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In practice, no, because UN resolutions are only as good as their ability to enforce them, which in the case of general-assembly resolutions basically boils down to no ability, except attempting to shame people who flaunt them. Only a handful of UN organs (e.g. the Security Council and the International Criminal Court) have anything approaching teeth.
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1. The download/restart takes forever and interrupts your work with a bunch of intrusive dialog boxes.

This is a valid complaint. Firefox did rapid release before it perfected the update process to be fully automatic and silent, that definitely caused some users issues. Mozilla has recognized that publicly and taken responsibility for that decision - and meanwhile fixed the update process as well as launched an extended support release version of Firefox that updates far less frequently.

2. The update may break stuff that you counted on, either by removing features you were using, or by breaking compatibility with other software you use. Maybe the developers never tested your use case, or worse - they tested for it but decdided it didn't matter because only 2% of users used it. Tough luck to you if you're one of those 2%.

This point is ironic - because the claim is that users are switching to Chrome, which is the inventor of the 6-week update process. Chrome's 6-week updates can break websites or features that you rely on (I heard devs complain about breakage in the plugin interfaces for examples), just like Firefox's 6-week updates can.

When you update software every 6 weeks, and you make those updates real updates (not small security updates), then you risk breaking stuff for users. If you don't like that, you can't use either Chrome or Firefox. You might prefer IE, Safari and Opera which are slower-updating (there is also the Firefox extended support release as mentioned before).

So yes, the Firefox implementation of rapid release did not begin 100% smoothly, issues were admitted and worked on. But if you argue against the principle of rapid release, then you can't say in the same breath that users are leaving one rapid release browser (Firefox) for another (Chrome).

Side note, there is definite anecdotal evidence for users leaving Firefox for Chrome over rapid release. But there is also anecdotal evidence of users moving in other directions. Looking at the browser market share statistics, Firefox has declined a little and stabilized, with most of the previous decline coming from users of Firefox 3.6, not the modern rapid release versions. Of course the anecdotal stuff could still be right - perhaps 3.6 users move to the modern version, and some modern version people leave for another browser. But it's hard to differentiate that from people just leaving 3.6 directly (and people on modern versions being happy and staying), the data is hard to interpret.
Is $95 for non-prescription polarized sunglasses really a deal?

The cost to produce a pair of $25 and a pair of $100 sunglasses really can't be that different. Charging $100 signals the product should be good...but would anyone be able to guess that price when handed a pair with the name obscured?

Maybe it's different for their prescription versions.
Another example is "the right to health care." People don't use that to mean that you have the right to pay thousands of dollars for an MRI. They generally mean the government should provide health care.
Exactly: don't tackle remotes until you've learned the fundamentals of git, otherwise you'll be stuck with a big brain twister. If you start dealing with remotes right off the bat, like I initially did, you'll find git very frustrating and weird to work with. I kept treating git like it was svn, and just didn't get it. If you learn git without remotes first, the way git handles remotes will make way more sense to you once you finally explore that functionality.
Are there any experts who can comment (without bias) about the validity of these claims? It's quite hard to tell just from this whether or not this is a joke, or whether it's an exciting, plausible initiative.
its not open source, and it doesn't work on all platforms.

if Mozilla wanted to do "good things" and not "lets try to be another corporate company!", they' buy off postbox and release that open source, and keep the devs working on it.

They're abandoning TB because it sucks. Frankly. It's buggy, leaky, etc. No one really cared for it, for too long.
First, this is a set not a list so it's nonsensical to rank those in importance.

More to the point, I don't read that proclamation as "everyone is entitled to internet access".

I read it as: no-one (specifically government) should be able to take away your access to internet.

The difference is not that subtle.

It's important because it counters a growing world-wide tendency to take away your access after some minor infractions like copyright infringement.

It rightly recognizes that access to internet is almost a necessity to conduct your daily business (in first world countries, at least) and denying that access creates incredible hardship and can ruin lives (ruin not at all rhetorically; if you, for example, make money via etsy or odesk, taking away this income might push you over the poverty line).
Many people do. I'd still rather trust an optician using a PD meter though.
http://www.dvorak.org/blog/2008/01/13/bank-robber-dresses-up...
Some thoughts:

* privacy and security: you don't have any with email. It moves in plaintext across the Internet. It'd be silly to pretend that your own mail server doesn't help some, but you might be better off feeling insecure. You'll keep sensitive data out of your email, and if you have to move very sensitive data across email, encrypt it. If you move unencrypted data across the Internet, assume it's become public information. Personally, I feel that Google is good with privacy and security. I'm happy with it. http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answe... I use two-factor authentication on my google account, and it alerts me if it's been accessed from unusual IPs/locations. Frankly, Google does a better job of protecting my privacy and security than I would. I wouldn't audit my log files. I believe there's a fair chance my privacy and security would go down by switching off of gmail.

