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Karen Sandler of the GNOME Foundation discussed an issue similar to this nearly a year ago at OSCON (2011):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFZGpES-St8

Indeed, the first thing that came to mind when I saw this presentation was RMS' comment, as mentioned in this article.
I suspect the "downmod brigade" read what you wrote, and is trying to silence the needless nitpicking on the alleged page count of the policy document that no one has seen. What if he had said "5", would that have changed the issue at all? Are you going to nit on the color of the wallpaper too?
Rag-ick
It's suppose to be Rapid + Magic
This is expected. If you run a business on a service dedicated to keep what you do hidden expect to have some visitors. It's no different then megauploa where people with legit files got all butt hurt when they knew megaupload was sketchy at best.
Makes perfect sense that someone who is a binary thinker wouldn't be able to see that it was fine to sign this document in this particular case.
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yes, the abc story linked in the article touches on it; your video is much clearer source, I'll add the link too :)
Google isn't making displays at this point, are they? I think this is talking about an actual TV display not a set-top box.
I've never been asked a to solve a Fermi problem in an interview, but I would most likely require that the interviewer give me the data I need. In the golf ball example, I would ask for diameter of the golf ball, dimensions of a bus, etc. Otherwise they're just asking me to prove that I have seen a golf ball up close, that I've been riding on double-decker buses and that I'm decent at measuring physical objects with my eyes.
We do have our own boards in our gateways. Yes, in our initial platform release we are in OEM partnerships with several companies - one of them Monnit for the sensor modules.

Although you can go purchase the Monnit sensors themselves, our IP is in the multiprotocol sensor/control gateway/router technology, and eliminating the need for software developers to understand the lower levels of hardware operation.
That confused me as well. They seem to be talking about the relocation of one of the entangled pairs to its intended position. But it doesn't seem like what I would call teleportation, since it seems to be moving one of the entangled pairs along a path. They do describe one thought of teleportation in the beginning that fits my thought; copy object data, destroy object, send object data to second position, create object. But what the Chinese did doesn't seem like that unless I too am missing something.
I really don't see how they're going to differentiate themselves in a market that's already so well established. I probably said this about the iPhone, too, but... this time it makes even less sense.
I didn't know that, but in that case it would make sense if causation was the other way around: that Street View was a by-product of "develop[ing] an extremely accurate map database of even obscure corners of the world".

"We're gonna be driving around all these places anyway. Let's stick a camera on top of the cars when we do it."
More specifically, for me: Chromium says "This webpage has a redirect loop".
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3959547
Scary stuff. The state of privacy in society today is nothing short of scary.
They (Square) did shield him from as much of the hassle as possible. They provided pretty good support from an email perspective. And more importantly, they did NOT charge him the usual $25 fee any typical processor would charge him for the chargeback. Which I might add is charged to merchants regardless of them winning or losing a chargeback so again, Square "shielded" this guy from typical charges any business would always have in a chargeback situation.

The problem is this is "money" movement, not customer service "sympathy" issue. Square like any company moving money is as sympathetic as possible but when Square gets a chargeback notice, you are GUILTY until proven innocent. As stated multiple times elsewhere, in plain and simple language a chargeback means the card holder says they did NOT authorize the transaction which means they are saying "This is a fraudulent" transaction. If you ran square, just exactly how much sympathy will you have for any business when this happens? especially as stated, you'll have to cough up the money regardless of whether you get the money from the merchant or not. And, do all that work with no extra fee to offset the hassle and customer service for doing it. So, in the end, Square did a really good job overall from shielding this merchant from the situation.
Thanks for the heads up, I downloaded a cache of courses that were recorded and made available online some time ago - one of those being Linear Algebra. I'll have to work through it soon!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3958629
I am routinely asked for my Social Security number by doctors and dentists, although they don't need it and really shouldn't be using it. I decline in a probably vain attempt to limit my ID theft/privacy risk, but I always feel like a loony when I do.
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While there is room for innovation with web-based UIs, they are just really inconsistent. In fact Firefox sticks out like a sore thumb compared to other apps on my OS. And I find it a real annoyance. That's why there is a niche for a browser like Camino, that feels more native than Firefox on OSX.

When I use MS Windows I really notice this, installers, application control panels, window titles and controls - seem to be all over the place. It's a minefield. Linux desktop suffers this too with different GUI toolkits - QT, GTK etc. There's a part of you that just adapts and gets used to it. But ultimately it's a pain.

Compare the popular web browsers. Despite their convergence, the UI's are quite different.
Thinking that way, btw, is bound to make you feel bitter. Why should you pay for other people?

