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Ian Landsman's response to Jeff Atwood about PHP
Isn't it defamatory to assert that they like to kill with sole argument a questionable interpretation of some comic art ? It's not only defamatory, it's promoting hate to a level one could feel against a killer and which could put peoples life really in danger. This is disinformation which is not to be confused with liberty of expression.

This just strenghten the global impression that it's a lawyer who can't even control and properly deal with it's own affairs. I guess this is what a lose canon lawyer looks like.

As an european I would add that it contributes to give a very bad image of the USA.
Well, you didn't really need to read the fine print to do the right thing. AMD's manual also says noncanonical addresses are bad. You're correct that it was unwise for Intel to change the error behavior, but it's also unwise for the OS to depend on that error behavior when it's possible to avoid the error entirely.

I'm not sure AMD's manual is particularly clear here either. The xen blog points out that the AMD behavior was determined by experimentation, because the manual doesn't specify when the canonical check occurs. From what I've gathered, the Intel behavior does in fact conform to the words of the AMD spec, it just doesn't mirror the implementation.
Acunote (YC W11) Takes On Project Management With A Gmail-Like Interface
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> That's because like pretty much everyone who is not the FSF, Ubuntu has not actually carefully read the part of GPLv3 that deals with software that requires signing in order to install [...] I can kind of excuse it when it is just random end users or individual software developers who don't understand the license they are using...but one of the leading Linux companies!?

Please give them more credit. Apparently, they have even discussed it with the FSF. From https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-June/035...:

Edit: failing to quote this sensibly.

In response to:
"Have you talked to the FSF about their position on this? They're the
sole copyright holder of grub 2, so any position they'd publicly take
would be pretty relevant in terms of potential legal action."

The reply:
"I haven't been privy to all the mails on this, but in the ones I saw,
the responses were distinctly equivocal at best. They certainly didn't
say that we were safe, rather the reverse."
Argh - are there any Facebook users who aren't annoyed by this change? Come on Facebook - admit you were wrong already.
I am reminded of an old Dilbert cartoon where they bring in a usability expert to help them write an app. After suggesting that the computer shock the user when they do the wrong thing, he quips, "I found this job to be a lot easier once I realized I hated people"

Seriously, Facebook. Do one thing and do it well. Enough of this conquer-the-universe bullshit. I'm already at the point where I want to jump ship; I just can't figure out how to do it without losing contact with my friends. It's like you're using our own friends against us. Pretty slimy.

My reaction to Facebook trying to take control of my email was that Facebook can go jump in a lake (My language was actually much worse than that.) I'm already primed to leave. I'm just waiting on the right opportunity to come along.
(One of the authors here.) Good question. Does Pandora the radio have a global trademark for what is essentially a US-only product? Would such a trademark cover any type of online service, including a video archive platform? And if so, would it apply to a piece of software that is explicitly spelled pan-dot-do-slash-ra? IANAL, but I don't think so.
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I would go farther and say that mine was a grotesque over-simplification.

One has to admit that there is something wrong with the way governments are working world-wide (not just India or the US). Examples abound of everything from flat-out government corruption to governments making decisions which often-times have consequences that affect millions in very negative ways. It's a weird time because we are so connected that it is easy to see these things happening all across the world. Fifty years ago it was very hard for the average citizen of any country to get a play-by-play account of what was going on around the world.

Today you can get a good picture within an hour of sitting down at your computer. One of the pictures I am getting is that we have all allowed governments to do more than they should. And we are all paying for it in one way or another. To be auto-critical, the disastrous economic downturn that we have been navigating through was nearly 100% caused by the US government deciding that it was politically important to put into place a framework that allowed almost anyone to own a home. Yes, private enterprise and Wall Street took it from there. It was government that enabled and promoted this and provided the ecosystem within which the disaster was created. Other examples of this are wars nobody wants, military bases all over the world and foreign aid that often ends in the hands of dictators and questionable characters.

Being hopeful, I see a future where the Internet connects people to the point where governments simply won't be able to cause so much damage at the local or global level. I think that era is slowly coming to an end.
Might wanna fix the misspelling in the first word of the post while you're at it, as it gives a bad first impression. It should be "you're", nor "your".
Yesterday, IndieGoGo filed documents, revealing that

1. the money donated by PayPal was already in Inman's hands.

2. the money donated via credit card was already sent to the charities.

Oddly, Inman's blog isn't as up-to-date as the court filings. Inman's filing is here: https://www.eff.org/sites/default/files/filenode/OatmealOppT...
Pointing to the manual sets a terrible precedent.

