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They wouldn't have much to gain from fighting against other Linux distros. It would be like fighting over breadcrumbs in the consumer market. It would be pointless. Their real competitor is Windows, and they should be using marketing and partnerships with manufacturers (Dell and others) and big app developers (EA, Valve, etc) and whatever is necessary to push Ubuntu/Linux more into the mainstream.

If this is indeed their plan, though, there is a pretty big flaw in it. Why are they trying so much to get "inspired" by Mac OS, when they should be trying to get inspired by Windows, and make it easy for the many more Windows users to transition easily from Windows to Ubuntu? As a Windows user, this is why I find Linux Mint Cinnamon (also based on Ubuntu) so much easier and less frustrating to use than regular Ubuntu. Of course Windows 8 is completely changing the direction for their UI/UX from the "old Windows" style, too, so there's that, but I have no reason to believe it will be successful, yet.
TrackPoint. Now I know the name. Thank you good sir, thank you. You just made my day.
Apple Quietly Pulls Claims of Virus Immunity
Yes. They're allowed to use the name for this one game, but not in any sequels. They're also not going to trademark the name Scrolls.
Sabu helped the FBI. According to Wikipedia:

On August 15, he pleaded guilty to several hacking
charges and agreed to cooperate with the FBI. Over
the following seven months he successfully unmasked
the other members of the group.
This is sad. He may be guilty or may not be because of his act. But him being extradited to US is definitely not making sense.
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I think that those agitating for meaningful copyright reform and against silly copyright infringement cases aren't doing themselves a favour when they start agitating in favour of the actual, honest-to-god, in-it-for-the-money large-scale pirates who make hundreds of thousands of pounds off infringing on other peoples' copyright. This guy is scum.

Also, how is this guy a "hacker"?
What would you suggest? A screenshot of the resource would be even less accessible for the majority because like it or not, I'm sure 90% of HN users do use Facebook.

This is a major feature that deserves a place on HN frontpage (especially compared to some other recent posts) and shouldn't be ignored just because it's behind a login screen.
I'm not saying he doesn't know what he's talking about, he just never liked consoles, he was always a PC guy and if he were truly "excited" about the nextgen that's like hearing Armstrong will quit riding bikes and be a F1 pilot.
Yes, Mojang won the right to continue to call their name Scrolls. We have 2 brief articles about it.

Legal documents from the interim injunction that allowed Mojang to continue to use the name: http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/274-scrolls-shall-stay-sc...

conclusion: http://www.minecraftforum.net/news/432-bethesda-lawsuit-conc...
CAP, as stated, is a tautology. If you want to understand this better, please read our description of the CAP theorem (http://hyperdex.org/extras/). As formulated by Gilbert and Lynch, the CAP theorem really says, "If you must always read the latest value, and you must have any server serve any request, and clients are collocated with servers, then you cannot survive a partition." This is in the same class as, "If you separate all clients from servers, the clients cannot contact the servers."

If, instead, you make assumptions about what kind of failures are actually possible, then you can do more. HyperDex assumes that if you have less than f nodes fail at any give point in time. A failure could be the process crashing, the machine being turned off, or a partition occurring within the datacenter. So long as this assumption is true, then HyperDex is able to survive the partition, make progress (remain available), and provide strong consistency while doing so.

By making additional assumptions, we are able to make additional guarantees. This is not unlike what other engineers do (warning: massive simplification). A engineer building a bridge can assume the bridge can hold only so many cars and that each car has an upper bound on its weight. The product of these gives the entire weight the bridge must withstand. If the engineer builds the bridge to withstand the expected weight, plus some extra, then the bridge will work in all anticipated scenarios. It will not, of course, withstand bumper-to-bumper traffic consisting of 18-wheelers filled with lead bricks. But again, it doesn't have to.
This test showed 95 bps/hz of spectrum. For cpmparison LTE is 16 bps/hz. They allude to problems with turbulence, that may make long range terrestrial use problematic.

But I remember 1 bps/hz being a limit, we've come a long way.
The author of the linked post has a entire book about the legal cases that set down these categories in the US. He does seem to think they are both arbitrary and bad (and somewhat unique to the US, unlike slavery and racism which are not a uniquely US phenomenon), in roughly the same way that a libertarian would object to everyone being pigeonholed as either a republican or a democrat since they believe themselves to be neither.
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Software that does this should become illegal. This is technical slander.

They are not even trying to explain what this means, the reason for this is simple: they want to show off, how many times they "protected" their customers, so that they are fooled to believe that AV products actually have value in them.
My point is that "guilt" should be determined by the laws of the country you reside in. Even if google is guilty of it (I'm not saying they are), it doesn't mean this guy is. Why? Because they abide by different laws, since they are governed by different laws.