Why not think of it as insurance instead (social security)? Less desperate people means less muggers on the street. Less sick people means less risk to get infected yourself. Plus, should you ever happen to fall on hard times yourself (god forbid), you would be provided for.

I believe in selfishness as the best basis for a society, and I still think it is in favor of social security and public health care.

Discussing fundamental rights is bound to be bullshit. The only right that exists is the right of the stronger party (established by guns, majority votes etc). If the stronger party believes x is a right, it is a right. So if a majority of voters in a democracy is convinced x is a right (perhaps because the better smooth talker convinced them), it can become a right. That is all there is to it. Philosophy is irrelevant.
'ra-jik': sounds like the English word 'Tragic'.
If he cost the company 10k in lost engineering time with his mistake, it's only natural that they'd feel hesitant, even if they legally owe him.
Thank you for the detailed explanation of it. That's actually kind of fitting for them to do away with major/minor versions. I like the idea that they implement major changes quickly, and I'm currently compiling the latest Firefox.
It's a great name IMHO. Good luck with it!
Nice. I accept everything that decreases the chances I'll have to work with http://quickbase.intuit.com/ again in the future.
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The reason I prefer using chrome than firefox is that I get freeze when viewing a video. I don't see them with chrome. But I prefer firefox's management of memorized passwords.
That's why I asked them to send me the documents ahead of time. I spent the night before signing reading all the documents.

They said I was the first person to ever ask. :/
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I pretty much agree, they talked about "innocent peoples privacy" but if they are truly innocent then it shouldn't matter if the FBI sees their information. If my data were on that server and I was doing nothing wrong I really don't think I would mind handing it over to the FBI to help find even the smallest threat to our country.
For a long time when we search "Ragic" google will ask us "Did you mean tragic?"
Embedly (YC W10) is looking for a NLP/ML Engineer in Boston.
>"Is an open-source pacemaker safer than closed-source?"

Yes, see arguments on "security through obscurity"

End of discussion.
Not Modal on Nightly Linux.
This statement is pure gold: "I now believe that having someone whose job it is to go and find clients willing to give you money from day one is so important, that I would not start any company without such a person."
China has two of the world's fastest supercomputers and an active space programme, so they're not doing too badly. Slightly more outlandish, they're also the world leaders in cloud seeding, as they wanted to make sure that the weather for the Beijing Olympics was under control.
Not loading for me right now.

The web really needs the equivalent of an app store. Search engines don't do apps justice. They don't have enough content to index and are often difficult to crawl anyway, being JS-heavy. Chrome Web Store is a good start, but a place with reviews and ratings of browser-independent, no-install, interactive websites would be excellent.
But, was anyone's personal data really on that server? If it's an anonymous emailing service I would think that just the service was disrupted.
That's what I keep thinking every time someone talks about Google getting beaten in maps. They've had the "eye candy maps app" available for download for seven years now.

That said, having some competition in the market is a good thing. I do wish more of it was concentrated on free products like OpenStreetMap though.
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So true. Binding to Python is such a pain: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_49_0/libs/python/doc/. Lua is even worse: http://www.rasterbar.com/products/luabind.html....

Seriously, once you know how to use it, C++ actually makes binding to a lot of higher level languages a lot nicer than doing so with C.
Still doesn't make much sense. The client is going to figure it out. Also, a search warrant doesn't give the Feds the ability to put it back. Maybe with a national security letter for the purpose of putting spyware on it? But even then the server owner is going to notice that their server went missing for a couple days. "Must have gone for a long walk. Glad it's back," is not how I would approach it.
Yeah, I agree. He is a bigger man than me though. I don't think I would have done the same in his situation.
The feature actually was there since Firefox 4, but wasn't default. In Firefox 4 it was an about:config setting, sometime later a checkbox was added to Firefox preferences (General, Don't load tabs until selected). I've been using this feature for as long as it has existed, and with the way I use tabs it has been a great help to me.
Carol's measurements would destroy the entanglement in a way that Alice and Bob would be able to detect. However QKD is still vulnerable to a MITM (as opposed to mere interception). You would still need some sort of a mechanism so that Alice knows she's talking to Bob and vice-versa.
No, it's a bonus, which has to be applied for. I take it from the CEO's comments that they were not clear about the T&C's, but my point was that for all of us working for under-funded companies or projects, it takes a lot of nerve to cry foul/name and shame, over a mutual mistake.
Somewhat humorous that the full resolution demo of a 4k intro is too large to handle on the server. Just post the source
It's great that FF is advancing in performance terms and slowly closing the gap with Chrome.

