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I still love the fact that on the website of the original blog poster ( http://www.johnbmueller.com/index2.php?v=v1 ) that until yesterday he was illegally streaming music by a band (Frau Frau) along with his photo slideshow. I wonder how much he was paying the artists/bands? I guess nothing as since I notified him and the bands the music has strangely disappeared... I wonder how much he owes them? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frou_Frou_(band)
Well, it's a generic description, we don't really know how many routers and hubs are really down. There's a better post downthread listing actual issues, but none of them look major.
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All my apps are available for free on the android market featuring ads

Is it strange to have ad supported games for toddlers? What possible benefit could a company get on a click-though from a toddler?

I really enjoyed reading through your reflections, it is always fascinating to see how success comes from the most unlikely angles :)

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Whatever your view on the political situation in Russia and at this tragedy, it's not the point.

The point is that this accident demonstrates that terrorists have low-tech and high-casualty methods available at their disposal which they choose not to employ for whatever reasons.
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When Skype was first sold to eBay, eBay did a whoozy and made bad assumptions resulting in them buying Skype without the core IP.

This later cost them a gazillion dollars after a court process, and the whole world realized they needed to watch their backs just that little more.

I'd recommend exchanging pre-existing IP with the company for your founding stock, otherwise nobody will want to go near you.
> I agree developers are more biased towards Google (or away from Bing) than the general population.

Are they? I can easily imagine it being the other way around. I don't see how general population would know about other search engines or even consider that Google != Internet.

But of course, without hard data the whole topic is groundless.
> Can you tell why the EU requires Windows to display a browser selection box on first boot to Europeans, but is okay with iOS totally BANNING the use of non-Safari browser engines?

Because the restrictions placed on Microsoft were a reaction to several anti-competitive business practices in which MS was effectively forcing OEMs to prop up a Windows+IE monopoly. OEMs were not allowed to remove IE, and as previously noted in US v MS, were often not allowed to install any other browser. OEMs were charged more for Windows licenses were they to offer any machine without Windows as well as mandating OEMs pay fees for each computer sold whether or not it was sold with Windows pre-installed in order to retain their license. This along with market pressure induced OEMs to focus production on Windows-only offerings, creating an anti-competitive environment in the larger, general-use OS market.

To the second point and this...

> Why is it not anti-competitive for Apple to ship their hardware with a completely locked bootloader?

Apple is the OEM. As far as iOS devices are concerned, they own the lot. I presume you didn't intend for them to be included here, but for their x86 devices (iMac, etc), you can install any compatible OS you want.

> How is it legal for the Kindle Fire and Nook to ship with locked bootloaders?

Simply put, Amazon and Barnes & Noble are not in the OS business. They don't stand to gain an unfair advantage from excluding another OS from their device and they are not forcing a third-party business to act on their behalf to support such an advantage. IMHO, Amazon is more likely to find trouble in areas such as their redirection of requests to market.android.com to their own app store though they still let you side-load apps and download them directly through the browser.
Baidu is probably used more by non technical people, so I guess software engineers use Google rather than Baidu.
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Google what were you thinking?
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Yes, with wealth you can work much less (if at all) and spend time with your child. Furthermore, wealthier parents have jobs which exercise their minds, so they're not deadened and just want to plop in front of the TV. Their managers are much more polite to them, so they're not so angry. Less financial woes means less family fights and likelihood of abuse.

For a zillion reasons, I agree, and would never want to put a child through a family institution without sufficient wealth. Because in the world I live in, kinship and economic institutions are horrifically dysfunctional. Lucky people get to reach their potentials; most certainly don't. They go to schools whose interests are something other than supporting the child's personal interests.

This dissident put it well: (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpbGHZuVsw0)
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I would be interested in a patched version of Monaco as well.
I have heard that if someone flies into a country on Your Airline Inc., and is denied entry, it's the financial responsibility of Your Airline Inc. to take them back to where they come from.

I've not only had my passport, but visas, checked at check-in, flying into Canada from the US.

