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I agree with the spirit of your comment, but it's important to keep in mind that similarly to corporations, non-profits will follow their own non-profit incentives: often irrational, impractical, borderline fanatical beliefs which may or may not align with regular people's interests.

This is exactly why it's so important to invite many different groups under one roof and get all possible perspectives out in the open. Everyone will follow their own interests which may or may not align with the interests of regular people, but somewhere in the middle of that, a pragmatic approach to the problem can be found.
My point is that at this point, voting for the greater evil is likely more productive.
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They will only light it up as it's purchased, which leads to supply / demand / pricing. The cost of lighting it up front is prohibitive and pointless to some degree as it depends on what the cables customers will need.

That being said, another cable system may help the cost of connectivity into AU. It's been on the downward spiral for many years.
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This is what I don't understand.

Google makes more revenue in a quarter than the entire recording industry makes in a year.

Why then, does the RIAA have so much sway in Washington? Because they know money buys influence, and they are willing to put up the cash.

It may be a damning indictment of our democratic process that this is true, but that doesn't change the fact that it is true. SOPA's going to be as hurtful to Google as anyone else, but talking about it on wonky tech blogs won't solve shit. Put up the cash, Google. Play the game.
If you're lucky enough to have customers on specific ISPs, Singapore can be great. We have users who are predominantly on AARNet, Internode and other ISPs with decent transit (e.g. SEA-ME-WE 3) and the latency between AU and SG via Perth is wonderful.
Thanks god !!! Brazil is finally being noticed by big companies.
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I spotted the following a while ago. It's a greasemonkey script that is supposed to modify new comments on HN in some distinct way like highlighting them or similar. I haven't tried it or read the code.

https://github.com/polyfractal/HNHalfLife
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Cool. I hadn't realized the read and write lines were the same. In that case, you really can't use the device as a delay-based sequential memory.
> By your evident logic, then, Bogosort is the right default choice, because anything else is premature optimization.

How does that follow from my logic? What I said was: I don't care about implementation details unless it turns out to be relevant. If I spent 99% of my time waiting for IO, and 1% on sorting, then yeah, the sort routine could be Bogosort for all I care, since the potential gains are tiny.

The right default choice for sorting is your standard library's sort routine. If you use that and sorting still takes a long time, then you can worry about what goes on in there and if it's worth replacing it.

> As are Google, Microsoft, AOL, Facebook, and Yahoo.

All of which now use XMPP despite the overhead.
I've found that phone calls are good when people ignore or are bad at reading email (miss questions, fail to respond/read, don't read it completely, etc). For people who are good at email, phone calls are good (or the same as IM) when you need an in-depth back and forth conversation, for example, discussing some software bug.
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this sounds interesting: "In some embodiments, a URL stored as a QR Code may enable the autonomous vehicle to download new instructions." I wonder how that's going to work.
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Because HN isn't exclusively for a US audience, perhaps?
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To be fair it's not like Google has never done anything with voice before and saw this Siri thing and panicked and rushed to put out an equivalent. Google has been working to improve voice recognition for years, and Android already has significant voice features built-in (speech-to-text text input, Voice Dialer, Voice Search). Google has been exploring this field for a long time.

It's not crazy to package things in a way that's comparable to your competitors.
Apologies, when I said "all" I wasn't thinking of KDE which is actually the only major DE I've never used in a multi-monitor setup.
From what you say I should probably try it.
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I would have expected the job opportunities to start at a deeper level than the class reaches.

Aptitude and interest goes a long way.
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One thing I have seen a lot of people do when teaching is to troll. You come up with a crazy hypothetical that is obviously wrong but hard to show why, assert it, and watch your students try hard to prove you wrong. Things like:

"There is no consistent legal principle that prevents an attempted murder charge from being prosecuted against someone for the use of voodoo dolls."

or

"I think it's perfectly Constitutional to require that parents, if necessary, donate kidneys to their children."

