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[1] I only recognize that a distinction could exist when we restrict the discussion to conscripted armies.

[2] I assert they do nothing of the sort.

[3] Call it what you like, telling people that they should be more respectful of the military when they express concern about being, by proxy, responsible for a loss of life, is... I don't even know how to describe it. Lets say "insensitive of the humanity of others".

[4] Cheerio
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I'm still a DE refugee @.@

I guess I always was. I just want a desktop with an application dock I can pin stuff to, one icon per instance with mouseover / alt tab showing all instances, a system clock and system button on it for all the other jazz, that I can just pin to the left of my screen that can context hide itself.

So I can have my screen real estate for whatever I'm doing and not have it covered in the superfluous glomp like the Unity top bar (I love having the name of my running program in two places!) etc.
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The next steps are access to capital and access to connections, or innovations that make social connections and large investments obsolete. Places like YC and TechStars help with these for a small subset of the population, so we're off to a decent start.
Usually, a maintainer will step up and build packages for a given project. Be it one developer or a small team thereof, it's definitely not the entire community (and in fact can be unrelated to the community.) However, as distribution versions are end-of-lifed, packages stop receiving non-vital (AKA: security-only) updates, and that's not the fault of the Rails team or even of that maintainer.
Presumably, you can still choose or edit the software you run on it, outside of the corelibs. Also, you can ask them to fix a bug, but you can't ask somebody else's grandma to update her browser.
The funny thing about all this is that (perhaps this case aside) Google is getting a lot of bad PR because they actually tell people what they do.

Meanwhile, everyone uses airmiles cards, facebook, and numerous other services that abuse privacy and bury the details in fine print. Nobody gets upset. Did you know that by using an airmiles card all your transactions are sent off for data mining? Did you know that Target used transaction data to predict that teenage girl was pregnant before she even told her parents and sent baby related print ads to her house?

Your privacy is being violated all the time, constantly, and nobody tells you about it. If you care so much about the ethics of recording traffic from open wifi networks, then I hope you also pick up your sword against the massive tide of less obvious and more directly nefarious privacy violations.
While this is very cool (minus the proprietary drawbacks), what can I make with this $1300 printer that I couldn't buy for $1300? I would have liked to have seen that in their marketing material.
The scary part to me was that they didn't have any criteria at all for the companies they were looking at besides "disruptive tech."
These look amazing--does anyone know how the resolution compares to say a MakerBot?
Any project that maintains a purely-declarative dependency tree after the first build should be able to do incremental builds equally fast. That includes ninja, redo, or tup. (Of course, there would be optimization details in the implementation, and ninja is likely to be fastest at present. But the design itself doesn't preclude any of them being fast.)

For full builds, I don't see any reason tup would be particularly fast for speed, in fact. Auto-calculation of dependencies sounds nice, but I personally don't trust it; "perfect" is harder to attain than it sounds. For example, what do you do if one of my build rules retrieves a list of files using wget? redo can handle this, but tup could never automate it "perfectly" (since there are so many possible definitions of perfect), so you will always have weird tradeoffs. I don't really believe in the concept of perfect automated dependencies. Of course, if it works for you, then go for it; that's kind of an edge case.
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Kickstarter's long journey
if you are willing to live with the gems at the versions they were released as whenever your distro was released and when you are willing to live with the subset of all gems that is part of your distributions repository, then apt-get is the perfect tool.

But the moment any of your apps introduce dependencies that cannot be met with your distribution, you are in trouble: maybe the gem needs a newer version of ruby?

Maybe the gem depends on a newer version of a gem that came with the system? Do you manually update that system gem? In that case, you might have just broken a distribution application depending on that older version (and not listing the version it needs, so the latest will be used.

As more and more time passes, the old, safe gem set becomes more and more restricting, increasing the temptation to use gem install instead of apt-get, but once you went down that path, you will open a whole shipping container of worms.

Remember, server distros update rarely. Up until last week, the latest Ubuntu LTS version you could get was from 2010. So much has happened in the ruby world sinc then that sticking to gems of that time could've really hard.

By using rvm, you decouple the gems and ruby your applications need from what the system needs, ensuring that te system remains stable, while you still can use the latest versions of the gems.
It's funny watching a project like this progress over the years. You inevitably get the "it's slow and bloated now" comments, but if no new features were added you'd end up hearing people write it off as irrelevant.