Looking at the web for a citation, it seems this may just be a Canadian regulation: http://www.passengerprotect.gc.ca/home.html
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Show HN: Menomnom.com; a food, drink, and event directory for a college town.
So a couple of friends and I spent the last few months worth of evenings building a social nightlife hub for the small college town we live in. It's built using django, with some extra stuff done in jQuery. I would love to get your comments! http://menomnom.com
How is this the first we're hearing of this?

This seems to be an extraordinary issue, how is this not covered in any form of media?
Is this guy serious? Ok, let's taylor the entire Internet to him. I would hate it if he became "annoyed". Oh and BTW, it's clearly an easy solution... let's just "vote it out".
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It's fast, it supports JSONP and their API team is great to work with (fast replies on email). I could recommend anyone to build a mashup on top of the Etsy API.
Great resources on your site. Should you ever feel inclined to port your stuff to Axure you have at least one paying customer right here.
Agreed, but not sure if we call this selection bias.

Anyways, here's my perspective from someone who realized this even while growing up in a suburb in the Bay Area. My parents are blue collar workers (we've lived very comfortably through their hard work however), and so are a good portion of the folks in their social circle, but my city is largely made up of upper middle class and wealthy professionals, mostly tech workers.
When I hit junior high/high school, I was taking the advanced classes with the kids of those professionals. I was among the more talented kids in my class, but in my senior year of high school I was working a drive-thru, while one friend had an internship at an architectural firm, getting an awesome chance to learn from a talented and successful architect (the friend's intended profession), and he wasn't the only one doing something like that over the summer. So one difference was that the other parents had connections that mine did not, and were able to give their kids a kind of exposure to the world that I didn't have. Even though the Bay Area has a wealth of resources for those interested in technology, I didn't know what existed, and nor did my parents. Nor did I know that I should have been asking around to dig these up.

The girl that this post is about is undoubtedly gifted and deserves to be recognized as one of the 20 under 20. Even if I did grow up with social, intellectual, economic and/or academic capital, I probably wouldn't have achieved that. But these sorts of differences do make me wonder about how many more geniuses could launch world-changing careers if all students had access to the resources this girl did, as well as being taught how to make the most of them.
I love the git package, superb. Managed to write a few custom commands to tweak things to suit my requirements, haven't tried that with any other editor / IDE :)
It's more about giving people jobs I think
I'll make a second link, good idea.
Ask HN: why is the Internet experiencing high packet-loss?
UPDATE: from the looks of it this appears like a measurement error on a single website.
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Google, what were you thinking?
Ask HN: Why Apple ask me for a documentary evidence?
I create a free HackerNews Reader for iPhone/iPod touch. But was rejected twice. I'm really confused.
Why i need a documentary evidence? All news contents are from HN. What should i do?

from Apple:
"
Specifically, we noticed your app utilizes articles from The New York Times and Fox news.

Please provide documentary evidence that you have the rights to use this content to ensure compliance with the iOS Developer Program License Agreement. Once Legal has reviewed your documentation and confirms its validity, we will proceed with your app review.
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Google, What were you thinking?
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> This is topical, since this week courts in both Finland and the Netherlands ordered local Internet providers to block the torrent site.

Is there a list of countries where this has been ordered by courts? I know it's already the case in my country (Belgium) as well[1].

[1]: http://torrentfreak.com/belgium-starts-blocking-the-pirate-b...
What the hell were Google thinking?
I can't get it working on Windows. The Consolas patched font looks ugly and it does not show the fancy glyphs.
Even using Menlo, Inconsolata or Mensch version posted here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3457785 the glyphs does not show as on the screenshots on the vim-powerline readme.
Sad :)
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Welcome to HackerNews! Since you're a new user (green name), a friendly explanation of why you seem to be getting downvoted: At HN, we try and encourage respectful discourse, even when we dislike or disagree with what is being said. If you'll look at the other articles, other people seem to agree with you that the article is poorly written and that the title is sensational, but they aren't being downvoted because the way they phrase those complaints comes across as less insulting or ad hominem.
In Ye Olde Days at least the main repository was something you visibly had to maintain. The original author A would set up a project on sourceforge, and add B, C and D with commit access. (Indeed, I remember this being cited as one of the great advantages of git - it breaks down the two-tier society where you had an inner circle of authorized committers, and then second-class citizens who had to submit their patches). But it did mean you would do succession planning around it - if A got hit by a bus, someone else would have access to the One True Repository, and they could take over merging patches from outside contributors.

