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I don't care about the plugin, nor do I doubt anyone else does: it isn't even being removed, just disabled; additionally, as you say, the user will get a prompt and can easily install it when required, as we are dealing with an interactive GUI. Were I to be in charge of that package, I would easily make that call: it sounds like a great tradeoff.

What I care about is the version of the package that is coming in the "near future" that will entirely remove the JDK from the user's system; the one that is actually "empty", as I specifically stated in my comment you are replying to (and which I can only presume is what the people on this thread that are up in arms about are discussing given the behaviors they are describing).

This package is just going to cause some poor administrator to see "installing 4 security updates" followed by "the server is no longer working", at which point they won't even be able to go "oh shit" and easily fix it, as this e-mail not only claims that the Sun JDK packages will be removed from the partner archives, but (as I was forced to anally demonstrate in another part of this thread) Ubuntu deletes all traces of packages once they are removed from the Partner archive.

The result is that the administrator is going to have the experience of installing a security upgrade, and then having their server non-functional until they can either 1) figure out how to install the SDK from Sun's website in a manner sufficiently compatible with Ubuntu's package (which has a lot of supporting dpkg-alternatives and other configuration behavior) or 2) port their app to work on OpenJDK.

If that isn't enough to drive home the lesson "don't apply security updates without careful review: the people who release them are nigh unto actively trying to mess with you; better to leave it until next week when you have time to test each of the packages to see if they are actually trojans in disguise", a lesson we should very obviously be carefully avoiding teaching /anyone/ (security updates should be something people /always/ are willing to apply), I don't know what is.
I wrote a greasemonkey script https://gist.github.com/1187770

What this does is allow you to navigate through the comments chronologically, using the right and left arrow keys.

That is, when you visit an HN thread, you just press the right arrow and it takes you to the latest comment. Press it again and it takes you to the 2nd most recent comment, etc. Pressing the left arrow moves you backwards.
Speaking of Lessig, I think it is a very good time to re-read "How to Get Our Democracy Back": http://www.thenation.com/article/how-get-our-democracy-back
Monetising Java has always been problematic. Linux/GPL people have always been stroppy. Making sure everyone has the latest version is a hard enough problem even without politics.

The take home lesson is that getting your language onto every desktop is hard and probably not worth the effort.

Which is sad because the best thing about Java was always how it was OS agnostic. People always used to say about Java "write once, run anywhere"... but that was wrong. It was better than that. It was _compile_ once, run anywhere.

I recently grabbed some of my old (1996) Java code from storage and then ran it on my desktop. The desktop was using a different OS, different chip architecture, everything was different from the machine it was originally compiled on. After 15 years it still ran perfectly.

C is a "write once run anywhere" language, but you have to recompile it for each different platform, which often turns out to be non-trivial. There's no way I could take C code from a Windows 386 machine and run it on a Mac or Linux multi-core 64bit machine over a decade later.
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My first experience on IRC was looking for help with my first Linux install. Someone in the channel telnet'd into my computer and wiped my hard drive while I was chatting.

I was 9 or 10 years old at the time and my root password was one of those common strings (12345, abcde, I don't remember at this point). It had taken me 3 days to learn how to download Linux, make a stack of installation floppies, find and use partitioning tools, install Linux and set up a boot loader, etc. I cried when I realized what had been done to me.
Canada doesn't count! ;-p

edit (since it won't let me reply) - sorry, I meant Canada doesn't count as 'Outside the US'. Bad humour, no biscuit.
I can't speak for others, but this atheist doesn't want one.
I'd rather have the old stuff removed in an obvious way rather then have my machine attempt to 'fool' me into thinking that it was still running along as expected, meanwhile I'm hunting for inexplicable bugs and performance penalties introduced by the open JDK. Even worse is to leave it and 'fool' me into thinking the old packages are still being updated only so that I can find out sometime later that my machine is now part of a bot net. Bottom line is removing it and forcing everyone to transition is the most obvious way for users and administrators to deal with what has obviously become a problem. With this news people will have to make a slight change in how they deploy Java apps. it's better to confront them with that choice rather then hide it from them.
Almost every review for this and the SII mentions the "cheap" and "flimsy" backplate. Have you seen this video of it getting folded in half and being entirely undamaged?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErXqnQKs-tA

I've not actually tried it because the video shows a Galaxy S II rather than the Nexus, but it's given me a lot more faith in Samsung's "cheap" plastics.
A lot of questions here revolve around how this is different from OpenID and single sign-on solutions like Google Accounts or Facebook Connect. Here's a rough list (may be incomplete or inaccurate by now; while I work for Mozilla, I'm not involved in this project):

