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Notice there is nothing in there about 'why' they're being asked to leave. Getting into the why's is exactly the wrong thing, even if the employee wants to know that. Also, it is possible you will stay something wrong in the explanation that a lawyer could then use against you. I'm speaking of the US only, in this case.
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India, like China, also has a sex ratio skewed heavily towards men (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_sex_ratio). Removing even more women from the pool in India would not be a good idea.
I stopped using PHP years ago because their open-source community is a broken insider network. After wasting a few bug reports repeatedly arguing with certain core developers who took the position that code and documentation not being in sync wasn't a bug, I quit trying.
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I wonder if they ever flip out "bad" ideas to see if they're dealing with a "yes man". Doesn't seem to be their style, but it's not like I really know them well.
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Mozilla appears to be working on this[0], and improvements are already being seen. (Just as they are vastly improving all the other aspects detractors like to bring up, e.g. memory usage[1], including that of addons via the "Hueyfix"[2].)

[0]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/Snappy
[1]: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink
[2]: http://blog.kylehuey.com/post/21892343371/fixing-the-memory-...
If you look at a lot of old-fashioned documents like this - statements of principle, resolutions and declarations of one sort or another - you're likely to see a list of individual points, often making demands or other calls to action. But this will invariably be preceded by a preamble that indicates (a) who the specific people making the declaration are, and what their motivations are for doing so, (b) who the intended audience is, and what action, if any, is expected from them.

This declaration lacks both of these important bits of information. We have a list of imperative bullet points - do this, don't do that - but no elaboration as to why these are desirable, to whom they're desirable, and who is expected to act on the imperative instructions.

At best, it's a set of vague, aspirational intentions; at worst, it distracts us away from developing practical strategies for actually protecting internet freedom.
I'm curious why the patent system in other areas hasn't caused "all innovation would grind to a halt" to occur like you presume.

To play devils advocate here, maybe the entire tech press is much ado about nothing for pageviews. Which is largely what I think is occurring, there is less news in tech so there has to be something to fill in page views.

Also referring to Apples products as "shit" makes me question your general statements. Relax a little and don't take sides on what is inevitably a non-issue. The us versus them group attitude isn't necessary for this discussion.

Note, Google was rather mad at Bing about basically scraping their pages. That said its a different situation entirely and not analogous to the case at hand as they aren't similar in the least.

So I'll ask you the same as I asked before. Given that patents have been granted, should Apple enforce patents they see as infringing on other companies? If not, what determining factor should they use to apply patents? Also, if it wasn't patented by other companies before Apple, why did those companies not patent it? Why should companies only use patents for defense if others are infringing?

If your answer is to win in the court of public opinion I think you are ignoring the legal frameworks that patents sit within. Its a nice pie in the sky opinion, but I think its really shortsighted to imagine a company that is highly profitable to change its ways just to appease a bunch of tech journalists and nerds that often don't have domain knowledge (I'm in this camp as well) to give a true assessment of the situation.
"Taking it further there would be nothing to stop me from detecting ads which get sent down the pipes and not displaying them."

There would be. It would be against the TOS and your access would be banned.

I agree though that they've undoubtedly considered this option many times. It's hardly a new concept, there were RSS ad injection services before Twitter even began.
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Its when you have problems enforcing the law that you most need to start worrying about the size of the government. If you had a process of weird and unfair price supports but a government that functioned pretty well (like we do in the US) then that sort of sucks but its tolerable. When the government is going that but making a mess of it (like in India) then its not so tolerable.
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I totally agree the challenge can only be won by technology, but a manifesto is no bad thing.
This is why every time I return to the USA from Western Europe, I'm depressed for a few weeks. It seems that Western Europeans (UK excluded) have figured it out- they as a society have realized that an extra .05% GDP won't make that much of a difference at the end of the day. That's why at 4pm on a Thursday cafes are full, lunches aren't eaten in front of the computer and people actually go on vacation for more than a week!
Someone please conduct of study (double blind, sample size 4, whatever) of kids that practiced algebra with dragonbox vs those that didn't, on their performance of an algebra test.

Would be interesting to see if they perform better, and the impact of gamifying education.
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I was more concerned about passing CFLAGS when linking - he already has a LIBS variable; you're right that the 'canonical' name for his LIBS variable is LDLIBS (as well as LOADLIBES - anyone an idea where that name came from?).