Ironically, github is making it easier to have a single central point of failure. Because it's so easy for the original author to merge patches from other repositories, there's no longer any pressure to give other people access to the "master" repository. Which is fine until the original author stops doing it (for whatever reason)
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The other Elephant in the room - with rich Javascript interfaces, crawlers are only feasible to build if you have enough resources - i.e. only companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are able to do it. Web pages are becoming increasingly less accessible and Google has a lot to gain by this trend.

The writing on the wall is pretty clear - Google has a monopoly in search and the only way they can be disrupted is through alternative means of finding content (like social networks).

Which is why, as much as I like them and their products, I find the integration with Google+ downright scary and dangerous for the health of our ecosystem.
You cold fork the repo (or even better, create your own statusline theme) and add indentation warnings and the other stuff as a Powerline segment. ;)
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Hi guys. I'm the one of them involved in this. Thanks for your time and comments.

Hadron was just a prototype and we made it for "fun". Yes you've read it right. We're not trying to compete with another distro. We don't "aim" somewhere also. It's too fresh to aim somewhere. We don't even desktop environments in our repo (except xfce). As xxqs said, we're not more than 3 people. (I guess that's because we're in Turkey, but it's long story). We made Hadron in a few night hours.

Again, Hadron is an alive prototype. We've released it so you can check a new package management system. Which we think is good enough to continue. Eh?

About the "Unix" thing, I guess it's a typo. Thanks for pointing it.
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> Malthusian ideas were wrong when they first emerged, and have not stopped being wrong at any time since then

Funny you mentioning Malthus, he reminds me of Hobbes, very few people have actually read their works but they've been demonized and thrown "they're utterly and completely wrong"-phrases at that you begin to wonder "if Malthus is wrong, why is every discussion about world demographics mentioning him in one way or another?" (the same goes for Hobbes, you just have to replace "world demographics" with "politics" and "geometric population growth" with "we're always one step away from (civil) war").

Or maybe I like Malthus just because my dad had bought his "Essay on the Principle of Population" and I read it when I was 16.
A lot of times they'll sign you up for their marketing emails as well.
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And presumably the passenger's name is encoded in the barcode, which I guess is why the OP suggests printing the original ticket with the name of the friend that bought it instead of just using the "forged" ticket at the gate. Though I'd also guess that the airline employees who scan the ticket at the gate almost never check that the name on the ticket matches the one displayed on their screen when they scan the barcode, so you'd probably be fine using the forged one.
You could always just use DDG by default, and then resort to Google only when you really need it. That's what I've been doing for 1 - 2 years now.
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performance of a web app is quite likely more dependent on factors other than the raw interpreter speed, e.g. straight rack apps could easily be five times faster than rails apps using the same interpreter.
What about a competitor with comparable resources? Not really challenging your claim, I'm actually just curious. Why don't Google's competitors just use Google's own OSS against them?

Say Facebook acquires Rockmelt, which is based on Chromium. Rockmelt as an independent browser isn't much of a threat, but with Facebook's resources (money, engineering, publicity), they could easily bake in their own social stuff on top of an already amazing browser.

Same thing with Amazon/Kindle and Android.
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Microsoft's development tools were lagging behind Borland's tools in the 90s, but those tools were top-notch nonetheless. Did you know that there are people still happily using Visual Studio 6.0 (1998)?