So, I went to namecheap, registered a domain, and it forwards email to my existing email address. If Google locks me out of my account permanently, there's a layer of indirection with my gmail account. I'll point namecheap's mail forwarder at my new email account.
Actually - TB will die. That is, it'll be maintained, but it wont keep pace. It already did not, while it had PAID employees on it. Now, it's the same, except theres zero paid employees on it.

No one's interested into making it better. Wish I was wrong.
> I think the takeaway from this should be slightly different than the one the author found: don't fight users' expectations of what your product is.

That's a fair point, but also true is "don't let your product stagnate by keeping it familiar and unchanging". People get bored with similarity and want new shiny things.

There is something to be said for too much change, and something to be said for too much sameness.
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Those who have studied the issue put the annual probability of a nuclear war on the order of one to three percent per annum.

People tend to dismiss the risk because it hasn't happened yet, but it's fairly easy to game many possible scenarios.

This isn't the study I was thinking of, but it was the first that I found.

http://phys.org/news167327145.html
Installed, and am using this now. I haven't had time yet to see how it handles notifications and the like, but it is quite frankly a dead sexy Twitter client, and I do like it.

The introductory tutorial is also gorgeous.

It still has some work to be done, as I've hit a couple placeholders, but I'm looking forward to that.

One questionable UI detail though (at least to me) is using the account context menu instead of having a 'settings hardware button' menu. I get using the account context (at the top) for account management, but for things like refresh interval and all that jazz, I expect it to be available on the hardware button. Even if you bound the hardware button to the same thing (such that if you click the hardware button, the account context menu expands) it would probably work... just as it is now, the hardware button does a noticeable nothing.

Will definitely be using this though. Very nice.
TB Search does suck, though.
That is a very confusing article. I can't tell whether they are saying it is a good thing or not. When they say "on Friday" in the first paragraph, do they mean today or last week? Towards the end of the article, it says that sales were banned earlier this week.
They don't sell a single pair of wire frames, just the thick plastic 'hipster' style that's currently in fashion. No wonder they're only $95...
Hey pg (or other moderators), it would be nice if you could unban jono_x who is the author of this post and signed up to respond to comments: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jono_x

(For now, you can read them if you set "showdead" in your HN profile.)
> Ihmo there isn't so much left to innovate in an email client

There is interesting innovation going on, for instance <http://notmuchmail.org/>; (and satellite projects such as <https://github.com/teythoon/afew>; and <https://github.com/pazz/alot>.
The author of this blog (jono_x) has posts showing up as dead. Probably another innocent HN hellbanning victim. This is what he said in his reply:

> I do think that they go half the distance sometimes with their privacy measures - "Do Not Track" is unchecked by default, and Firefox accepts and keeps "Third Party Cookies" until they expire.

There's a good reason "Do Not Track" is unchecked by default. If it was checked by default, then advertisers would have the perfect excuse to ignore it: "oh, that's not really the user's preference, they're just sending that header because their browser sends it by default; let's go ahead and track them."

By making it opt-in, we ensure that a site receiving a do-not-track header knows for sure that it represents an active choice on the part of the user.

You may remember that IE was going to turn it on by default. But then Mozilla and the rest of the do-not-track collaborators explained this principle to them and they went back to off-by-default.

The third-party cookie thing, though, I don't have a good explanation for. When I worked at Mozilla I spent a lot of time trying to convince people that we should block third-party cookies by default. (Especially after I started working on Collusion and saw how prevalent they are.) I kept getting the same response: "We can't block 3rd party cookies, it would break the web."

I don't agree with this, obviously. Before pop-up-blocking became the norm in all browsers, you could have made the argument that pop-up-blocking would "break the web" too. I believe 3rd party cookies are a giant security hole, and breaking sites that use them would be a small price to pay for closing it.

But, I couldn't convince Mozilla of that. It's one of the reasons I decided to leave.

> Are curved tabs really better than rectangular ones?
IIRC from the UI design talk where the new "Australis" redesign was introduced internally, the motivation behind the curved tab redesign was to look "friendlier" and more "organic".

One thing the Australis redesign does which I do think is important is that it finally provides a consistent location for add-ons to add buttons. (The status bar used to be this, but it was hidden in Firefox 4 to recover screen space for content.)
I doubt it. But I think it would be possible to be living on the moon in that time frame. Plus, we could be shuttling all of our garbage into space and mining the moon. Space 2029 Redo.
> "There's no UI better than one you already know, and no UI worse than one you thought you knew but now haver to relearn."

