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aren't micro or nano kernels living on as hypervisors? If so, they are the backbone of all this "cloud" hullabaloo
You say potato, I say potato. What's the meaningful difference? Inside even the purest microkernel you're still running "processes" with unified address space subject to awful crashes and memory corruption. The process is itself an abstracted machine, after all. How far down the abstraction hole do we have to go before we reach purity?
Where is mobile gaming happening? At home, in bed
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It's not a serious analogy by any means, nor am I suggesting that you should run your business or career in the same way Potter conducted his leisure hours (which were hysterical, at least in his telling of them).

It was just what came to mind immediately when I started reading your post.

I actually started reading thinking that you were going to talk about Jim Camp's "Start with No" negotiation technique, but your point was entirely different.
What are you talking about? GSM dates back to the mid 1980s and the first spec was published in 1991. The first mobile phone CDMA standard didn't come into play until 1995.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-95
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Well, the actual font files themselves are copyrighted, and can be distributed under whatever license he wants. It's just the shapes that are not. So you can't take the font files, add or tweak a letter, and redistribute them. But you can go through, manually trace each letter, add or tweak some, and distribute that.

I suspect that most people who would want to create a derivative work would want to reuse the existing files. Manually re-creating a font is quite a bit of work. Finding just the right control points to get the curves perfect is tough. And no, you can't just dump the control points out of the original file; that would be creating a derivative work.

Edit to add: And actually, I believe that the copyright notice on that page is for that sample, displaying how the font is constructed. This is something that is copyrightable. The actual font file doesn't seem to have been released.
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Yeh, when I've got the time I'll put a similar font on. It does have the correct font for the wallpapers though
AFAIK, ycombinator forum software does not make a sex/gender distinction. I don't see how it could be sexist.

Being labeled a sexist is a terrible thing.
Saying that a discussion by man on the subject is sexist seems potentially sexist because it implies that man should not discuss because they are man.
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the network is often faster than my local disk

I'm wondering what kind of network you have...
Excellent points. I think if the original poster had written something more like this we would all agree, but writing "mass produced" in the pejorative sense when Apple is exactly that called for a bit of a rebuttal.
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"As much as I'd like to use Dustin's blogging engine..."

And you can't. Because you're not invited. Because you aren't witty enough.

Maybe dcurtis is not a tool, and he's a great designer, and he just used poor writing to explain that he's testing his blog or curating writers for a network of bloggers. But his exclusionary description, his flippant replies to complaints - these things set off his potential competition. And his response? Ranting and flailing (which he deleted.)

If this entire thing had started with more mild language ("I created this thing to solve these problems. I'm creating a network of bloggers around/under/over/through it. Maybe I'll open it to the world eventually. Or I might not.") then he would have garnered a much more supportive response.

And STILL someone else would have created a clone and made it available publicly. And he could have replied, again, with something less jilted. For example, "It's great these ideas are getting attention. I'm curating writers and you won't get that from a github repo. I'm not crazy about having the design cloned, so might I suggest making your version theme-friendly?"

As to the feelings of Mr. Curtis, I can only say that if this cloning is a problem for him, perhaps he should create works (and make appropriate registrations for those works) with stronger legal protections.
Can you name a single profitable company in the "B2B arena" with only free users?
Sadly, and I mean very sadly, this doesn't mean that. =)

The reason it doesn't mean that is that they are triggering naturally-programmed neurons via light. They are not programming them via light.
I once wrote a C parser & interpreter in Python. :)

https://github.com/albertz/PyCParser
It depends :

I lost my card and someone found it, went to biggest/main branch of the bank in nuremberg and draw 100€ from cash desk ( this all happened in 3 hours and yes, bank personal doesnt asked/checked identity ). When i found out i lost my card, i called the service line and blocked my card ( though confirmation, my card wasn't blocked ).

After two week rush and paperwork i get my money back ( i know i lost my time but it was never about money ).

