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Syria Arrests Razan Ghazzawi and Eleven Other Online  Activists
Well, if you'd found out about it a few years ago you'd plausibly still have felt an obligation to support IE7, and thus been unable to use it.
The author of this piece apparently isn't familiar with the correct usage of the term corporatism. It has very little do with with promoting business interests. Rather it is a political philosophy that spawned, among other movements, Italian fascism.

Such ignorance is particularly appalling given that the author couches his analysis in a sociological framework.

Edit: Even worse, the author is listed as a graduate student in sociology. How embarrassing for the University of Maryland.
"Only grandiose solutions are credible for grandiose problems." I'm not sure who said that but its the feeling I get when I listen to some TED talks.

That being said, thinking 'big' can help break out of ruts you don't know you are in. I've seen it happen with engineers when confronted with a huge unimplementable grandiose architecture say "Well that is great astro architectures but maybe we could ... and fix this other problem." where the ... was something previously not considered. Sometimes listening to an irrationally optimistic person can free your mind from self imposed constraints.
Thanks Andrew.

"But what if you're given a link to say an individual ticket? Do the sheets build up from that ticket as a starting point, rather than the project page, or do they reflect the hierarchy of the site? If it's the later, does that not mean that loading a deep page in the site is burdened by having to also load its parent pages?"

We'll write this up in more detail later, but the basic answer is: Every link has a default stack and that default stack is just the project page and that item's page. So if I emailed you a to-do item URL, the stack you would see would be two pages - the project the to-do is in, and the to-do itself.

We put loads of time into thinking about all these scenarios. It's all very natural when you use it.
Here's what I recommend for installing "real" gcc: http://caiustheory.com/install-gcc-421-apple-build-56663-wit...
That's assuming your local jurisdiction has a spine. I have multiple .com and .net domains all done through Canadian registars, for the sole purpose of not wanting to deal with the BS that is going on down south. If what I'm reading is true, they can be pulled offline whenever someone gives the word go and they're gone. I have no faith that the local courts will do anything of use, especially with the current government that we have. I'd be hard pressed to think of any western nation that would.
> You don't exactly want to go and do that if you want any hope of being invited to future dog n' pony shows.

And that's exactly why Gruber's essay is a press release and not a journalistic report.
The Codinization project at FreeCause (based on Rakuten's Englishnization)
If it's benign now, do you see it becoming not benign? I'm fine with it, and I don't see it going in a direction that makes me uncomfortable.

I knew Target and other stores were tracking me with my credit card, I noticed it specifically with Target too. At one retail chain I made my first purchase there with a debit card, almost immediately I started getting discount cards in the mail. I can't say for sure how they correlated me to my physical address, but I can guess. They were part of a larger company with other chains, one of which I purchased something from online, using the same debit card.

People seem spooked out by Target using credit cards to track people, what about not using credit cards? Safeway uses Club Cards, and they to it totally in the open by giving people "Just for U" coupons on things they buy (I used two of them yesterday). I'm not at all bothered that Safeway gives me a coupon on the exact laundry detergent I always buy, I think it's pretty nice of them.
Maybe it's because I live on the internet and think there's 1024 meters in a kilometer, but I didn't find this surprising or worrisome in the least. I would expect all large stores to perform data-mining, that data is valuable.
I think there's only one street in the whole state that gets bad traffic.
I don't know how practical this is, but I'd be impressed as all get-out with any company that sends marketing emails to which replies are individually read and answered knowledgeably in case I want to follow up something in them. An autogenerated reply that I should "simply" visit their web page seems to imply that they consider their time more valuable than mine. Is this another case where they've done the math and concluded that it would be too labor intensive for them to do the right thing, or are people in corporate marketing departments genuinely unaware of the impression they're making? I'd be grateful to anyone on HN in a position to satisfy my curiosity about this question.
So, this is a question I've not been able to find an answer for that's relevant:

Where are the non-visible light sensitive CCD-style cameras?

