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This.

I've tried to analyze this a dozen ways and so far the only one that makes sense is that Oracle has decided to kill RedHat. They want a billion dollar OS business and RedHat has that, but they can't just buy RedHat because with Linux the guys just quit and set up service as 'BlueHat' and continue on their merry way and the customers follow them.

So. The only way to kill RedHat is to take all of their customers. Since RedHat has a GPL'd product Oracle has just as much right to give it away as RedHat does. They try to convert 'free' customers to 'support' customers when a problem comes up.

If they are successful, people migrate to their version of Linux, RedHat dies, Oracle gets the support business because they are not dependent on Linux support revenues to survive. "Poof" Oracle 'owns' a billion dollar OS business. Their investment in getting it is probably less than a 'normal' buyout price if RedHat was a commercial software company.

Of course if they don't convert customers fast enough I'm sure Larry will grow tired of this ploy and flush it down the toilet. At which point people on Oracle Linux will be either sudden new RHEL customers or back to CentOS/SL.
"...studied more than 4,100 Swedish men and women between the ages of 20 and 24"

""Daily computer gaming for 1–2 hours meant an increased risk for symptoms of depression in the women," the study found. Often using the computer late at 48 night (and consequently losing sleep) was a prospective risk factor for stress and sleep disturbances, including reduced performance, in both sexes."

So in other words, people between the ages of 20-24 who don't sleep enough are having problems? No kidding...

I'm also pretty sure any female (who makes it evident that they are, indeed, a female) playing any sort of male dominated online game would become depressed VERY easily given the general caliber of online male/ female social interactions.
I guess their "transparency report" does not look very transparent to me only.
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The people don't need to buy into it though. I definitely don't and wouldn't. I expect fairness and don't abuse others in weaker positions than mine, not so hard on the individual scale.

So basically "it's all right because they'd do the same" simply doesn't cut it.
Thanks for the feedback. The page serves the dual role of being both the information and installation page. For Firefox and Safari, it does ask if you want to install it when you first view the page. We did it to remove an installation step but I see where you would want learn more about the extension before deciding whether or not to install it. We'll try to split the page in two.
So there are migrate-away scripts, too?

I suppose they wouldn't be very hard to do (essentially drop Oracle specific packages, and point yum to the original repos).
I think you did a good job with the vibe, although it was somewhat odd-feeling coming from an oracle.com site.

It did make me double-check the URL bar with the "If you find yourself needing to buy support, have fun reinstalling your system with RHEL before anyone will talk to you". But is perfectly valid.

The problem with Oracle Linux is that it's from Oracle. And I just don't trust them at all. I know I can revert back to CentOS or SL or whatever, but that's a pain. Trust is the problem.

You have a steep hill to hike, but it sounds like you may be cut out to take that on.
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As the paper points out, this is an analysis of cross-sectional and prospective studies, so while interesting, this evidence tells us nothing about the direction of causation and cannot account for confounding factors. It could easily be that sleep disorders and depression cause people to spend more time online rather than the converse, or it could be that some external factor causes both increased time online as well as mental disorders.

To actually figure out if being online causes these disorders, we'd need a randomized controlled trial.
I'm amazed how close that ~2004 prototype is to what they launched in 2010. I'm really curious what the software on those early models was like.
Google Fiber to launch next week
I don't think I've ever espoused that opinion! I like CentOS a lot. I had a beer with Karanbir in London in 2009, and I'm totally impressed that they're able to put out an incredibly popular Linux distribution with next to nothing, resource-wise.

But if I were a sysadmin, would I run CentOS in production? Is CentOS perfect? I'd say no on both counts, and I think there's nothing wrong with saying "There's room for improvement, and we think we've done better."
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I'd even claim that the left wing has a greater propensity to engage in this conduct, albeit more subtly. For example, one side effect of the Affordable Care Act is the federal government knowing which Americans have health insurance. While this doesn't prove they have access to your health records, it's nevertheless troubling that they have direct evidence of whether you're insured (and whether it's ``Cadillac'' insurance) simply by examining tax returns.
You mean other browsers don't allow you to create search shortcuts?

eg "a blah" for amazon, "w blah" for wikipedia "s blah" for stackoverflow?

- says a long time Opera users
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This seems rather mercantilist. There are many island nations with little natural resources and little capacity for offensive intelligence gathering which are quite wealthy through trade alone.
The largest danger in cycling comes from automobiles; Denmark's infrastructure, which keeps cyclists away from automobiles and automobiles at low speeds in shared areas, and their high standards for driver skills and behavior, make their country one of the safest places in the world to bicycle:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cyclists-thre...
This safety in numbers declines with every onerous requirement one proposes to ride a bike. Australia has less cyclists & is a more dangerous place to ride on account of a mandatory helmet law:
http://www.ipa.org.au/publications/2019/australias-helmet-la...