There is always some chance to get your money back but the real problem is you're loosing your liquid that's why debit cards has daily/weekly limits.
As the father of two kids who beg to play on my phone all day I think this is a great idea! I have an old Android phone which I would love to let them play games and take pictures on. Maybe there are even some specific kid friendly wifi apps they could use. (Send pictures to grandparents?)
Yeh. I thought that too, but it needs some more general tinkering anyway. I'll get round to it at somepoint
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I have to say, I'm really impressed with Facebook for coming out and making this their issue, instead of just waiting for the applicants and employers to slowly work it out between themselves. In hindsight, it's seems like an obviously smart move (both to impress their userbase and to remove disincentives to use Facebook), but somehow it didn't occur to me that they might join in on the fight. Good for them.
Hmm, I'll look into it
This is not about you, I or other highly employable people. This is about person trying to get any job they can.
Doesn't this fall into the realm of discriminatory interview questions to begin with? I'm pretty sure a case could be made in a discriminatory hiring suit without introducing new laws.
I'd have always thought that if you were to give out your password, you'd never be (legally) allowed to access your facebook account again (since you'd be in breech of the terms of service). And also that the potential employer would not legally be allowed to access it, since they'd be accessing a computer system, by pretending to be someone else.
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Theoretically, I'd agree. But "memory" is an extremely fuzzy definition. Perhaps the memory is not 100% identical, but missing a tiny detail about the color of the triangle on the guy's shirt in the background of the TV.

There is also a lot of redundancy in neural networks. Large swaths of neurons fire together in concerted patterns, and while removing one may tweak the pattern slightly, it is equally likely that the other neurons will just adjust their weights to keep the pattern constant.
It's technically a game of skill as you need to write an Erlang bot that plays "rock paper scissors lizard spock". That's either really easy if you know Erlang, or a great way to get started learning...
And how to increase productivity would just be to buy a second monitor. You might increase productivity per square inch by going smaller but you will increase productivity in total if you get a second screen.

I don't buy into any of the arguments for a smaller screen. Depends on what you do and how you do it. If you have trouble managing multiple windows then don't. If you have trouble focusing on your work then you have other issues than a too large display. If you manage to circumvent this by working on a netbook then that's fine, for you. But keep in mind that an netbook can hardly be considered ergonomically decent and my personal opinion is that you perhaps should attack the cause and not the symptoms.

http://earlyandoften.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/justifying-dua...

I constantly hear people say "I'll never accept having just one monitor from now on" after having two for about a week. Same goes for my skeptical father, I just put another screen next to his current on his desk and two weeks later he couldn't live without it. Stories like these are common and you've all heard them since the mid 90's, it is still true today - and there is no point even trying to excuse yourself from buying a second monitor.
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Right, but then the employee will only ask for both your passwords…
This is awesome, and a great step past the "Poker blog" you were running back in High school :P.
The reason that this sort of legal action is necessary is because the kind of people who are being asked this aren't the kind of people who can walk into any company in the valley and get another job. In those situations, the employee doesn't have any cards to play.
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Mint started out as not profitable in any way, and I believe at their IPO (which was ~18 months later) they had an ARPU of something like 35-40$ per annum.

You need to reach a critical mass in users before you can take action on certain potential profit centers. It's different for every industry and every business, but there's some things that would be more trouble than they're worth at 25k users but start making you a lot of money at 100k users.
Obviously the author of this blog post (a Russian Designer) is an outsider of telecom industry. Neither would I believe s/he knows anything about a standard called "GSM", let alone the part where how GSM handsets id/authenticate with the network and the purpose of SIM card is. The proof of my assertion? Check out the sketch on the page, there is a ghost mobile carrier indicator "ABC 3G" there for all three screens.

Piece of advice: before you attack on technologies, make sure you understand it first, the history and the reason why they exists. Otherwise, you are going to be a public joke on HN.

I recommend him/her to read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subscriber_Identity_Module

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And the cool thing is that a smartphone now serves the function of all of these gadgets. It's a music player, video player, camcorder, digital camera, answering machine, and so on. Internet TV replaces the need for satellite TV and a cellphone camera + email replaces the need for a FAX machine. It's astonishing how few appliances you need aside from a smartphone.
Cached HTTP resources are usually small in 10K's to 100K's. You meant your netbook is so memory constrained that it can't afford some megabytes of cache memory?
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I'd like to chime in as one of the folks who was ardent in the defense of the possibility of the birdman and who turned out to be wrong.

It's a shame that this ended up being faked instead of real, but I would like to point out to the community something before we all start talking about how easy people are to dupe, how easy it is for people to ignore reality for something they believe, and how some folks were right all along.

The way the (original, I think?) thread went down was a mixture of claims that it was obviously fake, backed by some comments and notations basically of the variety of "It looks shooped, I can tell from some of the pixels."

There was absurd amounts of unsubstantiated criticism, and very little criticism based on anything other than the video.