Why can't I take a 'picture' of the 2.4Ghz bouncing around my condo? Or the 1900Mhz rolling through walls and buildings? Things that are 'rf blocking' should show up brightly, while things that are 'rf transparent' should be ...well, transparent, like glass.

I feel like I'm misunderstanding a fundamental difference between 'light' and 'rf' here, so please point it out if I am.
In addition to the bigger click target, I appreciate that more information can be included in the still-visible section of each sheet. Each page in a breadcrumb trail is limited to a word or two of context, but with sheets, there's room for titles and other useful info.
I for one agree that articles like this need a lot more support to be influential. I wish that Hacker News would focus more on technical things, but who am I to judge? I read the post and now I'm even commenting on it. :)
My favorite comeback is, "Think of all those poor switchboard operators that the Internet put out on the street."
You're not alone. I've had good luck treating circuits as modules that are connected together. Analysis of complex analogue circuits escapes me, though.
Petition AT&T regarding throttling
This is complete bullcrap! From everything I've read, Jotform polices itself and actively tries to remove illegal material. This is EXACTLY what Google does. However, you don't see Big Brother going after Google just because they did a search on child porn and some hits came up.

We are taught not to bully but this is exactly what the U.S. Gov't is doing. Mixed messages?
If what you want is a Linux userland, by all means, err, use Linux.
I've found that with hardware design, at least at the beginner level, you can read up and cram all the theory you can get into your brain, and not really be able to build much. I think that by actually doing, and having someone show you the basics of "this is the way we do something, and this is why we do that something" is much more helpful, and opens up realms of possibility.
Seattle has a light rail system they only booted up a few years ago. They had to build a completely new set of rails everywhere to do it. I'll admit I don't know the details of its history, since I wasn't paying attention, but it's utterly possible.
> The average user will think they're about to get a virus or do irreversible damage to their computer, both of which are very, very far from the truth.

Very far from the truth, today, when this is a brand new beta that Devs are just getting their hands on.

But 6 months from now? A year? It's not going to be long before an unsigned binary probably is a trojan or similarly untrustworthy. It's not like Adium isn't going to be signed by the time Mountain Lion ships.

> tl;dr: Imagine if your grandma saw this error message. How would she react?

She'd freak out and throw it in the trash -- which is exactly what I want her to do with unsigned binaries.

There's really no analogy with the "An error occurred" dialog. We want to scare users away from blindly trusting binaries from the internet. "An error occurred" serves no similar purpose in training the user.
Dart will be submitted for standardization once they have specs finished.

JavaScript was standardized two years after its appearance in the shipping browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript
gevent is migrating from libevent to libev.

Also, it would be interesting to see this updated with Goliath/EM2, Erlang and Haskell.

http://blog.gevent.org/2011/04/28/libev-and-libevent/
Re: The TED Talks: Silicon Valley Corporatism?
TEDious Talks?
No original research is because otherwise Wikipedia would be infested with physics cranks.
Today DEVELOP magazine's front page stories were: ZYNGA falls 18%, Unity CEO Backs Kickstarter of Code Hero a game that teaches game development with a code gun, and Tim Schafer raises $2 million on Kickstarter.

Well I am the founder of Code Hero in the picture, Alex Peake, and our Kickstarter has blown up today hitting BoingBoing, TechCrunch, ThinkGeek and more blogs than I know what to do with.

TLDR: Try Code Hero and let us know what you think!
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/primerist/code-hero-a-ga...

We've surged since Tim Schafer raised his million in a single day, mostly because it lit a fire under us to push push push every way we didn't know we knew how. Every game dev is talking about the rise of Kickstarter and I wonder how much this could bleed into startups.

We want to prove that a totally unknown indie can pull off a proportionate success to that of a legend like Tim. We're going to hit $100k thanks to our allies who've put aces up our sleeve for the media to roll out every day for the next 7 days. We're grateful if you can help spread the word or have ideas.