EDIT: stop editing your answer while I'm writing my own ;)

According to the manual, the built-in rule for linking an executable `n` from a single object file is

$(CC) $(LDFLAGS) n.o $(LOADLIBES) $(LDLIBS)
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> But in this case, I actually have no idea what Sony is actually buying? Could someone enlighten me as to why this is worth $380 million? It appears to be a super low latency video streamer/pusher with backend rendering and licensing agreements with various game publishers.

You play games over Gaikai. Controller input and video decoding at the client end, top-end gaming hardware and video compression at the server end.

The point is that people can play top-end games on a very low-spec PC (or STB) instead of a $900+ PC because the rendering is done off-site. There's lag, sure, but it's not as big a deal as you'd expect. The PCs at their end are virtualized, of course and not all games require the same resources at all times.

As far as I know Gaikai's business model was based around publishers paying them to provide free demos of games for maximum exposure (I could be wrong). In contrast their competitors OnLive have a monthly subscription service of full games similar to Netflix.
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My daughter is 5 years old, she finished the full game in roughly 2 x 1 hour.

Of course she does not understand fully what's behind (I would say almost "fortunately" ;-) ), especially on divisions or multiplications, so it cannot replace the future explanations about what it means.

That said, it shows the kind of game maths are about, and it dedramatize maths completely, and maybe that's the more important aspect of this game after all : maths are just a game, a complex one, but you have to enjoy them if you want to be good at them in the end.

In the end, the game is very progressive, fun, she loves seeing the little monsters growing and it entices her to go on. The UI is not perfect, but it's already very good. For example, giving some time in the end to cleanup extra members would be cool instead of relying on the order you remove members.

I can't help but think that playing complex games like this is one of the best training for yound minds !
It's extremely poor judgement. The article also mentioned filtering content about drugs - since obviously, it's a bad idea to allow the public to educate themselves about the safe use of substances that are encountered on a daily basis in the UK.

Whilst the 'slippery slope' argument is generally a weak one, it seems to be inevitable once this machinery is put into place. First porn, then drugs, then suicide and eating disorders, then sites that are used for piracy, then sites that advocate civil disobedience, then fringe political groups like Occupy Wall Street or Stop the War Coalition.

You can disable it at any time, but what parent is going to remove the filter that protects their children from seeing porn? Having to 'opt in' to 'risky content' is tantamount to public shaming.
I built a little JS library that just does that part: http://www.jamesward.com/2012/06/15/dynamically-rendering-gi...
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Although the points are a bit vague and overlapping, I don't see how questions of censorship, openness, and privacy are inherently and exclusively technological. Yes, there are technological methods that can enhance our ability to rout around obstructions in each of these areas, but addressing social problems via technology is a lot more reliable and effective than attempting to address technical problems via politics.

We do need code and infrastructure to support freedom even (and especially) when it is threatened, but the preservation of freedom in a social context isn't a merely technological endeavor.
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You know you have a good company when people sneak in to do more work after they're not being paid anymore
Yeah, but that rate usually assumes they aren't billing 40hr/weeks for 50 weeks a year.
"I'd skip killing Hitler" would still be a bad idea. you cannot compare the shoa to language reform.
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Link to the actual programmer's account of the story: http://www.nucalc.com/Story/

and a Google Tech Talk video of Avitzur telling his story: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567...
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Hope to see a lot of you guys there! Be sure to bring your own projects and lightning talks.
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It's exciting for developers. The developer build has a "View Source" hard button you can use on any app, so you can view the HTML source on the dialler, home screen, etc.

And maybe for manufacturers too. Some manufacturers are concerned that Android and Windows Phone are becoming more siloed, given the Motorola deal and the MS-manufactured Surface. So the timing might work well for Moz, but like you say, there are patent questions.
Wow, he's not fooling me with his rationalisations:

Here’s what it actually does: when you hover over the button, a CSS transform animation is activated which fills the circle. After 1 second (the length of the animation), it fires a request to the server which increments an otherwise meaningless number by exactly one.