Both are classic trolls. However, they are fun, and they are hard to grapple with.
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Hello Hackers,

My only tool of work, the Dell I've loved like my dog had broken yesterday.

The most immediate asset I can sell to purchase a new laptop is newsledge.com

If you are interested I'm trading it for a Macbook Air 13" (http://store.apcom.ro/macbookair13inchintelcorei5128gb-p-1107.html) which costs 1.79191 USD in Romania.

Newsledge is a project I'm thinking on since the last couple of years. If you want to make it a startup I can help you with both developing further the idea (http://metaman.tumblr.com/tagged/newsledge) and designing the interface. I'm also an average coder (Ruby) so working together would be easy.

Thanks a lot!

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The article gets it all wrong. The technology siri is based on was only a project for a few years and ended in 2005, basically because it was a failure and already far behind search engines at the time.

The majel thing is likely far more than siri, rumors are that it gives 93% accuracy on the turing test, and includes emotion and object detection technology.
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I find it amusing that this is "Microsofts answer to Dropbox" when it actually came out first, just no one used it.
Here in Brazil, unfortunately, there is a sort of self-diminishing atittude where most people will always consider the country as an underdog.

Even though there was visible growth in recent years, people continue saying stuff like that.
7-zip is also free, very easy to use, and fast. xz certainly misses the "very easy to use" part (an area on which WinRAR is also starting to lag behind) and, well, WinRAR isn't free (unless clicking "cancel" each time it starts up doesn't bug you).

This is why I think that all in all, 7-zip is definitely the best Windows archiver out there right now.
In my experience true depression feels exactly like extreme grief: each morning you awake to the shock of loss and the total bleakness of a lack of a personal future, the confusion over what has happened and the anxiety of separation. It hurts, all over your body, really badly.

Have you ever felt like there was no point to your life after a bad breakup? Ever felt inconsolable after a close friend or relative died? That's the feeling. Grief has a purpose and people know how to help those in grief. Most understand that grief brings with it physical illness: tiredness, memory loss, eating disorders, anxiety (sometimes even stomach ulcers, hair-loss, skin problems etc). People understand that grief can last a year (or more) but with help the grieving can be brought back to functionality within a few months.

Real depression is rogue grief. It is an illness that destroys lives and kills. It usually comes without trigger and without reason.

Real depression works like a tsunami: each depression comes as a wave that often overlaps with the last. As you ride one wave out and begin to return to normality another wave crashes in. Sadness and pain becomes the normality and you begin to feel like you are drowning: if you let go and let it take you then at least the pain will go away. Won't it?.

It annoys me when people who have never experienced the pain of depression are quick to dismiss those who commit suicide as selfish. They are often the same people who would help a loved one die if they were in extreme physical pain.
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Thats a great list of Internet pioneers. A few days ago, someone on HN suggested these companies put their concerns front and center on the web sites they control. If you want the masses to hear about this, no better way than to replace Yahoo and Google for a day with a clear message telling users what's happening in their country. If these letter co-signees are not willing to take the heat of their own shareholders by making such a move, then writing letters is mostly a waste of time.
"Remember the story about Zuck showing up in a bathrobe?"

The movie version ends with that investor investing in Facebook. In the real-life version, they never did invest, and Zuckerberg now says he feels very badly about the whole incident.
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I agree with having multiple sides at the table. I'm just saying I don't want one side to overwhelm the other, and I don't want them to invite only from the Corporations, too. It just shows that the politicians only care about what the Corporations that pay them say.
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> I don't care about implementation details unless it turns out to be relevant.

Then you are reckless. It is both possible and desirable to anticipate obvious problems in a design and avoid them before they present themselves operationally.

> The right default choice for sorting is your standard library's sort routine.

Smarter people than you or I decided what the standard library's sort routine would be, and did so with careful consideration of the advantages and disadvantages of their choice.

