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Well it points out that Microsoft's internal processes are not well run. Presumably if Microsoft ever chose to sue Google over those contested links it would be a reasonable defense on Google's part that they were doing better than Microsoft's own search engine in complying. If you read Eric Goldman's excellent blog on the topic you can see that to keep your safe harbor status you have to be credibly trying to comply with requests. Being 'better' (as in more compliant) than Microsoft's own search engine would seem to be pretty good affirmative defense.
Admins are for the most part volunteers who do not work for or represent the company.

But you are right, if company employees are saying things specifically about people that would be considered libelous that's a problem.
Banging pots and pans by blacking out websites worked well the first time, it most likely will not a second time.

But then again, who knows. If it does galvanize enough people to call their representatives each time another SOPA comes along, then good I guess, for the time being? Regardless, it's only a tiny battle won in a war with no end in sight and can't be resolved through blacking out websites each time.
I am still feeling burned by how quickly my zv6000 disintegrated. (And anecdotally, how poorly they treated some of the people I know who had malfunctioning laptops from bad nvidia gpus).

I'm not interested in buying HP products anymore, I'm sure that there are people who feel similar. HP is not a brand that stands for quality in my eyes.
Thanks, Scott!

Emailing now.
It would be intentional because more shares = more traffic = more money for Facebook. Longer term, it means less expectation of privacy and even more opportunities to publish even more stuff to more people. Zuckerberg has pretty much explicitly stated that this is the goal.

And those explicit confirmations contain so much noise that it's often quite difficult to tell what you're confirming.
If we instrument it ourselves, we can use it to galvanize action before its too late. Human nature and technology.

But I can also fully understand why other commenters here at HN have opinions about how Reddit builds community.
I could negotiate from an actual price much more easily.

It's just rich that people think that piling more work and delay on their customers, particularly in this day and age, is somehow a smart business practice.
That is the terminology used here.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9224057/Google_accele...
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Good points, I suppose one assumption I'm making is that people do have something they'd like to share with the world at large.

What are your thoughts about the notion of registering YourName.com now basically as an insurance policy to ensure it's available in the future if you'd like to use it?

Personally I think the annual reg fee is worth it, actually my domain went unused for a couple years.
>you can originate a call on the internet that's nearly impossible to trace. //

Why do the phone networks route calls with faked originator numbers. I can see why they don't block genuine numbers (that terminate at an actual phone) -- to get you to pay for blocking. But surely they can tell that an incoming call from a foreign call centre with a local number is fake.

Recently I've had calls, in the UK, from numbers where the [given] originating number doesn't exist. Why any phone company would route these is beyond me. (They're faked because we're signed up to do-not-call lists and they don't want to be sued). More to the point is why the regulators (OFCOM) let the phone companies get away with routing such calls.
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Reading the title, can't help reacalling Remember Me from TNG, where Beverly Crusher gets entrapped in a warp bubble. Oh, those were the days... watching TNG on nights before almost every exams.
Bloody hell - I've been sussed!
I loved his TDD series on pragprog.
Good point, enough reform in this area may make patents totally unnecessary. I shouldn't have called it a good example without knowing more about it. However, my intuition is that there could exist a situation or industry in which patents are justified. We should be careful not to dismiss them wholesale, and instead should only dismiss them in areas where we can find superior alternatives.
I visited Silicon Valley last year and found the Hacker Dojo a great place to meet people with similar interests. They even invited me to their happy hour on Friday and it was great. If you are in the SOMA area it will be a bit of a drive / commute, but I'd say it's worth it.
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No, but investors have their own sites, their interests are not completely or even mostly aligned with those of techies, and it's silly for tech-focused sites to be preoccupied with their well being in a transaction that benefited a tech company at the expense of a bunch of institutional investors.
I am not in bubble. I AM bubble. 16 yrs in IT add pounds.

On the other hand: I don't think Facebook "bubbles" will impact IT in a big way. Theoretically, if FB drops dead tomorrow - tech won't suffer that much. It will hurt companies that do business with FB, some marketing people like BuddyMedia etc. But there will be something else to do. And tech market is not based on FB, FB is a niche.
That's just not true. most people who buy Starcraft 2, for example, only use it to play the single player mode, even thought SC2 is even closer to a pure multiplayer game than Diablo.

Forcing you to be online at all times leads to terrible user experience (it is strictly worse than just disabling some features when you lose the connection like SC2 does), so I believe Blizzard is purely motivated by DRM in this matter.
I'm kind of surprised that SpaceX didn't consider that for the outside of the dragon capsule.

