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I think it's true that the Android permission system is not very good; an application with zero permissions can read everything on the SD card. However, I'd like to think this is just a weakness in Android, rather than proof that permissioning system for end-users don't work.

Are there any other recent examples of poor permissioning?

Maybe the fact that programmers are typically more considerate about this, but it has no "real" benefit to end users, leads to the whole design/workflow not getting much attention.
Yes, the PPI (which consist of representatives of pirate parties of the world) has to vote for you on... I think annual conferences

you can either become (I think) an observing member without the voting rights, or full member with voting rights.
I don't think that necessarily carries over. For the most part, all the Linux users I know contribute more simply because they want to encourage other developers to create games for Linux. It's a point of price, they can point at, and say "Hey, Linux users spent more then Windows or Mac users."
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Quote: "Apart from Sandberg, the company's board comprises seven Caucasian men, largely Silicon Valley insiders aligned closely with Zuckerberg. They include Zuckerberg himself; venture capitalists James W Breyer, Marc Andreessen and Peter Thiel; Washington Post Co chairman Donald E Graham; Netflix CEO Reed Hastings; and Erskine Bowles, a former White House chief of staff and the University of North Carolina president emeritus"
Two points may help:

- Find the gaps in the services of similar "providers"

- Apply Paul Graham's "run upstairs" principle: choose the hardest gaps and develop the ability to fill them more easily than the competition.
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It's actually about perception — the Commission is selected by the governments in a diplomatic process. Of course the reality is way more complicated, but in this particular case the perception matters a lot. This is quite unfortunate, and changing this perceptions is, in my opinion, one of the foremost challenges to euroenthusiasts like me.
This must be something to do with the way they've set the transitions up (i.e. they've built in some delay). I've had no performance problems with d3. Do you mean when the tooltip fades in or something else?
wget http://www.usconstitution.net/const.txt; grep "democracy" const.txt | wc -l

The United States is a Federal Republic that has become progressively more democratic over time. As originally set out in the United States Constitution (ratified in 1788), the only part of the federal government that was to be directly elected was the House of Representatives. The direct election of Senators did not become the law of the land until the 20th century while the Supreme Court and, technically, the Presidency are still not directly elected. These controls were put in place to buffer the entire system from popular fads and hysterias.
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To both your questions, the answer is lack of expertise at hand. People who knew the smells and idiosyncrasies of the systems were not there anymore. A good engineer (as I'm sure there are plenty in the new offshore teams) can fix mostly anything, he'll just take some time if he never did it before. Now they learned how long those delays were.

Maybe in their next business case for off-shoring, they'll plug in realistic numbers for the risk of downtime and its cost.
Having fascist and nationalist parties is a demonstration of democracy working, is it not?
The way third parties tend to work in the US is, once their ideas become somewhat popular, one of the main two parties absorbs it into their platform (with the other taking a stand against it).

So I think it would be a success if, for example, the Democrats took a stand against copyright abuses, rather than both parties being in the pockets of Disney, Microsoft, MPAA, etc., as they are currently.
I live in Austria. There is one nationalist, populist party with a number of neo-nazis in there called FPÖ. It doesn't have too much power yet, but it's there. However, since most people have a deep hate of Nazis and everything that looks like it could this party knows it can't grow, if it remains that far to the right. That's why they currently throw out most of these members. Also, there have been two huge split-offs (LIF (liberals) and BZÖ (no idea what they are)). They have been the result of being too nationalistic.

Then there is Germany, which has an even more right wing movement called NPD. They clearly position themselves as far-right. They are mostly a party for skinheads/neo-nazi and don't really attract others. This party is considered too radical by most Germans and by all other parties.

Still nothing compared with what's going on Hungary. The problem there is that their nationalist party actually has power and in the recent years they killed off a lot of democratic elements, like the free press.

I know that there also is a nationalist, populist party in Switzerland, but I know nothing about it.

Also there are a few nationalist movements going on in a number of northern Europe countries, like Belgium and in countries where it has reason in more recent history, like Serbia.

It however seems to be a global problem. The US have always been very nationalist and a bit fascist, as you can see by flags everywhere and how important military is there. But it's way harder to distinguish them there, because there is these huge republican party which has the very extreme people, but also very, very liberal ones. Hard to tell whether that's good or bad. Well, you now have stuff like the tea party movement, which can be to compared not with the real nazi-like parties, but at least with the conservative, nationalist populist parties, often using religious symbols. From what I get I think they are really similar to the Austrian FPÖ.