To me, this is as preposterous as if Norway had strong ties with some Muslim country, and extradited me because of caricatures of Muhammad.
I'm just going to leave this link over here... Not saying you should click it, but... maybe you should go to it...

http://akismet.com/
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> Gracefully handle 404s.

> [...]

> Consider linking to your home page and/or site map [...]

For a second I thought you were advocating redirecting 404s to the homepage, and I was about to flame you. I hate that one, and I think it's harmful enough that you probably ought to have a point about not doing it in that article.
In a perfect world, people starting communities like this would be smarter about it and use better software that conceals their identity and provides no central server to shut down. But unfortunately the Internet gained prime-time popularity with barely-adequate centralized object naming and transport technology (dns/http). So there are masses of people who understand its promise, but don't scrutinize the popular implementation nor take technical precautions to shield themselves - they instead blunder in while concocting legal theories as to why they're safe (as they fail to realize that laws are less like code and more like advertising).

This particular kid may have been dumb (and immature given his flaunting), but to focus on his failings is ignore the greater phenomenon that he's merely fodder to. I certainly don't think he deserves to be put into the meat grinder, but if he had been a bit smarter and avoided it, we'd merely be talking about a different stupid kid.

The really unfortunate thing is that these halfway-there worse-is-better technologies like napster/torrent/bitcoin only serve to immunize the existing power structures by alerting them to the phenomenon of revolutionary communication technologies and giving the state incremental practice at blocking protocols.
Looks kinda like Audion for Mac:

https://panic.com/audion/

(at least in terms of skinning).

Also, looks like Winamp hired the K-Jofol team and released a skin aping it:

http://www.winamp.com/skin/k-jofol-v5/142308
Link to the github repo: https://github.com/gvanderploeg/unicode-gen/tree/master/src/...
It's depressing when all the biggest governmental agencies in the world can catch are a few teenagers with scripts.

At the same time we just accept multimillion crime groups and governments wrecking havoc because they're just too darn hard to catch.
Wasn't this demonstrated as broken a while ago?

Most of the "games" seems to be "pick 2 out of 4", which gives you only 7 permutations. But it's worse that that, since you can just keep on trying until you find a match.
That depends if the USA was foolish enough to sign such and agreement with Iran. Extraditions are basically quid pro quo contracts between nations. We signed a doozy.

The UK signed an extradition agreement a few years back, basically saying we (UK) will allow the US to extradite for crimes that are only crimes in the USA. And we get no reciprocity. Oh, and we need to prove your murders committed crimes to a much higher standard of proof than the other way round.

It is a controversial measure - to be honest more controverisal for the 'just what photos of the prime minster and cabinet did the CIA really have?' as opposed to any shock that the UK government failed once again to stand up for itself.

No, not bitter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_Act_2003
While I don't disagree with your thesis, politicians and celebrities are usually unknown, or at least only known through small appearances in the media. You work with your colleagues so I would expect a fairly different dynamic when it comes to making these judgements.
Yes! Thank you.. As a user I would love this, I hate CAPTCHAs with a passion.
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My ah ha moment was when I found this tutorial http://learnyouahaskell.com/ , because was really fun and I learned a lot. Before, I was trying to learn from this: http://www.haskell.org/tutorial/ and was so boring that I almost quit
Agreed, well designed but not amazing. I'd argue the elements don't need to be dynamic (and are commonly distracting if they are) but everything on that site feels constrained by the page layout.

DotA2's "Spoils of War"[1] page feels like a better crafted website -
characters and images are not constrained by the boundary boxes of each section, making it feel far more fluid and flexible than just "images go in this box here".

I'm not surprised Valve's page aesthetics are so high. They put a lot of thought into design. I'd highly suggest checking out their DotA2 character design guide[2] even if you're not interested in game design -- the vast majority of it is about proper branding and colour schemes.

[1]: http://www.dota2.com/spoilsofwar

[2]: http://media.steampowered.com/apps/dota2/workshop/Dota2Chara... [PDF]
I agree. I think it would go a long way to have the visible side display a red X or a green checkmark, rather than an ambiguous background.
The Kindle Fire is the only non-iPad tablet I have seen in the wild.
The magistrate said that the CPS and police had made a mockery of the legal system and that he was striking the case off. CPS solicitor was reprimanded verbally. I was awarded costs of 300 pounds. Lasted about 5 mins after that.
We have a full 14 pages (http://hyperdex.org/papers/hyperdex.pdf) describing the tradeoffs that went into the design and where the system's strengths and weaknesses lie.