Note that the capsule has a camera inside of it (there are pictures from it on SpaceX's site) so when the hatch opens you can see pictures directly from a video camera that isn't under NASA's control.
I take it you're a web developer of some sort, so web technology seems trivial. But building, evolving and operating a site like Facebook is an incredible technical challenge. Sure it's not biotech or space tech which require hard science, and sure the penalties for failure are not as high, but the infrastructure they're building is world class tech. Running a newspaper site at the same scale would be orders of magnitude easier because it's much more trivially cacheable, and I say "would be" because there is no newspaper site that operates at that scale.

Also, speaking of News Corp, let me point out that a big part of how Facebook killed MySpace was MySpace was not able to come anywhere near the performance, or pace of evolution of Facebook. It's also worth noting that the previous market leader, Friendster, failed because they couldn't fix their performance problems when they were a tiny fraction of the size Facebook is now.

There's no need to mince words: Facebook is slinging serious scalability sauce that could only be developed by a leading technology company.
"Then I will build a web app that can be used to control and configure things. Watch files as they upload and download, set priorities, etc. No command line needed. I plan to use Haskell's amazing Yesod web framework."

Is it possible to get Yesod running on shared hosting? I was excited about SparkleShare-Dashboard until I saw it was built on node.js. It would be nice if there was a self-hosted dropbox alternative that I could recommend to people who have the skill level to do something like install WordPress but not the skill to administer their own server.

http://sparkleshare.org/
https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare-Dashboard
He's saying if you want to see what real unix looks like, look at plan9. There's nothing in his post to suggest real unix is useful. :)
That is a great paper btw. It's nice to see some analysis of the impact of velocity on startups and IPOs rather than just regulation.
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The "status quo" is outdated.
It is because software is eating the world. Marc Andreessen (who actually sits on FB board) explained this recently[1].

Another way of seeing this, is through how much engineering goes on their scaling problems.

[1] http://blakemasters.tumblr.com/post/22660214207/peter-thiels...
Given the dearth of IPOs I'd say private investors are the only place a bubble could be by definition.
A great talk, but quite sad that it's on infoq.com , given the difficulty of getting pdf, registration, and that everything is run through .swf so those with flash are left without alternatives. Tidbit of viewing the source gives on lines 989 and 990 some insight on controlling slides, since they seem to load based on time delays. :P It's also quite the array that's created, but I suppose that's all part of making a website.
Because each additional story shared add contents to your friends feed ? And some things you don't want to share are the one that would interest your friends the most.

("friends" in the Facebook sense, of course).

And you don't have to click to share. You just have to do something in one apps linked somehow to your facebook account. Or leave a comment on a third party site. Or..

Yes, you can be attentive to all these, but that's not what I would call easy for everyone.
The software that telemarketers use should make this automatic. You have a list of calls to make, during a call you can hit DNC which removes them from your any everyone else's queue. There's another button to add a call back at a future date. If the customer is on the DNC list it won't show up as a callback or will at least very clearly show that you shouldn't call them.

http://www.five9.com/call-center-software/features/do-not-ca...

> Five9 helps you comply with this legislation by letting you upload your company's supplemental Do Not Call list, which prevents these numbers from being dialed by your outbound and autodialer campaigns, and even manual calls placed by agents. In addition, you can automatically track requests for Do Not Call from inbound return calls, and enable agents to fulfill callers' requests to be placed on the Do Not Call list in real-time.

It's easy stuff if you're trying to be legit. There are a lot of companies that don't make that effort.
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That's what I mean. Facebook doesn't want declining stock when they make stock based acquisitions.
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Angular is a tremendous framework. It performs great, is engineered for testing, and leads to very clean code that is 1/3 the backbone equivalent.
It's great to see Metafont put to use these days, while a wonderful concept, seems like it fell into the margins of adoption and use with the prominance of bitmap and later vector outline computer font standards.
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Yes, it would affect the "pass a law" part of the OP's proposal, but would Mars-bound indiviual colonists, representing only themselves and no nation, be bound by treaties between the dinosaurs of Earth?
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How much karma do you need in order to downvote something on HN? I'll be back when I've got that much.
I love the concept, but realistically I'll never see it. This is going to be another one of those "Huge metro areas only" things.
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> Vehicles using this interface may include light vehicles in the range of 5-8K kg, and medium vehicles in the range of 8-25K kg. These vehicles will dock to each other, to large space complexes in the range of 100-375K kg, and to large earth departure stages in the range of 33-170K kg.

