this virus could. Myxamatosis killed about 80% of Australian rabbits within a few years of its introduction to Australia.

Yes, it's true that the virus and host adapted to each other and it's nowhere near as deadly now, but we have a proof of concept of a virus that can do a lot worse than the flu virus in this article, and that's bad enough.
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Here's my addition: http://tempobook.com/

It's by the most excellent Venkatesh Rao: http://www.ribbonfarm.com
Revolutions (and maybe more importantly: the threat of revolt) have brought us quite far from the days of absolute rulers that could do whatever they liked to the population.

In other words: things will end up different because revolutions (amongst other change agents) have brought us to where we are, which still is a lot better than were we started.
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It doesn't seem to look or behave much like the Wave I remember. I'll play a bit more but there seems to quite a lot of functionality missing not to mention the rather drab appearance.
I'll help: The correct plural is "viruses".
If I understand it correctly, this is the experimental code that was supposed to be used in the research for a "big leap" in Javascript syntax considered by Mozilla around the middle of the previous decade.

Yes, that's how I remember it too.
I doubt it would be very difficult to social-engineer your way into being able to buy those materials if you had the money.
To me this is a rather neat solution and in a way how wave should have been distributed originally.

However i still find it hard to place wave. It feels too rigid to be used as a chat solution, and too confusing to be used as a messageboard. If anything it feels like an overly elaborate version of etherpad.
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Rabbits don't react to an epidemic, AFAIK. I doubt there could really come a bug that would actually wipe out a sizable portion of the humanity, simply because there are too many efficient and cost-effective things we could do. Like institute effective quarantine measures, or basic hygiene, or vaccines.

Like parent said, the major danger would be from the economic loss. Scared people won't go to work or to school - sometimes with good reason, and sometimes out of sheer panic. People who don't go to work are people who don't produce much, and if this happens on a large scale it'll be felt.
I'd like to address your WoG example. Firstly there are two types of pirates. Those that don't have the money to ever buy, those that have money. The first (and arguably largest group) will NEVER be your customer. These are people that can barely afford their internet. If there was no piracy these people would never get your game. Second group consists of two subgroups - those that might pay and those that wont. I'd argue that the first group is larger based on examples below. Also there are some transitions from people that can't pay into a group that might pay (e.g. a student gets a high paying job and can afford books/software that he pirated before).
However they are not a crux of my concerns. I think the value of piracy is a "word of mouth" advertisements. Even if only people that can't afford your game and pirate it there is going to be boon for your business (e.g. poor kid might have someone who is a bit richer and will buy the game to show off) if they spread good word about it.

"First is Monthy Python. A while back, the Monty Python team made a shedload of their sketches freely available in high quality on their own YouTube channel, hoping that as a result people would buy more DVDs. According to this widely linked story, the experiment has been not just successful, but wildly, crazily so. They’re reporting that sales of Monty Python DVDs at Amazon have increased by 23,000% — that’s 231-fold — since they made all that material available on Youtube."

(Neil Gaiman on books he published for free)
"Then I started to notice that two things that seemed much more significant. One of which was that places where I was being pirated -- particularly Russia (where people were translating my stuff into Russian and spreading it out into the world) I was selling more and more books. People were discovering me through being pirated. And then they were going out and buying the real books, and when a new book would come out in Russia it would sell more and more copies.

"That's really all this is. It's people lending books. And you can't look on that as a lost sale.... What you're actually doing is advertising. You're reaching more people. You're raising awareness. And understanding that gave me a whole new idea of the shape of copyright and what the web was doing. Because the biggest thing the web was doing is allowing people to hear things, allowing people to read things, allowing people to see things they might never have otherwise seen. And I think, basically, that's an incredibly good thing." "

Source: http://reprog.wordpress.com/2011/02/13/everyone-wins/
The answers are correct as to Wikipedia's licensing and its practices about mass downloads and spidering. But the more important question is why anyone would trust a lot of the information on Wikipedia, which is still chock full of systematic bias and amateur editing errors in its articles on many subjects. (I write this as a Wikipedian, who was formally trained in research in two noncognate languages before Wikipedia ever existed.)
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"I realized that when customers shop for shoes, they do three things. They consider the look and style. They try them on to see if they're comfortable. And they consider the price. Endorsements by famous athletes help a lot, too. But the technology, the features, the special-testing labs—I can't remember a single customer who cared."

Does this apply to software or online services? What do those customers really care about?
This isn't what the article says. Looking at the previous discussion when the main page of the Nature special issue was submitted

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3275179

shows that well enough. The Hacker News guidelines

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

say "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it." Here, the original article title and subtitle is "Scientists and autism: When geeks meet
Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen thinks scientists and engineers could be more likely to have a child with autism. Some researchers say the proof isn't there."

