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> I don't see how a DIY drone is any different from using an off the shelf RC plane and a wireless camera.

It isn't, except in as much as you can program it to follow a flight-path and then clear off. Given that you don't need to be in wireless range (200 meters?) you could send the drone in from miles away. But that aside: your comment is rational, but I wouldn't rely on politicians being so faced with scare stories about these exciting new technologies. Allied to their usual technophobia, they will try to ban everything, or require licences with onerous conditions.
Pontiac's and Chevy's are very American cars. Speaking as a European I can guess they're not as good as a Lamborghini but not with enough detail to make it a particularly useful comparison.
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Valve releasing their own distro would be just craaaaaazy. That would be like Amazon or Google doing it. Why bother? There is an awesome one out there for free (Ubuntu).

If Valve wants to make their own console, which is the more likely case, they can license Ubuntu support for cheaper than they could make a terrible distro and it would be win-win-win (which is, of course, better than a win-win scenario).
I suppose it's more effective still, given small-scale production, to upgrade components on existing fire-arms rather than try to manufacture one from scratch.
my point is that without birthright citizenship, the whole "who is french" thing has... more to do with "extraction" than an American might think.

(Of course, the next guy down says I'm wrong about the French citizenship rules, which I may be, of course.)
The parent was joking.
I don't think it's hatred at all, for me it's despair. A product like that well supported by game publishers, with an innovative controller and accessory market around it would be fantastic.

It's just that it's not going to happen.
A useful single link to give to people to illustrate why the TSA are a bad thing: http://boingboing.net/tag/tsa/
Your post's parent post is a joke.
I only use vim, and from using this site for 3 minutes there's clearly plenty of knowledge that I'm missing. I really wish that it would teach me the commands it was drilling me on, and not just expect me to know the key strokes. I know I can pull up the shortcuts reference, but I feel like it should train and hint, then drill.
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I said this somewhere else in this thread, but making their own distro would be just craaaaaazy. Ubuntu is already free, comes in several varieties and is, frankly, better than anything they could do for the cost.

If they make a game console, which is rather likely it seems, they could just license Ubuntu embedded or ubuntu core (can't remember what it is called) for orders of magnitude less than it would cost them to build their own distro. Anything else just doesn't make sense.

Now, not saying they'll do that. The game industry is notoriously bad with NIH syndrome.
>It's quite simple actually : you're french if you're born on french soil or if one of your parents was french.

according to the wikipedia (which, of course, is not always correct) that is not an or but an and (at least, until the age of majority.) Even assuming that the wikipedia is correct in this case, there is a big difference between automatically gaining citizenship on your 18th birthday, and having a 'path to citizenship' and I have no idea where France is on that continuum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_citizenship#Through_birt...
Agreed, we had a pleasant operational experience, except for some not-so-well documented details around auto-bootstrapping and host names, as briefly mentioned in the blog post.

But cluster elasticity and resiliency has been working really good so far.
But why would the Mafia care if you took photos? Money laundering would happen behind the scenes, in the accountants office.

In order to launder money you need to pretend you have more customers than you do have. A good way for the police/tax man to catch you is to record your business to prove that you don't have that many customers.
I see that this course teaches rails
https://www.coursera.org/course/saas

There is one that teaches Django?
it's really easy to pour it down the drain

Or sell it on the black market.
Can't tell if this is real or parody.
Or, far more likely than all of the above combined, times ten thousand, that person is documenting.

You know, the style of work made famous by artists like Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Garry Winogrand... or if you want some that are still alive, Bruce Gilden, Daido Moriyama, Trent Parke, Martin Parr, Helen Levitt, Bill Cunningham...

If you haven't had the pleasure of seeing any of this type of work before, I encourage you to look it up and understand that there are entirely non-nefarious reasons for taking a stranger's photo, and in fact this practice is astronomically more likely than terrorists and spies.

... I really wish we didn't live in a society so utterly drenched in constant fear.
honestly I don't care about their privacy. They work at mcdonalds not fucking NASA, it no secret what a big mac is
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Doing server side IP checks is already easy, but in reality it can lead to massive amounts of user complaints when their sessions keep disappearing, because as it turns out, some user segments have a lot of users coming through proxies where each request is not guaranteed to come from the same IP.
This is a well thought, excellent comment that perfectly makes sense. Thank you. When huge corporations track you as how they are tracking you currently, most of the times, they don't get to know who you really are (except Facebook, because they know 'you'). That is, your identity. That's the only level of control you have over your anonymity. And these guys are proposing a new protocol just to remove that. Ridiculous.
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They had their own competent looking OS in the pipeline (which was available on a couple of the earlier Lumias).