I've had twitter storms with projects like http://www.tacticalcorsets.com but this is different: backers are playing it and learning computer programming. It's having an impact.

Schools installed it in classes. People used it as ob interview challenges. We're working on a JobBoss to make this a service.

I was inspired to make Code Hero by YC and PG. I applied in the spring, interviewed, didn't get in. The sleep-when-you-die drive it magnified only got stronger.

Compared to what we're building now with our new team, the current buggy beta is more of a tech demo, but I would love to know what you all think of it.

I live in a Noisebridge hackerspace-adjacent hacker house full of team members and cofounders of mine and from other startups YC and otherwise.

We're compared to Code Academy, which is similar to a feature we were close to releasing at the same time. I was bothered at first by a competitor. I liked their design. But it was crystal clear: Code Hero is not just a web app. We do something that has never been done before for a gamer audience that is 98% of young people. Code Hero turns gamers into coders. Games started 86% of my hacker friends on the coding path. Our metric is programmerization.

Code is the new literacy. We work on the same team promoting that. Anybody who encourages code and science literacy is an ally. Code Hero has a built-in web browser for WYSIWYG editing and API referencing that could feature web-based educational tools in an upcoming version.

I'd love to hear from Code Academy's founders and others in this space who want to talk about our shared cause and the many possible approaches to it.

Most of all I'd like to hear from you what you think of Code Hero as a game. We're aware of 0.192's flaws given that it is still just a prototype compared to what the team is building next, but you can play it and see from our plans on the Kickstarter where we're going with this: Portal-style puzzle learning, Minecraft-style sandbox creativity and Code Hero-style things that have never been done before.

Alex Peake
http://www.primerlabs.com
Wire or design? Studying signal analysis, and accompanying programs, can help with the design part. The wiring part comes with practice. Once it becomes really complicated or size is an issue, it is usually simulated and machine made.
We have 2 millions user generated forms. It is not possible for us to manually review all forms

It's certainly possible. You could get reliable Mechanical Turk reviews of forms for $0.03 each, so $60k total. Or you could hire people to look at 500 forms / hour (phishing forms are instantly obvious) at $15 /hr, also $60k total.

Compared to the cost of a site seizure, it might be a good investment.
Thank you. I didn't know about this.
"All you need is a free Apple ID" - seriously Apple, what is with tracking me every time I try to use my computer for something non-trivial?
Is it really notably lower than TED 2011 lineup? That is an honest question, I don't feel qualified to say who the most qualified deep sea explorers are.

http://conferences.ted.com/TED2011/program/schedule.php
If what you want is a Linux userland, by all means, err, use Linux.

Although, the en vogue thing to do is to use a Linux in a VM. You get to keep OS X and all it's friendliness and indispensable proprietary programs, and you get to have a full Linux dev environment that's also easy to backup and "snapshot".

(Now, if the commercial software for OS X, from iWork to Photoshop, and from XCode to pro audio/video drivers, is not "indispensable" to you, by all means, use Linux).
This is pointless pedantry imo; language drifts, and the term "corporatism" in modern American political discourse refers to the influence of business corporations. Etymologically it's perfectly supportable, since "corporatism" is a system based on corporations, of which the 20th-century European corporatist system is one possible one; a system based primarily on business corporations is also quite literally a "corporatist" system, and a more familiar modern meaning, since the term "corporation" in American English is no longer commonly used to describe anything except for incorporated businesses.

