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"People must have the right to control the software running on devices they own," said SFLC counsel Aaron Williamson. "That right is essential to the continued development of free and open source software and is foundational to our privacy, security, and freedom, online and off."

He nails it completely.
I know exactly what you mean. I'm going to assume you are a single founder - like me.

There's a lot of pressure to succeed, that you feel before launch, but what I found useful is to look at what exactly do you mean by "launch". I discovered (more like realised) that launch can mean "opening up your site to the public", which I did. But then it struck me that even though it is available, you are never really launched until you start to market the thing. Why? because - and here's the crucial bit - nobody knows it's there!

So I just opened up the project, and guess what, all the fears went away. I'm not really sure why, but I think it's because if someone does stumble upon it it no longer matterswhat they think because I haven't formally started the promotion effort. Sure if they give me feedback that's all good, but that's something else.

Now I think I understand the sentiment about iteration to make improvements and failing fast that were not clear to me before I opened it to the public.
One thing I've never understood about the music industry regarding the marketing argument - why don't the really big, successful artists just pay for their own marketing? Hire a team to do it for them and skip out the labels entirely. They would surely make more money and have total control of their music rights.
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What you're saying, your system is not supporting music files? This sounds problematic but it can definitely be solved. Anyway, have you checked your Realtek AC97 Sound Driver, yet?
I don't see any problem with using the arrow keys.

As someone said, when programming typing isn't my bottleneck, thinking is.

Full touch-typing speed is a must for court clerks -- not for programmers, and also not even for writers.
Yeah, I would assume so. Its name certainly implies that it's meant to block all ads. If something called AdBlock was letting through some % of ads, the Occam's razor explanation is that it's just buggy/imperfect, since it's actually a hard problem to get 100% coverage of anything.
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Lol, can't blame the writer for not understanding how Europe works. It's actually a bunch of countries, not states.
Sometimes you could write in Ruby/Python/Perl but it's a good idea to make a shell script instead, so that sysadmins can understand it.
I don't think that we get anything yet but we indeed hope to get some income this way to make the project sustainable.

Ugh. This throws the motives of the project into question. An ad-blocking project that wants to get paid by advertisers?
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There is tons of HR documents that I researched, but in the end I found that the most important way to be genuinely flexible and family-friendly is to listen to your team and then think creatively about finding ways to fit with their needs but also of course be part of a dynamic business. I think its more about attitude and approach than the specific way you do things.

Our business won two awards for our flexible practices and I believe that the reason we were ahead of the competition was that when the judges visited I was able to point to real results not just reams of HR policies and documents.

Founders and early staff really understand that they need to get a lot done and they should also be highly motivated to contribute to the business success. If the business takes the view that it can give people some flexibility in return then this can work out really well.

Some of the people who 'need' the flexibility should be founders or part of the key management team. In a startup you have tremendous control over the way your systems and business practices are set up - think about your family needs when doing this. Allow people to find what works for them. One of my cofounders found that she worked best after your children went to sleep and so we got a huge amount done between 9pm and midnight. We built all our systems so people could work from home and told our team that if their kids were sick they could work from home to look after them. That safety net makes a big difference.
dash is portable in the sense that Debian needs it to be: they can port it to the architectures and systems that they need it to work on.

dash is also portable in the sense that you need it to be: it implements the POSIX shell spec and not much more, so it's likely that you have access to all its features when you need to use another shell as well.
It's a substantial win for sure. Of course it is unlikely that Motorola will try to enforce the ban, but it gives them an excellent bargaining position.
The GPL doesn't prevent this behavior, nor is it intended to.
How is this a HN worthy story?
I have normal colour vision, but the Van Gogh self portrait in the Musee D'Orsay is one of the most beautiful paintings I've ever seen.
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I don't think that most of the paintings look better or more interesting in the protanomal simulation, some of them actually have lost their magic and look dull. I find this most visible in the self-portrait, of which the author writes: the man whom one cannot approach easily.

The tinge of green in the original portrait makes this man much harder to approach, because it adds the psychotic, unusual aura to the picture. This man has left the world of commonly shared human experience.

The author remarks that in the picture The Road Menders the trees have a strange color and after conversion look more solid, giving some depth to the road. So the picture looks more like what we would expect, in other words: we see the usual.

But this is contrary to the kind of psychotic perception of the world, which I associate with van Gogh's paintings, at least with those paintings that we would call typical van Gogh (there are paintings from the earlier dutch period, which have a different character): Reality is distorted, colors deviate from the ordinary, everything is flowing together and swirling, the wheat, the sky, the world. Proportions are deranged, look at the painting of his bedroom for example:

http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Datei:Vincent_Will...