I agree, I think Elop made bad decisions which were massively swayed by Elop's attachment to Microsoft.
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This is great and I'm really excited for the new courses. I'm currently taking Vaccines and Pharmacology from coursera and Statistics from udacity. These courses help me do exactly what no university let me: Learn about interesting topics from different areas. This way I can dive into a topic more deeply if it interests me, and if not I'll just know some basic principles. Jack of all trades, master of none is absolutely fine for me.
Server suggested resumable session nonce is just a cookie. If you want the user to be able to put in a password without sending it in plaintext to the server (i.e. make HTTP authentication actually work properly) that would be really really great but, I think, also a different proposal.

Well... I don't think it's worth drawing a line in the sand here, because the speed and, should TLS-always-on make it in, security benefits of the existing protocol are significant enough that everyone should be able to use them without rewriting their authentication system. But I'd certainly be for a comprehensive proposal for a new authentication system; it would probably be significantly cleaner than BrowserID.
There's a problem though. If you legalize marijuana and get rid of the cartels, then what? Are you just going to make that giant industry aroudn drug enforcement go away?
Because there are a _lot_ of internal business apps dependent on it.

Many large businesses wrote applications using ActiveX, and still use them 10 years later. MS have promised support for all components of Windows XP until 2014, and that includes IE6.
Which, of course, is true for any cryptography, regardless of the openness of its implementation. It may be harder to keep the keys obscured in open code, but then the keys usually don't stay secret that long anyway.
Sad that the article didn't ask/answer one essential, obvious question: what about emotional pain?

From the article, I would guess that he feels it. But many studies have shown that emotional pain (e.g. the pain of losing a loved one) produces physiological reactions similar to physical pain. Does he feel emotional pain? Did he feel that ache and sinking feeling in the chest when his brother took his life? How did he feel it? How would he describe it?
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cultural translation: There's a lot of Africans in the USA, isn't there some trouble with them not integratating into the mainstream culture? :P
We already have an HBase cluster in-house we use together with Hadoop for social analytics.
By the way, we ruled it out as our operational experience with it was a little bit of a pain, in particular around version updates.

Talking about DynamoDB, it is certainly attractive as it scales, is managed by Amazon and all the yadda-yadda, but we didn't want to be lock-in to Amazon, and costs were another concern.
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> we gain more than we lose

What do you gain? As far as I can tell, there is only loss.

> the need for flexibility that drives Haxe, and you aren't gaining additional flexibility from bytecode.

Exactly what flexibility does this provide?
I am taking the Introduction to Cryptography course at a leisurely pace right now. Experience has been awesome so far, and am definitely looking forward to taking more courses on the site.

After aimlessly reading HN and blogs for so long, having a solid, structured course feels so... good. I need to mentally prepare myself for this very real thing called "learning" once again!
Luckily, HTTP only requires the browser (which tend to be frequently updated) and server to be upgraded, not some random aging routers, there is little reason to fear adoption, there is minimal harm in keeping both protocols around for some time, and there is something much closer to a "must have" feature - speed.
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The Unity Game Engine (unity3d.com) which is very popular will also feature a Linux deployment option from Version 4 on out!
Seems like theres alot of movement in the Linux gaming space at the moment, which of course is superb.
And what's the first thing I read on the Guardian's site today? A tongue-in-cheek Olympics etiquette guide that starts with:

Welcome, and before we begin – please accept our apologies. Your four-hour nightmare wait at passport control should not be taken as a symptom of Britain's contempt for foreigners. It is merely a symptom of a woeful lack of spending on a key aspect of travel infrastructure in the run-up to a hugely important event. In other words, it's the government that hates you. Don't worry, they hate us too.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2012/jul/16/etiquette-guide-...
The libraries reside in /data/data/<package-name>/lib after the app has been installed. So you just have to have a rooted phone and trawl through there,

