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> I would also be a bit happier with a real, innovative, public broadband program. I don't think the US has the political culture to pull that off.

The political culture is one that caters to specific groups. If it was "broadband for farmers" then you'd get the farm lobby pushing for it. If it was "broadband for the poor" then you'd get the food stamp crowd on board. If it was "broadband for investment banks" then you might get the bank crowd on board.

The fact that most infrastructure doesn't get broad-based political support is a symptom of "what's in it for me." It why it's so difficult to solve problems like Air Traffic Control systems being from the 1970s -- most people think, "I only fly once in a while, so why should I give up <insert preferred program here> in order to pay for upgrading the ATC system?" Sure, many people use the internet, but the average user doesn't think about how much better things could be.

I get it -- broadband would benefit everyone either directly or indirectly, but it's hard to sell those benefits to the general electorate because money for broadband would mean less money for some other, more politically "interesting" project.

I don't think anyone in America (Republican, Democrat, Independent) wants terrible infrastructure. The political hot potato is deciding how to pay for it. Regardless of tax or spending philosophies, it necessarily follows that spending on X takes money from Y. With money we spent for 1 year in Iraq, we could have paid for national broadband (among other things), however we also spend $80 billion per year on food stamps. Both of those priorities however, have some unexpected consequences. The defense contractors make money, but it also creates jobs and stimulates economic output (see WWII). Food stamps also create taxable events and drives economic activity, though both activities, when viewed in purely economic terms are net losses for the economy, the degree of which is outside of the scope of this discussion. Public broadband on the other hand would be a net gain for the economy because increased infrastructure efficiency greases the wheels of the entire economy. Better roads = lower trucking costs and more consumption and therefore more spending and jobs. However, it's hard to quantify those theoretical benefits to the electorate. Same goes for public broadband.

There are some tasks ideally suited for government and utilities, infrastructure, police/fire, defense are certainly among them. Public broadband is more relevant to governmental roles than subsidizing private business (i.e. GM, Fiskar, Solyndra, Bank of America, etc.) Our infrastructure should be "too big to fail," but alas..

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>>> Gay activists is a more appropriate term.

What is Focus on the Family? Or the Family Research Council? Eagle Forum?

>>> And many people might agree with you they are "big meanies" looking for a fight.

They are "looking for a fight" to be fought in the public square, in legislatures and courts, over what many of them consider to be a legal injustice. Is this not the intended form of democracy?

>>> As far as funding campaigns that support their moral views as a "private" company, why is that so bothersome?

Why is it so bothersome to point this fact out? If they do not wish to be injured by the information, then they have the power to make it false.

>>> They don't get out in front of a microphone in the public media and state this fact every time they get the chance.

The fact they were (previously) not very vocal about their views negates them how?

>>> Although Bezos seems to think this is a good idea.

As is his right? Just like the Cathy family has the same right?

>>> Gay right=Civil right=Yeah right

Disagreement does not require a dismissive attitude. I could just as easily denigrate your opinions and your position, but that benefits no one.
So you see no difference in Bezos personally contributing money without linking it to his company, and the Chick-Fil-A president making it a matter of company policy? Just curious.

Besides, it's not like people are saying the Chick-Fil-A president can't say what he said. The story here is that a lot of people are deeply unimpressed with his statement, and are effectively enacting a de facto boycott (not allowing expansion into communities that disagree with his stance).

It's perfectly fine for this to be discussed, and besides you possibly not identifying with the complainants (as you point out in another comment here), I don't see why you object to it. (Note that I am mainly responding to the parent comment from another user: "I find it odd that what people do with their own money gets so much attention".)
Is that just their changes to the LGPL components or the whole app? My understanding is that if you dynamically link to an LGPL library you're only required to distribute changes to that library not the whole app.

Also I don't get these two license clauses. If the point is to conform to the LGPL they can't just add another license on top.

Could this be a clumsy excuse for opensourcing Sparrow without having Goolge complain?

Also didn't the Apple Store license explicitly prohibit GPL code? Does that include the LGPL as well I can't recall off-hand?

Edit: As pointed out in the responses this is really just a bunch of .a files (static libraries), a couple of diffs against the libraries code and a script for linking sparrow together. The page provides little details and I though it was a source release This is apparently a way to conform with the LGPL on a system where dynamic linking is impractical.
>I'm a self taught Engineer.