Every development team will need to carefully review every CPU manual coming out in the future, in case Intel decides to change what some other instruction does? Even when the scope is narrowed to operating systems and further to only when new features are added to one manufacturer's microprocessor from another's... ouch! At the very least, can we agree it is not a step in the right direction?
How about using Open-Source tools such as Jmeter to run performance test and identify the bottle neck areas. We have done that with our site http://www.jackpotbuddy.com. Initially were were getting around 25 seconds page load time for 1000 users.

We were able to reduce that to <5 seconds after identifying and fixing the issues
I don't think anyone is bragging about the algorithms here. No one claims it passes the Turing test. The AI isn't the real point.
Furthermore, since when does someone's name + picture pass as their identitym That's exactly what this trio is pointing out.
After doing some research, it appears that these guys in the video are not programmers, but artists and professors.
http://zeroinfluence.wordpress.com/projects-archive/
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/TEDxManchester-Dan-OHara-Skeu...
http://www.danohara.co.uk/cv.html

If we continue this critique, can we stop judging the quality of their algorithms (which they're probably not interested in) and instead critique the artistic value of emulating human online behavior?
Sweet, thanks a lot kaolinite!
They were just making fun of Jon Ronson. I think their arguments hold up just enough to make Jon's request to kill the bot sound a little absurd. That seems to be their only objective in the video. I thought the bit about trading algorithms and how it relates to what they're doing was a little over the top. The analogy to photography made by the guy on the left at the end of the video was genius.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductio_ad_absurdum
I did indeed follow both the discussion here and the comments on his post closely! I wasted/spent a good 6+ hours reading about all kinds of router features that I had didn't know existed, or never even thought possible (VLANs, VPN, NFS, CIFS, Captive Portal, router CPU overclocking, etc). Some versions of Tomato (Shibby's firmware [1] in particular) allow the router to act as a BitTorrent client! I'm sure it's old news to some, but for anyone on the fence about trying new firmware on their routers - take the plunge.

[1]: http://tomato.groov.pl/
7 terabytes seems like a lot of data perhaps the author is counting blob storage also. In which case surely s3 is the largest blob storage database already.
Anyone else getting sick of titles like these?
I had a similar experience. My father and grandfather introduced me to computers and programming at a very young age, and I ultimately taught myself algebra, geometry, and basic trigonometry by age 10.

From fifth grade, I was bored out of my mind during math class. In sixth grade, my math teacher recognized my boredom to be a lack of challenge and decided she should do something about it. I was pulled into the vice principal's office at one point and asked to slow down my at-home learning because the teachers did not know what to do with me during class.

Eventually, we settled on a solution: I became the equivalent of a teacher's aid for my middle school class and tutored other kids who were having difficulty. This instilled a love for teaching that I carry with me to this day.

I don't think we should discourage children from learning at a fast pace as long as they appear to retain the information and it doesn't compromise other aspects of development. On the contrary, we need to find a way to help our education system cope with children learning things outside the classroom.
Clicking the little gray up arrow does not signify enough how much I agree with this sentiment.
On the evening of June 14th, Carreon told Forbes that he didn't know what was wrong but he'd find something. “California code is just so long, but there’s something in there about this.” That evening around 9pm he donated $10, and then filed his suit the very next day claiming he had been misled.
While perhaps a link would have been better, this was fixed in Linux in 2006.
A step in the right direction, but the challenge gets even more interesting: usually, the way insurance remains profitable (or even possible) in a market economy is that those with the highest risk pay the largest premiums. Except, when it comes to antibiotics, those at greatest risk (third-world countries) are also those least able to pay their fair share, let alone a correspondingly larger portion.

A tough nut to crack for sure...
Building B2B on an Android kernel was clever. Mozilla can leverage all the Android hardware support implemented by device OEMs and ongoing kernel maintenance by Google.
Yeah it's a real hassle to learn all that stuff.

Fortunately everyone here reads Hacker News so we already know that AWS has downtime that can affect whole regions, and that platforms like Heroku don't yet provide resiliency that spans regions.

So if you don't really care about occasional downtime, you don't need to bother learning all that hard stuff. It's perfectly ok with me if your service is down.
I hope Mozilla produces a giant developer phone a la Nexus, where I may start testing those APIs.
Indeed, that he could.
Google stole sharing idea for Hangouts, YouTube claims lawsuit
It sounds like you would enjoy http://folklore.org/
The innovation, as described by the article:

* power can be stored in tanks of compressed air

* compressing air makes it heat up

* heat dissipation from the hot compressed air reduces storage efficiency

* the solution here is to mix water with the air

* the water stores a great deal of heat, reducing the temperature of the compressed air without reducing the amount of heat stored

* lowering the temperature of the compressed air reduces the heat dissipation, increasing storage efficiency

It's a pretty slick solution. The heat capacity of water is so enormous--I've often been frustrated by it when I'm waiting for water to boil. But here they're turning it around and using it as a tool. It's a very elegant problem/solution fit.
And they wonder why no one wanted to use it in 2010.
Well said. Talk about a lack of respect for the customer.
But you're depending on 1 programmers instead of spreading your risk into 3 different developers.