But also Russia and virtually every country has such movements. On one side they have to be there in a democratic society and it's better if they create parties than doing other stuff, but on the other hand it's really bad when they become so big.
That guy was a shame when he was a minister of foreign affairs back in Belgium, creating multiple diplomatic incidents and controversies (with the Netherlands - calling the prime minister a mix of harry potter and a rigid bourgeois, the Congo, the jewish community, etc), it's no wonders he's a shame in the EU...
Here's a few ideas.

Buy the ASHRAE books on Datacenter/Datacom HVAC design, implementation and operations.

Most IT equipment runs optimally with air entering the front face up to around 78 degrees F -- and can run with some decreased reliability up to 85. I've been in datacenters where I need to grab a hoodie to work for any length of time -- that's a waste. Once you read and understand these books and do some data gathering, you should be able to either turn up the thermostat in your datacenter to 75-80 degrees F. (it's probably too cold) Also, If humans are comfortable working in hot aisles, it's way too cold -- the airflow is screwed up and you're cooling down air that doesn't need to be cold.

For a modest expenditure, you may be able to install blank panels in your racks, ducting or other equipment to make your cooling more effective.

You said that you have 10,000 servers. Time to get aggressive about virtualization. Did your company skip a refresh cycle or two because of the poor economy? If "yes", congratulations, you have some Intel Pentium 4 space heaters churning away in your datacenter. Good news is that you should be replace them on a 5:1 basis (very conservative) with virtual host servers, and show a net savings.

Install motion-activated LED lighting. Talk to your power utility or government agency charged with energy efficiency and see if grants are available. Lighting accounts for much more power consumption in datacenters than you may think!
I'm having the same experience, but I only had a single email address previously (the one I signed up with years ago) and it was visible to friends until this update.

It's safe to assume that the vast majority of users fit this case: signed up with an email address, never added a second one.

Since it affects this use case.. I'm going to posit that this is quite widespread.
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What does illicit mean in this situation? Illegal in the country the drug was taken in at the time?
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#1: Reduce the load of the IT Equipment through server refresh, server virtualization, and storage virtualization. Do a server audit and remove servers that are no longer in use. It is common for large data centers to have servers that are not being used still in the racks, these servers are still eating up power and rejecting heat. Reducing the IT Equipment load has a cascading effect and reduces the energy consumption of the cooling plant (chillers and CRACs) as well as electrical equipment (PDUs and UPSs) losses.

#2: Once the IT Equipment load is reduced, look at optimizing airflow. Install variable speed drives on the CRAC supply fans to match the load. Consider installing a hot aisle or cold aisle containment system. This prevents the hot server exit air mixing with the cool conditioned air. Containment solutions will also enable you to be more aggressive with raising the temperature setpoint to reduce the load on the cooling equipment (i.e. your chiller or DX CRAC Units)

#3: Upgrade the cooling plant to more efficient equipment. The key efficiency metric is kW/ton. The lower the kW/ton, the more efficient the equipment is.

#4: Contact your local utility and ask them for ideas. I work a company that contracts with Utilities to provide assessment and energy efficiency incentive programs. Most data center projects I have worked on, the incentive is $50k+. Yes, some utilities will pay you to be more energy efficient

Also, check out the DC Profiling tool from the Department of Energy.
"Dual-license" means that the user gets to pick a license, not that the union of all license restrictions applies.
Where do you get your data? Scraping? Something else? One of the methods listed here?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3098256/crawling-and-scra...
With 10,000 servers I think one of the things you could do is refresh old hardware.

New hardware is vastly more efficient than older hardware. If there's some place where you can accelerate the refresh, you could find yourself condensing servers. Otherwise, you can factor in future growth with the same number as servers you have now, which is definitely a savings.

Consider virtualizing smaller pieces of hardware if you haven't already.

Ensure your room has proper airflow. Sometimes air gets stagnant in the corners of the hot or cold rows, resulting in less efficient cooling. Small fans can get the air moving again. You may also need to put fans under your raised floor, or to exhaust waste heat.

Taking the back doors off the racks will drop the server temps (particularly in blade racks). That in turn suggests you could run less A/C and bump the temp up to where they were at.
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Careful. If they, at their option, decide to do Will Call for getting you your tickets, then you'll need the CC of your friend to pick up the tickets (and his/her ID).
Spoken with the conviction of a man who has no idea what he's talking about.
"only one possibility: that B.S. Bernanke is secretly (and illegally) counterfeiting U.S. dollars -- and using those bogus dollars to prop up the U.S. Treasury market."