I guess the names of the libs could be obfuscated by some sad soul, but why would anyone bother? They're just binaries and it would be a pointless exercise as you can't remove the symbol names, and they would give away the identity of the lib.
"Software as a Service" is an architecture paradigm: little of it is Rails or even web specific. In fact, any competent software developer should be able to get the gist of Rails, Django or flavor of the month framework in the proverbial weekend.
Wait what, how many UK shops do you go to?
Those policies seem to be so that journalists don't go taking pictures on their own, but go through PR channels.
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And talking about consistency, as already pointed out by Jonathan, Cassandra actually provides a way to allow for strong consistency: also, with its tunable consistency levels, it provides greater freedom to implement different access patterns depending on the use case, as described on the blog post.
udacity has gone too far the other way for me. It seems very slick but I switched off after a couple of minutes because I felt like I was watching a kids tv show.
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He means that a closed source platform isn't exactly conventional open source collaboration. Sure, it might be a boon anyway, but that doesn't make the rhetoric accurate.
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"I'd be willing to bet that Mayer has done more as an engineer than most engineers at Yahoo"

really? any evidence for this? (not snark, genuinely curious) I've never heard of Marissa Mayer as a top 1% engineer (vs a 'strong' manager)
Interesting as I thought the TSA was to stop bad people getting onto planes, not getting off them.

As somebody who lives in London in the UK I can say that like most people who have had to pay a extra tax to pay for this without no extra chance to get to see it, that I will be glad when it's all over. I think the Olympics has lost the spirit of which it was started and that if the sponsors and finances were held to the same standard that those competing have to maintain of no drugs, fairness etc then things would be alot more inline with the spirit of the event.

Still TSA or G4S (UK's lamentable try at haliburton or however there called); Who would you pick, so fair enough.
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Personally, the old saying

Not only is a book the better teacher, it also has more character.

holds mostly true for me. Most classes, that I remember to be superior to the experience of a good book, were either because there simply wasn't a good book, or the teacher was extremely charismatic, or both [1].
However, I really like this movement, see its appeal and learnt a thing or two from these new [2][4], and old [3], online courses.

As others have pointed out here, watching a short video has very little transaction cost. That is true, however, for me the transaction cost with a book is often lower. With a book I can easily navigate to the interesting part. With the online videos, I never know if I can skip over the intro stuff.
For instance, in Ng's ML class [4] a lot of the material, especially the majority in the first six chapters was familiar to me. However, had I not watched the first chapter I still wouldn't know the definition of a Hypothesis in Machine Learning. This problem exists with books, too. But I think skimming is easier with books.

[1] Underactuted Robotics http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
[2] http://youtu.be/0yD3uBshJB0
[3] http://www.udacity.com/view#Course/cs373/CourseRev/apr2012
[4] https://class.coursera.org/ml/lecture/preview#close
There is a civil war going on in mexico, that's the only way to describe it. Armed insurrection against the government with a force of over a hundred thousand soldiers, and so far the death toll has been in the range of ten thousand civilians a year or more.

And yet you probably haven't seen as much news coverage of what's going on there as you have of, say, goings on in Syria.

It's a peculiar civil war though because one side doesn't care about ruling or controlling territory per se, they just care about being able to operate their business.
I was in a McDonalds in Barcelona, Spain and watched the Americans in front asked to stop taking photos of the menu.
Where did you hear/read this?
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El cheapo web hosting will be late to the party. TLS certificates will be a stumbling block.
Sadly, I predicted this would happen years ago. Fear of Photography vs. Next Generation Prosthetics.

The way technology and society work, I expect that visual prosthetics will eventually have built-in recording restrictions and classified as medical devices, thus making people with photophobia feel safe, or they will jump into the mainstream so fast (ala Google) that society will get used to it. Having an unobtrusive appearance would help, but I don't hold much hope for the latter.
I sure also hope they release tarballs. But supporting officially only one distribution makes sense. With proprietary games, they are in the land of consumer rights and consumer support. They can only say "we support X" if the software really runs on X, X being Ubuntu here. If it doesn't run, the consumer has the right to get his money back (instead of getting it back out of goodwill).

If another distro patches a driver and thus L4D2 runs worse or not at all (or something like wayland changes the infrstructure more than we expect and another disto moves first), this would be an issue for them without that official focus on Ubuntu.
Ha this reminds me of an American guy I saw on the train near London talking to his kids -
- They were impressed how fast the trains were (just the normal ones) ... then:
"Daddy do people love the government here"
"People love the government here".