The new BeOS-style 'deskbar' feature in 4.10 looks awesome. Pity X11 DEs and window managers don't have much of a concept of applications and associated windows in the way that MacOS/BeOS do.

Been an Xfce addict since the 3.x series and I still keep coming back to it.
I believe in the case of apt-get it's the responsibility of the Debian project. It's the same with other tools (yum, brew, macports).

Rails itself is normally installed via Rubygems (where it's updated directly by the Rails team), but the problem in this case lies with Ruby: for an up-to-date development/production environment you have to compile it by yourself or use something like RVM.
Very cool! I think you're limited by the font - strangely enough. But this is very nice. Creative.
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The first part of the article was about Apple avoiding California taxes by having a small office in Reno. You haven't shown that Apple pays its fair share of California's road system (don't ignore the federal road system), schools, sewers, police protection, or its use of American soft power for its purposes overseas.

But supposing Apple does pay it's share of all these things. Given our current deficit and that a large portion of our deficit goes toward maintenance of both soft and hard power and that such power is used for the benefit (not solely) of large corporations its clear that business are not paying their share of the burden. And a large portion of the current deficit comes from stabilizing the economy. Without infusions of cash into the system after Lehman went bankrupt Apple would have been greatly disrupted.

Corporations in the U.S. currently sit on a great hoard of cash. I don't know another hoard of cash government can access to pay for the maintenance of the system. From you last paragraph it seems it would be advisable for you to read the Wikileaks cables. Your view about the role of military power and its relationship with soft power the use of said power for the benefit of corporate interests appears to naive.

In an environment where public policy has been co-opted by corporate interests to serve business interests to the detriment of other interests it's hardly reasonable to think that "we should simply stop defending Ireland". Why would businesses want such a thing when they benefit from our power without having to pay for it?
I'm skeptical of the Solidoodle. Why on earth is it so cheap? And it looks of such high quality.
Still doesn't quite answer the question.

For example, are they counting libcurl in Linux's total? How about Gecko, WebKit, and KHTML?

As it stands, the statement sounds either wrong or indicative of a completely bizarre design on the Haiku peoples' part.
The Ultimaker prints down to 0.1mm, vs 0.25mm on this one. I'm curious how they achieve the smooth look with a standard resolution - maybe it's just the pictures.
The thing is, this isn't something that your average joe would even consider buying even if it has the 'sexy form'.

To make use of this the person would need to know what 3d printing is, know where to get models or make 3d models (doubtful), get materials and then spend time printing and perfecting.

Not something the average user would do no matter how "sexy" the packaging is for this. If they really wanted something made that they'd managed to design, they would likely go with one of the many online companies that offer 3d printing as a service and offer a wide variety of materials and sizes (without the person having to invest in a 3d printer up front or learning how they work).

As another poster mentioned above, I personally would much rather go with something like the Solidoodle machine which is half the price; not as sexy but I'm not sure that the target market for 3d printing at this time is looking for "sexy".

One day when 3d printing becomes more mainstream and much cheaper (200-300 range and buy it at Best Buy/Target), I could see the sexy form factor and wifi becoming something to have.
While RVM is great, I use https://github.com/sstephenson/rbenv (but I don't write that much ruby lately. Maybe I haven't reached the edge of rbenv).
There's printerbot too, for the same price.
They aren't competing with RepRap so much as Makerbot, who ship an assembled "just works" open source printer and who are behind Thingiverse.
I recall an apocryphal story of a guy who got killed by a 12V car battery. It was a hot day, and he was trying to pick it up, but it was heavy, so he was using a couple of pairs of Vise-Grips. On the terminals.
So they can invest -some- of the money in the US.

And pay salaries, bonuses and dividends with the rest - without paying the appropriate corporate income tax rate first. That's why.
every once in a while one bumps into something fairly useless(no disrespect) but insanely creative wow-&-smile-inducing piece of code here on HN. thanks for this. more power to you.
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Not related at all and the WooFramework has been updated days before all this: http://cl.ly/3S2o1z380L3i1D44443A

For the people not yet on the latest WooFramework version: You can download the latest version of WooFramework here: http://cl.ly/2a3j1m351C3u2i0t122j (it is 5.3.10)

Do you know how to manually update the framework? This zip file unzips to a "framework" folder, you need to replace to contents of the "functions" folder of your theme. Obviously make a backup of everything before you start.