More importantly, modern linguistics generally takes a descriptivist approach, and a quick scan of Google News will make it clear beyond any gray area what the term "corporatism" means in 21st-century American English, at least if we're talking about general usage, rather than in specialized journals.
Start early morning and get to the hardest problems, I am usually best in the morning before lunch after lunch, my productivity is relatively down so I try to come in to office early when there are less distractions and leave in the evening on time so I can spend time on my hobbies/activities and not get burned out.
Khan Academy on iTunes U
Asana uses a similar sheet-based system and has managed to make it work in mobile browsers, too. Try it: https://app.asana.com
Yes, and then the installer downloads another 1-4 GB.
How would the architecture of basecamp next port over to the mobile web? It seems that the heavy caching and initial first hit downloading would potentially work well with mobile. Anyone want to take a stab at this?
"if you ask Viklund, 37, to conjure up an imaginary computer programmer, he admits that he sees "a big, fat guy with a beard, who might smell"".

he's been watching that scene with Wayne Knight (Newman) in jurassic park too many times.
Ask HN: Is it frowned upon to copy design?
Are sites that use layouts for their pages, like search results similar to Pinterest, scoffed at for being un-original?
ThinCrypt.it
Why are more companies not pushing for more computer science education?
LLVM has had a PowerPC backend for years http://llvm.org/docs/CodeGenerator.html#targetfeatures .

Do you mean something more specific?
Have you ever tried prototyping with an arduino?

I started out from zero, and have slowly been able to get to the point where I can build small robots. Its been challenging, but enjoyable. Electronics is unlike software, where you can code and code libraires without an end product (the library itself). Electronics require you to have some kind of end goal (a trinket!).

Try it out. Its cheap, accessible, and fun.
Not sure why you're getting down-voted. For regulators, this will be the key question: is Apple disadvantaging third parties who produce software that competes with their own?

As someone who has lived through a protracted antitrust review (Google acquiring ITA Software, a company I co-founded), I can tell you that there are dozens of hard-working people at the DOJ and FTC ready to make their careers on taking Apple down should Apple give them the tools to do so. A "some animals are more equal than others" app store policy -- whether intended or unintended -- is definitely fodder for a juicy DOJ/FTC lawsuit.
gecko's reply above explains what you seem to miss from this Gruber's writing.
I wrote an article about Windows' take on this, some time back: http://usersinhell.com/unhappy-security-dialogs/

There, they have a different set of problems. In both cases (signed and unsigned), you can proceed...but Microsoft doesn't really distinguish between the two types of warnings well, turning the whole thing into noise. I'm convinced nobody pays attention to it.
Idiots will Google for how to work around the warning and run the program anyway.
Isn't it possible to use a 'family' card---that is your parents credit line but the card has your name on it?
This seems obvious only in hindsight.
Ah, I misunderstood the intent. I thought cancel would close the warning and allow the application to be installed anyway.

So there will be no way to bypass this in a per-app basis without changing the system preferences for all applications? You either completely disallow unsigned applications, or you always allow them?

I'm not sure that's the best approach, but I'm not sure it isn't, either. :)
absolutely. no idea why you are being voted down.
The first thing I thought of was how sheets are like the real world and how that makes things so much more easier to use (if done right). I'm not sure why you like to rebell against using physical world analogies? Specially for less tech savy users this gives them a better chance of understanding how the interface works if they know how the object in real life works.
According to a screenshot the Macworld Hands-on (http://www.macworld.com/article/165407/2012/02/hands_on_with...) you can whitelist individual apps on the fly.
I'm hardly being fanatic and I'm not "pissed at apple for being capable of acting unethically". I simply don't trust them enough to act ethically, it's more of a resignation to that fact.

I have just reached the limits of what freedoms I am comfortable with relinquishing to Apple. Having to ask Apple for the permission to be able to write and distribute software that can actually be used on the majority of computers crosses that line for me.

I don't care if apple has anything to gain from closing OSX, because it has become too closed for me to consider it a serious option anymore. That wasn't always the case. I've loved all my macs, including this snow leopard MBP i am writing this on.

To boycott something would mean not buying something that you might have bought otherwise. 'as punishment'.. That's really not what is going on here. OSX has changed in ways that make it no longer meet my requirements for what a computing device needs to be, so i won't buy another one. that's all.
My diet was very different before I got to college.
This is an intriguing UI solution. If nothing else, it's ballsy to so radically revamp a flagship application. (I hope it doesn't receive the same reception as FCPX.)

