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> I disagree that greens did not achieve much. They have completely changed the political discourse in germany.

Yes and that's what the Pirates will do. Some ideas will no longer be expressible in mainstream politics, because it will be political suicide to do so, such as: support for disconnecting people from the internet, prosecuting file sharers, paywalled academic journals, software patents, pervasive internet surveillance, etc.
> In every technology stack, there's always some layer below which is unnecessary to understand and above which is essential to writing good code. Where you think that cutoff belongs is usually the layer at which you, yourself, understand it.

It's important to be able to work nominally at the N'th level of abstraction but be able to jump to level N - 1 if need be. Computer systems are full of leaky abstractions, and if you work long enough they will probably impact you at some point.
I was going to put a smiley after that first line as it was kind of tongue in cheek, but HN isn't the place for smilies!

People pay Heroku/AWS each month, I don't see any difference with outsourcing this part too. That said, we use Linode boxes because I'm ok with configuring nginx etc... and I don't feel comfortable using IndexTank or MongoHQ etc... for outsourcing our search or database components, so I certainly sympathise with the unease at outsourcing key infrastructure which is easy to manage.

Pusher is marginally more complicated, but means I can call the problem solved and move onto other things. I agree it's a very interesting and fun area so it's certainly something I want to play with more in the future, but there are also 100 other interesting things which I need to work on, so I'll tackle those first.

Definite kudos to daraosn, just because I use Pusher because it solves my problem doesn't mean I don't think it's an awesome thing to work on as an open source project.
> High Pirate Party Numbers = 4 more years for Angela Merkel

How does that follow?
How is Frauenquote different from Affirmitive Action? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action)
Agreed. DRM has to go (there are good publishers that sell unprotected pdf but not everyone does that). Princes have to come down as well. I have to say that I absolutely love my Safari Books subscription, hopefully more publishers can make their books available.
I actually have the same voting history as you and agree perfectly with most of what you wrote, except for one thing:

The Pirates are very similar to what the Greens were. They may "mature" in the same way, or in a different way, or they may disintegrate, but just like the Greens, they definitelly will not forever be the hip, rebellious party that voters flock to who are disillusioned by established parties.
They had it coming, considering how the Greens (in the EU) were flip flopping on ACTA.
Do you happen to know what German parties ALDE http://www.alde.eu/ is linked to ? They are pro ACTA, so it would be interesting to know whether they lost a few percentage points as well ?
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If you really think "Android users don't criticize Google", you haven't been paying attention.

Here are some common criticisms off the top of my head:

- "Why doesn't the Nexus S / Galaxy Nexus have a microSD slot?"

- "Why hasn't Google enabled paid apps in my country?"

- "Why isn't Chrome Beta/Google Music/Books/Currents/... available in my country?"

- "Why isn't the Nexus One getting ICS?"

- "Google Play is a stupid name"

- "Why does the Chrome Beta require ICS?"

- "Google should clamp down more on Android OEMs" [to prevent fragmentation]

- "Android should have open development, not just open source"

- "Google's design guidelines for the back button are wrong"

- ...
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More on this topic here:

"We're the New Green Movement," Says Pirate Party Founder

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elisabeth-braw/pirate-party_b_...

edit: just realized I'm replying to the person interviewed in my link!
Well obviously, since they have a web page about it :-) But "secret" in the sense that not all devs seem to be aware of it yet, if anyone is still using classical floats (or even ints) for handling money.
That's certainly something to be considered when outsourcing key parts of infrastructure yes.

I know the Pusher guys personally, so I'm confident they'll be around for the foreseeable future and I've integrated it into our code base in such a way that moving to someone else, or using our own server would be trivial.

It's something which needs to be evaluated on a case by case basis, I'm happy that all the components we outsource are both trivial to replace/insource and solid businesses who will be here for some time.
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Very basic evening project I threw together. Currently not supported in many mobile browsers but desktop ones appear to work as expected (no promises).

Came into existence because I feed my son at around 3AM and scrolling all the time is a bit of a pain. So I just set this up and let it scroll for me.

Written in Play 2 (Scala) but it's mostly static HTML and JavaScript so thats largely irrelevant.
In America and the UK today, smarter people tend to end up in the kind of social circles where being gay is more acceptable.

It is a little problematic for the study. But it is a wonderful commentary on social politics.
The article seems pretty old - at least from 2004 ( http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.angelfire.com/pq... ), probably even older. Angelfire was popular in the late 1990s ...
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I cannot imagine a future where their popularity isn't raising.