I think he meant an Engineer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineer

The kind that build things that aren't made of computer code.
One of the fun things I get from that is that OnLive are going to make an ARM build of OnLive. That means it should be Raspberry Pi compatible! (OnLive have released ARM builds of their desktop service to run on tablets which shouldn't be too far from the full on game product, but afaik this is the first time they've promised an ARM-targeted version of it).
To me, that's not a compelling reason to avoid using npm. I haven't played around with node that much yet, but Rails uses ruby gems just fine, and it doesn't require require everywhere. Even if you do have to use require in some manifest file, that seems to be a small price to pay to interact with existing code.
This seams like a nice version of seamless.com, no? Seamless could doubtless be made better, but I'm curious as to why a merchant would go with these guys rather than Seamless (which has tons of users already.) As a frequent Seamless user, I'm also not sure why I'd give another app a shot—why would I switch (and I'm to switching, too)? Regardless, it looks nice and quick. Best of luck!
As usual, all the evil is coming from the US: http://i.imgur.com/ggfVG.png
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"4. A user is a feed. So the name points to a feed."

What if the user wants to have more than one feed? Or wants, sometime down the road, to have routable resources that are not feeds?

Wouldn't it be better to say that a user name is a user name and that a default feed name can be automatically built given just the user name?
Also, here's the proper link in the Titanium marketplace. It jumped on us :-/

https://marketplace.appcelerator.com/apps/2920?1673201191
From the article that sparked Khan's response:

>Take Khan’s explanation of slope, which he defines as “rise over run.” An effective math teacher will point out that “rise over run” isn’t the definition of slope at all but merely a way to calculate it. In fact, slope is a rate that describes how two variables change in relation to one another: how a car’s distance changes over time (miles per additional hour); how the price of an iPod changes as you buy more memory (dollars per additional gigabyte).

Followed by this in her response to his letter:

>As math was not my subject in school, I don't know who is right but would love to hear from mathematicians out there.

I had to reread all 3 articles multiple times. Then I lamented the sad state of journalism as well as the complete willingness of our society to tolerate the "I'm just not good at math so I won't bother to understand it because I don't think it's worthy"-attitude. What angers me about the first article is not that it went by some editor without the editor saying, hey, this seems suspect, but rather the fact that the journalist decided to write about something she had little knowledge about with a tone that suggests that she thinks she knows knows more than Sal or someone else educated on the subject. An unapologetic combination of ignorance and condescension.
I agree that it would have been nicer to see that issue addressed head-on. I think Karim is conflating the words unscripted and unprepared.

From what I understand, Khan keeps the videos unscripted so he can maintain more of a conversational style, but he's always careful to understand the material very well before doing a video on a subject.
No, individual events in the game are largely determined by skill. In some situations, i.e., kickoffs, the location where the ball lands is subject to "luck" (because humans do not have the motor skills for the sort of precision for it to be completely "skill"), but the rest of the play is skill-driven.

Betting on individual events would be subject to the gambling law as gambling on "sports events" because the individual events are themselves "sports events" and bettors at that point would be gambling on their outcome.
What they did was pwned a website and used that to hack its users via downloaded malware. The website was hosted as a Tor hidden service.

Again, this is not something that any anonymity network system is going to defend against. The fact that the attackers had to resort to hacking a server and then socially engineering users to download and agree to run the malware shows that Tor was working well.

On the other hand, the way they describe using a DDoS against specific exit nodes and correlating that with outages against a specific hidden service could be considered an attack on this feature of Tor. However, there's little to no data presented and it's mixed in with a lot of other odd factors so I'm very skeptical.

Opdarknet looked different to me from the other operations of Anonymous. My guess is that it was some unrelated entity using Anonymous as a cover. It's weird how they spend as much time bashing specific Tor developers as they do on the CP criminals.
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This is old. Bilski v. Kappos was decided in 2010. This is an amicus curiae (friend of the court) filed in the case. FYI, An AC is simply a legal argument filed by an interested party to help persuade the court.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilski_v._Kappos
How many of Khan's videos have you watched? I've gone through about 100+ of them, and the material has been universally excellent, and certainly met, (and in most cases exceeded) the lecture material that was presented to me at High School/Simon Fraser University.

"Quality and Usefulness of Khan Academy Material?" - you must have gone to an incredible school if you find his material lacking.
This is part of the reason I'm so opposed to being called an "engineer". I'm not. I write software. Because I file my own taxes, I'm now an accountant? Ridiculous.
> the UN even declared that the internet is a fundamental basic human right

The UN should stick to prancing around in blue helmets handing out food while ignoring genocide in Tibet.
I wasn't saying anything really other than the fact it's often used as PR. I was just saying the if you was on the technical track, at my dads old company you would not be training to be a machinist at all.