Also, if you're referring to Anders Hejlsberg, being the lead architect of C# doesn't qualify as "sit on their thumbs". Considering that .NET is one of the 2 competitive advantages that Windows still has in the corporate environment (the other being Exchange), I think it was a million dollars well spent.
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Isn't "new Function" as evil as "eval" is evil? I guess when you call something a Compiler, it's allowed to do evilish stuff.
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Edit: It seems like it's back up now.
ok. I thought we were talking about scroll panes for a sec. Sorry.
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You mean their office is "the shit"!
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Does anyone else think it's highly suspicious that this all started occurring on Jan. 1st?

Was this a planned outage? Perhaps some hardware being decommissioned, and BGP routes not being updated? Surely there is a better answer then, "LOL, Chicago O'Hare got snowed in."

Regardless of any of that, I'm pretty sure some heads are going to roll. I mean, who runs a router THAT important, and can have a 3 day blackout without anyone noticing?
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It starts exactly at 1/1/2012 it seems, looks like a measurement problem to me
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I doubt it. The supermarkets in West Bengal, for example, have security because there were riots when they first came to the state (which is not that hard to believe if you compare them to Wal-Mart in the US). Ditto for the hotels (2008 terrorist attacks) and the temples and mosques (decades of Partition-related violence). India's focused on developing its economy, but not in the way that private institutions (or a budget-aware government) would actively spend money on security theater just for that purpose - especially not when there actually are real security threats afoot.

It's just like the US - the problem isn't that people don't care about security, or that they don't recognize it's a concern. The problem is that the existing measures (like the TSA) don't seem to be paying proper attention to the problem.
That would have to be a public key then. Which is just like allowing no key.
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I think they have, but it takes something like a week? Also, there's an open question as to whether Luke Jr's modification was even substantial enough to claim copyright.

(For what it's worth, the same guy that did this is also running a 51% denial of service attack against my own pet Bitcoin alternative using the Bitcoin mining pool he runs. The other Bitcoin developer mentioned in that forum post - gmaxwell - is an op on the IRC channel for the pool and has been trying to stop me countering Luke's attempts to mislead people into thinking his pool wasn't involved in various places.)
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I'm not an expert, but I think this is getting pretty close:

* You can certainly deduct some expenses from the tax.

* You can earn around 8,000 € "tax-free". If you get more, you can substract that amount

* As an indie developer (or as a freelancer or someone with a small company), you are responsible for your own health insurance (but you are required to have one). Public health insurance fees are 15.5% (but it is capped at around 500 € per month, which is still a lot), private might be a bit cheapter, depends on the company

* It is wise to spend some money on a retirement plan, but not a requirement

* Then you pay 30 % in tax (I don't know whether health insurance is tax-deductible)

So, if you make 50K in revenue, you can substract business-related expenses, another 8K for the income that is tax-free and pay 30 % on the rest. That is your income, which can be used for health insurance, pension and everything else (again, I'm unsure whether health insurance is before or after tax).

This is when you are not married. Marriage reduces the tax, but I don't know the numbers.

In opposite, when you are employed, you pay 40.5 % tax, which includes everything (governmental retirement plan, health insurance, "public service fees" (don't know how you would call them)).

Edit: Added some more info
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"The ultimate end of Moore's Law is a single atom."

That's a bit depressing. Why a single atom, and not some smaller particle?
To be fair, the usual consequence for a project that loses its Author is to die.

It seems that github could facilitate the migration of an "ownerless" project to a designated fork - including facilitating the selection of who has the designated fork. Just support for the informal process outlined in the submission.

It's interesting that linus deliberately avoided having a "designated fork" in git, but instead made them all equal, and you just pull from who you trust. Of course, in his case. his fork was the socially designated one, so this was not a problem he experienced or had to solve.
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Nothing speaks like the source :)
I recommend:
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Hey, it is a good site. When I typed Python I did get some good results.But when I typed Java ,I got results but all of them are links from Amazon. There are many free resources for learning java, it'd be better if u link them up :)
And for node.js , nothing came up , try linking some books, screencasts and podcasts.

EDIT:I typed api and i get info about finance,capital and ROI :(
That wasn't informative at all, it did not address the question of what happened on January 1st.