Our statements that it is faster derive directly from our observations and evaluation in the paper.
So it's a bunch of video lectures covering material combined with exercises you can do to check your own reasoning?

Congratulations, you've invented the textbook. In video form! Don't get me wrong, a textbook is a nice useful resource, but it's not some kind of "revolution in higher education". The option has always been there to learn stats 101 from the book.
I never meant to assail his intentions in this case.

Then what did you meant to do by posting that?

As much as personalities like JW want to be associated with Net Neutrality initiatives and the like, they still have their apprehensions when it comes to associating themselves with the geek / hacker types.

And on what do you base that assertion?

I am not entirely convinced if JW would have come out in his support if he were the culprit (keeping every other detail of the case untouched). Yes, I am suggesting that JW threw his weight in - atleast in some measure - due the seemingly well-adjusted looks of Richard O'Dwyer.

I do not know Wales and I certainly cannot say whether he would or he wouldn't. But I do not see the purpose in posting such speculative "suggestions" except for smearing him.
Yup, it seems the convenience angle is probably our best foot to put forward, so to speak.
happens to my tea all the time--i don't know if it's actually superheated in the sense of being >212, but it sits perfectly still in the mug until i drop the bag in, at which point it goes nuts with the bubbles.
My journey to the International Olympiad in Informatics
Their prime target - windows users - are in general confused by the concept of Linux distributions. Calling it just Ubuntu, and having PPAs and apps (or "computer programs" as old-timers call them) just for Ubuntu (or at least, that will definitely "just work" in Ubuntu) will make it easier to get windows users.
yes, i love that one! now that's good common-case optimization.
Apple retail employees respond to NYT’s profile
it is seriously my understanding that Apple manages to only barely stay in in the black on the whole App Store model

This is the elephant in the room of app store hype. It's just not that big a market and for every Angry Birds and Instapaper there are 1000 people breaking even. And it's only going to get worse.
>* In other words, this kind of stunt can only be done in a language that allows this kind of code-that-writes-code.*

On the other hand, this kind of stunt will still be a stunt, not a common use case of the language.
The unlikely poster boy for a cultural war
I liked Winamp even though I hate app skins, generally.

fb2k is way too far into the "customize your own player" territory for me. I just don't care (much less have the time) to apply all sorts of tweaks to make it look even halfway decent. It's like the Linux mentality applied to Windows. And then the plugins break at minor version upgrades.
This is a fun gimmick. (Calling it "latest frontier of neurological thrill-seeking" is just hyperbole.)

EEG hardware and software is getting so cheap that it's going to inspire fun things like this, more and more.
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Glad I could be of assistance ;)
Oracle v. Google: a preview of what Oracle will argue on appeal
You're probably right, I'm sure most people aren't actually arrogant or condescending by nature, but it's something to keep in mind I think as a way of improving networking skills.
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Watch Magic Mike is produced by Reid Carolin, Gregory Jacobs, Channing Tatum, and Nick Wechsler which is written by Reid Carolin. The movie is distributed by Warner Bros. under Nick Wechsler Productions studio which is expected to be shown in movie houses on the 29th of June, 2012.
I don't think it's a sign of Apple taking security seriously as much as it is a lawyer avoiding liability suits.
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> Mouse dexterity testing is incredibly irritating when you're using a TrackPoint (rubber nipple mouse) :P

The clit mouse is designed to be used by touch typists. You don't have to leave the home row to use it (use your thumbs to click).

If you handle it with the index while the other fingers of that hand rest on the keyboard (so that your hand is fixed), it becomes very precise.
I wonder if expansion packs are allowed under that agreement.
you are incredibly wrong. "More than I think you'll need" and "infinite" are not the same. Capped "unlimited" data plans are a good example. Company expense accounts are another example.
I think he's suggesting simply foregoing anything that relies on "intellectual property", like movies, TV, books, studio music, software not as a service, and so on.
Didn't someone just post an algoritm to crack these "games" with 99% efficiency a few weeks ago?
I wasn't trying to make a baseline strength comparison, I was more curious about where the 12 figure came from. I was under the impression that Tegra 3 was a quad or dual core gpu ( turns out according to http://www.nvidia.com/object/tegra-superchip.html its an 8 core gpu ).
You're on trial in God's court for being a militant atheist. Yer fucked.

God says...
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I am not a marketer

I would think you should first determine the ROI for different types of marketing and using those figures, come up with a game plan for how much to spend where. To some degree your marketing spend should drive your revenue.

I think it would be definitely worth is to study common growth hacks as well.