Yeah, I guess I was overstating the case for rhetorical purposes. I don't think there's never a UI change that improves on what you already know. Once in a while a new interface comes along that's so much more efficient that it's worth retraining yourself. What I'm trying to say is that these changes are rare. I think designers tend to overestimate the benefit of a change and underestimate the power of habituation.

(P.S. thanks for catching my typo ("haver"). Fixed it.)
I agree with you, with the caveat that you include "given its current trajectory." Is, say, Sparrow better? Maybe. Will someone release an awesome new email client in the future that's better than Sparrow and Thunderbird combined? Definitely. But with infinite time, Thunderbird will never become Sparrow (or Gmail or the next big email client).

Any further features for Thunderbird can be developed as an extension or as a fork (like, say, Postbox -- which is actually really more of an extension rather than a fork, as far as I know).
When I was a teenager, I was hired to port Platypus to the Mac. It is, by far, the most incomprehensible code base I've ever worked on.

It consisted of just one big 15,000 line file, containing three functions. Logic was driven by gotos and global arrays.

I couldn't make sense of any of it, so the source had to be treated as a black box to which wrapper layers were applied.

It always amazed me how much Anthony persevered to make the game fantastic. He couldn't program very well (and was the first to admit it), but it never stopped him from doing a better job of the game than most programmers I know would have - polished and bug free.

That was quite a source of inspiration for me - I've since spent the last seven years making games full time at my own companies, with much the same Just Get It Done attitude.

I'm really looking forward to his next game, Cletus. Cool guy.
It's stuff like this that makes me smile at humanity.
No, it works fine. Why specificly do you think it sucks?
From the title “Illegal Engineering”, I thought this would be about titling yourself a “Professional Engineer” in Canada and similar countries, where calling yourself that without a professional engineering license is illegal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_and_licensure_in_eng...

I don’t mind reading about safe-cracking, but it’s a little disappointing that the article never talks about when safe-cracking is illegal, or how specifically it relates to engineering. The title doesn’t fit.
Well that headline is completely stupid.

So basically Samsung can sell Nexus for one more week. Big deal. Any longer will depend on if the Federal Court decides they can continue to sell during the appeal or not.

This article gives the impression that Samsung won the appeal.
10, actually.
You know what would make searching easier? Serve the raw ascii list. I know you have affiliate links and all but a list is worth more. In fact, I'll pay you $10 for your list. I'd pay you $15 a month for a raw data feed to your list.

Make a company out of the data you mined, don't make money for a namecheap and godaddy!
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Flask works very similarly in python-land. When I want to whip up an API I fire up Flask + curl.
Have you seen Domize? How is this better than that? Because it offers browsing instead of just searching?

Domize - http://domize.com/
I'm banned? (My posts were showing up for me, so I had no idea.)

Did get banned because I broke a rule I wasn't aware of? Or is it that a newly registered account needs to be approved by a moderator before the comments show up?
I ran one of the recommendation algorithm teams for a few years before we did the cloud migration. The techblog summaries of the algorithms are pretty good. The implementation is lots of fine grain services and data sources, changing continuously. Hard to stick a fork in it and call it done for long enough to document how it works.
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Used to use alpine, never could make the ui switch to mutt. Now I'm on offlineimap+notmuch+notmuch.el+postfix and I frigging love it.
Your choice of an example is rather poor, as you now are conflating issues of children's rights with something else. Saying children have a right to an education only means we have to pay for them, because they regularly can't pay for themselves through no fault of their own - this is a different issue than what the right entails.

For many many many examples of how your argument breaks down, look no further than the US constitution. We have the right to freedom of the press - yet no one demands they get a free press. The right to bear arms - yet no one demands the government give everyone guns to exercise that right. The right not be compelled to self-incriminate, yet no one demands free paper shredders or disk wiping utilities. The right to sue anyone for more than $25, but no one demands free lawyers (for this purpose criminal defense is a different -- no disingenuous replies on this please).

So yeah a positive right in this case would provide an obligation for someone, but it doesn't mean providers must give no-charge options, it means the government would be obliged to not deny citizens internet access (except possibly as a penalty for crimes, ala prison does for a lot of rights).

Essentially this is a longwinded way of me stating this is a combination of strawman and slippery slope fallacies piled on factually incorrect statements.
As a life-long of reader "hard" sci-fi, making me a renown expert, IMHO:

How will humans survive the radiation?

How will humans remain mentally healthy?

I don't think we can feasibly become space faring until those challenges, and probably some others, are addressed.

