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Hardly. Bin Laden's aim was to end the "corrupting influence" of the western world on the Islamic world, and to achieve that by getting the US and other western powers to withdraw from military, economic, and cultural interaction with the Islamic world.

As far as what happened within the western world, whether it destroyed itself or continued on in some aspect, he didn't much care (at least in the short-term, in the long-term I'm sure he believed that the whole world would be under the power of a new Caliphate).
God damn, I wish my friends/acquaintances were more like you. I would be eating out all the time!!
Maybe, just maybe for cannabis. But meth and cocaine (including crack)? I don't think you appreciate the damage those drugs cause.

The US policy on drugs is insane, but so is legalisation in a country which can't even manage to generate a proper social stigma against drink driving.
This solution is no different than sending more guns. Instead, respect the inalienable right to consciousness modification.
For the record, NPG actually supports the form of open access being put forward by the UK and the EU (check out the statements on their website). The company already complies with the 6 month rule and helps authors deposit in PubMed Central. It also runs a number of open access and hybrid model journals...
Remember people, its you who are the real enemy of the state. Its you they fear more than anything else.
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When git software is easy for ordinary people to use and install on windows, easy enough that people are using it to share porn and pirated material, then maybe it will be like ftp.

As it is to run git on windows you, best case, have to install a lightweight nix OS. Cygwin mingw,whatever. I think we techies and power users don't realize how messed up that is if you want git to be more than a program for programmers. Ftp was a protocol, you could make a native client for everything. Git is a great tool, but not yet comparable to ftp.
Or you could just do all those things anyway, because it will improve your life. Maybe not the cigarettes.
It is easy to dismiss Arnold because techie types tend to disdain bodybuilding and acting as trivial endeavors. But, upon closer inspection, I find Arnold to have very impressive character and is well worth listening to.
At institutional scales, this sort of thinking can add up to things of real significance. For example: I'm a transport planner specialising in Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) systems[1]. 5 years ago, a certain large corporation took a very serious interest in building a campus-wide PRT system, funding extensive feasibility and engineering studies to that effect. The primary rationale for the system was value of time. When these high-value employees spend a significant amount of time hunting for places to park or moving around the campus on its internal shuttlebus system, that represents a substantial loss of value-creation. Thus a $360 million PRT system which saved each employee an average of five minutes per day would pay for itself in just a few years. The business case had other legs to stand on as well, but that was by far the most impressive item on the balance sheet.

Unfortunately, before the scheme could come to fruition, there followed a series of unfortunate events -- including but by no means limited to the collapse of the world economy -- which convinced said corporation that an even more appealing way to optimise their employees' value creation was to cancel all capital expenditures and sack a few thousand people. And the rest is history.

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_rapid_transit
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Wouldn't this approach also put the .git directory below ~/www, making it accessible to the world? That might not be such a good idea.
Don't forget phishing e-mails.

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Name:

Address:

Information supplied:
> The part I don't get is why it seems to matter so much

Oh, may be to start doing something to stop such horrible things from happening again. No?
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Yes, but you may need to enlist a third party. (Discl: my startup -- http://beeminder.com -- is such a third party!)
What is big data? What is small data?
I'm a big fan of Codea, but prefer Python to Lua. This looks like the most credible Python implementation for the iPad so I think I'll get it, but a path to legitimate App Store publication would really put it over the top. Codea managed it, so here's hoping!
Ok, now that I used this app I'm totally impressed. It even continues blocking after rebooting. Ha! Awesome.

I banged off almost 1000 words yesterday and had to shut down because of an oncoming storm. This morning I boot up and my connection is still locked up. My browser is saying I need to type another 1000 words if I want to get Internet. Nice.

I think your app will do well!
It's utterly incongruous reading Schmidt advocating personal privacy, anonymity, security of communication -- the same guy who's repeatedly on public record opposing these things. Like this:

"I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines -- including Google -- do retain this information for some time and it's important, for example, that we are all subject in the United States to the Patriot Act and it is possible that all that information could be made available to the authorities."

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/12/my_reaction_to...

And also this:

"Privacy is incredibly important," Schmidt stated. "Privacy is not the same thing as anonymity. It's very important that Google and everyone else respects people's privacy. People have a right to privacy; it's natural; it's normal. It's the right way to do things. But if you are trying to commit a terrible, evil crime, it's not obvious that you should be able to do so with complete anonymity. There are no systems in our society which allow you to do that. Judges insist on unmasking who the perpetrator was. So absolute anonymity could lead to some very difficult decisions for our governments and our society as a whole."

And this:

"The only way to manage this is true transparency and no anonymity," Schmidt said. "In a world of asynchronous threats, it is too dangerous for there not to be some way to identify you. We need a [verified] name service for people. Governments will demand it."

http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/google-ceo-schmid...