This exploit is fixed in the latest two stable builds and should have been reported to us (WooThemes team) in the first place. Wonder if this guy has ever heard of the concept of responsible disclosure...
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I agree with the SCOTUS sentiment, but in other related areas, strict adherence to the law with the underlying intent to remain legal but avoid the spirit of the law has been cracked down upon.

In the case of cash transactions, with the 10k reporting limits, people are now routinely prosecuted for "structuring" their >10k transactions into a series of <10k transactions, even when it is clearly demonstrated that there is no underlying criminal activity. There have been cases where it is just cantankerous believers in privacy being prosecuted.

For my part, I'm on the side of the tax avoiders & believers in privacy, but it wouldn't surprise me to see the government's views/regulations on tax avoidance come around to their current policies on currency controls.
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Good take on the article. I.e., there's a sense that money is to be made through "big data" if only we could find the right, highly skilled person.

Now, we notice that we're not making those gobs of money, as promised in the business press (and shown through a few example successes), and conclude that there must be a shortage of such people.
Abstract, you can find the pdf (220Kb) ~ http://arxiv.org/pdf/1204.4809v1
My first thought after reading his post was not that he was successful "even though" but "because" he had no computer.

It forced him to learn more efficiently when he sat in front of one.

If you have access to a computer 24 hours a day you will squander away more time.

But don't get me wrong, I am very impressed by what he has achieved.
I think the problem though is that projects can end up "scammy" even if they aren't outright scams. If a project makes very ambitious promises, and upon getting the funds, the developers don't put forth much effort and deliver a bug-ridden, lackluster product, it might not technically be a scam. But it will sure feel like one to contributors, and I think Kickstarter is going to increasingly run into this problem in the future.
I'm not sure how WooThemes uses this file, but you can require a user to be logged in to access it fairly easily. This might break some part of WooTheme's functionality.

Edit `your-theme/functions/js/shortcode-generator/preview-shortcode-external.php`

Somewhere below the `require_once( $url . '/wp-load.php' );` line:

if(!is_user_logged_in())
{
wp_die(__('Nope'), __('Nope'), array('response' => 403));
}

If you happened to move your wp-content directory[1] this exploit is not going to work on you. The `require_once` statement above relies on wp-content existing so it can find `wp-load.php`

1. http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_wp-c...
Particularly coming from a relatively poor family, I wouldn't need to think twice. Those experiences would be great but statistically you would have died young with an uneventful life, likely never hearing about and definitely not seeing these amazing new places/things being discovered
Memory at each node on a NUMA machine using libnuma (linux only)
Or, well, the NSA:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_co...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_call_database
TLDR: The combination is using the first of each sound type

Method:

1. grabbed the .swf file (Chrome Developer Tools -> Network -> one of the 6 .swf files)

2. used the incredible tools to extract and disassemble from https://github.com/CyberShadow/RABCDAsm

3. with luck came across \incredibox-0\incredibox_fla\MainTimeline.class.asasm lines 24827-24840

Took me longer to write this post than to figure it out, but, I am guessing I got lucky. I only decided to attempt checking this out as I started playing around with the RABCDAsm couple hours ago. I've little to no idea how to read those .asasm files yet, but I'm learning more about them.

Edit: extra spacing
Some years ago, there was a similar wave of enthusiasm for "data mining." Plus ça change...
I'll make it a point to keep giving it a whirl, if only to help out a fellow HN'er. I do agree that there's room for improvement in the desktop DB client world, but I've not run into the problems with e.g. Unicode, that you mentioned. This is probably just my personal use history (I work for Mapquest and spend a large amount of time doing geographic queries). As I said, I'll continue giving it a whirl as best as I can.

One thing that I have found virtually intolerable in any DB GUI client I've used is the latency after connection, presumably to load table definitions and other data for display. With psql, I connect and I just start going - the latency is imperceptible. I know that having such metadata readily visible is the reason people use GUI clients, but I find that I frequently don't need that. It's very easy for me to do a \d $tablename to see columns, or select count(1) from ... to get rowcounts as needed. In fact, the cost for doing this is roughly the same as the cost of clicking a table name to expand a schema in a GUI, so really all this sort of behavior does is get in my way.

Another thing which I would find enticing would be special attention to displaying query plans. The output of "explain" isn't exactly the clearest, even to someone who's got a pretty good idea how a DB works, and I run explain queries infrequently enough that I have to check the documentation to make sure I'm understanding the result. Even simple clues - e.g. color coding the output so sequential scans are red, for instance - would help.