Then your imagination is sorely lacking. I can guarantee that their popularity will severely decline within the next 5 years, because right now they are attracting a lot of "protest voters" who have little interest in their actual programme and simply vote for them because they attack the established parties in some way. This kind of thing always cools off after a while (just look at Die Linke).

Whether the Pirate Party can survive at depends on how they deal with that when (not if) it happens. I'm pretty sure they will, since their core points of informational freedom and transparency are still getting more relvant.
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Warning: Rant.

There is indeed. Western culture has undergone a value shift. Today's values are superficial in the extreme - we value money, personality[1], and social status. We "want respect"[2], and don't want to be "judged"[3].

Most of all, we crave others' approval.

The old values like integrity, honesty, empathy, conscientiouness and authenticity have been tossed aside.

It's also the reason people like Arrington will maintain that status quo. This article does nothing to change that. People KNOW what's being done here. And yet people always go back for more, because of these new, superficial values. Who we hang with is much more important than what we do.

The most amazing thing about it is that we value money over happiness. Just yesterday I read a post here that bemoaned guys with talent who don't deliver. Well, news flash. The guy with talent that doesn't turn his talent into something tangible is invariably happier than the guy who does. The number one regret of old people is having worked too much.

This value shift is a result of fear. Of a lack of confidence. If you can go through life without needing others' approval (looking at you, Mssrs Arrington, Siegler, Carr, and Lacy) you're free to be happy. And content.

Ever seen The Big Country with Gregory Peck? That guy was a role model worth modelling.

[1] That word is so out of place. Everybody has a personality.

[2] Respect is earnt, not given. If I "dis" someone it's because said someone hasn't done anything to earn my respect.

[3] The human brain protects itself from overload by filtering value from noise. We categorise what's left. That means judging people, every day, every time we meet someone new. It's what we do. We can't not do it.
I didn't know that.
I was dreaming of a party that voted like this based on the input of all it's constituents since ten years or so.
Maybe I should move to Berlin after all!
I don't think the way the Pirate Party works internally right now, i.e. very broad discussions trying to take every member's opinion into account, will scale to the size and speed needed if they join a ruling coalition. Their Liquid Democracy voting and delegation tool seems very promising for that use case, though.
What about:

simplepassword@domainimregistering.on

Easy to remember yet hard to guess. (Unless you read this comment)
While I have not previously seen an app that uses key input and accelerometer data like this one, there have been some academic publications that discuss pairing using similar accelerometer readings:

Hinckley, 2003: http://depts.washington.edu/dmgftp/publications/uist04/uist_...

Mayrhofer, 2007: http://comp.eprints.lancs.ac.uk/2230/1/TMC-2008-07-0279-3.pd...
I like the idea a lot. It's brilliant. Regarding the removal of the app- and music sharing feature, I noticed that it was the number one complaint and reason for a 1-star review in the app store, and then I saw this on their website:

Q. What happened to the music bumping feature?

Listening to you and reviewing our usage data, it became clear that sharing music links wasn’t a great experience for you, our users. We have removed it for now to make the app simpler and easier to use.

Q. Why can’t I bump apps anymore?

Similar to music bumping, you made it clear that this was not a great feature and therefore, we have removed it to make the app simpler and easier to use.

Marketing tip: don't lie to your users in order to smoothen out the folds and creases, because that always rubs people the wrong way and always makes a company and its product look suspicious. Just say it like it is, "Sorry, guys. Copyright and anti piracy laws forced us to remove these features."
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Doesn't work for German zip codes.
Returns 404 or some US city with the same code.
How is your application distributed? If it's a web app that you run on your own servers, GPL doesn't apply to you (only AGPL would).
I downvoted you for blatant use of a straw man and an ad hominem attack of pretty much everyone who's disagreed with you by categorically stating that they're all looking for "mommy and daddy".

> "They can start a business or move onto a company that doesn't ask for any of this info."

