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> Are we to cede all functions that we used to master to computers? Really?

We are. You don't have to for many things, but for instance a self-driving-car; it's very likely it will be forbidden to drive a car in 100 years yourself (only on special tracks) because computer driven cars will be much safer and you are a hazard. This will happen wether you like it or not; it's a question of when; I think 100 years is pessimistic (or optimistic depending on your POV) of me.

Mostly everything you buy or do will be computerized/made by robots in not too much time. Hopefully they'll find a better way of writing code so that we won't all die because of the many 1000s of bugs in everything, but it is not something you can stop.

Edit: you are on HN so I suppose you are interested in computers and live somewhere civilized; if you live in a jurt somewhere without internet/computers/phones (so far enough for mobile signals to reach you) you can hold up for at least your lifetime without all that probably :)
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In Germany, speech that is deemed to "incite hatred" is illegal, for example. Also, denying or approving certain things publicly is illegal, even if this deed leads to no harm to anybody.
That means no freedom of speech. Freedom of speech includes freedom of saying false, hateful, disturbing and insulting things too. "Not absolute right" means not freedom but government-approved limits. That's exactly what my point was - when you move from protecting rights to banning stuff that does not violate anybody's rights but is unpleasant for people to witness and so banning it is popular - you have a problem with freedom.
Don't feel too bad for Germany though - most countries have problems with freedom of speech. It's a hard concept to maintain, since it is unpopular and disturbing speech that needs protecting - nobody objects to popular or neutral speech.
"[..] by then we'll be able to transfer our minds to sturdier vessels such as computers and robots"

Even theoretically, how would it be possible to separate the "mind" from the body?
My personal experience is that the phones are built to last. My iPhone 3G is now 4 years old, and receives heavy daily use from my 15yo daughter. The battery runs all day - it's still totally reliable and doing good service. That's more than I'd expect from a phone after 4 years.
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Certain groups pay significantly more then that. My university, for example, maintains an island for a particular unit (which I'm currently taking, spending quite a lot of time in SL) and that costs them upwards of low 5 figures a year, and I know absolutely that it's not the only place like it in existence, nor is it the biggest.
I just installed FireTray, it looks better than what I used to use, thanks!
I don't think this is for your point, but here's a counter-example: A large company uses 100 widely different technologies, and obviously no one can be an expert or even slightly knowledgeable about all of them. However when you're a SOFTWARE ARCHITECT [oooh!] it seems like there's an expectation that you should be an expert at everything. As soon as you're not (e.g. your example), you're seen as incompetent. In this case there's an unfair expectation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rights disagrees with you. So does dictionary.com. Got a better reference for me?
Open Source it otherwise I would believe you would just sell yourself to Google or Apple too.
I've been an avid Opera user since the browser was adware and I think Opera has every reason to be desperate. Increasingly often I used Chrome simply because Opera doesn't work with the web apps I need for my daily work. Right now I'm seriously thinking about ditching Opera altogether and use Chrome as my primary browser, a decision that would have been unthinkable just 2-3 years ago.
To be perfectly honest, I sometimes wonder if the end goal of these acquisitions is to simply to acquihire all remaining talent in this space: PittPat (Google), polar rose (Apple), face.com (Facebook), etc.
The more vicious part is the way the bar system prevents offshoring of work. More tedious legal stuff would be some of the best to offshore, but unsurprisingly it's very difficult to do so.
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It's often extended in various ways server-side with custom logic, but the real advantages are in terms of ease of admin and, client-side, excellent and basically unrivalled collaborative calendaring.

There are better mail clients, but I've never, ever seen anyone doing collab-calendaring better than Outlook. (oh and google doesn't apply, most serious companies simply cannot use it for all sorts of legal or strategic reasons)
eggs and basket analogy applies here.
>But the point the poster was making is that what is "grassroots" depends on who the idea comes from. If it's someone that you interact with daily and actually get a significant chunk of time with, then it seems natural; if it's coming from someone too high up the chain to remember your name, it seems contrived.

Well, that's the very definition of grassroots, isn't it? If it's coming from "up the chain", it's not grassroots anymore.

>Whereas the genesis of the idea may have been the result of the exact same thought processes either way.