I also agree we need make sure that education is top quality as well. We should not let them down with bad quality education. They should have high quality education that can lead onto serious study if that's what they want to do.
> Pretty low if I'm listening to all my music at the same time, but what if I have a playlist of 10 songs?

You wouldn't listen to a playlist of 10 songs when there are many of them in it you are not in the mood for?
I'd be strongly inclined, especially in the current hiring environment, to do whatever else was on the schedule anyway -- finish the interviews, take the candidate to lunch, sell them on the desirability of working at your company, whatever, even if I received obvious signals that it was not a mutual fit.

The rationale is partially "Even if this particular candidate does not end up working for our organization, our treatment of them will be repeated to their friends, who -- since birds of a feather flock together -- likely include other people who we may be interested in hiring."

(And partially it is just that I cannot contort my mind into believing that any serious professional could think that "Our multinational telecommunications company lost your interviwer. Whoops! Happens all the time -- door's on the left, security will see you out" is acceptable outside a Dilbert strip.)
The problem I see is, Facebook ad's are never really going to be extremely lucrative. People don't search on Facebook. They want to play games and post stuff on their walls, looks at other peoples photos, etc. etc.

I think Facebook needs to seriously think how they can monetize aside from ads. Obviously with all those users and data, the possibilities are endless.

• Job boards and paid job postings
• Get people to shop for stuff.
• Subscriptions services: Dropbox style storage, who knows what else, etc. etc.
• Get more local and offers deals. You know where a billion people live.
• Offer business services for businesses pages. Upgrades, focus on ecommerce on business pages and charge for it.
• + Who knows what else? They can be a million other things.

I just thought about this for 5 minutes, and I am sure people that actually work at Facebook have weeks, months and years to think about this. I have no idea why they aren't moving faster with this.

From what I see, they are all in on FB Ads, but that wasn't the way to go. Maybe it was the surest thing in the beginning, but now - they really need to step it up.

My 2 cents.
"Anyway, picking up one of these trades in Australia at least instead of going to university has been lucrative for many years and shows no signs of abating."

But it will abate of course, 'rushes' always do. The successful people get in, double or triple their working capital and then step away. A lot of people will keep trying to cash in way past the stage that its possible and lose everything.

I was reading an article in Smithsonian magazine about the Australian mining rush. You realize this is what will happen in Afghanistan right? They have a crap ton of iron and they share a land border with China. I am sure that somewhere someone is putting in motion the plans to get a rail line built to the border such that ore can be removed rapidly from the country. If the Afghanis are smart they will figure out how to get the smelting industries built in country so that they capture both the resource benefit and the steel making capacity they need to kick up to the next level. Unscrupulous folks will try to prevent that, so much easier to steal from someone when it looks like you're just carrying away rocks.
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The author of the criticism is the founder of a for-profit start-up competing with Khan Academy. Khan Academy itself is a non-profit.

These incentives should frame everything we hear about this exchange.
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How were they able to use LGPL on the iOS?

Okay to put in less licensing, more technical-wise way:
As far as I know on the iOS dynamic linking is possible, but not allowed (I could be wrong). For my pet projects (luajit on the ios) I'm using it without problems, but I don't plan on publishing anything.

So back to the licensing - LGPL is about dynamic linking...
Directly launching Sparrow.app in the zip causes crash (maybe because I already have, I don't know why). Anyone else observed this?

Anyone else managed to build a bundle from .sh file?
It's fairly obvious to me that an open system, that incorporates Twitter-like functionality as a subset of a greater whole, could take over this space in less than 12 months, leaving Twitter/Facebook/* as AOL-like also rans. Winer appears to have functional solutions for many of the parts needed to deploy this ecosystem. What is missing is a spark of genius to fire people's imagination, such that they flock to the new tool(s) with an eagerness not seen since early days of the www when Mosaic hinted at what could be done. I can't believe that all that is missing is a healthy dose of Mad Men marketing. Maybe that is the missing ingredient?
How can there be best practices when there's no production ready software? Best practices aren't derived from first principles -- they're a reification of all of the human experience that has gone into writing and MAINTAINING software systems.
'tech77 is an ITworld bot account.

The way you know that is, this is a post from ITworld. Overwhelmingly, posts from ITworld only land on HN when they're posted by bot accounts. There's a long history of them.