Really? Something has to be done with wealth. While the U.S. has a substantial amount of debt. It is in better shape than many other countries. Because of the global turmoil, treasuries of countries that aren't in danger of eminent collapse are selling at record lows. Germany auctioned off a round of treasuries with negative yields recently: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020412420457715...

I doubt Bernanke is propping up the entire world's treasuries. Your "man behind the curtain" theory is fun, and might help drive traffic, I just hope nobody takes this seriously.
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This is the first time I have seen this site. http://www.padmapper.com has had to remove all craigslists postings. I wander if http://www.housingmaps.com will be required to do the same.
EU is not supposed to be democratic.
Why would eliminating the EU require re-erecting trade and migration barriers? That doesn't make sense to me. Why not keep the good and throw out the bad?
You are misunderstanding both of my comments.

Regarding network effects the point is that they do make the service more useful (read better) for the users, and in a significant way, many times more significant than a new UI. So, Craiglist's still better now, if only because they were better before. Unfair? Maybe so, but complaining won't solve the problem or make it go away. It's just that we've been spoiled about never having big barriers to entry anymore.

Regarding falling companies was just to counter the parent saying that that kind of companies are unassailable, when they clearly aren't. Nothing more, nothing less... profits or their staying alive being due to network effects are irrelevant to my point.

The ultimate point is that just bitterly complaining about how unfair Craiglist is because it's using its competitive advantages to its advantage will not solve the barrier to entry problem, it doesn't even make it clear why is it a problem, nor posits arguments about what to do (if anything) with it.
Item 44 on their backlog. Doesn't appear to be a super high priority yet either, which makes me sad.

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We are developing an app and we are interested how do you view/edit the basic metadata(such as location, date, time,orientation, keywords, device) embedded in the photos on your iPhone?

What do you think of the privacy issues that come along with the metadata? Is this important to you at all? If yes then how do you handle it?

Any feedback is highly appreciated!
Thanks a lot!
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I've received the following error when trying to register: "Found Errors: Screen Name has invalid characters"

Which is bizarre since the username, email address, password all seem to pass the validation test.

The Screen Name in case you were wondering was simply my "firstname.lastname" and it's not an obsence amount of characters (4.9 char)
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Yeah, we remember how the constitution, which has been rejected by referendums, became the "simplified treaty": exactly the same text but with articles moved, rephrased, obfuscated. The polite way to describe the EU is as a very-indirect democracy.
To be specific "fascist" stuff is outlawed in italy, though this is barely enforced. This basically means you have fascist symbology and slogans on posters, fliers and speech, but you don't write "fascista" in the party name.

There are a few of them, but far right parties have very little consensus (e.g. maybe 2-3% total), protest voting seem to go in different directions.

By comparison, the hungarian far right is the third party in the parliament, and got a whopping 16%+ in the last elections.
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And yet it has a democratically elected parliament.
I don't think the above is true. I currently have two email addresses in my profile. My personal one, and the Facebook one. Both are set to "Me Only", and also "Hidden from profile"
The other option is to arrange your life such that you don't have to care what other people think about your status messages.

Not necessarily easy for everyone, but much more satisfying in the long run.
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It would be great to actually figure out the steps required to make this happen. I'm not familiar with D3's code at all, but I know that it renders to SVG. Would it be possible to easily "plug in" Raphael's SVG/VML abstraction?
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That's not what "greener" means. That's just "reducing opex", which is a much simpler question.

Is there any capex budget for reducing opex? If so, any time frame limitation for recognized savings?
I'd be careful about regarding all parties that are "nationalist" as in some way extreme - the UK has national parties in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland that are all part of mainstream politics (the Scottish National Party even forms the government in the Scottish Parliament).

On the other hand, we do also have the British National Party - which probably does correspond to your ideas of what a "nationalist" party is like.
Given the pandemic of these things over the last few years, I thought I was the only remaining person this annoyed by these silly boxes.

I go to a page to read the content, not to be harassed by pop-overs. I see one, I leave.
Guy who has taken Econ 101 here.