Best of luck with it, though - and if I can help or if you want to bounce anything off me my e-mail is in my profile.
Not related at all. See my reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3905337
OK, here's more context:

"Linux, by contrast, has hundreds of APIs and about as many user interfaces, so you can’t just switch seamlessly from one version of Linux to another. The version you use can greatly alter the appearance of your computer screen, the way programs boot and execute, and various other things, all of which make it quite difficult to develop software that consistently runs well on all Linux systems."

That's a mix of true and false statements. The false is that UIs necessarily change by distro: Different distros pick different default UIs, but all of them can run all the same window managers and desktop environments. My telling you I'm currently running Ubuntu tells you nothing about how my screen currently looks.

Also, switching from one distro to another is hardly a difficult process; switching from one computer to another is more annoying.

It's true to some extent in that some distros ship with modified kernels, but that usually isn't a problem for anyone: The changes distros make tend to be invisible to most applications, which sit directly on higher-level APIs anyway.

Finally, implying having fewer APIs is a good thing is disingenuous: An API is a tool and, therefore, a way to organize thought; having fewer APIs implies artificial restrictions on thought.
Can you name a specific example?
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Finally, some basic labor market economics. Just like how employers have restrictions on the number of people they are able to hire, employees have restrictions on the number of hours they are able to work. Or for the sake of this example, whether they are able to be a data scientist or not. The aspiring data scientists' restrictions all have to do with their ability. And as you point out, the cost of human capital investment in this area is very, very high.

One doesn't need to be an econometric theorist to be a data scientist, but I feel that far too few hackers truly appreciate the elegance of some standard, say, 1st year economics grad school econometric models. Things like panel models, IVs, 2SLS, GMM and even just taking seriously the basic assumptions of OLS regression -- there's a reason most econometrics classes (grad or undergrad) always start with the ~5 assumptions of OLS regression.

TL;DR Economists would make great data scientists (and better economists) if only they understood and appreciated computer science more.
To use this code in any serious capacity, remember the sign conventions: North latitude and East longitude are both positive, South latitude and West longitude are both negative.

It's utterly arbitrary but fairly universal.
I agree with you completely (I don't think I made my point clearly). I don't think it would be fine to breach privacy if we educated users properly. What I was getting at is that many people in tech seem to think that is the problem. That people don't understand how their data is being used and what to do if they don't want to allow access to it, when the companies shouldn't be anywhere near the data in the first place. You sum it up well:

>>"The bottom line: it's not the part of the tech industry that provides "insecure" services that is at fault, it's the part of the tech industry that feels it has the right to abuse the information "because it is there"."
I'm kind of wondering how a 3D printer could be so expensive ($500). I've made homebrew cnc machines before at around $200 or so.
SMTP and POP?
You could use unicode for the controls. I modified the local code to use "‖" (and, due to a bug I guess, the chrome address bar became monospaced). If you need, check some reference on http://copypastecharacter.com/all-characters and http://graphemica.com/
Pedant's corner ;)
Where did you get "important" from? He said 'time too valuable'.

This is a practical salary versus return on work done calculation, not a human worth judgement.
Apt-get install rails works fine, as long as you're doing it to apt-get install a distro-packaged rails app like redmine. It doesn't, and shouldn't, work for development. The distro's job is to supply end-user applications, not up-to-the-minute development tools.
I don't think the law is clear on this point (yet). It may depend on whether the owner of the AP has an expectation of privacy; pedantic techies will say "if you wanted privacy you'd use WPA" and everyone else would say "I don't see my data whizzing through the air..."
That is factually incorrect. In US dollars, investments lose 2-3% of their value annually due to inflation, compounded for multi-year investments. In most cases, there are no adjustments for that in the US tax code. For long term investments this has a large, material impact on the expected return on investment. Any accountant worth a damn can figure this out for you and anyone investing takes it into consideration. This includes investors in startups.

Investing in startups returns a couple points over investing in boring things like corporate debt and startups have higher risk. Unless you think more social good comes from investment in corporate debt than startups, it would be foolish to incentivize everyone to ignore startups because the risk adjusted returns are better elsewhere. I accept that some people think investing in startups is a waste of money but I would prefer that our tax code does not force that to be the case.
Hey. Don’t ruin my broad oversimplifications by adding reasonable context.
Wow, I didn't realize how high the resolution is on the Ultimaker: http://i.imgur.com/NQHLd.jpg

I've been shopping around for 3d printers for a few months now, and this is the best resolution I've seen.