(edit) Apparently this is a popular enough subject that Huffington Post has a collection of these:

"Google CEO Eric Schmidt's Most Controversial Quotes About Privacy"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/04/google-ceo-eric-sch...
Rails + iOS = CTO @ YC Company
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About you:

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Was Marissa's last reorg at Google really a demotion, or was it just a reorg? It's hard to tell from the outside.
this and geezer's site are the OGs of OS dev. Both offshoots of alt.os.dev, iirc, and have been around for more than a decade.

if I were messing with OS dev today I would probably study the algorithms in a friendly HLL, there are some texts that use Java. these sites are more helpful to actual implementors, specially driver developers.

x86 architecture is terrible for pedagogy in many ways, and it's probably harder today than it was 10 years ago, with real-mode now finally gone, except for the first few nanos after machine boots.
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I think we can safely assume that unlike the judges in the Pirate Bay case some pressure was applied from above for him to stand aside.

Last I heard there was not going to be a need for an extradition hearing as Mr Dotcom was volunteering to go to the US and stand trial as he was certain he would be found not guilty in a courtroom.
Their libraries (especially SDL) are used when games get ported.
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All I asked was awareness :) They key word in that sentence was "may."

Although for those of us struggling internally in social situations, more self-doubt is probably not what is needed.
TL;DR: If the public could give anonymous tips, the drug cartels would be weakened.

If you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail. Is it really hard to give anonymous tips? I doubt it. I think the fundamental problem with informants is that only so many people have insider information on criminal activity, and there's a good chance the cartels will find their moles, even if the tips are truly anonymous.
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None of these are in any way related to what the Pi was allegedly designed for, recreating the learning experience of the BBC Micro in the early 80s.
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So I am registering with "local" govenment FFS that is even worse at least at the national level there is some oversight and Journalists holding teh executive to account.
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You bring some interesting points so let start with the moral standpoint. If voting with your dollar should be the method to give society feedback what is needed, roads and water should be the most expensive items one pay for. Voting with your dollar sound fine in theory, but try to find a single study proving it. There is none, and studies like "The Market for Lemons: Quality Uncertainty and the Market Mechanism" by Economist George Akerlof, and those produced by Amartya Sen should shine some light on why.

Copying is as simple as needing, that is the amount of energy and action needed to copy something, is about the same as just simply needing something. Like star trek replicators, you ask for something, and a perfect copy materialize. If I was hungry and I asked the replicator for a piece of bread, would I be depriving the baker of salary?
So the question ends up, how should the baker be payed for the first loaf of bread. A dollar for each copy made from it? When the poor is then denied said bread and dies because he does not have that dollar for a copy, is that then murder or good for society?

So how do we make it valuable to develop. My answer would be:

- Society should pay for infrastructure, be that roads, water, or network infrastructure. (Tax)

- Industry regulations should regulate the industry, not private people. If a company want to do earn profit by using software made by others, they should pay. (CC-BY-NC)

- Concepts like media tax would work quite fine, if distributed "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". The current media tax seen at places like Canada and Sweden are twisted forms of that where the collectors take the largest share, and then popularity in radio takes the rest. (Media tax).

- Products do compete against free and sometimes wins. Look at the "$9.99" bin at the supermarket. When the product is offered as convenience, it does not matter if at the back, down the stairs, through the window, next to the gutter, there is a "free all-you-can-eat buffet" of pirated goods. This goes back to Industry regulations. Regulate people who are running for-profit operations and that is enough to create value for the producer. (lets call that economics)
1. They don't need to do as much damage if the legal consequences associated with them are lessened, and people feel able to access help and care for their problems.

2. The money currently spent (fruitlessly) trying to suppress these things could fund one heck of a rehab program.

3. Known dosages and purities, as well as safer methods of taking the substances, could help minimise harm.

I agree that blanket legalisation is probably nuts, by the way, but I don't think it's as black and white as "meth bad, must stay illegal".
I personally think the idea behind Digg v4 was ingenious, but it should have been launched as a new product. It had such great potential, I almost feel bad for Rose that it failed.
It wsnt the NSDAP that set the fire it was a lone wolf (who was unfortuatly sufering from metal health issues).

Some Nazis on the night where terifed that it was the start of a counter revolution from the left - read Alex Kershaws Bio of Hitler.
One problem with this technique is that over time you will end up with more and more data on the production server, even stuff that has since been deleted. Even for a small website over the course of a few years can end up being GBs of wasted space which on production VPSs can be quite expensive.
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I don't know, I've had a lot of fun making stuff I wouldn't use. Designing and implementing things (programming languages rather than OSes in my case) is more fun than actually using them :).

Not planning to use your project also gives you a certain freedom. You can do all sorts of crazy and impractical things just for fun. My language lets you change the precedence of operators at runtime. It's a stupid feature that would only cause misery in the real world, but I'm not writing my project for the real world :).

That said, it is also fun to write things people actually use. In fact, just having users or using your own program yourself makes up for having to deal with boring issues, annoying corner cases and reality in general.
> I won't ask for extraordinary evidence, just reasonable evidence.

You may want to start with the part 2 of the very questionable zeitgeist movie, not claiming anything. It may be fruitful to assume that what you believe in is not true (no matter what) and try to look at it with a different angle.
I wish all these app store systems would split games and apps up.