I was tempted to put him right, but it was too funny.

To clarify: We like stuff like the NHS and the BBC which are paid for with public money, but like other countries we never like the current government and how they spend our £.
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nVidia has always cared about Linux. They've supported non-Windows platforms well for a very long time. They've done a lot of work to provide a good workstation experience on Linux. Today the notable exception is Optimus, but I'm hoping that's going to come down the pipe as nVidia pushes its inevitable KMS branch further down the line.

AMD drivers are still not really usable; you can work around some of the bugs with open-source drivers, but then your speeds are severely crippled.

The mantra among Linux users has always been "buy nvidia". Those with ATI quickly grow to regret it in my experience; a meaningful illustration may be that my parents have two Linux boxes, both relatively low-end PCs with onboard graphics. One of these is almost four years old now, and has an onboard nvidia GPU. The other was purchased three months ago and has an onboard AMD GPU ("APU" according to marketing material. Bobcat? Or was it Bulldozer?). We still use the 4-year-old machine for gaming there because the nvidia drivers are actually sufficient to play the game; the new machine is using an open-source driver due to Catalyst bugs and runs games at probably 20% the performance of the machine 16x its age. That's the experience you get with nVidia's competitors.
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> You can run many instances of a dedicated game server (roughly in the hundreths mb of ram usage) on the same OS, or through virtual machine so it could be moved.

As this very blog post explains, Valve's dedicated servers have always supported Linux.

> Console - probably customized version of Linux, and if possible the game running in ring 0 with the kernel. Drawing almost directly to the hardware, without going to API's, user and then kernel functions. (Avoid vertex/index buffer checks, and many other things).

A system like that would be so different as to barely benefit at all from the reality of what Valve is doing.
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This sounds like they have a masterplan to "get all global citizens" used to this sort of searching, until it becomes common sense for everyone. What's next? TSA agents in all NATO countries to check for "terrorists" because they are oh-so expert at it?
Here's the thing. This is a huge problem. The cartels have been becoming more heavily armed and more sophisticated for years, perhaps decades. And the problem is that all this money goes into weapons, tactics, etc. On top of that the drug tunnels have been increasing in sophistication quite a bit. One recently discovered one had a railcar system in it. And so the use of predators in the sky will just keep the rest of us cowed, while the real criminals are underground.

This is a major national security problem. We can't control our Southern border because the policies we would need to enact to start doing so (drug legalization, immigration reform aimed at a real guest worker program) are political nonstarters. And so we essentually fund a menace on our Southern border, one which has had enough military contacts to do what they want for longer than I have been alive (so more than 36 years).[1]

The only sensible policy is to legalize drugs, institute a real guest worker program, and then step up efforts to control the border. But without those first two, the latter won't do anything. We are already out-classed there. We will lose. And if we can't control our Southern border, many bad things will follow.

[1] My parents were in Mexico before I was born and have witnessed some things which indicate even then the cartels were able to get the army to do whatever they wanted.
Great to know. I've been working on a third option that's less lecturey and less condecending. People can complain about it profusely next month when it launches.
And if you encounter a term that you missed by skipping the introduction it's easier, with a book, to quickly find where it's defined courtesy of the index.
While I'm sure tptacek will jump in to rant about the perils of less-than-a-day-at-a-time consulting, I think this is a great idea. At one point last year I had a CSS problem I couldn't figure out (I think it was about how to add some space somewhere -- I managed to hack around it with HTML but I wanted a "proper" CSS solution) and I would have happily paid for the 30 seconds of thought it would have taken a CSS expert to solve it for me.

Instead, I inserted a <!-- This is ugly but I don't know how to do it properly in CSS. Tell me how and I'll award you a $5 bug bounty --> comment and someone sent me an email a few days later.
The point is, there is organizational inertia regarding lobbying etc which more or less guarantees that Congress cannot act on this.

The best thing is to force a Constitutional crisis by states refusing to cooperate with federal drug enforcement. Given the recent health care reform case, the federal government has far fewer options than they did before the ruling on the Medicaid expansion issue there. They certainly cannot cut off all funding, and certainly cannot even cut off a large amount of funding.