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A billion dollars is powerful. If he wants to; I'll bet that Saverin will find a way to live in the U.S. again.
It all depends on what you use your computer for.

For me it wouldn't be an adequate replacement - I like to work on my code offline and run development servers of my computer, but it's easy to imagine a simple setup where I log on to a remote machine through the tablet and work there.
If you give it to charity, you get to deduct that amount from the taxable total, so that's an invalid point.
I highly disagree - especially in the browser area, it took many years to break Internet Explorer's total dominance, and the browser is what mattered most to consumers as the Internet became used by more and more everyday people. IE 4/5/6 was a golden era for Microsoft and many corporations are still stuck on IE6 as a base. Fortunately the consumer market is no longer dominated by IE; now that we have at least 4 major browser platforms across all OS's (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari) many websites have to be somewhat standards compliant.
Right. So... I don't ban anyone from my swimming pool... everyone is welcome. But if you're not family, you have to wear this 100lb ankle weight. Dive right in everybody! lol
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That's not accurate. SS returns don't scale directly with payments. The more money you make the less you get back from SS (percentage-wise). There are also some other rules regarding marriage. It's redistribution of wealth and is not simply money back in direct relation to what you pay. (I am not taking any ethical or political stance on wealth redistribution. I am just noting that the previous description of SS is not accurate.)
I imagine that business follows a kind of social logic. You basically just need someone who knows both types of logic to make the comparisons for you. Presumably there are people who know both or YC would have a different name.
Key-value stores like dbm since the 1980s? You're not exactly going out on a limb with those high hopes. :)
Scaring users off is not that big a problem for them. Microsoft has 5 vital clients - HP, Dell, Acer, Lenovo and Toshiba. As long as you buy a computer with Windows installed (and it's hard not to) they're happy.
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$ man git-request-pull
But no alternative rendering engines (all the alternative browsers are just UIWebViews save for Opera Mini which Apple don't classify as a browser since it doesn't do any rendering locally), and the alternative browsers have worse performance than Safari due to the sandbox disallowing some optimizations allowed in Safari.
This is very important to point out. For those who aren't very familiar with the system a story like this says: "bitcoins aren't safe" when the message they should get is: "bitcoin exchanges don't have a great track record for security"

Once again, if you want real safety in trading bitcoin, do it "over-the-counter" on irc. The "low-tech" solution can sometimes prove to be the best.
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Saverin's case is potentially misleading. Many American citizens living abroad are under great hardship caused by the US tax system following them around the globe. The United States is the only developed country in the world that harasses its citizens for taxes on wages earned in foreign jurisdictions.

E.g.: ""It makes absolutely no sense," said Senator Jim DeMint, Republican of South Carolina, of a system that makes the United States the sole developed country to tax income earned by its citizens abroad."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/world/americas/01iht-expat...
It's because you can't do a charge-back with a UK card and get your money back.
Or the BSD guys can implement the required infrastructure and bring their kernels to the modern era, instead of requiring userspace programs to hack around their lack of features. The only people giving the BSD guys the finger is themselves.
I agree with Linus on a lot of things, but I wonder sometimes if he rubs people up the wrong way occasionally.
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Yes it is.
Designed for Mac users?
I also like that there is minimal client-side validation for when you out in a nonemail. The easy fix would have been to use HTML5 form validation especially since it's not like they support older browsers
> Likewise, the fact that Mozilla neglects to criticize Apple

Good points, and furthermore that bit isn't even accurate. Mozilla has been critical of Apple too. But Windows RT is a new product, so there is new cricitism; the criticism of Apple is old.
> It may be anonymous, but its far from being secure.

Would you mind clarifying what you're meaning by 'it' and 'secure'? To me, the (in-)security of a particular bitcoin site is orthogonal to the security of Bitcoin as a protocol/currency, though the security of bitcoin sites does have a huge impact on mainstream use.
... and irreparably damaging their reputation when compared with IE.

So, no. I don't buy that "We don't want to ban your app, we just want to make sure it disappoints your users" as fair.
VBV (or 3D secure as it is called today) is part of a move by the credit card companies and the banks to push the risk to the most vulnerable party, the consumer.