It's especially a problem on the google play store where you have a games section for games and an apps section which you'd assume is for just non-game apps, but no the list is still dominated by games.
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I seriously love you guys. One of the most awsome services I've seen on HN.
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The probability you use is the value of that item divided by the total, no? So on average you'll get halfway down the menu, and have to have figured out who ordered half the things, in slow bits and pieces.

Thinking about it, I think I have a faster way to do it: 1. generate a random number between 0 and bill amount. 2. "Count" that much money down the bill. 3. Whoever ordered the item you stop on pays.
Fairly sure I meant !$ :)

http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#Word-De...
That's a reasonable explanation, but it's dishonest for Compete to put these numbers on a graph labelled "unique visitors". The Google+ poster didn't have any inkling about what the numbers represent.
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Me too.

Had similar problem with a site called TVCatchup. They stream free TV in the UK. Their player sits in the middle of the page and that is surrounded by an advertising border. Nothing else on the page of consequence. What I found was that I found it very hard to focus on the player in the middle. Often I would get a headache watching. Told the admins, who didn't want to know. Basically I got an angry "Foxtrot Oscar". Ended up using an ad blocker until they found a way to defeat that. Now I don't use the site any more.
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> I don't think the "male-dominated tech world" would really respect a man for sleeping with the co-founder either.

I won't have a problem with it unless that bestows special privileges.

> I was under the impression that the beneficiaries of nepotism are resented regardless of their sex.
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They are resented, or at least they should be. If Marissa Mayer got away with being incompetent or being an asshole, she should be resented. Now she might be very competent(I have seen references to her papers), but that's no excuse for getting the extra mileage due to being in relationship with the co-founder.
Here is the same principle, but better documented:
http://www.saintsjd.com/2011/03/automated-deployment-of-word...
Seriously, try it. History expansion works on input lines separated by the user asking the shell to run them, it can't cross reference command arguments on the same command line.
Have you actually read the linked article?

"And you cannot make those nagging messages go away. Any visit to a page in the Blogger content-editing interface results in this nag screen, and although you can dismiss the message, it will keep coming back."
You're not going to. The admin overhead of running any service is more than you could possibly make from a single server. Run GIMPS on it and hope to hit the prize, or offer informal hosting to your friends and ask them to chip in - but with the understanding that you're not going to be rushing out at 4AM to fix things.
Also, if your production server is breached, attackers can mine that data, for example for that accidentally checked-in password, or to search for security fixes that other sites might not have applied.
The government used to not be spying on me... In the last 5 years, it became likely.

I'm going to pick on the 5 years & 10 years estimate, if you don't mind.

If no one was spying on you then, it was because you were a child or teenager, and presumably not very interesting. If you were someone of major consequence five years ago (2007, to keep things in perspective), or even a decade ago (2002), you'd surely have at least a minor notation, blurb or profile somewhere. If our government wasted time and money tracking John Lennon in the 60's, it's hard to imagine that by 2007 there wasn't at least cursory analysis available about anyone with a job and credit card. Never mind anyone who attended college/university, purchased car insurance or signed up for a grocery store rewards card.

Let me be clear: I'm not saying the government is specifically tracking on your grocery bill. Instead, you're letting someone else do so, and the data is simply available upon request from most reasonable actors.

Further temporal perspective: Google had long gone public by 2007, and people were long crying foul on privacy with respect to it. So the government may not have even been the first to open some unbeknownst profile on you. It may have just been some data aggregator who put your SSN, DoB and address up for sale after your general practitioner's secretary got some malware (I'm being hypothetical of course, but hopefully you understand the premise).

A counterpoint to my argument is that this is the government, not corporation X or shady data reseller Y. I concede that there is a different feeling associated with the government spying on you (with the assumption of legality), and some third-party actor who maybe, some day, could be brought to trial (we hope?).

Yet the practical result is the same: there are people building profiles of us which we will never see, and judging how best to relate to us based on them. They have been doing it for a lot longer than five years, and I don't see the trend reversing any time soon. It doesn't really freak me out, either. In a way, it just makes sense.
This code is generated. Doing it by hand would be crazy but letting a script do the work for you is not that crazy.

Cufon was the best way to use custom fonts 3 years ago. It apparently worked for these guys when they built their site and it's still working, apparently: no need to jump on another bandwagon every 6 months.

FYI, the real HTML for this single line of text is

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which seems very reasonable to me.

If you want other examples of necessary crazyness and uglyness, look at all the code needed for one of those "share" buttons or at all the html needed to create a lightbox.
> In my experience (and I'm being honest here), his colleagues would be high-fiving him for "bangin' the boss"

May be. But they sure won't be high-fiving him when the boss lets his incompetence slide, and bestows promotions and other benefits upon him(not related to Marissa; general scenario). If all you can see is people high-fiving for "bangin' the boss" you are seeing a very unrealistic and uni-dimensional view of the world.

Larry and Marissa in a relationship isn't something which is being pointed out. Your "high-fiving for banging the boss" is assuming it's related to being in a relationship. It's not. If she got any undue privilege, that's sad and deserves to be mocked. If she didn't, who she is sleeping with is nobody's fucking business.