Why should a bicyclist be required to wear a yellow helmet & jacket to be called "good"? Certainly reasonable road conduct should be demanded from all road users, but first from automobile drivers, who cause the vast majority of injuries & deaths on the streets.
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It's interesting that no mention was made of the Sweden's extremely poor policies and record with respect to homeschooling. There has been a lot of press the past few years over the Johansson family (child seized for being homeschooled) to the Himmelstrand family (severe fines for homeschooling). Here is a link to an HSLDA collection of other links that specifically address homeschooling in Sweden (http://www.hslda.org/hs/international/Sweden/).
This bit has completely lost me. Why on earth would you want to do non-trivial munging in a post-commit hook instead of just writing and running a "deploy" script like everyone else does. You can run that over ssh, even, preserving the "fire once" behavior of doing a git push from the build system.
This is true, however with creating applications with Django you are protected against most basic attacks. The ORM uses parameterized queries, all unsafe output is automatically escaped, Protection against CRLF injection within the framework and protection against HTTP response splitting.

The framework isn't fool proof (no one can protect developers from themselves). But I feel that Django does what it needs to do when it comes to protecting its users.
html5 gaming is great if you think frogger (the original) is the state of the art
Having survived a cycling accident that probably would have killed me if I hadn't been wearing a helmet that occurred on a perfectly "safe" traffic free track I would urge everyone to always wear a cycling helmet.
If you run CentOS, it's probably because you're running something that wants to run on RHEL and isn't re-compilable for another platform because it isn't free software. Such as, say, Oracle.

CentOS has for years been the go-to for running Oracle without paying anyone for the OS (RedHat EL or Windows). Now that Oracle has it's own Linux, it makes perfect sense for them to provide a free path into that offering.
Visually, non-primes can be represented as a symmetrical shape

e.g. 6 can be shown as

xxxxxx

but also as

xxx
---
xxx

or

x|x
x|x
x|x

Whereas a prime like 5 doesn't have this symmetrical layout.
Since 1 does have this kind of symmetry it belongs more with the non-primes.
Firefox and Chrome both allow this as I've been using them for years.
Edit: ooops, page loading now...I see the bitcoin donation link. Disregard this comment

This page was down when I clicked the link. Not sure what the deal is? As others have said this not a solution to being able to safely support the organization from a personal perspective.

Why are they not accepting Bitcoin donations? If they have a bank working with them it should be trivial for them to setup a Mt. ox or other merchant account to turn the bitcoins into money. I feel like this coudl solve several problems.

Can anybody comment on why they (Wikileaks) would be opposed to accepting bitcoin? Maybe a major bitcoin exchange or merchant (which already has some trust among the bitcoin community) could set up a way to do proxy donations? I see the possibility for fraud out there, but there has been successful bitcoin fundraising in the past...
I use that too in Opera. But it's set up for you and it's a huge list. Lazyness vs just-the-way-you-like-it
Do they have LeechBlock for chrome?
That is not quite right. Cuusoo is a Japanese company and independent from Lego. (In the beginning Lego Cuusoo also launched only in Japan – but it blew up internationally.) They offer their “social creation platform” (also called Cuusoo) to customers – of which Lego is now most certainly their biggest and most prominent one. I’m unsure of the exact relationship, but I think it’s fair to say that Cuusoo is a SaaS business.

Cuusoo seems to host the platform and I assume (but don’t know) that they take care of all technical issues, Lego seems to take care of the review process. So Lego Cuusoo is basically the Cuusoo installation run by Lego.

You are completely correct about the review process, though (basically everything you wrote after the first sentence).
Security clearance is mostly about deception and breach of faith, not supporting the right politics. If you donate $500 to Satan, no big deal. If they ask you about the donation and you lie, no clearance.
hehe :). and its a good excuse to be on HN everytime the emulator has to restart.

but to be fair to android: if you develop native applications its probably not as bad as it is when you are using frameworks like titanium, phonegap or rodesmobile...(i'm guessing)
FWIW, I think if you actually talked to any of our legacy Ksplice customers and asked them if the Ksplice experience has changed for them after the Oracle acquisition, the answer would be "no".
Update: XML for FF is in place, and I updated the instructions to reflect that. Thanks again.

http://www.duckduckgoog.com/browser
It's not bullshit. The government are effectively outsourcing education to private companies. That's always going to result in rent-seeking on the part of the private companies. And it's not the same as free market/full privatisation, where the parents would pay the schools.

