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Ask HN: Who's coming to 28c3?
For the uninitiated: events.ccc.de/congress/2011/wiki/Main_Page

The Chaos Communication Congress is europe's premier hacker conference. It's my first time at this or indeed any such event, and it'd be great to see some HNers there. I'll be the one with the ill-advisedly long hair speaking loudly in an english accent, although I anticipate that this may not help to narrow it down much. Hell, it doesn't even narrow it down within my own circle of friends. Oh well. If you see someone you think might be me, run over and give them the Secret Hacker News Handshake™

Anyway, very much looking forward to some serious ad-hoc hacking, some new years eve carousing, and the warm sense of satisfaction that can only be derived from the ruinination of a decades-old event by ones mere presence as a newcomer. Hopefully I'll come away without any soldering iron burns, darwin rootkits or sexually transmitted diseases. Fingers crossed. See you there.
Mozilla is putting a lot of resources; including some of their best coders, into advancing mobile. I don't see the same on Google's side. Am I wrong?
The fact that they get the coverage they do alone seems like proof enough that they have something going for them, though probably more on the PR side than the technical side. Since their goals are ideological and not technical, they are achieving exactly what they are aiming for.
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I dunno about this.

I'm sure that what you say is true in many places, but I lived in Fukuchiyama, northern Kyoto, from 2001-2003 which seemed to be a fairly average city of 70,000, about 90 km from any substantially larger city. I happened to visit again recently, and I was struck by all the gleaming new construction, and the impressively rebuilt train station.
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They are actually very much alike. Personally I prefer Forth for having less "magic"- a basic Forth kernel is much smaller and simpler than a bare-bones Lisp system. Postfix notation also seems a more elegant (if initially less familiar) solution to a homoiconic language than Lisp's nested parentheses.
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No it hasn't. Works for me.
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Flagging as deliberate FUD.

1. The BSA supported SOPA. You cannot infer from that the position of any particular one of its members on SOPA. Organizations often take positions that are not unanimous among their members.

2. The BSA changed its mind. This indicates in fact that many of its members are against SOPA.

3. The very first line of the article notes this change.
Part of being a good writer is making arguments that make sense. If you use such a broken premise as this, then it casts your whole argument into doubt.
Android and iPhone are the only mobile platforms worth worrying about for the rather longterm goal of improving the web, both have good browsers.

So unlike Mozilla Google is not practically irrelevant on mobile platforms, why then should they invest more money?
Interesting idea. Slightly buggy on the web host detection, some domains (e.g. my own - adamgibbins.com) return "RIPE Network Coordination Centre" as the host (its actually Linode - UK, hence RIPE).

Seems you're incorrectly picking the "OrgName" from the IP whois.
Again, it doesn't really matter. Most countries have laws and respect the rule of law. Same principle applies, except places where the rule of law doesn't hold.
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined, by Steven Pinker, was my favorite.
25 Winter Backgrounds for Design Inspiration
Winter has many visually beautiful elements to it. This collection breaks the designs into three categories: landscapes, illustrations, and holidays. Between these inspirational images, you should be able to get out there and find backgrounds for your designs, whether it’s for a web project, greeting cards, or a print ad.
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We are looking for help at Community Plates (http://communityplates.org) - we are a non-profit that gets extra food (that is still good obviously) from restaurants and grocery stores that would normally be thrown out and we deliver it to food pantries and soup kitchens.

We use software to connect all of the volunteers with the food runs. We started in April and have over 100 volunteers plugged in to date and are growing quickly. We started in Fairfield County, CT to validate the concept and are so happy with the response we've gotten from the community. We're going to add a few more cities at the beginning of 2012.

On the dev side, it's built in PHP on the Kohana framework, with jQuery mobile, and it's tough for me to keep up on my own with my day job and would love some help although it will take a few hours to get your footing so it's probably not worth someone's time unless you can commit 20 hours or so.

If you or anyone else is interested or has any questions let me know.

Thanks.
In re: "Christmas from Down Under" (and the southern hemisphere in general): I always think it's a trip that y'all are in the peak of summer at Christmas time. We have all kinds of songs, rituals, artifacts, whatever that derive from the fact that it's cold outside: I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas; tinsel on christmas trees to simulate icicles; drinking Eggnog.