The idea is that this absolutely crack proof scheme requires you to authenticate yourself to your bank in a fairly complex three way handshake.

In the old (read pre-VBV) days the card companies and issuing banks would saddle the merchants with any charges that were disputed using the chargeback mechanmism.

Verified-by-Visa removes this safeguard by adding an additional layer of authentication which supposedly has the same strength as you being on-premise and signing on the dotted line to authorize your purchase. This will effectively remove a lot of the excuses that you might have had such as 'it wasn't me', 'I wasn't there' and 'I never meant to buy this', which were the most common excuses consumers would come up with after using a service for anywhere up to 6 months and then yanking back all 6 months worth of payments and saddling the merchants with the loss of income, pay-outs to affiliates already made and additional charge-back fees on top of that.

So even if the goal was a fairly noble one it looks as though the whole idea is predicated on one tiny little detail, which is that VBV is supposedly hack-proof, but in fact this is highly dependent on both your bank and the security of their implementation. Neither of those are as ironclad as they should be to remove all doubt.

But of course the banks/card companies are not willing to end up holding the bag if there is trouble so it falls to the consumer to prove that they really were not involved in the transaction and that is very hard.

On the positive side in this whole debate: Even if a consumer is defrauded there is always someone who benefits and following the money usually leads to the perp. That's why it is hard to order stuff online with credit cards that were not issued in the country that the person using them is from, that's why it is hard to spend your money on three different continents with the same credit card within a single day and so on.

Lots and lots of money goes in to early warning fraud detection (before the fraud happens) and this nips a very large percentage of potential fraud in the bud.
The company was probably Moveable Online. http://www.linkedin.com/pub/joshua-kelly/12/105/140
That's not really true.

The user is liable if the card is stolen, and it is used to conduct fraud using the PIN code.

If the card is stolen, and the fraudster simply uses it online, or via some place that doesn't ask for a PIN, then you are not liable for that fraud.

I'm sure there are rare edge cases, but my experience with Barclays has always been very good in this regard.
Do you know what the word rhetorical means?
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Try "water detected 1969" and the first result is http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1969Natur.221..626C

Still bullshit, however. Comets have been known to contain water since the first spectra were taken in the mid 19th century.
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He makes no bones about it. Git got its name because Linus thinks of himself as a git.
The site is down.

Here is a better source of info.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=81045.0
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> To apple's credit, they've provided a web standards based browser to a mobile landscape that didn't have one (at the time) and which spawned many other web standards based browsers like Chrome.

As I recall it, Nokia started using WebKit on Symbian before the iPhone came out.
True, but you can never guarantee 100% security. Banks have the added bonus of accountability -- transactions can generally be traced to real people or organizations, so if a large scale breach occurs, there is at least the possibility of either restitution of stolen funds or the deterrent of criminal prosecution. With bitcoin, you have neither.
While many projects / companies work as you say, the linux kernel development model has always been much more like how github does forks. Git was designed to be truly distributed and de-centralized, although many people choose not to use it that way.
While that's definitely a blunder, if you look at the right figures (in the article: inflation-adjusted median income of $48,500 then and $60,000 now, and inflation-adjusted average house price of $154,587 then and $369,677 now), the average house price went from 3.2 times the median income to 6.2.

That's a lot, his point still stands, and there's no need to call him an idiot.

I think even if you ignore the question of whether the economy is fair, it should at least be quite clear that the younger generation will be poorer than the previous one.
> give Microsoft more leeway given it is fighting an uphill battle in the tablet space

So, if we make it really hard to rob a bank, we should be OK with someone robbing one. The fact it's an uphill battle does not make it less an abuse of monopoly to extend it into other markets than it would be if they managed to see this opportunity before others (or not failed miserably to execute on it, over and over again).

It's only an uphill battle because they were incompetent to see the opportunities Apple saw and to execute as well as Apple did.
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This is a problem with the websites, not with bitcoin directly. This is what happens when teenagers try and write the equivalent of an online bank system... Think diaspora, but with money transactions.