(Not that I think private schooling would be better or cheaper than publicly funded schooling.)
We use TeamCity and deploy right from our build server. We have a build configuration called "Deploy" that requires a couple parameters - the artifact to deploy, the environment to deploy to, and the build number (so we can deploy past builds, ie roll back). Our application software is built of a series of distributed .war and .jar files, but each represent a complete "service" within our system, and can be upgraded independently. This means we can deploy single artifacts and not cause conflicts within the overall system.

When we click the build button, a small Python script is called that rsyncs over ssh the already built artifact (pulled in from the existing TC build) over to the environment, which runs JBoss, and gets auto-deployed.

For our developers, our build process amounts to committing their code, getting an email from TeamCity when the build completes, then clicking the Deploy button. The tools take care of the rest, and we end up with a nice trail of logs available in case anything goes wrong, and a clear rollback strategy.

We also don't get an ever-growing git repository, or have to maintain a bunch of FTP configuration. Everything is done over ssh via passwordless pki. Best of all, it didn't take long at all to set up (the longest part was probably writing the python deployment script, which has some basic logic to know which environments live at which addresses, and also how to run some post-deploy commands for the 1 non-JBoss deployed .jar based service we have).

It's not perfect - we don't have an automated database migration mechanism right now, though in a distributed system like ours I'm not entirely sure one would work at this point (and we've got other plans to deal with that weakness anyway). I'd also like to move to Hudson or Jenkins at some point, as there is a real attraction to the rich ecosystem there (TeamCity is a commercial product).
We use screen leap 2-3 times per week. Feedback: The "Share Screen" button is as big as and just below "Compose." I'd like to relocate. I've already clicked it by accident which is frustrating. Next to More, Search or Settings would be less intrusive.
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> If it makes you feel any better, facebook has a similar level of information about you and they haven't done much harm with it.

How do you know?
One of the things that bothers me about Visual.ly is its casual conflation of "data visualizations" and "infographics". The two aren't the same thing, yet there's really not a clear distinction in how Visual.ly talks about them.

e.g. http://blog.visual.ly/12-infographics-about-running-to-motiv...

* edit:
I just signed up and tried to create a data visualization. But it looks like the only thing you can create is to signup through Facebook and then modify an existing infographic template.
Perhaps they hash every two character combination with a salt? Don't know if that makes it any less or more secure however.
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you can check the necessitas roadmap for the next release
http://community.kde.org/Necessitas/Schedules/alpha4
and todo list http://community.kde.org/Necessitas/TODO
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It appears that Chrome doesn't support open search and I'd prefer not to switch browsers just for this one small feature.

Edit: I stand corrected.
Name me a pattern that, from the primes below 100, can be used to extrapolate, with certainty, the first prime above 100.
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> the effect was, in fact, exactly the same as the Reichstag fire...

Really? Exactly the same? Socialists taking over and dismantling democracy?
Since your name is in your profile. Let me donate in your name then, it will put your name on the list, you'll know it is there, and you won't worry about it from now on, just keep donating.

</kidding>

But on a serious note. Besides 'terrorists winning' in this game. You know who else won? Every little vindictive pest that you could run into in your daily life. Your neighbor hates your lawn? -- He can report your for suspicious behavior or just donate $5 to Wikileaks in your name.

You got a bigger bonus than your co-worker? He puts a nasty comment about the president on a liberal forum somewhere.

Possibilities for abuse abound. Once the collection of data has been enabled, data will be siphoned through. It could be decades before a court case, a new employment opportunity or overseas travel all of the sudden will trigger a search and will open that archived file and all this stuff will be there. No way to correct it. You would have forgotten about that one incident with your neighbor 20 years ago, but it will be there.

What I fear will happen is that one of the triggers to open and inspect that file will be you participating in any kind of protest. It will be a Constitutionally legal thing to do. However, once you do it, you end up on a list, and now that 'ol file gets opened again and all these things from the past start appearing. You get pulled for random searches in airport. You miss every single flight you book. Every time you enter the country you get interrogated for an hour. All your electronic devices get confiscated.

Basically, once the government is acting irrationally it opens the door for others to exploit that -- angry neighbors, scorned lover, upset employees. How do I know? This is what happened in the Soviet Union. It was for a while common for neighbor to denounce each other for 'anti-Soviet' activities, if they didn't get along. In the best case and best times, those get ignored, in the worst time, whole families disappeared overnight.
> Google will let me load up the add as search engine dialogue but won't let me press okay to add it.

That's probably because you need to change the keyword to something besides "duckduckgoog.com" since Chrome already auto-stored one with that keyword.
Are you sure about this? the public repo seems to show 2.6.18/2.6.32.. This would actually be a dis-advantage in many cases, as a number of vendor utils (I'm looking at you HP) don't play nice w/ 3.x kernels.
Not zealotry: bad experience.