Question: do you Christmas bits reflect that it's winter outside somewhere else or do you have a separate bunch of Christmas bits to reflect that it's summer during your Christmas?
Google has said from the beginning that the purpose of Chrome was to move the web forward, not compete with other browsers, and I had forgotten that.
Q: does google win billions from this deal?

A:yes

Q: does google donatethis money?

A: no.

Q: what is TFA worth then?

A: oh, wait.

so.yeah. right.
I disagree that both have good browsers. What I'm worried about is the lack of emphasis that seems to be placed; Android browser is missing a lot of html5 features (according to caniuse.com it only supports 66% of current features in Android 4.0).

Mozilla, on the other hand, seems to be making mobile a priority with all of the work they are doing in WebAPI. Their browser is updating a lot faster than Android's, which I believe still only updates with OS upgrades.
is it about market shareor advancing mobile?

the point, right there.
Android's browser isn't nearly as good as Chrome or Firefox and only gets updated with the OS (which means never, for most phones).
NearlyFreeSpeech.net appears not to have any such clause.

https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net/policies/

As with any registrar / host operating in the US, they will be subject to court orders.
You must be popular and attractive because these kind of mistakes get normal people fired. This thread makes my stomach hurt thinking I might work with some of you.
Your Year in Review
How was your year? The good point, the bad points and new things you've learned. Share it with the Hacker News community!
They have sponsored and released the only modern smartphone OS that isn't locked down to one company like iOS. They (through Android) are to Apple, what OpenOffice/LibreOffice is to MS Office. They are the reason Apple don't own smartphone. With Google/Android what would be the Apple competitor? Blackberry? OpenMoko?!
I do downtown Oakland to Mountain View in 45-70 minutes, depending on traffic. It's bad, especially at rush hour (or during any unpredictable traffic delay), and moving to MV is one of my goals for 2012. However, if you don't have to go to the office every day, and if you sometimes go to SF instead, it's possible to buy a 1BR/1BA condo in downtown Oakland for about $100k. Just don't count on using any city services (schools, Oakland PD, hospitals), or going anywhere worthwhile (other than whole foods) without driving to SF or Mountain View, or maybe Berkeley or Emeryville.
Alstair Sim as Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" (1951) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/
I honestly cannot speak for everyone, of course we have our own Aussie Christmas carols with your reindeers replaced with kangaroos which to me seem more to be satire. But we have still been Nothern-hemispherized in the traditional christmas sense. Our decorations have snow, every figurine is rugged up etc. I could send you a picture of my christmas tree, it would be indistinguishable from your generic tree.

It surely doesn't snow in all parts of the Northern Hemispher and I guess you can draw similarities to that. The funny thing is, for more Christmas's then I can remember, it has actually been quite wet and stormy, today it is beautiful and sunny.
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I have not been convinced SOPA is a bad thing. I read the bill and all the chicken little posts around the web and even asked someone to show me the basis of their fear. I have never received any response beyond the chicken little screams of terror.

I admit I may be missing something. I've explained my point of view from what I've read. All I hear in response ranges from the whole internet will crash down upon our heads to every site in existence today will be taken down and sued to everybody's going to die cause they can't get their Canadian medicine.

Such fantastic psychotic episodes only lead to my cynicism.
Empirically doesn't seem to be true, since high-quality fiction and non-fiction is currently produced even when there isn't a profit motive. There's still ways to make money from writing, e.g. by asking people to give donations totalling a certain amount before releasing the next chapter, etc.
The licence does not specify 120 days. The licence does not specify a minimum or maximum. It's up to a judge to decide if what HTC are doing is in compliance with the GPL licence. They may not be.
I would've thought this was obvious. Google didn't just pay $300 to stop Firefox from using Bing, although I'm sure that played a big role, too, but I believe the reason Mozilla got $300 million was because they knew how to negotiate the price up. I don't think Mozilla really wanted to change to Bing.

Also, Google is a lot better off having an ally in Mozilla. Not so much because they don't want Bing to get a lot of users, but because together with Mozilla they have over 50% of the browser market share, and since the whole total of that market share includes very modern browser versions(Chrome always on latest version, Firefox not too far behind with the old ones), Google and Mozilla can pretty much dictate where the web is going now. I wouldn't be surprised if for those $300 million they also got Mozilla to accept using Native Client in Firefox later on. I think this part of the partnership matters more than just stopping Bing from becoming the default search on Firefox.
Starting with ICS it is Chrome.
My sites are relatively insignificant, I only reach an audience of 100k-200k users.