Not really. When it comes from the bottom, i.e the people actually doing it, it is not an "idea", it's something you do _spontaneously_, for fun, etc.

One is something that just happens --which can then be codified, repeated, passed on to new team members, built into a culture--, the other is something that is designed.
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I think (aiming for) growth is also necessary to offset risk. Naturally business will not be equally good from year to year. If you don't create surplus in the good years, you'll find yourself in trouble in the bad years.
I disagree, at least for startups using infrastructure like this.

A startup testing some sort of hypothesis about a product or a market should get it out in front of people as soon as possible, and that should include using things like this. If they shut down, they shut down.

By that point, if you find some sort of product/market fit, you can always build your own face recognition, or switch to an alternate provider. If your product is a bust, then who cares if the API is gone?

Either way, there's no sense in a startup spending time building anything until it becomes the very highest-value thing they can do. There should be too many novel, risky hypotheses to test to worry about testing the one like "our team can build an adequate facial recognition service."
I think most people do reflexively seek to control whenever they aren't feeling secure about everything. When you primarily see risks, you want to make sure you don't go there. The harder thing is to make sure you know where you are going, instead of where you aren't. And there management gets in the way.

I am not saying that quantification isn't important. It is even necessary. What I am saying is I am not so sure that top-down structures don't get in the way more than they help.
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AFAIK, Face.com provides face recognition, not only detection. They've presented their approach at YaC'2011 here in Moscow, and it is quite sophisticated. Not VJ at all.
Facebook's trying to maintain a closed ecosystem. API being available wasn't likely to happen.
Just shows you how genuine and steadfast to their authenticity they are..
something like gm(knox.getStream(...)).write(knox.putStream(...))
unfortunately gm doesn't expose it's streams nicely, so you have to pass them in.
We can read jono's replies, but we can't answer. Jono, if you see some indirect answers it's because we can't reply directly to yours.
i wonder why this happens only now. richard fontana has been pretty open in his criticism for a while...
I would assume that at first, when you have 5 employees, everyone is working, hands-on, together. When you have 50 employees, many may be doing things that are regulated by other dynamics in the company and where the executive mostly just makes sure he/she's available to advise, mentor, and more rarely take action.

But you are likely to still have those new and exciting initiatives, where a small group of people needs to work together to make it happen. So you might have an executive and four employees working together, hands-on in this.

But you are right to worry about employees being afraid to speak up. This is why it is important to have a culture of openness, collaboration, and collegiality, and where leadership and followership are distributed.

One other caveat: because of the market we are in we are likely to be hiring older developers with at least some self-employment experience. At some point if we start hiring younger folks I would expect the transition will be a slower one with a lot more mentoring. I would worry a lot less about all this with older developers who have been their own bosses and are clearly told we want them to continue to be their own bosses to the extent possible than I would folks without that experience.
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Can anyone find a link to pictures of the original desks? Google shows a bunch of desks built by people who were inspired by this story.
Richard gave a talk which touched upon this at FOSDEM earlier this year:

https://archive.fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/the_decline_o...

(Sadly I cannot find the slides online)
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that's plain wrong. look up spf (sender policy framework) if you want to know more.
Opera may lose some market share at the desktop, but they are still a very strong contender in the embedded market with support for many different targets.

I know that Opera here in Linköping, Sweden, is currently trying to hire a lot of people and that seems to be the case globally too:

http://www.opera.com/company/jobs/list/
"Retina" is just as ambiguous as "High".
Apple didn't invent anything with "Retina" screens so branding is pretentious, pixel density is just that: a number.
What to do instead if that's API to an unique service?
"Oh, it's funny to see people trying to prove gamers harass Anita just because she is a woman."

There is a game in which one can simulate punching her in the face, with realistic looking bruising and facial injuries, quite clearly evoking the horrific sub-culture amongst some males that hurting women is entertaining and funny. Pick someone else who did something "stupid" online and see if you can find a game simulating realistic facial injuries on them. You find it funny? I'm not laughing.
Agreed, but for some (many) projects face detection is enough. For example all the "put a hat on your pictures" apps.
Anyone know where I can find the interface/ip limits per instance type?
no, but with imap and smtp. what's the point again?
It doesn't say what it does anywhere that I can see. The readme concerns itself with how it's allowed and compatible with the GPL, but I can't know what it's for unless I read the entire license.
Because it was forked and rewritten BY Richard Fontana
"All software sucks. Users would be a lot happier if they had to use a lot less of it."