However, the big pain is the memory leaks caused by the addons (namely Firebug) which make the memory climb to 2 gigs after 4-5 hours of development. I guess they should be focusing on these issues too, since some of them are so popular, that users prefer FF thanks to them (like the aforementioned one).
Monnit is our first OEM partner on the sensors, but our core focus in the sensor/control integration aspect. If you want to do your own low-level development for these specific sensors for a vertical solution, you could. We're providing a much broader solution and doing a lot of the software implementation work for you.

As for the ship date, Kickstarter is working hard to ensure that we give dates (that we are pushing to beat) that are realistic and do not slip like some projects have.
Looks like they're coming to YC. That should give them a positive boost.
All of these can be done in a class's destructor, which is called when the object is deleted, e.g. when a shared_ptr's ref-count reaches 0 (i.e. there are no references to it left). To express observation (and break cycles) there is weak_ptr, and to express ownership there is unique_ptr.

IMO the new pointer stuff is excellent, and relieves the large majority of the memory management burden.
The first time I rented a car, I spent 10 minutes reading the rental agreement. I don't do that any more; I just glance at it and sign it.

I am not a lawyer. Suppose a rental car matter ended up court. I would rather not have to say to the judge, "I spent 10 minutes thoughtfully reading and evaluating the contract, and after careful consideration decided to accept the agreement." I would rather be able to say, "Gee, it was printed in gray ink in tiny type on the back of the paper, and they told me to just sign here on the front to get the car. I needed the car, so I did what they told me."

I never accept the "standard contract" when it comes to employment or consulting gigs - then I always read carefully, propose alterations, and often talk to my lawyer. But if it really is a "standard contract" signed by millions (including, presumably, lots of lawyers, too) then I am inclined to balance the risks and benefits and opt for ignorance over informed consent.
Just a tip: when I clicked on the video, I assumed it had loaded a new page and then clicked back in my browser (ending up back on HN). Maybe make the overlay fade in or be partially transparent?
Look at "git-clean." If I were using git-based deploys with Python code, I'd definitely run that after checkout.
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This article was beautiful to read on mobile!
Ah, it's nice to have some balance to the snarkiness, thanks! :)
This kind of thing is inevitable.

"We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make. We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution." – Tim Cook on Apple's philosophy.

(full text here: http://destraynor.com/cook/)
I hate to nitpick, but I can't stand this persistent meme that eating in the morning boosts your metabolism, or some such nonsense. It doesn't[1]. This idea needs to die.

1. http://www.leangains.com/2010/10/top-ten-fasting-myths-debun...
Sandler gave a much longer version of the talk at LCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XDTQLa3NjE

The paper both are based on is at https://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/jul/21/software-de...

edit: Also, similar points can be made about other embedded and safety-critical software. security through obscurity in automobiles is scary, some materials on this at http://she-devel.com
Edit: I came up with a better way to say it.

You aren't teleporting the photons, you're teleporting via the photons. What's in the way matters only for getting the photons to the destination.
OS X can "enhance contrast" (posterize) or invert the entire display in the Universal Access system pref.

Most likely this could be achieved in a hacky manner via the monitor calibration settings in most operating systems.
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Is there one for Org-Mode? I will buy it.
You can do much the same thing, only the meaning is the reverse.
We learned a lesson in mobile development and we are dumping our HTML5 mobile app. The experience is simply too limited and you need to do lots of hacks to make simple things work. For anybody that is thinking about going HTML5: don't do it, it's more a pain than a gain and the user experience won't be good.

We will do a public beta in the following weeks of our iOS version. We will make it public via our Twitter/G+/FB accounts, so stay tuned ;-)
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No, this is wrong; pejoculant has it right above: the act of measuring the spin state destroys the superposition. It's not physically possible for three observers to see the entanglement at once. There's no cryptography required.
Imagine a giant iPad you hang on your wall. It is touch based, and you can use your iPhone and iPad to control it.
Were they worse off after the salesman did his job without knowing what they actually needed?
I live in Boston too, and I have to say the system does seem pretty good for American citizens and foreigners who are permanent residents; but it's not so hot for foreign families on student visas who are poor by US standards. Schools give health insurance to the student and offer the option of buying very expensive health insurance for the rest of the family, other private health insurance companies won't take the rest of the family without the student signing up as well but the student's school doesn't usually let him or her opt-out of the school's insurance, the goverment run health insurance programs don't take the family because being here for 5 years on a student visa makes them "visitors" and thus ineligible. One affordable but risky option for a healthy family seems to be to not have health insurance and pay for all medical care directly, plus pay the fine for not having the mandatory health insurance --it is a small fraction of the cost of the health insurance.
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"Once you leave a company, all your contacts are ended."

Um, no. Assuming you meant "contracts", but in either case, no. That's not how it works.
I've found Google Maps to be great for spanning long distance but poor at navigating individual streets. I've been burned many times by landmarks and locations being no where near where it shows on the map (I live in India - your milage may vary).