Here we are speaking of the design of a protocol from scratch, and/or the explicit choice of a protocol for a given set of requirements. It is your duty to do as the standard library author did, and pay careful consideration to the implications of your design, as it will impact your business for years to come.

> All of which now use XMPP despite the overhead.

They have an interoperability requirement. Did you miss that detail of my earlier comment?
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And yet Mark Zuckerberg is not on the list:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111214/12310917086/is-fac...

I wonder why.
They would need to do both! I appreciate that Brin et. al. are not hiding behind some shill movements and lobbyists but are speaking out personally. But without money it becomes just a farce that allows them to save face by saying afterwards "we warned you guys".
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3281496
Because the USA makes up a small fraction of the worlds population? Was an interesting show, could've done without the Apple puffery but the parts focussed on Steve Jobs himself were very good.
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The main problem with DMCA safe harbor in my eyes is that it's too easy to abuse as a censorship tool. According to Google[1] in 2009, 57% of DMCA takedown requests they received were targeting competitors, and 37% were invalid. In 2008 the Church of Scientology took down[2] over 4000 YouTube videos critical of their religion and organization. I've yet to hear of a DMCA abuser prosecuted for perjury.

1: http://pcworld.co.nz/pcworld/pcw.nsf/feature/93FEDCEF6636CF9...

2: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/09/massive-takedown-anti-...
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Agree with not offering the first number. Also tell them, 'money is important, but more important is the opportunity and the people I'd be working with.' If this fails and they offer you a low number, tell them, 'I'll have to think about any offer less that X, however, I'll accept right now if you can somehow offer X.'
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Really cool! And so grateful that Perl/CPAN has great name spacing conventions to make this possible.

Here's the original post on PerlMonks: http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=943704
Nonsense. Depression is a physical brain illness caused by an misbalance of neurotransmitters.

Dismissing a serious, dangerous and often fatal illness as something that can be cured by 'rebalancing your chakras' is akin to using homeopathy to cure cancer.

While I suspect those with mild mood disorders may be able to think their way out of a lethargic period those with a serious depression need real help.

Depression is a big killer:

• suicide is the 8th leading cause of death in the United States

• 15% of those who are clinically depressed die by suicide

• The majority of suicide attempts are expressions of extreme distress that need to be addressed, and not just a harmless bid for attention
Something that this highlights: I really like it how I usually have no idea of what version of Chrome I am running.
and it still doesn't support rss like other browsers
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nullege.com is a domain which regularly comes up when searching for Python code examples.

Either they're going under or they've neglected to pay their domain registration.

Annoying when searching for Python examples...
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Good to see Acme right up there with the big players.
I didn't expect different from Zuckerberg. Facebook never appeared to me as a pillar of fee speech except for those cases when they don't have to fear any negative consequences (i.e. 3rd world revolutions).
I would love to finally see voice web browsing. The TTS and VR quality is the main issue. I've written an HN voice navigation and article reading but the .NET TTS is far from good.
I chose xplorer2 over Total Commander for one reason. TC, like the built in Explorer, always groups files and directories in it's list. For example, if I sort a large folder by "Date Modified", the files are shown first, then the directories.

Xplorer2 does "the right thing" and interlaces them.
Of course they're responsible and that's why five of them were sent to prison.

What the bankers did was bribing officals into taking bad advice at hiked rates leading to a 30-40 year loan having to be paid off in a tenth of that time. THIS is what's leading to the impending bankrupcy.