* federated (like OpenID)

* open standard (like OpenID)

* no passwords / no typing / no memorizing (e.g. like FB Connect)

* possibility of browsers providing an integrated experience (technically possible with previous solutions, but no browser has done this so far -- in the case of OpenID for a very good reason IMHO)

* anonymity/choice of identities (like OpenID, definitely unlike e.g. FB Connect)

* no exposure to identity provider (this is unlike any existing solutions; if you log into a site, your OpenID provide, Facebook, Google, etc. will know which site it was; not with BrowserID!)

Check out Dan and Ben giving a nice demo of the BrowserID user experience: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6x45Nt1fOMM. No passwords, no typing, and anonymity where desired.

If you're interested in the nitty gritty details, Lloyd explains the cryptographic assertions that actually let sites verify your identity: http://lloyd.io/how-browserid-works

(EDIT: format bullet points)
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"I think that guy has a place in heaven" is much less disrespectful to an atheist than "fuck that guy, he's a bastard". It's an acknowledgement of a noble opponent.
This is a more pragmatic approach than openid. Most users have a secondary email for logins anyway, and browserid makes switching a snap. I think it will catch on, mainly because there s nothing new for users to learn, and everyone has an email addr
Christopher is largely dismissive of the life-extension techniques that transhumanists espouse, such as cryogenic preservation: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/11/hitchens-...
I fully support this message; having performed an instrument rating renewal check just yesterday in sub-optimal weather I experienced a frozen pitot-tube (the thingie that measures dynamic pressure; or a component of the airspeed). Having no speed indication is scary in instrument conditions (i.e. no visibility) but continuing flying is the best decision you can make (that and turning on pitot-heat). But please apply this 'motto' to other fields as well. No matter how bad the situation is; do the thing you're supposed to do: Fly the damn airplane, Talk to your customer, Keep your hands on the steering wheel and: keep breathing.
Because we don't need it. Our genes are reproduced and they are carrying the best and the worst parts of us and our experience.
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Facebook and Twitter are owned by companies and have a single point of failure. Many users won't use sites that only provide these as a login method for various reasons (they don't like social media, etc).

OpenID seems to be difficult for non-technical users to grasp. They don't understand what it is or the fact that they probably already have it. Even technical users can have issues (what OpenID login did I use, which of my multiple current Google accounts are being used, etc).

BrowserID is being advertised as the easier alternative for users and developers I think.

BrowserID is not Firefox specific. The JavaScript shim works across a number of browsers.
What I'm struggling to understand is, why are they releasing these new style girly minifigs?

I always thought Lego was supposed to be gender agnostic
Can it not be done to require explicit confirmation at upgrade-time, the same way a license agreement would? It needn't be silent.
So .. Cloudkick rebranded?
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Hitchens was one of those people that teaches other people how to think better. That classes him as 'of interest' to both tech and business.
Most users have a secondary email for logins anyway

It seems to me the opposite is true. What is your source for this?
When you are connected to multiple servers the best thing is to have a client that is able to parallelize requests against multiple servers.

There is a trick, (used by some memcached client as far as I know), to do that without multiplexing, that is, usually you should do something like this:

send GET foo to socket1
send GET bar to socket2
replies = some_form_of_multiplexing(socket1,socket2)

Instead since we can observe that usually the round trip time between the peers at socket1 and socket2 are similar, we can do:

send GET foo socket1
send GET bar socket2
reply1 = read(socket1)
reply2 = read(socket2)

This makes the implementation simpler without making the performances so much worse.

So a good Redis client for a sharded environment should be able to do something like this:

replies = parallel_queries(["GET","foo"],["GET","bar"],["INCR zap"])

Trying to send the queries to all the servers in parallel and returning the replies ASAP, and in the right order of course.
That'd be a lot easier if we had more than one developer (me) :)

There's a wealth of information here: http://picostormlabs.tumblr.com/post/11977896983/for-the-las... and the UI was recently featured on YankoDesign and you can see here: http://picostormlabs.com/alpha
Here's a helpful mental hack that I've found has increased my grit as an entrepreneur:

I am very optimistic that I will be successful in the long term, but very pessimistic about the odds that the immediate next step will come easily or go well. This way, when a step proves difficult (and it very often does), it's not unexpected, making easier to keep moving forward without getting discouraged.
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Just wait until they get their hands on things like the SOPA to abuse next year - this is nothing.