I think this is the single most important thing in this article and cannot be stressed enough.

Anybody that has ever had to interact with users knows this, but for developers this is very hard to believe, they choose not to see it.

Most people see software (i.e. "computers") as a tool to get some work done, or to get some entertainment. The work and the entertainment are the goal, and if it were possible to achieve it without using any software, they would do it.

Even technical-types think about software this way, not even knowing that they're doing it. Think about this: we mostly put up with complicated software and in-your-face software that's not contributing to our work or entertainment because we are learning something. Learning is just another goal that's not really the software itself. Once we notice that we aren't learning much anymore, the aforementioned software becomes a pain to use.

Or maybe it's just me...
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Yeah, I just feel a particularly high level of responsibility when it comes to securing weapons. In addition to the financial loss, you've got moral and potential legal liability for how they're used. (I think only civil, and a lot of that would be addressed by taking reasonable precautions to secure them, plus reporting theft in a timely manner).
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Pretty much.

If folks have enough programming experience with other languages, it's easy to write Perl that looks more like those other languages, but unfortunately the moment a developer gets overworked or wants to show off (opposite extremes, really), Perl can devolve faster than some other languages because so many tricks are possible when vigilance is not maintained.

I've had decent success with making one-class-per-file with MooseX::Declare and Method::Signatures::Simple, but you really have to have a good code review process and rock solid developers to make it happen.

I don't think it's the languages fault, as this can happen just as quick in (say) Ruby code, and you can write extremely bad code in any language. Those other languages tend to be slightly faster to develop in though, as you can forget all of the need to write things like "my" and the reference syntax. Things like Python and Java have some resistance to "having fun with syntax games", but fall into other traps where interesting syntax (or architecture games) become fun or quick shortcuts.

On one end, part of Perl's problem is not Perl at all, just that it was historically the first thing people learned after Bash, and often those folks really didn't learn to program yet. On the other end, it is easy to go crazy with it.
Well, hold on a second. Even if we know the worm's neural network and how it's connected, that doesn't necessarily mean that a computer simulation of it will do exactly what the worm does. The problem is that we're not doing an atom-by-atom simulation of the worm but rather we're hoping we've extracted the important logical features of how the worm works, so that the thing will run on modern computers.

This is actually the more exciting part of the research. Serious ethical questions aside[1], imagine if you could simulate a human's neural network. Probably your first simulation would seem unbelievably stupid. Perhaps you find out that you didn't account for the ways certain neurotransmitter concentrations will "leak" data from one synapse to a nearby one, without which the system becomes radically disconnected because evolution was lazy and connected them without a specific wire. (I don't know; I'm being hypothetical.) So now you get to introduce some sort of adjacency matrix which manages which neurons are "next to" each other and receive these "secondary signals." Then it seems to be able to learn language, but it still can't balance in the world, and working it out, you find out that there is a big failure in the motor regions because they only work when the right signal propagation delays are introduced, and you were propagating them all instantaneously, and so on.

In the distant past, we had hoped that chess was so complicated that it would only be solved with some great insight into human understanding -- but instead it was solved with brute force. This is one of the first cases where I see that the brute force might be finally able to give us a test model by which we might better understand understanding itself.

The only worrying bit is the neural nets themselves. Neural nets are notoriously difficult to interpret and understand. Even the calculus-based approach of "I'm going to make a tiny tweak to the network and see how it changes the output" offers only a little enlightenment.

[1] I do think ethical questions about killing artificial consciousnesses deserve discussion time; I just don't have much to spare at this moment and it's kinda tangential.
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there is lwn and (to a much lesser degree) heise.
A bug report from last year on the plugin compatibility problem:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=691336

No one ever cared.
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I love Firefox updates. I've never had an issue. I click on the update link and it's done within seconds. Then I get all the new goodies like it was my birthday.