That said, Google's been doing this for years and this is kind of the thing that they would be very good at (making sense out of a large corpus of data quickly). I'd be very surprised if Apple's new maps were as good out the door (let alone better).
Tort reform hasn't materialized very many benefits in the States where it's been attempted. I'm afraid it's a starting point at best [1].

And desiring simple laws that people can read and understand is like desiring simple code that people can read and understand. Sure, there's lots of code out there written with bad practices, acquiring years of cruft and in need of some refactoring, but there's also massive amounts of code that simply cannot be reduced to a 'simple' state. Some problems are complex and navigating them requires precise attention to numerous details.

So it is with law. Some things can certainly be simplified. But the process of simplifying does not guarantee a simple result.

[1] and a heavily politicized one, at that. What many advocate when they say 'tort reform' isn't a shift toward simplicity and fairness but a shift past perverse incentives to litigate and to a perverse disincentive to even pursue litigation. That is: instead of protecting, say, doctors from frivolous claims, it makes it increasingly difficult to sue doctors with even valid claims. And that's no better a situation from the neutral point of view.
A map application by itself is certainly useful, but streetview provides certain benefits that a map alone doesn't provide. For my uses it is critical. Every year I take a 7 day vacation with my father on our motorcycles. Streetview allows me to gauge to scenic quality of the road, if the satellite quality is bad, it allows me to see if the road it paved. It allows me to find out if Folsom, Torreon, or Lukachukai and other tiny towns we pass through have a gas station. I don't know much about the 3D stuff apple is working on, but I have my doubts that it will be able to do the above in remote places. I'm sure it will still work well as a map, but streetview provides real benefits that cant really be gotten without driving the road.
Advertisers either pay for impressions (CPM) or clicks (CPC) or directly for conversions. They don't pay for conversion rates - if rates are too low, they might not buy CPC or CPM campaigns any more, but you can't generally get a refund for a CPM campaign because your conversion rate was too low (barring clickfraud.)
On a C64, you disable interrupts, pull out your trusty table of opcodes, and can time everything down to a single clock cycle.
I would start with Silex. It's a very small framework, pretty well written, and very easy to pick up:

http://silex.sensiolabs.org/

It's also supported by Sensio, who has a good track record. I'd pick it over Symfony because it's more lightweight and over Kohana or CI because it has better documentation.

Cake will lead you down a dark path, and ZF is bloated and unwieldy. Yii seems nice, but I think they lack direction.
Right, but you could do pretty impressive stuff even on a VIC-20.
Great tip! Thanks! We'll do that.
If every doctor's office you've been to has been willing to show you their reasonable length privacy policy, surely we SHOULD be blaming this particular doctor's office?
I haven't read TFA, but all of this stuff is commonly done with RAII in C++: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initial...

I think the main change C++11 makes in this area is the introduction of std::unique_ptr.
The article assumes that end users finding problems in the software would prove beneficial to the company. To the contrary, I'd expect the company would soon be sued into oblivion for "allowing" production release of such an "obvious" problem.

While certainly the malicious can figure out how to abuse a system without source code, the owner/author doesn't have to hand the means of abuse to the malicious on a silver platter.

Yes, end users (me being one) have an interest in identifying flaws in their physically internalized lifespan-affecting software. The company making the product has an interest in limiting access to that source code. There are plenty who would rather use the source code to destroy the latter than to benefit the former.

This is why we (in the USA) have the FDA: recognizing that the public has an interest in reviewing a product's engineering for safety purposes, yet respecting the company's need to ward off the malicious, representatives of the public are sent in to review the product for corrective improvement without exposing the company to malicious harm.
This is something I put together in a few hours. Does anyone find this useful?
Not unless Google use it for some kind of unfair practice. Given that most visitors to that page are people who were trying to search on Google, I'm not sure what would count as unfair.
> I don't hear too often that anything exciting is being developed in China

What world do you live in?
Because you are using relative colors so the brightness ()and to an extent the color) of lighting largely cancels out.

Unless of course you take a very pale blonde person and light them with a brown spotlight!
> Still doesn't make much sense.

On the contrary, it makes perfect sense. It gives the FBI or any law enforcement agency sufficient leeway to do as they please, which is always the intent of such laws.

> The client is going to figure it out.

The only thing the client knows is that their server isn't working. Not that they are about to be raped by the feds.
My fave have always been the GNU mugs:

http://www.linux-fan-shop.de/images/product_images/popup_ima...

Another giant mug catalog is

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openstreetmaps is much faster for that kind of things :) not unlike wikipedia is much faster at updating than a normal encyclopedia, or something like that.