Essentially, law in the USA has come down to bullying - "well try and stop us, if you can afford it".

Short of a supreme court ruling, they are going to do whatever they want - and you really don't want this in front of the current supreme court.
Why is everyone so worried about SOPA?

patriot act has already passed.
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I wonder why youtube would sign an agreement like that at all

Most likely, this could be a settlement that gives UMG and the likes a great latitude at taking down videos, and Youtube a guarantee not to get sued or some other rights.

On the other hand, if this kind of practice (let me stop whatever content I want or I'll sue you on unrelated matters) became widespread, this could have a really nasty effect on free speech rights.
Sounds similar to where I currently work.

I recently gave an estimate to someone which would take me 2 hours to do, and 4 to go through the change control process etc....

Of course that cant be taken at face value since im not allowed to estimate. My estimate is taken by a designer who produces several documents. They then budget for the following, designer, development lead, design lead, business analyst, tester, product owner, business tester.

I checked what my 2 hours work 4 hours testing etc... and its now an 80 hour effort. With 10 hours spent already producing the documentation and at least 3 levels of management discussing it.

For the record I implemented the change while giving the estimates and it ended up taking me an hour, but is still sitting in development.

Don't even get me started on how much time (weeks) effort (4 levels of management, weeks of meetings and at least 10 people involved) it took to get an additional 2 gig of RAM added to a production server which only had 2 gig to start with. I think the cost in man hours would have been at least $50,000 for a stick of ram which actually cost nothing as its already in the server and just needed to be enabled.

Oh on the Screen thing. I bought my own. 27" monitors can be had for $300 or less these days. Easier then trying to justify why a 24" would be advantageous to me and why dual 19" isn't as good.
If you want a government that respects the will of the people, you are welcome to move to a democracy.
Having a technical co-founder is nearly prerequisite at YC, AngelPad and with most later stage funds...so there's already been enough funds championing engineering and there's been countless essays written celebrating hackers and specific grant programs etc...so we can also celebrate designers too and start creating a positive feedback loop, it's not either or... and I definitely agree with you about focusing on creating value, Eric Ries is also a venture advisor, so I subscribe to lean startup methods too... and yes forget about engineering and design titles too, what matters is a critical mass of skills and resources to execute...
Don't just laugh at it - make a suggestion. What do you suggest they do?
"Culture" subreddits (/r/askscience in particular, sometimes /r/truereddit and the ones like it) are still mostly alright, though they still get bad when posts hit the front page. A good set of default subreddits is absolutely essential.

HN has some of that emphasis on civility, but it (and the moderation system) are certainly less visible than reddit's. Hellbanning certainly has quite a different effect to pages full of deleted comments' "tombstones". I think the passivity of HN will could speed a cultural decline, and the lack of things like subreddits will certainly limit its usefulness if it ever does happen.

Even with its countermeasures, though, I'm falling out of love with Reddit. I think the prominence of the karma system rewards a sound-bite circlejerk in the comments. More opaque, curated collections of articles like [www.aldaily.com] and [longform.org] are a more reliable way of finding thoughtful content (though I still need to get news content from somewhere else).
Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, friend of the poor, lover of that Heart which exploded with charity on the Cross, please pray for the repose of the soul of Christopher Hitchens, and for the salvation of us sinners on earth.
The problem with that kind of contract is that it means YouTube can't take advantage of the DMCA provision which limits their liability to uploaders. You're right, it is interesting. Ball's in YouTube's court.
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The strength to espouse unpopular views is so sorely lacking in most "leaders".
They won't get sued by UMG. They could in theory be sued by uploaders.
This is a pretty good visual argument against ECB (the image):
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The problem is, design is not something you just slap on later. If it is not here from the start it won't be there at the end unless you redo everything from scratch.
Design as an afterthought is a lipstick on a pig.
Jesus Christ, King of Mercy and Justice, teach us how to love the cross and the poor, and to humbly build your Father's kingdom with faith, hope and charity.

O Christ crucified, present in the poor and suffering, save our souls!

O God, fill our hearts with your Divine Grace and open them to the example set by your servant, Mother Teresa of Calcutta. In your fathomless mercy, grant that the souls of Teresa and Christopher might endlessly rejoice together in eternal beatitude, beholding You face to face, without even an image in between.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzIPBRnYHQk
All you've done here is substitute undefined numbers for an abstract concept.
And what design has to do with that? If your product does not solve a real problem it is not worth to exist with or sans design.
If it does, design is important.
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As a person of long-held religious conviction I am deeply saddened to see this worthy adversary go. He had an uncanny ability to go straight for your mostly deeply held beliefs with the most trenchant rhetoric and yet somehow made you like him anyway.