My post was intended as a message of encouragement for those with a significant non-techie userbase to bite the bullet and consider a protest shutdown.

It's my belief that non-techie users are far more likely to take an anti-SOPA shutdown maintenance page more seriously than a forum post or added element in the regular page layout of a site.
This article is BS. Google is a for-profit public company, hence google wants to make more money for google's shareholders. If they can do that by pushing chrome (advertizing platform) or firefox (OSS platform that they want to control) then that's what they will do. It doesn't matter what browser you use, so long as you look at their ads. Never mind their horrible privacy practices (2038 cookie) and associated shenanigans.
It looks stunning.

It hadn't occurred to me that phones could be used as sophisticated remote controllers. What technology do you use for real-time communication?
Surely if they can find one part of the Linux kernel that the FSF has copyright to, then that opens the floodgates, and the full (legal) weight and force of the FSF can stand behind this? So so long as they have one part, they can fight this.
I use HN specifically because it is NOT monetized. If I wanted monetized I'd go to reddit/digg/facebook/tumblr.
OT, but amusing:

SOPA means "Shut up" in Greek (σώπα), while PIPA (πίπα) means "blow job".

Is the legislator telling us "shut up and blow me"?
In the context of this posting, I'm specifically talking about the mobile web.
How is that incompatible with bringing the web forward?

Making sure the web is an open platform make sure no one control the technology, therefor Google have more opportunities to display ads. And also people have more opportunities to compete with Google too.

Nothing forces you to visit Google properties, etc.
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Unfortunately you do not have DNSSEC or IPv6 glue record support though.
Interesting. I guess I'm not too surprised that your Christmas bits are much like ours. "Rudolph the red-nosed Kangaroo"? Awesome.
OS upgrades that a lot of Android users don't get. If I want to get an up to date browser on my Nexus One, I have to use Firefox... as Google said they no longer support the phone.

iOS users are in the same boat, but Apple has been providing much more support to older devices.
And lots of users won't even get ICS. Galaxy S, Galaxy Tab 7", Nexus One, etc.
Or perhaps this advice is just ahead of its time or beyond the mainstream or however you want to put it. The idea of accepting any constraint on the amount of code we churn out is alien to us. We take for granted that complex systems must grow arbitrarily large. What if we're wrong?
This is not Chrome's purpose. Everything between the user and the monetization mechanism (advertisement) is strategic to Google. It just doesn't sound as warm and fuzzy when they say it like that.
I found this after a quick search. http://givecamp.org/ . Not exactly the same idea, but it's on a good track.
Peter's drinking a bit too much of the Kool-Aid.

Chrome advances the web. It does this because it's damn good. It's forced others to be good. None of this has anything to do with the point being made in the OP he's responding to.

Everything between the user and the monetization mechanism (advertisement) is strategic to Google. To believe otherwise is to be delusional. It's like the people who thought they could partner with Microsoft in the 90s and it'd be good for them.
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It makes the text in it hard to read for me. Maybe a better contrast?
It's funny you should cite limited cognitive capacity, because the same starting point leads me in exactly the opposite direction.

"Human brainpower is limited, so we should use weaker languages" seems a strange argument. The whole point of using more powerful languages is that they can express more with less, allowing us to fit more into limited human RAM. It's because our brains can't manage millions of details that we don't build systems directly out of machine instructions in the first place and resort to cleverer strategies like higher-level languages. At what point along the way does that process stop being valid?
I like #cobol, even though there seems to be a surprising lack of programmer talk :D
Hn is like gmail. Not a direct profit center, but a strategic asset of great value.
Freakin' g+ gives me a link to cut-n-paste, and it's broken.

https://plus.google.com/107781042718674753240/posts

I think. :)
Why Hasn’t Safari Skyrocketed Like Chrome Has?
You can edit your comments...
Is there anywhere a text-only version? I really prefer written words to videos.
You are mistaken. Most industries are highly complex and nuanced. Predictably, the details may not be obvious to outsiders who only see the fluffy summary of how it works.
I don't think Anon holds itself out as "elite hackers" at all. Most of the time, they're quite open about how easy their takedowns are from a technical perspective. It's usually basic XSS, etc. and reflects poorly on the targets, rather than showing how clever the attack is.
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Perhaps you've not read any of the well written posts about the bill. Here is a start:

http://www.stanfordlawreview.org/online/dont-break-internet

And not that it's a means to basis your entire belief on, but look at the people opposing this bill, and what they have to say:

http://dq99alanzv66m.cloudfront.net/sopa/img/12-14-letter.pd...
Happy Christmas all! Enjoyed my second year immensely with you guys.
Yes - their debt is held locally. And they own a huge chunk of ours. This means that they have less currency risk in the case of deflatiOn. Perversely, the citizens are loaning the govt hundreds of billions to buy loans whose value depreciates as their currency strengthens.