Simple response: If that number is meaningless, why give it a fancy animation, why name it 'Kudos' (which even a non-techie would agree is equivalent to a +1, Like whatever) and then why place such a meaningless element next to every meaningful blogpost? If he just wants to amuse himself, may I propose random() in whatever prog. language he uses to update some meaningless local variable.
I do like Dustin's blog, but it's sad to see the self-deception going on here from an otherwise smart guy with loads of reputation to lose.
Sort of, there's a big sliding scale between free markets and socialism. Hong Kong is less socialist than Denmark, is less socialist than America, is less socialist than France, is less socialist China, is less socialist than India, is less socialist than Cuba, is less socialist than North Korea.

India has a few sectors, like IT, that are fairly unregulated and which are growing very quickly but the vast bulk of the economy isn't like that.

I certainly agree that good government is very important, though. The better the government the less government intervention in the economy hurts growth, and the more it tends to actually help disadvantaged people.
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Cloud providers are trying to abstract it all away while in reality the real world factors cant be abstracted. E.g. latency if servers aren't close enough, I/O performance due to virtualization, disk latency if you are using block storage, etc... have to still be understood. What I've noticed with people using the cloud is that they have to still understand how the cloud services work and many times make up for it in app logic. Look at Netflix for example having to make their entire infrastructure extremely tolerant to latency due to the spiky nature of AWS. At the end of the day, you will have to deal with these factors. You can either do it by learning how the cloud works and figure it out there or by running your own infrastructure. One important point the article makes is that if you roll out your own you can at least control those factors.

It's not to say that clouds aren't useful. They provide a lot of value to many apps but it's not a silver bullet that makes it so you can be ignorant of infrastructure. Maybe one day it will be but as of right now it's important to understand the tradeoffs if you plan on using the cloud.
PHP registers classes (and functions) at parse time, not at execution time.

i.e. this will print "bar":

<?php
echo foo();
function foo() { return "bar"; }
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Well said! Often the right thing to do in an outage is "wait it out".
When I bought the game, the descriptions of the two version were pretty clear that db+ was the same levels as db but with more bonus levels. Maybe they've updated that since you bought.

I got db+ and was happy to see that the bonus levels progressed from symbols to letters/numbers so the last levels looked exactly like the algebra my kids will see in school. I think the game did an excellent job transitioning from the early levels that looked like many other kinds of puzzle/pattern games but evolved the symbols into more typical algebra equations in a way the kids barely notice but suddenly they're doing equations just like their math class. Very well designed IMO.
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The central guy comes across as a total psychopath. Twisting everything he says in a strange way. Almost saying the fact that he uses his name on Twitter makes him self-obsesed. I've just looked at my list of @replies and the last ten are all users using their real names.

They have some of the most absolutely weakest arguments I've ever heard yet get away with it. It's as if they don't care if the thousands watching the video aren't convinced at all but if they can annoy Jon they have succeeded.

He says the reason he annoys people by making these accounts is because "I want to understand the algorithms that are used by wall street". These aren't really 'robots', they're just scraping wikipedia and pushing out terms in tweets it believes are relevant, which this has shown aren't.

"I don't know how you relate to the economic collapse". I don't understand this guy, I don't know if they're acting but if they're serious then I'm worried.
As someone who used to read a lot of books on Zen, I've been enjoying these. The one on triggers made me laugh -- at work we have a running joke about triggers. I've expressed so much dislike for them that when discussing a problem people will say "we could use triggers to do that!" just to get a rise out of me.
While errors will always happen, the main concern, IMO, is that slowly it will become intentional and accepted.

This hasn't happened yet outside certain countries. For example, we could still access Wikileaks, despite the US government's visible wrath.

Let's hope it doesn't happen, although the technology probably already exists to set up "private" internet services, e.g. onion routing.
I'd say blame accumulates pretty well on both sides, here. Certainly Intel should not have gratuitously changed their behavior from AMD's. On the other hand, OS code often needs to deal with CPU-specific behavior, and they definitely should have read that fine print in the middle of the 1500 page manual when implementing this code, especially when the 1500 page manual's index points to exactly that fine print for this instruction.
No, and it is important to realize that the axes are project/tag count rankings not direct project/tag counts.

So, no conclusions regarding relative popularity between two languages should be drawn from the diagram. (It's just an ordering. The distance between the first and second most popular language, for example, is exactly 1.)
I am surprised by this view. Most homeless people I've met who would not jump at the chance for a decent place to live are either mentally ill, addicted to something, or both. The other kind, the middle class kid having a time of exploration I don't really consider homeless. I think it's a wonderful thing to do, but is a very different situation.
This article reads to me like someone who lives in an old business model watching the internet come to town and screaming that it will never catch on! Will there be a place for legacy architecture like this for many years to come? Yes. But each time these cloud architectures fail, we are learning how to deal with that failure and improve our collective availability to remain up through out disaster.
Never put things down to malice, which are more likely to be incompetence.