I cannot fathom why the investment bankers involved haven't been sent to prison for a very long time. They were the ones who started this whole ordeal. No bribes = no horrible decisions = no bankrupcy = no porta pottys. While I agree that bankers in general are being blamed for most everything that's been going wrong in the world in the last few years this time it really was their fault. Not only theirs but they should be more than fined.
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The real news is IE share, worldwide, is now only 40%!
You must have missed Caligari TrueSpace in your travels. I would dearly love to see basic modeling (including kinetics) made as simple and intuitive as it was in TS 3-6 in another package. (For that matter, I wish it had stayed that easy in the last version of TS.) The only real fly in the ointment was rendering, and the proprietary models didn't export well for texturing and rendering elsewhere. That said, I did a lot of technical illustrations in that package just about as fast as I could think them, and if you didn't need complex reflections with ray tracing (or luminosity rendering), the results were certainly good enough.
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What on earth is "93% accuracy on the turing test" meant to mean? Do you know what the Turing test actually is?
I disagree. By "playing the game" you validate it. You throw good money after bad, and help subverting democracy even more by rewarding the corrupt.

The only way I see out of this is when enough people refuse to play the game. And reward politicians that don't play it with votes, not money.
Yup, the copy was non-existent.. I've been updating the copy tonight after I fixed some troubling oauth bugs.

I didn't realize you ultimately throw away your first oauth key, and keep the second oauth key.
They use a proprietary authentication mechanism, so you can't just use any XMPP client...

The client-to-server authentication used is SASL, with a specific and proprietary mechanism called X_MESSENGER_OAUTH2. ... Which means that all current XMPP clients are NOT able to connect to messenger.live.com.

http://www.process-one.net/en/blogs/article/details_on_msns_...
For comparison have a look at the getclicky stats:
http://getclicky.com/marketshare/global/web-browsers/

They seem to be pretty close.
"If we consider all versions collectively, Internet Explorer continues to rule the world with around 40% usage share. Chrome and Firefox have 24.75% and 26.15% usage share respectively."
I chose xplorer2 over Directory Opus for one reason. Opus, like the built in Explorer, always groups files and directories in it's list. For example, in Explorer, if I sort a large folder by "Date Modified", the files are shown first, then the directories.

Xplorer2 does "the right thing" and interlaces them.
But 'poor' people have cars in America(From the photos)?

About 70% of them. 25% actually have two or more cars.

http://www.census.gov/prod/2008pubs/h150-07.pdf

Forget learning what poor is in India, most Americans should come to India and see how the top 5-10% lives. Someone on welfare in the US probably has a nicer house than most people in Bandra or Koregoan Park. Sad but true.
I run both Firefox and Chrome and know which version I'm running. That would be today's builds. Grab the FF Nightly and Chrome Canary builds and help beta test. Close to half the Internet is getting upgraded every 6 weeks. More testers needed.
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could you please elaborate on this? How do you tell javascript enabled users apart from disabled ones?
Is there any website discussing this you can point me to?
thanks
Isn't that kind of what smalltalk did? Metaclasses, Metameta-class ....
Okay. I agree. But carefully considering your options and paying mind to your requirements is a far fetch from flat out disregaring one option simply because of a detail -- overhead -- that may or may not be relevant in your situation. I still think you could refer to this as a kind of premature optimisation, although I see now that this was unhelpful, because it brought up the whole sorting thing which was kind of a tangent.

> They have an interoperability requirement. Did you miss that detail of my earlier comment?

Some of them do. Some of them explicitly turn off interoperability and still go with XMPP; Whatsapp (no affil) is another one of those. This just stresses the fact that efficiency/overhead is not the only consideration when it comes to protocol choice, and pretty far down the line when it comes to IM protocols.
Don't forget google is sitting on probably the world's largest repository of video it can datamine and train speech on.
it's a straw man. contrary to popular opinion, nobody is proposing what the article says they are.
Did you read the Bloomberg article at all? The county (not the city) didn't piss the money away - they built sewer infrastructure with it. The reason they can't pay it back is because a lack of municipal bond buyers during the recession invoked a provision requiring the county to pay back $850 million in 4 years rather than 30-40.

So the bankers ARE partially responsible. They were paid for advice, and their advice was terrible. Now we're bankrupt, and they deserve to take a big loss.
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It's only fluff if you're already doing those things... It's not new, no, but it's still new to most people's practice, if not their understanding.