I'll flag this submission so that the curators can take a second look at the title.
Doesn't this have the same problem that Python's Twisted does -- that async calls may lack handlers for error conditions, and so errors may be silently ignored?
See the blog of Patrick Mc Kenzie ('patio11' on HN)
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Specifically
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Switzerland seems the only sane choice, IMHO. ;)
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Ask HN: How do startups manage their systems, policy and procedures?
What do companies like Google, Microsoft or Apple do to manage their systems ?

There is alot of talk about the methods to improve systems like Theory of constraint, Six sigma and lean thinking, how does that goes into all of this systems approach and managing them from a startup perspective ? According to the book E-Myth by Michael Gerber and The Goal by Eliyahu Goldratt; these folks advocate systems thinking and creating systems in your company.

But what if I'm a small startup with 10-20 employees, do I really need systems ? What if nobody cares about these documents and just do what they think is worth doing according to them ? And how do these systems/documents will help me in case of some disaster e.g. marketing failure or no revenue from products ? How do I get most out of these systems ?
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I really didn't see anything in the article that you can't glean by going to a store in person and watching the employees work.

Last time I was there I even asked the blueshirt to show me the battery pack/scanner apparatus attached to his phone. It was no big deal and he was happy to talk about it.
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Ok, now what's your next move? Well, you want to reproduce.

Even as an explanatory analogy, it's best to leave teleological explanations out of descriptions of evolutionary medicine. Your point in your grandparent post (the top comment in this thread) is correct that only actual real-world results can show whether an influenza virus is optimally designed (by human beings) to be both highly contagious and highly virulent. But precisely because that is an empirical question, there is no point to hand-waving arguments that a virus "wants" to reproduce. Viruses don't have volition about anything. Some viruses spread through an entire host population and make the host go extinct. It wouldn't help the future of Homo sapiens if a human-killing virus spread rapidly through humankind.
I'd say for at least a few hundred years!?
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>I doubt there could really come a bug that would actually wipe out a sizable portion of the humanity, simply because there are too many efficient and cost-effective things we could do. Like institute effective quarantine measures, or basic hygiene, or vaccines.

Maybe the rich, industrialized countries would be able to quarantine it quickly enough, but if it was released in, say, Africa, the governments there wouldn't be able to do much about it. Hygiene is helpful, but it only does so much against airborne pathogens, and even in hospitals where everyone is trained to wash their hands disease is spread all the time. As for vaccines, they take time to develop and deploy. Remember the H1N1 scare in 2009? That vaccine was in short supply at that time.

Quantitatively, the only real data in this thread is that it's possible for a virus to kill ~80% of a population like myxamatosis (oops, it looks like I was wrong - it's more like 95%: http://books.google.com/books?id=wnlB7EMtqFYC&pg=PA427&#... )

It's not obvious how much of a difference the factors you mention make. They could nip the virus in the bud so it only kills a handful of people, or they could make virtually no difference at all.
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Cute project, but does not sound very energy efficient to me.
> normally we investigate the spam reports without sending back specific feedback of what action we took in response

I understand why you have to do this, but I wish there was at least some transparency regarding confirmation that an issue has at least been looked at, as opposed to just filed as a spam report.

I've only reported one issue to Google before, and the site in question, though incredibly obviously bad, is still the top link on the SERP for the business.

Specifically, there's a pizza place here in Halifax, NS that looks like it didn't renew it's domain in time, and some people are squatting it with an old copy of the site plus their own spammy links. The site[1] displays a copy of the site from 2008 or so, with a banner on the top which reads:

> To previous domain owner: We bought this domain after expiration so it's not our fault that you lost it. We put old content for this domain only to avoid losing good quality of it from SEO point of view. If it's a problem for you contact us ASAP!

I reported it to Google months ago and never heard a word about it, but today when I search for the business name - which I'd imagine a lot of people do when looking for menus, phone numbers, etc. - the "compromised" site still ranks first on the SERP[2]. I wonder how many people even notice the banner telling customers that <jedi>this is not the page you're looking for</jedi>.

[1] http://jessys.ca

[2] https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jessys%20piz...
thats whats is happening to me also. Though we don't have attendance problem, but un-interesting teaching from professors have led to me not paying attention to me college academics and drama. do it your own. and best of luck!!!
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"Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy."
I'm pretty sure that even Apple isn't really concerned about a hand built, 5cm thick, Windows 7 running, rhinestone encrusted "tablet" being mistaken for an iPad.

So no.. that's not what I meant.
I'm not under 18, but personally refuse to use Paypal on the grounds of not wanting to support criminal activity (see Wikileaks blockade for the beast example), and really it's the same for CC. I'd probably have bought Minecraft ages ago if they'd support payment through other means, for example, PaySafeCard.

But anyways, I generally think it's pretty nonsensical to imply that piracy is a question of a maturity. Young people might simply have other reasons to pirate.