Vodafone have a similar stupid filter, which blocks random websites. You can just call them up and remove it though.
1. Dig up old stories from slashdot.

2. Write a blog post summarizing them.

3. Post to HN / Reddit.

4. PROFIT.

Smart business plan.
That's true, but when you start talking about reproduceable science instead of just tinkering, you need to be very careful about contamination, repeatability, etc. This is very difficult to achieve without expensive lab equipment (although part of that expense is due to economies of scale - if everyone started buying centrifuges and gram scales, maybe they wouldn't cost thousands of dollars).
You mean largely against non-US companies that wants to sell Android handsets on the US market.

If we posit that these decisions are biased rather than just an effect of the broken US patent system, I think it's more likely that the ITC is merely pushing a protectionist agenda that is being enabled by having somewhat plausible complaints from US companies than that there's somehow corruption going on.
On the top right the scripting languages() seem to be below the diagonal and the compiled languages above the diagonal. Maybe it is just co-incidental :).

I have suggestion for another chart someone may be interested in creating. A time series of such images. It would be even more awesome if the traces all the movements are depicted in a single image like a snake.
I take it they force themselves to come across as extremely unlikeable but do throw in that they want to show how an inverted stock put compensation Algo is not good for anyone, or at least that is how they whitewash it. While picking on a very soft target. Not being able to express themselves coherently doesn't help either.

Just make a half assed bot and ride the wave in the most nonsensical level you are able to perform at. Tip, it's not even interesting at all.

Someone could of have set up that video like this : "Three twats playing clueless to identity theft, manifest in sync when the interviewer calls them trolls".

That was priceless and very revealing of how they want to be regarded. Yet fail so hard at it. Guess neuromarketing was too crowded for these three not so luminous lightbulbs.

At times it strikes like they really believe they are on to something that is worth being "discovered", kind of hard when pushing glorified irc bots around but whatever. The twat in the middle was the funniest, guess they went for a soft target to spare him from contempt of court charges in a identity theft case... you know, for arguing of sitting arrangements. This stuff is priceless, niche priceless.
> Code spontaneously fails depending on the locale?

It doesn't spontaneously fail. The languages functions are case-insensitive and they documented this. [1] [2] When you change the locale to Turkish the letters change. Thus, the class name changes and no longer works as expected.

So it is documented because it may not as expected, but it is not spontaneous.

[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.user-defined.php

[2] https://gist.github.com/3033533
If what OP said is true, then it seems like the weakness of law enforcement in India is the only thing that prevents these bad policies from causing a full-on disaster.

Vigilant enforcement of bad laws is not a good thing.
You know you have a bad company when you fire people who would sneak in to do more work after they're not being paid anymore
> I mean that it's unheard-of for judges to be literally bribed as this implies.

Not really. It may be unusual, but unheard of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal
We can't keep ignoring politics or we'll end up with laws so invasive that not even hardware and software can overcome them. And more importantly we can't let them gain any legislative precedence. It's much easier to fight now than in five years.

And further more I don't see how we have any advantages in the realms of hardware were we would afford to fight.
The video has almost some Troll bait feeling. Found it highly amusing how concerned that guy becomes about the communication of his non existent eating habits on Twitter.
And by generally frowned upon, I think you mean illegal in most jurisdictions.
Remove step three and you've described a good third of the bloggosphere (why did I just use that word? Somebody get me a gin and tonic, ack)
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No, I went to the page to create a weaver and it asked me for my physical location. I wasn't informed that it would be used in that way and I am given no way of deleting that information. Being out of sight and out of mind isn't really good enough.
Leap seconds aren't needed at all. I'd rather let them accumulate until there's a leap hour that can be rolled into DST (although DST may not exist that far in the future).
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Spreedly.com's still going strong; used them when they were first getting started in 2007. They're still top in my book because they've done the best job of integrating with numerous payment gateways, and their Stripe-competitor, SpreedlyCore, is looking promising.

http://spreedly.com/
https://spreedlycore.com/

It's also nice that their pricing is all flat-fee per-transaction.