Lots of angles to consider not just in terms of monetary. Human's behaviour/attitude/mindset is a very large unknown despite however hard we tried to make a "human" as static as a "resource".
Which Bay Area startup is the most exciting?
I've just decided to leave my startup, and am thinking about where to go next. As part of that, I'm trying to figure out which startups in the Bay Area seem the most interesting, exciting, and disruptive.

7 years ago it seemed obvious to me that the answer to that question was Facebook, but now it's less than clear. So I figure perhaps HN can help - what do you think is the most exciting startup in the Bay Area, and why?

(As a guide, perhaps let's define a "startup" as having less than 50 employees and being less than 3 years old.)
That's probably a really good suggestion, I can't completely say. In my experience, load-generating tools give completely differing results than actual user patterns, but it's been awhile since I've used any with any real expectation.

Obviously it's great to test more obvious things, but I would use something like that before real user testing, not in lieu of.

How have you seen JMeter to compare in this? I haven't ever used it directly.
I wonder how much it would take for private citizens to hire their own lobbyists?

edit: in case this isn't glaringly obvious, the joke is that we do have our own lobbyists. They're called congress.

They're just horrible lobbyists.
People likewise goad me at work by suggesting extensive use of design patterns (particularly in absurd combinations like AbstractFlyweightFactory).
It left FJs hands a while ago now, this is all on Carreon. Unsurprisingly FJ haven't mentioned anything for a while.
I'm interested to know more about why PG thinks that people typically don't pay for software tools? Do others feel this way? In my own experience, if a software tool saves me time, I have no problem paying for it. I've seen this in others. I realize that my observational sample is quite limited, but what do you think?
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Disclaimer: I've never used Haskell

Yeah, although the article mentions how monads eliminate some boilerplate code, the whole concept of monads is lots of boilerplate code that doesn't exist in other languages. I don't really see the point of writing something like a web server or anything that interfaces a lot with users in Haskell. Seems like its strengths are manipulating data and parallelism, but it would make more sense to use a wrapper around it to handle I/O.
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Disclaimer: I don't know whether Carreon's wife actually does anything legal herself or whether she just married a lawyer.

In one of her article or message board comments (assuming it was actually her), she claims to have worked as a legal secretary for 20 years.
It sounds like you have no idea what the answers to any of those questions are.

You even have this on your page: "panˈdôrə"
Jumping ship was easy for me. I catch-up with my local friends in person at a local bar or cafe. I catch-up with my remote friends by traveling to their city and going to a bar or cafe there. Or they come visit me. It's infinity more satisfying and relaxing that consuming status updates containing skewed and filtered representations of someone's life.
I must admit, that was a head-scratcher... an amazing accomplishment when they're still crediting an author from the 30s.
It could be that Inman was unsure what he could legally say, and didn't want to make things worse. He'll get his 15 minutes and rushing things won't make any difference.
Nothing is a cheaper move from a company than blaming the user for not getting the questionable decision. Take some responsibility for your decisions both positive and negative.
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Read the original, linked at the top. This version lacks the insight into the process and the thrill of the hack.
"can we stop judging the quality of their algorithms (which they're probably not interested in) and instead critique the artistic value of emulating human online behavior?"

I actually addressed this first, before the software output. They are being jerks and not demonstrating anything interesting. Please tell me: what is the artistic value?

'Thru this work we now know it's possible to piss people off by putting their name and picture on a spambot.' Is this it? Don't get me wrong, I think creative, high quality trolling can be considered art in its highest form (see Andy Kauffman, Sacha Baron Cohen, 4chan at its best, etc.) but simply slapping someone's name on a spambot is uninteresting, unoriginal, childish, and above all, uncreative. It provokes no thoughts beyond "wow, these guys sure are jerks."

For what it's worth the creators mention "the algorithm" constantly in their interview and seem to ascribe it some value, so I think it's a fair subject of discussion & critique.
Submit a poll, find out.

edit Whoops, feature was turned off. That's a bummer.
>the impact of gamifying education //

I've read elsewhere that gamification tends to increase the desire to get "points" but reduces the desire to learn for it's own sake. The education is no longer considered it's own reward instead education is only worth while to score points.

I guessed that was why they changed KhanAcademy to remove some of the points elements??