Of course, this affects how the general public perceives bitcoin.
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WinRT is not a new product - it's a new API sitting on top of mostly the same Windows kernel they use for Windows 7.
you guys don't get it. if such a high profile hacks happens - it means it worth a lot!
It's pretty eye-opening to read this thread and see how much executives are excused from bad behavior, yet when a little guy acts against the conventional wisdom, as we see here, his future career is said to be hugely at risk.

Between a butthurt employee and a butthurt employer, why is it that the butthurt employer enjoys the benefits of a double standard?
> one thing i want to believe, you can't build a future on crime, or can you?

You definitely can.

But whether or not you would want to is another thing.
I'm pretty sure we are agreeing here. If they don't do everything a computer does, they are not a replacement for a computer. If they do everything you do on your computer then they are a replacement for your computer.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3955532

When you have 26 letters to choose from, you're bound to end up recycling some letters. Some combinators were useful enough that they got to keep their names. I've seen at least three N combinators, but they were almost always stepping stones to simplify later expressions and never useful enough to memorize or allocate a reserved letter to.
That's a lot of opinions and much less arguments (no offense). Would you care to explain the motivations behind the opinions?
I have a US bias, from my POV they provided the first mainstream web browser, but sure...
I have to agree with Linus on this and it's nice that he's taking time to write out his thoughts in public.

GitHub commit messages can be really ugly. I'm guilty of this and it's not something I'm proud of. I think the small improvement they did a while ago with the display of commit messages is a step in the right direction, I wish they would apply that same style to the web interface when composing commit messages.

edit: A good fix would be a way to turn off pull requests for projects or at least redirect users on how to send pull requests.
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There is a bit of a difference between an in-flight transaction and a database with historical information.

That company passed PCI-DSS because these were in-flight transactions, if that had been a historical database they would not have passed.
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So what exactly is deficient with github's approach to pull requests vs git pull-request?
Even if your browser is a skin on webkit, it will run in a sandbox and have worse performance than Safari on iOS.
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Maintainer of a project doesn't like a tool some people like to use. News at 11.

Seriously. Just dont' send this particular maintainer pull requests that way.
You only love the style because he has enough on his side to back it up. Anyone else that acted like Linus does on a regular basis would be considered childish and arrogant.

I'd take Github's version of any feature, any day, over the official git version, any time they differed - Git is a notoriously user-hostile piece of software interface-wise, and pretty much the only thing it has going for it on the usability front is Github.
Yet somehow these older people are too stupid to interpret the fact that he's built Facebook? What aspect of finance relies on the sartorial choices of a company's executives?
My last two jobs both used Mediawiki in different capacities. The current company is moving from Mediawiki to Mindtouch. It is similar to Mediawiki but more geared towards corporate environments. The editor is completely wysiwyg as well.. no more markup which is great for the non-geeks in the company.
Banks can also charge different amounts to the retailer depending on the level of security they provide.
Much as you can run X within Wayland there's absolutely no reason why it's shouldn't be possible to build networking above Wayland. Even better, there's room for competing implementations - one could implement a framework which ships some sort of serialized OpenGL commands (client-side hardware rendering), fully rasterized windows (relying on the server's video hardware), or abstract primitives (like X).

By providing a level of abstraction lower than that of X, Wayland provides a more flexible framework over which to implement whatever "long tail" of useful features the Linux community desires.
git request-pull

If you'd like to see an example, this will generate the text of a request sending the top few commits in your repository (assuming the origin / master convention)

git request-pull master^^^^^ $(git config remote.origin.url)
Computers _can_ be creative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-generated_imagery http://www.synthzone.com/compgen.htm and intuitive http://csis.pace.edu/~ctappert/srd2007/d2.pdf.

Also, human-like artificial general intelligence seems likely to be achieved, as does actual emulation or simulation of the most relevant aspects of the operation of human brains. See one of Kurzweil's videos from a Google search (he is the one who convinced me originally).

http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-nation.htm I think Brain's conclusion is more logical.