Riiiiiiight. Because the blacks totally had that choice. And the women! And the Irish! And the Jews! It's kind of weird to me how libertarians model the world so simply - where culture doesn't exist, humans are perfectly rational actors, and all systems are 100% efficient. Real life isn't game theory.
So, they reinvented existential types?
I was told a long time ago that if the journalist/publication IS the story, something has gone wrong (excluding genuinely serious news like NewsCorp or the journos killed in Syria). Any time someone who runs a news website and spends almost as much time trying to convince you of their value as the value of the stories they're writing you have to ask what the purpose is. In most cases, it's to establish themselves for future money making ventures, not for the journalism.
Ask HNS: Why not interview a cadidate while live coding infront of interviewer?
In most of technical interviews coder are asked to code in paper, why aren't people given IPython or laptop to code.
Because the Pirate party is taking away voters from both the traditional conservative camp (FDP, CDU/CSU) and the traditional social democrat/Green camp, yet is too new to be seriously considered as a coalition partner for a government. That means a grand coalition (CDU/CSU and SPD) led by Merkel becomes more likely - the same one as in the previous administration, before the FDP gained enough votes to have a traditional conservative coalition, but the FDP is currently vanishing into obscurity.
One of the cases I tried was:

notaword12 -	17 hours

notawrod123 - 22 minutes

With almost any not-word, really. The extra 12 is better than 123 somehow.
I remember the bot. I still have the RSS subscription. It was fun to see all of the junk it had purchased.
Because almost every single use of QR codes I've seen has been a terrible UX mistake. They're unwieldy, slow and annoying.
In some kinds of apps there can be issues that are not necessarily crashes, but where a log from the user's system is still helpful in diagnosis. Perhaps the answer is to make an app's own log and relevant system logs - but not the logs of other apps - available to that app.
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"Frauenquote" is just a specialization of the term "positive discrimination" in the UK, France, Spain and in most of the EU, and "affirmative action" in the US and some other countries. Other countries do not have a specific term for the gender case, but it is exactly the same thing, and lots of similar policies exist. You can see this by taking a look at Wikipedia/Quotenregelung which is linked to Affirmative action in English Wikipedia.

About the Pirate Party's take on this: I don't think there's a mature consensus yet. According to a recent poll (http://www.taz.de/!89247/) only 6 percent sees the party as postgender.
SPD/Green is the only combination with a chance of getting >50% to end the CDU/SPD coalition. The pirates are draining votes from both of them, and I doubt SPD or CDU would be willing to form a coalition with a party as young and controversial as the PP.
See similar concerns expressed at: http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2012/02/26/kathy-sierra-on...
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It's more complicated than that though. A few months back when they removed those features, they used that spin to turn it into some free publicity that made it sound like they were unconventionally responding to their users. Now they're stuck with that lie, which I'm sure rubs a lot of people the wrong way, but I'll bet it was worth it just to have their name in some memorable headlines.
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We started this flight simulator about 2 years ago to be PC based, after realizing that it was too big of a task, we switched to Windows Phone 7 (Release Apr 2011) and recently released on iOS (March 2012).

So far, the reviews have been encouraging, and we're closing in on our second update. Last update brought iPad3 support, new airplanes and bug fixes. Next one will bring 2 additional aircrafts, missions, better map, IFR Fixes/Airways...

Now, for the things that the HN crowd might be interested in:

- It's entirely in C#. Codebase of the simulator itself (excluding XNA, MonoGame) is 99% shared between WP7 and iOS.

- The user base on iOS is much larger than on WP7, the numbers go far beyond our wildest expectations. (It's a bit early to tell, but something like 30x to 45x what we had on Windows Phone so far)

- The physics engine is custom, we're using rigid body simulation and apply forces based on angle of attack, airspeed, lift tables...

- Using MonoGame/MonoTouch has been incredible, the guys at Xamarin are great!

- We did run into issues with Garbage Collection, but nothing that we couldn't solve with a classic optimization session at the end

- People seem to love the fact that we setup a uservoice site. (http://feedback.flyingdevstudio.com). We've got tons of suggestions and we'll try to implement what people want first.

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In China, there is a lot of low level programmers. I guess it has to do with the fact that electronics are all manufactured here. If you live in Silicon Valley/Seattle, where most startups are building web apps, it's not surprising to see few low level programmers.
Totally agree. I don't mind contributing to their project, but i don't think every developer, client, entrepreneur wants to open source their code.
> NYT is different as they are still selling a newspaper

Not really. As I understand it, ads are where newspapers and magazines make their money. The subscription fee is nice, but it is as much (or more) about qualifying their readers for advertisers as it is for the income. Take a look at the recent complaints about iOS magazine subscriptions including ads, for example.
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Ars is still excellent.
or maybe, just maybe this points to the fact that the people who appreciate good design and stuff that just works use Apple products and see the latest changes by Google as unfavorable.

i do. new layout? search clutter? play in my google browser bar? circle results in search? maps api pricing? etc etc etc.

i loved the old google. really getting annoyed with the new one. it is becoming apparent that they are an advertising network above all else.

but hey, if conspiracy theories about Apple make it easier for you, please continue.
Claims to be liberal but mainly supports business interests? Who else but the FDP could that be?