There was not "this is fake, but technically feasible for these reasons."

There was not "this is fake, and technically infeasible for these reasons."

There was not "this is fake, and obviously infeasible for these reasons."

The handful of attempts that people made to explain why it was physically impossible (beyond the mere statement of "lol y u no physics education") oftentimes ignored the claimed evidence and circumstances of the act (e.g., asserted manual power instead of assisted flight) or tried to base it on some weird analogy using the natural world (e.g., a bird's weight scales thus-and-such a way) or just plain appealed to authority (e.g., in the whole history of human flight we've never gotten this to work).

There was an equally poor showing on the part of people arguing it was possible (I among them). Very few real numbers were pulled out, and more thorough analysis would've been appreciated.

But, at the end of it, here's the core narrative we need to question:

1. Person does something seemingly impossible.

2. HN says it isn't possible, can't be possible, appealing solely at first to the video and the shooping.

3. HN minority tries to reason that it might be possible, is met with bad analogy and analysis.

4. Person turns out to be fake, lots of sorrow and/or "We were right!"

Folks, we need to do a better job of 2 & 3. We can't just jump on things as impossible without doing the math, without doing the numbers. We need to be honest in our critiques, and distinguish between "impossible in general" and "impossible for this implementation".

We don't judge our code by some of the pixels--why do you want to judge engineering writ large this way?
Their only asset is their users' data, and they don't want anyone else getting at it for free?

/cynicism
You deny her very experience?
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I support Facebook's stance on this, but I'm also quite surprised!

What happend to their "Share everything with everyone!" policy?
Just wondering why it's seemingly limited to US only at the moment? (Or at least, not the UK).
I use 2 FullHD screens where one is dedicated to code and the other is for console, project explorer, logviewer etc. All the other stuff is in different workspaces (Unfortunately I must develop on Windows, but I found mDesktop that allows to create virtual desktops).
Why not detect when they've typed enough numbers and automatically connect?

libphonenumber validates numbers based on your locality: http://code.google.com/p/libphonenumber/
I see this as valid reason. Although, did not see difference on ubuntu and windows. What browser + OS you use?

While this is a reasonable explanation, I see many cases where system fonts set wrong and as a result an unstyled page look terrible.
The first example which came to mind was the internet. After that, smart phones.
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"I'm voting troll here." - Me too. Sorry for asking a noob quesiton, how do you vote troll on HN?
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not if this is not the default. If they were to implement it they would do it like Truecrypt where you are able to choose between "normal" encryption and creating a hidden volume which allows for plausible deniability ( see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plausible_deniability#Use_in_c... ).
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Hey, props for responding to criticism! As a (now ex-)neurobiologist, it's maddening when journalists don't cite the paper they talk about. I helped start ResearchBlogging.org way back in the day to help fight this very problem.

If I may make a suggestion: wrap your citations in OpenURL COinS format. ResearchBlogging.org provides this functionality automatically, but you can do it yourself too. It provides a lot of useful meta-data, citation information and the ability for plugins to interact intelligently with the web-page

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Here's one for you genius. This would not be such a hard problem to solve on a Hybrid/microkernel OS. And you wonder why some Android devices don't get updates?

The Android kernel code is more than just the few weird drivers that were in the drivers/staging/android subdirectory in the kernel. In order to get a working Android system, you need the new lock type they have created, as well as hooks in the core system for their security model.

In order to write a driver for hardware to work on Android, you need to properly integrate into this new lock, as well as sometimes the bizarre security model. Oh, and then there's the totally-different framebuffer driver infrastructure as well.

This means that any drivers written for Android hardware platforms, can not get merged into the main kernel tree because they have dependencies on code that only lives in Google's kernel tree, causing it to fail to build in the kernel.org tree.

Because of this, Google has now prevented a large chunk of hardware drivers and platform code from ever getting merged into the main kernel tree. Effectively creating a kernel branch that a number of different vendors are now relying on.

Now branches in the Linux kernel source tree are fine and they happen with every distro release. But this is much worse. Because Google doesn't have their code merged into the mainline, these companies creating drivers and platform code are locked out from ever contributing it back to the kernel community. The kernel community has for years been telling these companies to get their code merged, so that they can take advantage of the security fixes, and handle the rapid API churn automatically. And these companies have listened, as is shown by the larger number of companies contributing to the kernel every release.