I think Kurzweil is right in that we will merge with the machines. I also think that Jacque Fresco is right when he points out that technology is actually oppositional to our outdated economic model. However I think that Fresco's solution is a bit 50sish and much too over-centralized to be practical and constructive.
Right, but who is to say that the FBI would release that information into the wrong hands? If that is the case then it sounds like the problem is with the way confidential information is handled by our intelligence agencies.
"Yes, yes, I know the answer will come back "a unified browser is a better user experience". And my response is: why not let the market make that call?"

Looking at the continuing success of iOS, so far, the market isn't really shouting out loud that not allowing third party browsers is a good thing.

Also, I think there is a valid technical argument for not allowing multiple competing libraries on a mobile device: memory usage. All else being equal, if I have multiple apps, each using a HTML renderer, I would prefer them to share code, browser cache, etc, just as I would prefer all my applications to share their font rendering code, 3D graphics library, etc.

Someone arguing for inclusion of Firefox on iOS or Windows Should, IMO, put convincing arguments on the table why that "all else being equal" phrase does not hold.
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I read each and every page before I purchased my home. I highlighted everything I didn't understand. Most pages looked like bumble bees. I worked questions during a 5 hour session with my realtor. For terms I now understood but didn't agree with, I had two options depending on the type of term it was:

1. Government and HOA stuff was not changing. I could accept it or walk.

2. Seller stuff could change. We made some minor requests and largely got them.

Reasoning:

We were spending 6 figures. The quality of my work would have a major impact on my family for a long time to come. I was newly married and this was my first family related big project. I was damn sure going to understand how interest rates and loans work ("whats a point?", "fixed vs float") and what legal junk we might be getting into.

I got a chance to learn a little about real estate. When life throws you a stack of legal documents, make lemonade.

I also got to vet out the agent. I work hard and have had some business success. I figured one day it would be time for another house and it would be nice to have a long term relationship with a trusted realtor on that one too.

Core point: it is your name on the document, it is a lot of money, it impacts your feature. Exactly how lazy are you to not read it?
Re the manticore home page, a minor nit: the antonym of fine-grained is coarse-grained, not course-grained.
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That's why cash will never gain mainstream use. Someone could just walk in a bank with a gun and cart out all of it...

Oh, wait...
I'm actually aware that the absence of a written contract doesn't necessarily negate his rights, especially in light of the fact that he had emails showing the arrangement. I was pointing out the CFO tried to use the lack of contract to fuck him out of the money.
"Free, unlimited" gets my spidey-sense tingling.
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G+ is ideal for me. I live far away from my family and using Google Picasa I upload photos that I only share with my family.

I don't trust Facebook with my photos. At any moment they could make a deliberate privacy change and expose private family photos to the Internet.

I value that privacy, and although Google might one day make a mistake and accidentally open a security hole, they don't have a history of deliberately reducing users privacy without their express consent.

All my family are signed up, so G+ is no longer an empty ghost town for me. My 'friends' on the other hand are still all on Facebook. I'm just a lurker now on FB.
I will tell you that unless something is on fire in my rack, no one from Level3 will even touch anything - and even then they would hit the fire suppression button and leave the room. They do not touch anything in a customer rack. (I have two racks in a local facility owned by Level3).

The contract I signed, had a clause that said if they had to move me somewhere else, they would pay all costs of doing so. I don't know how standard a clause this is.
Why would pull requests attract script kiddies?
I'm inclined to believe that they agree to disagree.

Linus' use case for a pull request would probably be to much for a popularized and casual use case that is likely typical for GitHub.

And anyway it's Linus' prerogative to dictate his requirements for contributing to his project. The description he gives doesn't make it seem overly difficult (use what's already built-in).
> I would prefer

I think that right there is the best argument that can be made for not locking it down so much. You used it twice in your reply. Clearly you value your preference. Why do others not get the same consideration?
That's my knee-jerk reaction as well.

But then, I remember he's getting nothing for free here. He's giving up his citizenship. Under the current economic/political climate, that may be something that looks easy to do on a whim ("The US is going to lose superpower status! Who cares!"), but this is a big, big thing. You lose all rights to live and work in the US, and can't ever get this back.
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Nobody said there's anything wrong with it, only that you can't use any other engine.