I've never seen "K kg" stand for metric tonnes before. Two Ks of different cases both standing for "kilo-" therefore meaning "kilokilogram"? At first I thought "five kilograms is quite small for a spaceship" and then I had to re-read it. To say nothing of the fact that "K" means Kelvin, not kilo-.

On the other hand, what are the other options? "Mg" for "megagram"?
But once you get past cold calling and into actual back and forth, the conversations don't go through telesales lists or software. At that point you're no longer doing telesales, you're discussing options with a client, albeit a client who hss yet to make their first purchase.
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/knuth/dist/mf/
Do we all really need to devote our entire lives to following bullshit politics?

Can't we just give some people we trust for now a little smite authority? Then when they see government colluding with big business to take away our liberties they hit the big red button?

In the meantime, is it really that evil for the rest of us to get back to our friends, families, hobbies, spiritual pursuits, and such?

I say this as a person who spends his non-working time watching political news shows... but that's because it interests me. Seems a shame that the default economical/political/internet framework isn't one that gravitates toward liberty and eschews those who try to grab power over our lives.
What about functional programming? I quite liked my class on it.
Also, at my school, we have a course on realtime programming on embedded systems. It's a cool class, I would like to still see it around.
Also, a class on bash and unix would be good.
You are seriously underestimating Musk's accomplishments. I take issue with your implicit stance that anything involving the government is intrinsically tainted but I will set that aside for now.

The global launch market is well into the billions of dollars . SpaceX has booked over $4billion in revenue for the next 5 years. The majority of that money is __commercial__. They have the cheapest, sturdiest, most advanced technology in that sector. Furthermore, if they manage to lower the price point even further, they will open up a vast market. What happens when it is economically mine an asteroid or immigrate to Mars. They would make Pacific Union look like a tinker toy set.

There is no question Tesla has the best electric cars on the market. Tesla is set to turn a profit next year. This is an market filled with incumbents and where no car company has been IPOed for many decades. They have a 30% margin product which sells out. If their government loan vanished overnight, they would __still__ be able to execute since they have money from licensing their technology to other car companies.

Musk speaks of nothing less than pushing humanity forward toward. That kind of ambition will inevitably intersect with some portion of the public sphere.
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i think it's because i internalised the "domain names should be cute/clever/creative/individual" mindset; registering yourname.tld comes way too low on the imaginativeness scale. i wouldn't name a star/planet/city/village/company/building/house after myself either. the internet at large does seem to be shifting more towards seeing domains as equivalent to email addresses, though, so i'll probably go ahead and register myname.net at some point.
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The Adobe Reader plugin also loaded tons of default plugins (including JavaScript and 3D support) when opening any PDF. That's (one of the reasons) why it was so slow.
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Does that smell like manipulation of the statute to benefit the politicians at the expense of the voters to everyone else or just me?

If the populus don't want unsolicited calls when did the politicians decide that they should over rule them and what's the protection against this sort of action happening in more serious situations?
I didn't mean to imply otherwise.

The point I was trying to make was that gauging persons in this way is very strange to me. Accomplishment as a concept isn't something that can easily be compared. That is both because it is very abstract and fundamentally relative to another concept[1].

That's why the grandparent saying that Elon Musk is the most accomplished person (that he can come up with) struck me as odd; having a most implies having more/less. I tried to apply these general more/less as best as I could, but I explicitly said I felt bizarre writing it (I guess I should have rewritten it a sixth time).

[1] I.e. you are accomplished at something. Like efficiency: you can't be efficient, you can only be efficient in terms of a certain input and output. Both concepts are relative to other concepts. People often refer to efficiency and accomplishment without overtly stating the other concepts, but they are still there. Sometimes they are clearly defined by the context ("efficient car") sometimes less so ("efficient economy").
From my perspective, the point of a Data Structures class is not so that students can implement a red-black tree or skip-list off the top of their head- it's so that the performance characteristics of those structures and their associated algorithms will be deeply engrained. I've never needed to implement a hashmap from scratch in industrial code, but I've sure as hell needed to understand how they work beyond simply memorizing "insertions and lookups approach constant time". Algorithms is a similar story. I think leaving those courses out of a programming curriculum will result in mediocre programmers at best.
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Blizzard is motivated by protecting the online economy, and keeping complexity and user confusion down.

They tried allowing local machine play before, but it resulted in a few problems:

- If they allowed you to play your solo player in groups, it opened the floodgates for hacked items and gold.