But now they are stuck. Companies with Android-specific platform and drivers can not contribute upstream, which causes these companies a much larger maintenance and development cycle.

http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/android-kernel-problems.html

For your 2nd question

In Mac OS X, Mach is linked with other kernel components into a single kernel address space. This is primarily for performance; it is much faster to make a direct call between linked components than it is to send messages or do remote procedure calls (RPC) between separate tasks. This modular structure results in a more robust and extensible system than a monolithic kernel would allow, without the performance penalty of a pure microkernel.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin...
It's interesting to compare this to the rate of adoption for the land line telephone:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AnZb5H7...

This new technology took decades to reach mass use, from the time it was introduced on the market.
The fact that consciousness runs on neurons is hardly breaking news.
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This is true but pretty unhelpful. The problem is that involving official proceedings or the law almost always looks like overkill. In the aggregate, these events amount to a very serious problem, but individually each one doesn't feel like enough to be worth making it official. Nobody wants to be known as "the person who got someone fired for a comment about a dress", even if they were totally justified. Even normal, decent people are going to be wary of you if you end up with that reputation, deserved or undeserved.

That's the essence of the problem I think. It's a big problem, but it's hard to do anything about it without being seen to be overreacting.
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High art = trolling. This has been true at least since Derrida, possibly since Marcel Duchamp's statement that an artist is legitimate only in how much he challenged accepted notions of art.
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If an (prospective) employer asked for a email/social account password, you should leave immediately, period.
I use Ghostery as well for both FF and chromium. For instance, it blocked 14 tracking scripts from that techcrunch article. I love it.

Edit: Also see http://www.ghostery.com/
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Never come across that before - I wonder how it does in odd situations - for example my Grandmother's home number happens to be 1 digit less than the majority of the UK (as is the case for many people in London, where she lives, and I think somewhere else too like Birmingham).
I'm not sure the (productivity/inch of screen) metric is something we want to optimize. If you reduce your screen size by 50% (24" to 12") and only lose 40% of your productivity, it's not really a win to me. Granted I use 2x24" monitors in portrait orientation and still maximize everything, so I may be an outlier here.

The side effects of screen size reduction are really what provides a benefit for creative work: control your work environment, ruthlessly cull distractions, minimize useless meetings and interactions. It's a classic recipe for achieving flow, and you don't have to reduce your screen real estate if you don't want to.
Right. And prior to that they produced trillions in revenues over 100+ years of being in business, selling more cars worldwide than ANY other company.

The 2008 bailout is naught but a blip on the radar, so implying that GM hasn't been a good company, and putting them in the same sentence as Enron is sort of out to lunch. GM has been a wealth generation machine for a long time. That's my point.
We should take kindly to a well-presented argument, whether we agree with, or like, the viewpoint or not.

See: http://www.paulgraham.com/say.html

If supporting software patents is something you can't say here (and it seems very much like it is), then we are weaker community because of it. Even if software patents are in fact terrible.
This isn't true. When my co-workers have gotten into political discussions that were completely against my beliefs, I could have easily gotten offended.

But you know what? I don't, because I'm an adult. Some people are going to say things you may not like. Just ignore them.

Wow, stop right there and reconsider political beliefs vs gender or race.

If you don't want to be outed as a Ron Paul supporter you just keep your mouth shut. How does a woman stop coworkers from focusing on her breasts? Or the fact that she can become pregnant? Or that she's single?

You don't have to be your political beliefs every moment of your life.
I wouldn't worry about it too much were I Dustin. He'll keep continually improving Svbtle from his design insights, whereas Obtvse likely will stagnate. And if it doesn't, the contributors would all be programmers, given it's hosted on github. Chances are, they won't use it often, and they won't have the design intuitions that come with design experience and use.

Take it as a form of flattery and just move on. I have faith in his design chops.
Isn't one of the issues not about obtaining passwords but rather being pressured into befriending the (prospective) employer's representative/HR person? Allowing them to trawl thru your wall and so on...
The trouble, as always, are the more vulnerable people in society. Folks who may not have a lot of options, or really need to stay at a current job. They are more vulnerable to this sort of exploitation. I wish facebook would organize an advocacy group or class action lawsuits against a list of these employers.
I'd have always thought that the terms of service (that I haven't signed (checking a check box doesn't count)) couldn't just make something, that wasn't already, illegal.

If I don't behave to their liking they could of course cancel my account but that's pretty much it.
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