What exactly is your product? I work on OpenStack (more technical and knowledgable than your target market) and reading your homepage, I don't understand what exactly you provide.
This particular implementation wouldn't do much... but if you used real images, you could ask the user to e.g. "Pick out the faces", then show six images with two known faces, three known not-faces, and one maybe-face. Serve the same maybe-face to enough users to get a significant face or not-face vote, and use the results to train a facial recognition algorithm.
We have worked with LinkedIn to use HyperDex for some of their analytics work.
I really wanted to see what Modern Perl looks like.
i hate link bait
I was expecting more some shouting match on who can scream his candidate's name the longest/loudest. Didn't expect that level of sophistication.
Growing talent at a company seems to be a bit of a lost concept. I think it went out the door when the company man disappeared: layoffs and lack of raises reducing loyalty.
Well.. I made it a little vague so people get excited, but seems I am wrong. :D

My product is just the same computing cloud service provided, but aimed to be for home and small businesses, so they can host their websites and apps easily on the cloud without any technical background needed.
Yeah, that's true, but Google also complies with DMCA.
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I think you nailed it there. It's the governments I find the most objectionable as they are pretty hard to bring to justice.
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2) ctrl-shift-N to open incognito window in Chrome
3) paste URL, hit enter
4) read
None of Nokia's feature phones run Symbian, they run Series 40, a Nokia developed software platform and UI. Series 40 is not capable of the functionality that true smart phone OS's like Symbian, Maemo or Windows Phone 7.

I'm also not sure it's true that Nokia were way ahead of the market, as their competitors (such as Ericsson) were producing smart phones every bit as impressive as Nokia's early efforts. They did make a good start, but they were not unchallenged.
To help the FBI track you.

I support Richard O'Dwyer, but I'm concerned about my own anonymity. These people are crazy, i'm not signing this petition.
At the same time, I can get on and play for 20 minutes with my friend in a different city, and we have a great time on public servers. If you want to get really into it, you can. I haven't spent any additional money on it since I bought it in 2007, and it's still a riot.

Sure, there's some cultural stuff that you'll have to get used to (and will become apparent) as you play more, but it's not nearly as much of a commitment as, say, WoW. A newbie (to the game, not to FPSes) can pick it up and play immediately at a fairly decent level. At the same time, there's a rich culture and stories and little things you can discover, if you care enough to spend the time finding them. If not, you can just blow some stuff up and go about your day.
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If it has yet to be, I'm sure that an upper bound can and will be calculated. The SAM/OAM properties that are being exploited here are physical phenomenon that conform to quantum mechanics just like everything else. We're talking about photons here that have physical/dimensional properties -- therefore, there WILL be an upper bound. I agree with user:recursive that "infinite" is a bad choice of wording.
I guess it is infinite in the same sense that rf spectrum (from dc to ∞ hz) has infinite capacity.
Have a look at http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/ This is from the author of the book, there's a nice pdf preview there to show the book off and a way to buy it.
Neither does http://www.android.com/, or http://www.debian.org/ . While factually correct, I don't see your point.
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The apps have to run on ubuntu. It would be silly to describe it as "A linux apps contest where the apps have to work on Ubuntu" instead of "An Ubuntu apps contest"
Jeremy Keith's talk and resulting long bet on the topic is interesting. He contends that it's not proven that data put on the internet is in fact immortalized.

- http://vimeo.com/34269615

- http://longbets.org/601/
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I'm mildly surprised no one has sued over this yet. And since I keep seeing the mantra that flashback is a trojan. Here's some history: http://mac-antivirus-software-review.toptenreviews.com/histo...
> To lead an organisation, one has to know what is happening in it

I agree with you but reality shows us different a thousand times over and still these companies exist... even AOL is still around.
I do exactly what you describe - my laptop has a trackpoint and a trackpad, and I use the former because I find it more precise. However, trying to chase moving objects is very frustrating, and dragging isn't that great either.
I've noticed that slowly, but surely, Haskell really is winning. C++ is now basically running as fast as it can to become Haskell. It's such an old language with so much baggage that "as fast as it can" isn't very fast at all, and it has no chance of ever reaching it, but the trendline is clear.

The question the programming community faces over the next, oh, ten years or so, is "Can we get the benefits of Haskell without the strict attention to the type system and without having to rigidly separate IO?" Or a bit more sarcastically/cynically, can we get the benefits without having to fundamentally change how we do business? My gut says no, but I'm open to being proved wrong. (Oh, and yeah that's not the only question, there's others like "What about OO? Can we keep it?", but I think that's really the core question; do we really have to rigidly control our side effects or can we keep our sloppy side-effect usage? Everything else is either incidental next to that, or flows from it.)