Seems like the only people who complain are home users. At least that's what I gather from the forums I visit. They just don't understand why things need to change even after a long drawn explanation.
Someone doesn't use dotfiles, I'm guessing.
dead unfortunately. (and some things are very hard to integrated nicely)
huh. i know. but why now?
Until recently, users and developers seemed to put a lot of importance on graphics that were as realistic as possible. I think SL seeks realism. But now, not so much. Maybe Minecraft has something to do with that, or maybe the saturation of beautiful unfun games.
You should have multiple possibilities for some of those answers
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one important thing is clarification and removing leftovers from negotiations between multiple parties involved in the gpl3 license text.
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Well yeah, there's the problem that glass is trivially easy to manufacture from sand, and the amount of labor and energy use to remove and process these screens is greater than the savings, especially since most glass these days that is sent for recycling is thrown into giant mountains of unwanted glass that is never used by anyone. Also, if you have to use a bunch of highly toxic solvents that are dangerous to work with so people can by hand remove the glue before even getting to that point, one may reasonably ask what exactly about this process is green.
Thanks for feedback. Which ones you reckon?
(Reposting since this thread is relevant)

I recently set up an email system for a small company using cPanel, hMailServer (a Windows mailserver) and Thunderbird. I actually looked at Zimbra but decided to go with a Windows-based solution. I also considered Google Apps, but was afraid it wouldn't allow for fine-grained control over access permissions (i.e. managers seeing subordinates' accounts and restricted shared folders) and also unrestricted creation email aliases/accounts.

Should I have taken a closer look at Google Apps? Thunderbird isn't the easiest to use, but I like how it's easy to work with shared IMAP folders. Do you know of any solution (groupware suite, etc.) to the need for shared email folders with user access control?

Advice from anyone is appreciated!
Interesting. If "noobs" have an inferior experience because of the LL client, they will not come back. If the hope is for the community to thrive and grow, perhaps the existence and superiority of third party clients should be more apparent. Seems the nobody else commenting on HN was aware of this.
"The glue that is bonded to the glass etc can be difficult to remove, as is claimed above. Full removal is necessary to ensure the recycled product is not contamination."

Don't most recyclers just toss everything in a big shredder, run the bits and pieces through mechanical separators, and smelt each stream of fragments. It's not like bottle recyclers get all bent out of shape if there is still glue and labels on the bottles.

EDIT: inflammatory /= 10;
I had a door desk in college. It was solid core with a flat surface. You could buy them at a deep discount if you found one with surface defects. I used cinder blocks to support the corners, making it cheap and portable. Simply put, it was the best desk I have ever had.
It's a style choice. You don't have to use classes and/or do anything with the prototype chain.
(Slightly) OT: The "Y U NO STOP COOL FEATURES?" image is a total turnoff to me. It devalues the product.
> This marks the return of Monopolies in internet ...

... and I stopped reading right then and there.
People, Webkit is open-source FFS.
The comparison with the IE6 situation doesn't hold water.
Oh. Hadn't realised that, thanks for the info. :) (I am doing it naively, just from the output of ps, so your point applies. Is there an Chrome equivalent for Firefox's about:memory?)

Even so, with many tabs open, my computer hits swap far more under Chrome than Firefox.

Edit: Ah, yep, answered my own question: about:memory works in Chrome too. Using that, I've got Chrome at 360 MB with 5 tabs and 2 extensions, while Firefox is at 900 with 30+ loaded tabs and ~20 extensions.
Interestingly I was discussing this with some friends last night (trying to solve the worlds problems on the back of a napkin as always :) One suggestion was to try and crowdsource deliveries in cities, ie. have depots centralised around public transport areas. But how to deal with security?
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Thanks for digging up that reference, it's interesting.

Regarding the recycling of Apple products, your reference says: "Power-On is not an e-Steward (and they don't disclose their recycling partner), so this trade-in program therefore does not benefit from independent auditing to high standards."

This sounds to me it may be consistent with the grandparent post's statement that they are carted off to india to be torn apart by child laborers to find precious metals while using toxic chemicals that shorten their lives. If the recycler refuses to say who is doing the work, where or how, and refuses to allow independent outside auditing, it is unlikely it is being done in a responsible manner.
Wow, I think it's pretty outrageous to call a license that is not backed by the FSF GPL.next. His argument that GPL is a generic term doesn't convince me at all.
Interesting. I wasn't implying it's a quantum system, not through entanglement anyhow. I'm not sure it would need to be linked in such a way for it to play its role in overall functioning.