Theo van Gogh, his brother, wrote 1889 in a letter to his future wife a characterization of Vincent van Gogh: "As you know, he has broken since a long time with everything what we call convention. The style of his clothes and his behaviour show that this is a special human, and since many years people who see him will say: This is a madman."
Wladimir has stated on the Adblock forum that one of the goals with this move is for the project to receive financial compensation from advertisers. You tell me if that's a good thing for an ad-blocking project.
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I don't think it's related to how 'techie' you are. It's more to do with culture.

Let's not pretend this is a "early adopter tech people know how to block ads, the masses will surely follow in time" thing. It's not.

You'd find similar massive disconnects if you asked who has a TV, who loves "Transformers" movies, and so on.
And you know how they voted because?..
Maybe you're way too easily distracted and should solve that issue.

Edit: Come on... life is full of distraction. When you go shopping do you shut your eyes in case you see "SALE AT PENNYS!!!", or do you just ignore things that don't interest you? Jeez
I am managing projects in an Open-Hardware community. My personal observation says - yes. The chief reason being, a large number of ideas. The good ones tend to get lost, or ignored. My role is to constantly review the new ideas, at the same time to make sure that the old on-going projects are not stalled. I also make sure that the repetition of effort does not happen.
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My apps are all up.
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I'm struck by how bland some of the altered images are! Sure, still impressive but there is a certain quality of the spontaneity of the abrupt introduction of new or contrasting color that is lost is some of the transformations. As my personal preference I had to admit I much prefer the original although that's not to say they aren't magnificent works of art regardless.
The presentation from which this article is adapted was a definite highlight of the Ru3y Manor conference (and received rapturous applause).

I highly recommend watching the video of the original presentation at http://rubymanor.org/3/videos/programming_with_nothing/ as Tom Stuart's public speaking skills made this a thoroughly enjoyable (if a little mind-bending) talk.
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:help command-mode goes to the same place as :help normal-mode. I'd rather call it normal mode, because that isn't easily confused with the command-line mode.
This is what makes me question the colour blind theory. Although they are very strong in places, the colours all work together.

If he was colour blind surely there would be patches of green and patches of non-green instead of smooth colour. How could he possibly match the same colours over and over again each time he mixed his paints if he couldn't tell the difference?
I like that HN tends to stay away from reddit-style sensationalist titles. I suppose here the OP is just copying the original title verbatim, but it's still misleading.

Regarding the article itself, hopefully this will help popularise the fact that software patents are a bad joke.
Cannot upvote this enough. I think that's actually the whole point. ABP was always "impartial": all ads were blocked. Deciding which ads are blocked, and which ones aren't is already a subjective decision. BUT, knowing that you can make agreements with ABP folks to get your ads through is insane. Makes all other arguments moot.
The post points out that the station-by-turnout data are weighted, so the "very small precinct" argument does not fly (and why would all the very small stations all have numbers of votes that are multiples of five)? In addition, why don't we get anything remotely like the same effect in Sweden, where large parts of the country are also very sparsely populated,?

Polling stations abroad are counted in the same way as polling stations in Russia. The "traveller" votes were a prime mechanism for ballot stuffing.
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It's not that bad. I use Postgres and ought to keep up with their release schedule myself, but I've off-shored that bit of housekeeping to HN instead.
Google has now taken on the location-based social networking website Foursquare with the launch of Schemer.com. The new Google website aims to help users find new things to do, share "schemes" with friends, and "make the most of your day." Also considered to be Google's answer to Facebook's 'Events', Schemer allows users to select activities/events they are interested in and let their friends know about it. Apart from keeping track of completed activities, the website will also recommend new schemes depending on users' interests.
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Perhaps it is the wording, but I actually have no understanding of what you just said. I'm interested though, so can you expand on that a bit?
The article doesn't use the word state anywhere, but one of the definitions of state is "a politically unified people occupying a definite territory; nation.", so yes, Europe consists of multiples states.
The author's argument seems to be hinging on his notion that Google has "superior everything", "it is Google after all".

I was with him to a point - the notion of absorbing products into features of G+ is a powerful strategy that would make it difficult for the competition - but the problem with this approach for Google is that it takes their search product further and further away from what made it great in the first place. Taking this strategy to its logical conclusion almost by definition means making search more complicated than it needs to be.

Google likes to say its mission is organizing the world's information, but its customers like to believe that Google's mission is simple, effective search. When it comes to defining the brand, the customer always wins. This could be Google's downfall.
The countries in the EU are known as 'Member States'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_state_of_the_European_Un...

Edit: Also the author of the piece is a native of an EU member state

Edit2: Also now that I look I don't actually see the article mention the word 'state'.