And, yep:

http://www.alde.eu/alde-group/national-delegation-elected-me...
Germany: LAMBSDORFF Alexander Graf, Freie Demokratische Partei

And the FDP is currently disintegrating so vociferously it's almost comical to watch. But supporting ACTA has only a small part in that, if any.
I maybe wrong but I believe it depends on what you want to do with your degree. If you want to do video game programming I would think that the core physics coursework would be a definite prerequisite. I'm pretty sure more hardware related firms might also look into your science coursework as well. This will probably be less important if you want to pursue web programming or something more high level.
Now, make it go the other way! Info off pc to mobile..
> they left AOL after AOL told them they were violating the most basic of journalism ethics rules by investing the companies they were writing about.

This isn't true. Mike left AOL because Arriana was getting too hands on. There were a lot of little control decisions that lead to the decision to leave.

He left and then setup Crunchfund, with an investment from AOL. He was supposed to continue as a contributor, just like many other contributors who are also investors or entrepreneurs but declined on that as well. MG remained as a contributor.

As for the circle jerk being boring, I couldn't agree more (and I know the people involved, most of them well). What you have to keep in mind is that when something is made public, there is a motive for that. There is a reason why readers are being informed, and it usually isn't a good reason (for eg. claiming 'in view of full disclosure' and then telling half the story and leaving comments closed).

But if you are going to call out the circle-jerk and how boring it is, first make your story accurate (not difficult, all the details are spread out across the various blogs) and second at least back-up the claim that people are starting to tire of it, for eg. the fact that only one other blog wrote about the latest bust-up, or that it only rated a mention on twitter amongst other bloggers who joked about it.

The 'dirty laundry' posts used to be a lot more popular than they are now, and that means they are having little effect to their purpose of riling up readers. It would have taken a single paragraph to lay that point out, this just reads like somebody who jumped right into the circle jerk and is riding coat tails. The tone is one of speaking condescendingly on behalf of the rest of the world, but in attempting to do that he has stepped a bit too close to the action and got himself messy. And as has already been mentioned, we really really really don't give a shit - and that includes you.
MD5 is bad because it suffers from collision attacks, however it doesn't suffer from preimage attacks, so it's actually fairly secure for passwords (although I still wouldn't use it over any modern algorithm).

Basically, you can make 2 arbitrary pieces of data have the same hash, but you can't create a piece of data matching a known hash.
You can dig up complaints to this effect from the 70s and 80s too, that programmers no longer grow up patching wires and bootstrapping boards, but instead jump straight into writing "software" in asm or C or whatever, as if "hardware" is some magic black box that just gives you an instruction set out of nowhere.
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>Uploading something to a server just to share it with someone standing near you is ridiculous.

Not really. For one thing, it greatly simplifies security concerns for the user without compromising anything.
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It's possible to descend to lower levels, if given enough curiosity. Some people just want to know how things work under the hood.

I can remember starting to program our brand new PET-2001 in BASIC (at 13 years old or so). After a while I became bored with the sluggishness of BASIC, and the cramped memory space. Only very small BASIC programs would fit. But there was a new challenge! I wanted to discover what made the PET really tick -- how did it understand BASIC? Then I learnt about ROMs, RAMs and the 6502 CPU, and how to program it in machine language. It was similar to programming programmable calculators, which I'd done since I was 9. But the 6502 worked much more faster, and had a rich instruction set, compared to those old calculators; and a much better screen, with graphics!

Since I was a kid, I always wanted to look into the inside of toys how they worked, for example, my 'Brummkreisel'[1] spintop. At 6, I wanted to open my hamster to look inside, but my mother wouldn't allow it... (Otherwise maybe I'd be a surgeon nowadays ;-)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Brummkreisel_BW_2011-08-12...
If anything it would irresponsible not to tell them.
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I can't remember where I saw it, but there was some mildly controversial talk from someone in industry to that effect at a CS conference, chastising universities for teaching their students about how CPUs work by using a model based more or less on 1980s RISC machines, which in his view was not very relevant to how a modern CPU works, and gave the wrong performance intuitions. I don't remember if he proposed a solution, though. In computer-engineering majors you solve that by having multiple courses, which work their way up to the modern complexities, but in a one-semester architecture course as part of a CS major, there isn't infinite room.
That makes sense. It would also possibly the best outcome for the Pirates: being in opposition would give them time to be more professional and get their act together, and would mean that in the next elections, both CDU and SPD would be unpopular incumbents (meaning they both lose more votes to the Pirates).