Price discrimination doesn't eliminate dead-weight loss (it really has nothing to do with dead-weight loss), it just converts consumer surplus into producer surplus.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination#Types_of_...
a popup saying "Hi, you're a return visitor to our website, we can discount this room rate 10% if you book today" always increased conversions.

Did you also test a popup saying "Hi, you're a first-time visitor to our website, we can discount this room rate 10% if you book today"? :)
Or have a second bank account with a different bank and dont have all your rainty day savings acounts with the same bank.
>I'm guessing it's people like you, i.e., progressives. If that's not partisan, I don't know what is.

Who is "progressives"? And who says I am one? You have a very warped view if you think basic human rights is partisan. The US may well have a fringe group of lunatics who feel that human rights are bad, but in the rest of the free world human rights is not a "depends on your political affiliation" deal.

>I also fear you've misunderstood ESR.

I fear you have no idea who Eric is. He is a bigot, hates gays, liberals, blacks, hispanics, and basically anyone who isn't part of his fringe group of lunatics. You are interpreting his nonsense in the least offensive way possible, but that doesn't mean it is the most accurate way.
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As other readers have mentioned, your data is still owned by Facebook and subject to malicious intruders and the like. I just wanted to add that without any malicious intent, Facebook could intentionally or accidentally change your settings so certain information you had set to private is now public, without your consent and without any warning. Remember when Google exposed everyone's contacts through Google Buzz[1]? It's easy for someone to underestimate the difference between what you consider private data compared to what they do.

[1] www.businessinsider.com/warning-google-buzz-has-a-huge-privacy-flaw-2010-2
I don't think most bloggers are crying out for an IDE. I think that Adobe is trying to produce a platform/stack agnostic tool, whereas you aren't.
Everyone? No seriously. Pretty much everyone is. Any country with a surplus of dollars pretty much has nothing else useful to do with them.
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I wonder if a similar technique could be used to detect if a user has stylesheets enabled.
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In the form to choose the year the list starts with 1892 and finish with 2012. I suppose that most of the people that use this are relatively young (<40?), so I think it would be better to offer the recent years fist.

Las month, there was a discussion about haw is the best way to ask about the birth date of a person [1]. I think that one of the more difficult part is that the year list is too long.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4099946
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Thats why the EU (in its current form) should never have existed.
There are a large number of reasons why people are requested to not donate blood:

* Hepatitis or Jaundice in the last 12 months

* Tattoo within the last 4 months

* Ever worked as a prostitute

* Ever injected yourself with drugs

* Received blood during any medical treatment or procedure anywhere in the world since 1/1/1980

* Anyone who has been sexually active in parts of the world where AIDS/HIV is very common

* Plus the reasons detailed in the article.

Those reasons were all arrived at after careful study and deliberation

Discrimination is real but this is an important issue that needs to be handled by looking at the full context of the problem.
While that's true, I would kind of expect Facebook to do better than most sites. Oh, well.
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ZeroMQ isn't a MQ ( Message Queue ). It's a message passing library. You can use it to build message queues though.
I witnesssed that too. An other thing I saw were managers treating emplyees like, well "property" would be to harsh but not far from it. At my future ex-employers place internal changes (supposed to be conluded within three months to months end of the agreement between you and the new department) aren't done anything faster than 4 to 5 months due to "negotiations" between the current and the future boss. Most people swallow that, but once you actually quit, everybody is shocked since THIS was considered impossible. At least the three months are adhered to. :-)
Which browser are you using? I would suggest trying Chrome.
I noticed in the blog post you started with RoR but now you're looking for Python/Tornado devs? What happened there to make you switch?
A good read. So you used to work in the US, but you were born in Turkey and now live/work in the Netherlands? You sure do move about ;-) How do you like working in Amsterdam vs the US?
> because Lion is a bit of a disaster

How so?
Good post, encouraging
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My co-founder was very experienced in php, so we said, lets find the middle and pick Python. Of course that's not the only reason. Python has great packages text processing (esp NLTK) and we really liked the simplicity
I've never worked in the US.
Exactly the EU should be a free trade zone and the should unify in a way that makes it easier for goods, services and people to be sold everywhere.

The is almost no need for a waterhead burocracy in brussel.
> High turnover, on the other hand, is a good signal of failed management, and if you can find another job, then you'll probably do better that way.

There your right. But a non existant turn-over tends to be a sign for an unflexible and counter-innovative bureacratic culture. Or a good working climate. Hard to tell from the outside. And once you're in and can tell, well it could already be too late!