I leave it to someone else to give citations as it's my tea-time.
Although my son is too young for me to personally comment on how this works, I've read comments on here some time back about other parents teaching their kids python through http://inventwithpython.com/

I think its worth exploring although HUGE disclaimer as I never even glanced over the book. It seems to be in your target audience however.
As an American, we hold free speech to be much more important. We don't put arrest people for making racists Tweets. We don't put people in jail for denying the Holocaust. We don't have censors for people who dare to say that homeopathy doesn't work. (Or, for that matter, who say that it does, unless they are trying to defraud customers.)

To find Tara guilty of defamation, a target of her batshit insanity would need to meet specific burdens of proof. They would need to prove to the court that they don't like to kill, and that Tara knew (or ought to have known) that that wasn't true.

Free speech is damn messy.
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I think you're interpreting it wrong.

What you see as celebrating ignorance, I see as celebrating simplicity: "We don't _need_ to know how it works any more!"

For many use cases, this is perfectly acceptable (and the article rightly notes this).

"That's kinda impressive: dismissal condescension towards someone who knows more than you."

I saw nothing dismissive about that statement whatsoever. I read it as "they know more than I do about that particular subject, but what they know is not useful for me to know at this moment in time".
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Samsung for instance. They make devices for all price ranges but they have the capability to make really good ones as well. Handsets aren't exactly the strong suit of AlcatelLucent or ZTE.
I think Facebook is a great company, but their message system needs a bit of work.

Last year I was at their HQ and one of the engineers was working with someone I knew on some code. The engineer said "send me a message on Facebook". So the guy sends it, and then the FB engineer said "I don't see it -- are you sure you sent it?" It took a few minutes before we all realized it had gone into the "other" section of the messages on Facebook. Not only that, but there were about 70 unread messages in there. We all laughed over the fact that even someone who writes a lot of the FB codebase didn't know those messages were there.
It's definitely hard to sell a new tool based on an intermediate advantage (less LoC) alone. You have to sell the whole package (of experience).

When Rails came out, it offers more than just RAD for building web but it also offers integration with the 2 most commonly tasks in building web-application: DB migration and Automated Testing. That strikes to the heart of any type of applications be it enterprise or one-man-show.

Ruby community can't sell Ruby because of its syntax alone by saying that it looks like English (keep in mind that Ruby was invented somewhere in the mid 90's era and didn't exactly known until Rails).

We're seeing the same trend here: promise of concurrency. I also would point out "leiningen" as a build/packaging tools as part of the selling point: there are some portion of Java developers that would swear by Maven (including me, despite its quirkiness/complexity) as the killer app/framework/tool for Java. Leiningen fills that gap for these individuals.
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Don't risk it, get a lawyer. The last thing you want is to create a recognised brand only to have to change the name because you saved some money by not checking.
It's called Twitter Bootstrap. But seriously, there are any number of standard mobile widgets one can use out there from Bootstrap to JQuery Mobile to Sencha touch if all you want is a boilerplate design for app development. I take it you're not a designer, though, because as soon as you want to create applications that don't look like very other app out there you run into the pain of trying to create custom layouts using iOS and Android native development tools. CSS/HTML is far superior, IMO, to the interface tools you get with XCode and the Android Development Tools.
As far as visiting all my remote friends or them visiting me (somewhat often)... that's easier said then done for me and I bet most people.
Wow, I didn't even know that there was an "other" folder there.
This is the Free Software Foundation's position, not the Electronic Frontier Foundation's. Those are very different organizations. The fact that you confuse their acronyms (and also that you apparently stopped reading after three paragraphs) makes me worried that you are conflating their positions.

Also: how does secure boot prevent your laptop from being "owned?". It doesn't. I will bet a significant fraction of that $300k that the exploit used against your friend was not pre-OS malware.
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A rule for multiple output files:

output1 output2: deps
Given his previous attempt to drum up public outrage over Mattel's failure to take him up on his offer to represent them over another trademark dispute, there's a good chance that this whole thing was entirely Carreon's idea. "Hey, you should get a trademark, and then let me file a contingency suit against that guy who is more successful than you."
Your other arguments notwithstanding: Vagueness is not a bug, it's a feature.

If you make a specific political request, only those people and groups that share precisely those values will support you. Most people -- even those who have a lot in common with your views -- will simply ignore the request.

On the other hand, if you make it somewhat vague, lots of people will feel represented by the statement. We might not agree whether taking down copyright infringement is censorship or not, but we can agree that censorship is bad.

I'm sure this is a common technique in this kind of grassroots campaigning.
> Do you really believe that spending trillions fighting for oil is somehow money better spent??

No, and I didn't imply that either.
Enough of this conquer-the-universe bullshit.

Their end goal is to be the entire Internet in a curated show-you-only-what-you-agree-with-so-you-click-on-more-things model.

They won't stop or slow down until something else makes them irrelevant.