Your plug for faster updates, for example: Security updates for Solaris used to be free.

So while I know that Oracle is large enough to host many different philosophies in many different departments, what Oracle has done to the former Sun departments really makes me wary of trusting any free offers by Oracle.
What prototype does Apple have now for release in 2022? Entering hypersleep...
You assume that the only people who want to use an ORM as those who don't know SQL.
Prepaid cards (bought in the US anyway) need a SSN before they work online.
And even more likely to be systemic in anyone who is not trying to measure the world. Science works.
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I honestly have no idea what you're talking about.

"Adding or removing a column and going through all the selects, updates, inserts..."

If you're adding a column, you're adding functionality to the program, so of course you're going to have to add the column everywhere it's used! And if removing, then likewise. Because you have code depending on the new/old column that needs to be changed.

There's nothing boilerplate about any of this. Every column has unique functionality and integrates into my code in its own unique way, and needs to be treated as such.

In fact, going through all the code manually makes sure you discover the once-in-a-blue-moon cases where you need to change the behavior.

Using an ORM isn't going to help any of this at all.

Or, if your new column is exactly the same as 80 other columns in the table, which are all used in the same way, then you probably shouldn't be using columns at all, but rather rows in an id-attribute-value format, which solves your whole problem of boilerplate code.
But that doesn't make sense - in the consulting example you would still value your time at $200/hour, you'd just be at a $1000/hour wage.

That fits with startups, where you value your time at x, and are looking for at 5x exit when then thing sells. You're still valuing your time at x.
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What on earth do you mean? Someone (the article) claimed the system was free market. I showed otherwise. It's about as far from semantic BS arguments as you can come.

I was not debating the efficiency of the private schools visavi public schools. Introducing strawmen is stupid.

Also: home schooling has been illegal in Sweden since 2010.
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If this goes through I await the inevitable set of blue/red TF2 class minifigs!
The term 'Architect' is used differently in each company. In most of the companies I know, Architects are more technical people and only Product Managers have to be fired.
The main benefit of Screenleap over a Google Hangout is that the people you are sharing your screen with don't have to install any software in order to view your screen. All they need is a web browser.

The average Internet user spends 2.5 hours per day on email and most Screenleap users send links as their primary means of notifying viewers. We believe the Gmail browser extension makes it even more convenient to share your screen because we can auto-populate your emails or chat conversations with the share link so you don't have to copy-and-paste it yourself.
I assume you're on the Oracle Linux team? I'm sure you're sincere, and I'm sure the Oracle Linux team has many good folks working on it (likewise, the rest of Oracle). But, when you work within the belly of a beast, an absolute horror show of historic and ongoing wrongdoing, you have to expect pushback and mistrust from the Open Source community.

Oracle is a corporate sociopath. If you wish to label me a zealot for expecting ethics from the people and companies I work with, that's fine. But, it's not going to alter the reality that I am not alone. Many people mistrust Oracle, and just because one unit within Oracle seems to be trying to do right, it doesn't alter the fundamental nature of that creature. It'd be easier to overlook past misdeeds if Oracle was not currently behaving in unethical ways on a massive scale, and attacking Open Source on several fronts.

Oracle cannot have it both ways. It cannot wage war against Open Source and software freedom, and expect the Open Source community to just look the other way and choose Oracle products. At least, I sure as hell won't be looking the other way.
If they have records for every US citizen, they'd probably have records also for anyone visiting the country.
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Particularly because this is a weak point for Red Hat: they've even orphaned paying customers in the past and there's currently no supported migration path for CentOS. If you're using CentOS or Scientific and decide you want support, there's significant value to being able to pay for support without being told to do a bare-metal reinstall of everything first.
Copying a .war to /var/lib/tomcat/webapps and restarting tomcat is non-trivial? Perhaps your deploy script is more complicated than it should be. I don't understand your distaste with deploying via git over ssh instead of bash over ssh.
Thank you for the feedback. We are actually in the process of moving the button. It should be changed in the next week or so.
> It's working extremely well on Symbian and Maemo/MeeGo, where it's the recommended way of building apps (still on the Qt4 branch).

Of course it is. Nokia might have bought Trolltech just for this reason. But the fact that it isn't supported on any non-Nokia platform cancels all the benefits.

> ...I guess the official porting and integration work should be Google's and Apple's responsibility.

Should Microsoft maintain Qt's port to Windows? That's not how it works. Both Apple and Google care only about their own platforms and existence of strong cross-platform solution will actually hurt them. They _benefit_ from lock-in and inability to port apps from one platform to another.
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