One thing the demo left me wondering is what happens when a user opens a link to something that normally opens in a modal sheet? (if I send someone a url from my browser address bar, for instance.) Does a page load with a sheet overlaying the project homepage, or is there an alternate view for that case?

edit: I see this question was already answered by Jason: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3601498
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Yes, I can see how it could become not benign. With the way the government has been going, I could see them wanting access to all this data and even start doing something like profiling people's buying habits.. oh, so you frequently buy packs of mini zip-lock bags (the kind they sell weed and pills in)... must be a drug dealer.. the fear is mainly that the government would become active in profiling people's buying habits, they are already trying to gain more power over online data and I can see them doing it for this too.

I think this sort of data collection could use some more regulation (in the form of consumer protection). Personally, I prefer to limit info I give to companies, I rarely put real info on those in-store cards, etc
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Sorry for the double submission. I fixed the title and URL (deleted the original submission since I couldn't fix the URL)
Gatekeeper looks like it won't require anywhere near the UI acrobatics that are necessary to install an unsigned driver on Windows, and it will be easier for open-source developers to get signing keys for OS X.
I disagree. Pulling access to something you've come to depend on (especially, derive your livelihood from) is worse than never fostering that dependence in the first place.
First alpha test accounts have been created. Some are left ...
Took me a moment to realize what was wrong about "1024 meters in a kilometer". I think I need to go outside more.
I didn't say it would spark a war, I said it would make it more likely. Maybe it would only make it a tiny bit more likely, I don't think the amount matters so much in this case. There's already a shitstorm of anti-Iran propaganda being spewed by the major media outlets, I think all but Ron Paul on the GOP presidential line up don't publicly admit any problems with having a war with Iran--a few even think Iran is sneaking in terrorists over the US-Mexican border...

We're constantly sabre-rattling about nukes (or doing more than rattling if you believe we're in cahoots with (most likely) the Israeli government ordering the killing of Iran's nuclear scientists (imagine if Germany/Japan had Feynman, Oppenheimer, Fermi, Bohm, and Bohr killed)). We threaten sanctions or bombing their nuclear facilities, Iran threatens right back with all-out war (only if we do certain sanctions or bomb them first).

So condemning them over this relatively minor action all things considered, just adds to the total amount of anti-Iran propaganda already out there (some of it warranted, most of it not), if it keeps growing then eventually it will be enough that the American Public demands war. I agree that regardless of what politicians chest-beat about they would have to be really really stupid to actually do it, but I wouldn't put it past this administration and this congress let alone with who might be coming up in the next few election cycles.

Meanwhile Canada et al. are free to do as they wish since they're not in the position to actually start something with Iran, and their words are just words.
Software is People
Anyways ... the tool interacts with plugins written in a Logic Pro independent standard, VST.

Actually, Logic Pro does not interact with VST plugins at all. It interacts with AU (Audio Unit) plugins. Plugins like Native Instrument's etc that come as VST plugins also come in AU versions.

Is Apple going to cripple Logic Studio?

No, Apple is not going to cripple Logic Studio. They even said so, a few months ago.

Or will they also have to take their "pro" software out of the appstore?

They can also do whatever they want with THEIR apps in the appstore, like have them there despite not implementing sanboxing, or giving them arbitrary sanboxing rights (after all, Apple TRUSTS their own apps not to be malware).
So if I upgraded to that version (which after nightmares I've seen my fellow coworkers undergo after upgrading to Lion I'm not very keen to do) I'll be greeted by the system that by default does not let me to install any software except one approved by the OS maker without annoying me with scary warnings that will not be even read, let alone understood, by 99.9% of its users? I think I know one OS that already does that.
There was a view held by some that Apple innovates and then other companies (including certain Redmond one) copy. Now it seems to be going in the opposite direction.