Edit: Oh, I just had an idea. How do people with Asperger's deal with isolation, boredom, continuous contact with a handful of other people? Maybe there's a subgroup of people who are mentally perfectly adapted for space travel.
Excellent. Looks very nice.
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I'm still trying to figure out why the "add-ons" you install appear in "extensions" window and what's the difference between an extension and an addon. I can search and install Firebug but can disable/remove it from extension section.
I studied law in germany for a couple of semesters and I learned that human rights are never absolute. They are more like bubbles. Basically your right ends where it collides with someones else right or to paraphrase it "one man's freedom is another man's limitation".

The purpose of the law is to make sure, that those bubbles are about equally sized for everyone.
Not sure why you're surprised. The UX on Android is dreadful and is reminiscent of the bad days of Linux on the desktop. I still get very confused when the hardware back button does and doesn't apply.

The problem is that Google was really late in putting out UI Guidelines similar to what Apple and Motorola do. They only really come out around Honeycomb meaning there are lots of apps that had no guidance.
I have been trying to find the answer to this, is there a requirement to store the custom keys installed on a SafeBoot UEFI system in flash or otherwise in hardware? Are they stored in EBDA or on a disk partition? I can't see how the standard prevents infection by writing a valid bootsector key to the disk otherwise.
>Shouldn't we just try to come up with our own algorithms instead of trying to copy nature's historically bloated algorithms?

People are working on this problem from both sides. AI on one and biological simulation on the other. We don't know which will realize its goals first.
Is there more that can be done for your condition than simply eating a lot of salt?
Monitoring is done with two systems, one in-house in-band that we might open source one day (was called Epic, currently called Atlas). The other is AppDynamics running as a SaaS application with no dependencies on AWS. There is some useful overlap for when one or the other breaks, we merge the alerts from both (plus Gomez etc) but they have very different strengths as tools.
The problem is I despise UN because it is an organization of dictatorships mainly, and extremely corrupted one.
still a win/win for the designer. he got the critical eye and lots of feedback from some of the smartest people in tech.
After re-reading the TC article, I think the "Right?" comment has more to do with calling out corporate doublespeak than open source. You're right that nothing is preventing the community from developing Thunderbird, but realistically it appears that there has been very little community contribution in the past so without Mozilla's funding it's a safe prediction that development will virtually stop.
I love the downvoters who don't respond, just downvote.
I believe www.squaretrade.com is now doing this, though I have never used them and have no comment about the value/utility of the service.
In fact, if someone is paying $1,200 a month for a dorm, then that tells you something about the kind of employee or co-founder they would be.

No problem if they stay there for a couple weeks, up to a month, while getting situated or doing a bunch of meetings, but living there for months shows lack of judgement. You can get a hotel in Santa Clara- rack rate- for $50, and a nice one at that.
"So this is where we may just agree to disagree, when you write "I expect you to mature out of it. If you don't? Not a good fit." I caution that you might find yourself throwing a great developer under the bus someday with this approach. Your mileage may vary of course, usual disclaimers Etc. Not everyone can be a good architect, not everyone can be a good developer, but not being good in one does not preclude one from being good in the other."

Good arguments; that very well could be. My data is different, but obviously our mileage may vary. Plural of anecdote is not data, and all that. :)
Using firefox, right click on the image in that page and select "View Image"
I think it may be the other way around... this is the whole plan. Mission accomplished, they're in the news.
"Technical debt" is a nice way of saying it had bugs. It was mostly a configuration problem, if it had been setup better we would have had no outage or a much shorter one. The work to test all our zone level resilience (Chaos Gorilla) was underway but hadn't got far enough to uncover this bug.
Sadly though now users have had years of poor memory management burned into their memories. Regardless of if it was FF or the addons, it's associated with FF now and will take time to shed.
Well, I just tested it with my 2 years old HTC desire. It says "Yes." :)
Is there a good free/paid webmail service that can be used with a custom domain and has good security? As far as I know, GMail can only be used with a custom domain if you convert your account to Google Apps, which prevents you from using some Google services.
Show HN: Project manager focused on forming ideas rather than checking boxes
Have you considered that for the first 23 years of the Internet/ARPANet's existence, the government was firmly in control of the entire network, including consistently being the largest purchasers of internet equipment such as routers, and being the instigator, planner and funder of the initial design and implementation? (They tried to interest AT&T in running it -- twice, in 1977 and 1987 -- but AT&T was not interested.) Have you considered that it is because of enlightened decisions made by the government that, e.g., Tim BL et al did not need to seek the government's permission to use the internet to deploy the WWW? That in 1999 Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker did not need to get the permission of the government to use the internet to deploy Napster?