The Japanese deflation was good for consumers and tourists alike. Unfortunately the exchange rates are making it expensive to visit again. Too bad - it's such a fascinating place.
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Especially with Mister Knuth, he's borderline stuttering sometimes; hard to follow.
They believe it's good.

If the consumer doesn't, they can walk.
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From wikipedia:

"The originally proposed bill would allow the U.S. Department of Justice, as well as copyright holders, to seek court orders against websites accused of enabling or facilitating copyright infringement. Depending on who requests the court orders, the actions could include barring online advertising networks and payment facilitators such as PayPal from doing business with the allegedly infringing website, barring search engines from linking to such sites, and requiring Internet service providers to block access to such sites. The bill would make unauthorized streaming of copyrighted content a crime, with a maximum penalty of five years in prison for 10 pieces of music or movies within six months. The bill also gives immunity to Internet services that voluntarily take action against websites dedicated to infringement, while making liable for damages any copyright holder who knowingly misrepresents that a website is dedicated to infringement.[4]"

If you find this misleading or incorrect, let us know. Here's the original: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-112hr3261ih/pdf/BILLS-112...
I work at Mozilla, and the atmosphere between us and Chrome is not the high-stakes cage match people would have it be. At a fundamental level there's only so much market share, but at an engineer-level, we're insulated from such corporate politics. It's a cooperative atmosphere, and we both succeed with each others' help and knowledge.
I'm also missing captions (Netflix for TV, for other devices certain movies have them).

Me & my wife used to (and still do) learn quite a lot new words from there, and also how to pronounce certain words, and understand.

Lately it was very useful for us, as we can turn down the volume, and not disturb our son while he's sleeping. Just a notch up & down for music/sounds, and reading the rest of the movie.
"Plateaus" implies a two-dimensional outlook on life, which is not even how life works. Life isn't even four dimensional. It has many, many dimensions that grow and die out. You can be happy, sad, afraid, and horny all at the same time. I.e. happiness is just an emotion, and you can feel several emotions at the same time.

This is such a primitive outlook that I don't even.

The author is clearly existing on the second circuit of Leary's model, the one that introduces "up/down" dimension. Here's the URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-circuit_model_of_consciou...

Judging from how popular alcohol is in the US, and the fact that alcohol activates this circuit, I'd say that the author is drunk.
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At a glance it looks gray and gray. If I stare, I can make out the red and can see that the green is a different color, but I really only recognize that it's green because people mentioned it being green.

So, I concur with the bah humbug to colorblindness statements.
It would help if you gave a short explanation of what the NDAA is. I realize it may be something I don't know about since I'm not American, but still, I'm interested.
[citation needed]

According to this HTML5 compliance test, the ICS browser scores 230 (out of 450), while Chrome 15 desktop browser scores 342. Why would these browsers have such distant scores if they shared the same browser core? For comparison, the Firefox 8 desktop browser scores 314 and the Firefox 8 mobile browser scores 314.

http://www.html5test.com/results-mobile.html
If you register, you can view the transcript, but unfortunately it is broken up by video so you can't view the whole thing. And it's unedited, so the stuttering is part of the text.

Edit: Knew I had seen the full text somewhere, managed to find this: https://github.com/kragen/knuth-interview-2006
Merry Christmas from an atheist! ;)

And Happy Holidays to the rest!
I use Chrome on all platforms for which it's available for three reasons:

1. It's fast

2. It updates automatically

3. It has a single location/search bar

For me, that's it. Really.
Old Android browser versions are going to become the "IE6" of this decode.
Merry Christmas! Thanks for all the great articles
With great respect to the well informed comments here, anyone working at a B2C startup should at least consider the benefits in traffic and brand equity that regularly producing attractive and digestible infographics can provide.

Even without meeting HN level quality standards, many users appreciate these types of visualizations.
12 Apps in 2012
Thanks a lot, just when i started using Backbone!