I was under the impression that this was OK, but 'pg pointed out last week that he just hasn't gotten around to detecting and booting these accounts.

In the meantime, I'll help do it manually by flagging the story.
What goals are you trying to accomplish using the service, be it Twitter.com or an open alternative?

Are you just trying to post/read feeds as an individual? If that is the case the open alternative does not provide you a benefit, and you will probably find it less convenient.

On the other hand, what if you have many users under one org? How about you're just a member of a division of another org, and they have many division and subdivisions. And they really want be sure that your message gets out there, without relying on a third party. The public relies on those messages, for example a fire department posting about wildfires. Those are the use cases that will probably see benefits.
You say that same sex couples adopting is a very sensitive issue, but the lack of full civil marriage between same sex couples impacts on the kids of all the existing partnerships.

I have a friend who was raised by a same-sex couple. One was a biological parent, and they had to go through huge complex legal procedures to compensate for inheritance rights, adopting the child and others as he was a stranger-in-law to the non-biological parent that raise him.

I have a lesbian friend who has 3 biological kids of her own. The only social issues they've faced are from other adults being uncomfortable with it. But it's a bigger issue when those people vote against civil marriage and deprive those kids of legal protections kids of hetrosexual marriages have.
Guys, I clearly said the article does not claim ownership of GPS. It can't, because the federal government was using GPS for that for a decade or two before the system was opened up to the private.

What is covered by the patent is other aspects of location tracking, specifically at issue here, the use of a central database to store detected locations and to make use of detected locations for other purposes. In this context, the patent claims any form of geo-location technology which is used to contribute to that database.
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Edit the Build-mac.sh file at the top to /applications/xcode.app, I was able to build after that.
The uk is not unregulated for trades, far from it, all significant trades are regulated (see corgi, Niceic and part p for example). It is illegal to do even the simplest electrical work without qualifications or inspection. I'm not sure why you feel australian tradesmen have a monopoly on quality work, but there are plenty of qualified and competent tradesmen from other countries working in the uk as well.
Yes, I agree, college is where I learned the most and at the highest pace, but not in classrooms or from professors. Mostly from classmates and other students, juniors and seniors. There is no place like college.
Aside from say, Sonic.net, I'd be hard pressed to find a less "evil" company (in terms of conflict of interest - most other major ISPs tend to be wireless carriers or in bed with the entertainment industry or both).

Google may not have it's interests aligned with us end users, but they're a nice contrast to the remainder, and might be forced to play a countering role on the copyright front to differentiate.
Not really but a friend of mine was scammed out of $40k legit AdSense earnings.

As for the quality of AdWords - I have not forgotten about the 500 million dollar fine Google received for pharmacy ads.
Are you saying they should charge websites to use their login with Facebook feature? Is that even worth paying for? I'm curious what the value in that is but I don't think I would pay Facebook for their branding on my pages.
You're kidding, right? You haven't read any of the many posts on HN about women in CS or engineering?
I can't help but think that Google dropped the ball when deciding to be a closed centralised platform. Being open IS the marketing.
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One experience in my life was good enough to massively value the time at college. This involved the ability to sit in any class that I enjoyed.

I sat in on ASL classes, sat in on a DSP course (because I needed it for a personal project and didn't have $250 whatever for the book) and the instructors were pretty cool with an unregd student sitting in.

Nothing after college has even come close to that experience (one where you will always find some guy/girl who breathes the stuff you need to know and is more than happy to share it).

The internet is coming close to that but there is something amazing about being around humans and learning from them that electrons/photons through wires/fiber can't capture.
Which Java are we talking about?

Again, as jwz noted, it's four things:

1. A programming language.

2. A class library.

3. A virtual machine.

4. A security model.

As a systems admin, I play mostly in 3, deploying, tuning, configuring, monitoring (to the extent that piss-poor Java tools allow any sort of monitoring -- want a dump of what's in memory? Sure ... let's just pause ALL activity on the VM for the next 25 minutes), troubleshooting, and patching/updating the VM.

I'm also concerned with the security model, within the parameters of my other system security concerns.

For the language and class libraries, it's largely ensuring that what my devs need and use is provisioned on our test, staging, and production hosts. There's also digging through some of the logging / crash / debug output to see if I can sort out what's wrong and fix it myself, or punt it over the wall to Engineering.

So no, it's not just developers.
I wonder if Bezos will stop selling Chick Fil'A stuff. http://www.amazon.com/Pez-Chick-Fil-A-Cow-Sealed/dp/B003RMEB...
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