I think it's because with Hitchens, you knew he spoke from the integrity of his own convictions. He was nobody's man, on no one's bandwagon, carrying water for no political agenda other than his own desire to see the world become a better place. His libertarianism or Marxism was just a function of where his own intellect led him, and he never compromised for fashion or acceptance. That gave him gravitas, ethos. How else could you go after Mother Theresa and not get run out of...the World on a rail?

Only Hitchens. He was often compared to Orwell and H.L. Mencken, and he was one of the few writers for whom the comparison was as a peer rather than a distant echo of a greater time. Who will pick up his mantle? Who has the intellect, wit or courage of their convictions that compares with Hitchens?

At the moment I simply can't think of anyone.
These are a couple of things he had to say in his e-mail: "I learned that money can be a lot of things. It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood."

"...I have a profit around $200,000 (after taxes $75.58). This is less than I would have been paid by a large company to simply perform the show and let them sell it to you, but they would have charged you about $20 for the video. They would have given you an encrypted and regionally restricted video of limited value, and they would have owned your private information for their own use. They would have withheld international availability indefinitely. This way, you only paid $5, you can use the video any way you want, and you can watch it in Dublin, whatever the city is in Belgium, or Dubai. I got paid nice, and I still own the video (as do you). You never have to join anything, and you never have to hear from us again."

I really wanted to edit out parts of the paragraph above because it looked lengthy. However, it's worth your while to read his perspective. His reasons for doing this esp. from the second quote above are a lot deeper than just promotion.

BTW: Louis C.K. is super awesome!
And no talking about Google products either, they're a big company and don't need the free exposure.
He's in a better place, now.

http://explosm.net/comics/2645/
>Hitchens was essentially a Marxist

On history, yes, on economics, no. See his answer to the question of his Marxism:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbJR2HN5V9c&feature=relat...
Unless someone 'fessed up to it, you really have no way of knowing who did this. It could just as easily have been a drive-by script.

And regardless, it was a hard, cheap, early lesson in the importance of ensuring fundamental levels of system security. I've ... suffered worse.

I strongly suspect you'll never forget this.
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> Furthermore, if the Christian heaven does exist (which in turn implies that Christian doctrine is true), Christopher is most certainly in hell.

If the Christian heaven does exist, it does not imply that all Christian doctrine is true, only that some is true.

And there is a lot of contradictory Christian doctrine. By that, I am not saying that Christian doctrine is self-contradictory, I am only pointing out that several different Christian denominations have doctrines that contradict each other. According to some denominations, Hitchens would indeed be in hell, and according to others, he would be in heaven.
The interview starts "How's it going? / It's too early to tell.", which is superficially referring to how late of a partier he was, but deeply referring to how (that afternoon) he'd checked himself out of the hospital that diagnosed him with esophageal cancer.
There may well be many startups which have a great design and no substance - but then there is also the situation where multiple startups exist in a similar space competing for traction - and in that situation having the design 'edge' is never a bad thing..

Personally I find myself in that situation, early stage startup where whilst I have the tech background, design has never come easily to me (and my co-founders are even worst). As we have bootstrapped we didnt have the money for great design and did the best we could! That said it hasnt been the make or break as we have executed well, however first impressions always count... and when looking for investment we have more than once had potential investors misjudge how far we have come or compare us negatively to others in our space as we did not have the design 'edge'. Its a shame, but its a fact of life appearances mean a lot..

Perhaps off topic but be interesting to know how others have managed to overcome gaps in skillsets when bootstrapping? we dont seem to have any contacts with good design skills and available time..
It's handy in a multi-user environment when you're sudo/su -ing to various users. I'll use it reasonably frequently to test that sudo works as anticipated. "sudo whoami" should return "root".
No, what I've done is express my view that one should not update one's thoughts about Android on the basis of what Gruber says, unless he says something positive. His negative views on Android phones or features provide nearly zero information, because he was going to say something negative or nothing at all whether or not the news represents an improvement.

Put another way, I'll admit I can't tell you exactly how many positive articles Gruber should have written by now. I could probably calculate that number if I cared enough, but I don't. What I can tell you is that he is well south of where he should be on this topic, IF he cares about providing me with information with which I can update my beliefs about the quality of Android OS.
Seriously, "his whole life"?
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