- If they forbade you from playing your solo player in groups, it caused massive consumer confusion and anger because you couldn't play your character, whom you'd built up over weeks, with your friends.

If you simply store all character info server-side and keep it there, you solve both problems: No more direct hacking of the data, and no more confused users. The cost is that users can't play the game offline, but that's a less serious problem than the other two.
> "the first is way more common."

Is it?

Figuring out total fuel costs is the sort of calculation I run once in a while. When I buy a new vehicle, or when I'm planning a long trip, I figure out how much I can expect to spend in fuel. I'm almost always at a computer when I make this sort of plan, though.

But when I'm actually driving and having to do calculations in my head, the range calculation is far more useful. Am I going to have to stop for gas between here and there? Should I fill up today or can I wait until tomorrow? Can I make it to Colby or should I fill up in Goodland? This subject comes up every time I take a medium length trip, and several times on a long trip, as compared to the other calculation which comes up only rarely.
>But first, you might wonder why this post is on the blog for a company that sells telemarketing software. //

I assume to boost backlinks. What's more link-baity than a telemarketer mouthing off about telemarketers?
Where are you seeing this number, just curious? I just got the plugin but I can't find it.
Value is always subjective.
I don't care for gold.
I'd rather have water.
I don't think it's that simple.

Check out any high-quality font recently released by Adobe, like Garamond Premier Pro. It comes in different "optical sizes", one for small print, one for slightly larger print, one for regular body text, one for large display sizes, etc. This is in addition to light, regular, semibold, and bold weights for each optical size. Type designers have been doing this since 500 years ago, and digital types are just beginning to catch up. You can't have one font that looks exactly the same in all media, all antialiasing algorithms, and all sizes and resolutions.

Most people don't even notice, but serious type designers care about these subtle differences. Besides, antialiasing alone won't solve this problem as long as screens vary greatly in pixels per inch. No matter how good your antialiasing algorithm is, text at 96ppi is going to look different from the same text at 326ppi. Just like text printed on coarse paper will look different from text printed on glossy paper.
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Correct. But the manned Dragon spacecraft, cleverly named DragonRider, will use this interface.
I too felt that he gamed it to his advantage and if we want to filter it through an ethical lens, it might not pass.

But then, I started to think about what is the whole point of his exercise? If it was to make money out of this, then it comes off as sleazy. I would like to believe his idea was to actually "give it to them" rather than make money out of them (at least to begin with).

Anyway, I think what matters to me is, if this is THE ONLY WAY to ensure I can both get out of their pesky calls as well as rub it to them by taking some money out of them, I might do it too. End of the day, I feel there has to be an end to the kind of crap telemarketers do and if this is one way to weed them out, so be it.
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At least it's not an issue with the speed of Google indexing, as this HN post is already in their index, and at the top when you search for "I feel the voting system is ripe for abuse and will be used to silence dissenters. By making it anonymous you're really making it too easy for that to happen."
It would probably have been something to do with under-age girls (provided they were of the right caste of course).

OK the guy invented a new style of political revolution but by modern day standards we would have found his morals and racism unacceptable - although, to be fair, given the passage of years his moral code might have kept pace.

That's the trouble with hindsight - it is hard to imagine how people would be now.
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HP acquired Palm two CEOs ago, so you can't lay much blame the current leadership (except any board members who are still around).
What didn't you like about it? I remember hating the syntax when I first start but forgot why.

After I worked through the initial aversion, the syntax no longer feels worse than say, Python, it is just different. In fact, I wouldn't give up Erlang's pattern matching functionality for anything and I miss that feature in any other language I use.
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And the random salt used for hashes, and the minimum length of 8 for your password, all but eliminates their database compromise as being a plausible vector of attack.

Plus, caps doesn't add that many bits of entropy, when used as people use it (first letter, alternating letters, etc).
fonts are probably messed up on windows :) Thank you Shane for the feedback and for the time you spent to respond. I will just use a regular font instead...Still cant change a clients opinion :) she still likes the other one more ... dont have enought responds here :(
This is very clever. Of course, they will need to move the signs slightly every day, as the alignment of the 12-1 o'clock hour will change with the seasons. Also, what's preventing someone from taking a picture at the proper time and posting that photo on the internet?
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You aren't a 'fan' if you aren't paying for it, I'd call that a 'leech'.
I've very briefly experimented with rpy2. It got the job done, but I thought it was tricky enough that I'd want a good reason to combine R and python. Otherwise, I'd try and do the whole project in one or the other (And I haven't used rpy2 since I first tried it out.)