What the hell, man?
Very good move, this way it is a deterrent for sites that use "bad" advertising, and not an economical problem for sites using ADs reasonably.
Because their management told them how to vote.
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Thanks, I'll take a look at that. The same thing was happening on Chrome in Windows for awhile, but I thought I had fixed it :(
"protanomal simulation" sure looks like an unsharp mask (with some contrast added) to me

OT but I really like that blog theme, very clean and easy to read
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EU legislation doesn't use the word 'country' anywhere, and neither does anyone working in the Commission. The EU is made up of 'Member States' in the parlance.
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I agree. This is presentation was brilliant and I'd really encourage people to watch it.
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... because they were issued with voting papers already filled in. Check out the Al Jazeera reports on the election fraud.
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Just to confuse things even more, some of the member states are made up of more than one country.
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That's why I said "stalled" and not "halted" or "stopped". I'm surprised the discussion is around the wording of the title, half of which is your choice of wording, rather than the content. It's an interesting thing that a major open source development effort has hit a road bump in development, and the steps to solve it are interesting.
"...a watered down version or just serve them up crapply encoded videos/images etc"

That is actually a REALLY good idea - serve up smaller, low resolution content and let me easily BUY the higher resolution content (as a download, not some kind of time-limited thing) via a micropayment scheme.

That sounds better than an ad-supported model to me. However, I disagree with the idea that webmasters will "win" this battle - filtering proxies will just get more prevalent, smarter and easier for the average user to install and run. All my LANs already use Privoxy and I'm toying with enforcing it via Group Policy / WPAD / PAC.
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Well just like the pill, science can come to our rescue over here too. As the costs associated with cryonically storing tissue drops with improvement in technology and methodology, sooner or later it will be possible for almost all women to get their eggs stored for later use in their 20s.

Just imagine the tectonic shift that will take place when this happens. It will change the world in such a deep way that the pill will pale in comparison. Maybe future generations past that point will see such discussions as a symptom of a primitive society.
Given the level of effort involved in such a construction and the low quality of this blog post I suspected this post to be ripped off. A quick Google later revealed the original and much more awesome source:

http://tesladownunder.com/Xmas.htm
Corrolary : if piracy leads to anything above 1 sell for 3500 illegally downloaded songs, it is actually more beneficial to majors that Spotify is.
"author overstates [...] user's willingness to have every eggs in the Google's basket."

Most users don't care. They're not thinking about the wider implications of Google having all the information Google+ will accumulate. That's completely incidental to their goal, which is to keep up to date and share stuff with their friends. And they want that to "just work".

They want convenience, which means not wanting to have to get past obstacles like logging into a completely different site to share a file. Even if the UI Google offers is a bit more sucky than the competition, e.g. dropbox, not having to go to the competition in the first place can easily be enough to make the Google experience the overall winner.

If they think about the "eggs in Google's basket" problem at all, many will see that they give Google all their personal info (name, dob, email address, location?, etc...) to use Google features, and they give Facebook all the same personal info to use Facebook features, and they give some other company a subset of their personal info to use, e.g. file-sharing features, etc.... Seeing as how Google already has the personal information they think about when they think about personal information, it won't occur to them that the meta-information Google will get from tying together. Rather, 3 or 4 companies have their personal information now, and they could reduce that to 1 by doing everything with Google.
Nice, but I wonder about ways to circumvent this. If locking down users is central to a company's business can they force users into accepting that they "rent" the devices instead of "buying"?
* try websocket
* on failure, fallback to comet

It's fairly easy to implement.
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Similar, but not exactly the same. Contact groups are more of a memory aid. You just need to be able to find the person, and most of the time this is the only consideration. Circles involve privacy and thus they also involve social considerations.

For instance, I'd have all my f* buddies in the same group but not in the same circle. People who I don't want to discuss my stuff together I wouldn't have in the same circle, and this happens a lot.

That said, it's been a while I don't even use contact groups, I have just 2 lists: people I actively communicate with (time doesn't allow for a ton of these) and people I seldom communicate with, or whose contact I may or may not need. I've also learnt to delete people who I don't need or want in my contacts, and found it to be a great life-hack.
Same here. It started with Youtube attempting to merge their accounts and Google accounts. A fine idea, but for me, the execution was lacking, not knowing which account to sign into, not being able to use multiple Google accounts on different sites, etc.

Another thing is that Google doesn't always make the best products. By far.

> As Blogger becomes an easily customizable face for a Google+ public stream, Tumblr will have more trouble succeeding with its blogging product.

I'm not sure if the author has used much of Blogger, but it is horrendous, and terrible if you want to do anything slightly more powerful than a simple blog. Wordpress completely outclasses it.
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since I'm a little bit disappointed with the newtwitter newlayout, i made a tiny greasemonkey script to fix it, and I'm sharing it with you.

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Came here to say this and I accidentally bought the basics version instead of the more extensive one.

Oh well, I really liked the YouTube videos so the author more than deserves it. It's just that those obvious price hikes get under my skin especially for e-books. Or is it that Amazon includes any taxes they have to pay to the EU in the price?