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The android platform is open source, http://source.android.com/.

There's a lot of closed source software for Android and many phones are sold with locked bootloaders.But it's possible to buy those without and google don't care if you root your phone.

So unless your definition is a system 100% open source software that is of no interest to "regular users" (not even Ubuntu qualifies) then this is unrealistic unless you are Richard Stallman.
It's been a long time since I worked in anything close to the financial industry, but when I did, trades could be reversed any time up until settlement date which IIRC was seven days after trade date. I think under some circumstances they could even be reversed after settlement.

Edit: I was wrong, settlement used to be five days, it's now three days (T+3) and has been for some time.
Robots are currently unable to be autonomous in any meaningful way. They still have a limited ability to perceive because computer vision is not good yet. They lack the ability to act sensibly in novel environments. Building such robots is the holy grail of AI, and it'll take a while before they are built.
This is similar to what was done with developers, right? The one thing I wished that had -- as well as WeUseThat -- is actual entities per question.

For example, for Pulse's answer to the stack question:

* Google App Engine
* AWS
* Hive
* S3
* Redis
* Django
* Backbone
* ASI
* MBProgressHUD

That way, you could provide a view that showed most popular solutions. Or, if I click on the "Backbone" tag, I see every company that is using it. It'd be a non-scientific way to compare the popularity of components.

If you want to get fancier, you could have it be a delimited list:

Name of product|Category|Purpose at company

If the backend has this data, then we can see popular solutions by category, such as JS frameworks.

Obviously, it wouldn't be hard to go through the few entries you have now and pick out the entities, but better to have a system in place early on before you expand too much.

I think a view that allows sorting by tech product and comparing usage would be very useful. I'm not saying ditch the interview format, just provide multiple ways to view the datapoints given.

For the front page, I'd also reduce the size of the logos.

Otherwise, great start, this is something that will be very useful to developers.
NO. This is how we end up with dark gray text on light gray background, on a web site.

If you're building something that people will read, make it easy for them to read.
If anything I'd say exploring Mars is easier today than early exploration was.

In either case it's necessary for people to rely on technology in order to survive. In one case it's the technology of pressure hulls, electronics, CO2 scrubbers, and so on. In the other case it's the technology of boats, preserved food, hunting, weapons, etc. But as a practical matter we know that the latter technologies often failed and people died.

I think it's easy to forget just how massively daring a lot of exploration in human history has been. We know that stone age peoples who had only just recently developed the rudiments of agriculture traveled through Europe and Asia to set up colonies. Imagine what it must have been like to take your tiny stock of seeds and tools and maybe one or two families and trek through primordial forest and travel hundreds of miles before choosing to settle down. Or think about the later bouts of colonization during the bronze age. Folks in tiny boats without maps or compasses sailing across oceans (the South Pacific) or the Mediterranean and colonizing far away lands. The city of Marseilles was founded as a trading post by greeks from the coast of Turkey, 2600 years ago. That's a journey of about 2,000 miles by boat. And then imagine what it was like to explore new territory, set up lonely habitations of only a handful of humans many days walk away from any neighbors and to live in fear of bears, packs of wolves, and the violence of fellow humans.

Four thousand years ago early bronze age tribes in southeast Asia set out and colonized Indonesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar. And they did it using nothing more than outrigger canoes with crude sails.

In comparison, colonizing Mars with all of our modern technology is easy mode.
True! But "natural" is often what looks good because of years and years of evolution :p
Keep in mind that, with one exception, ZFS is pretty much rock-solid from day one.

Citation needed.

And that article doesn't really address any of the problems that the osnews article brings up, it just tries to sidestep the issue by more or less saying that the same fsck tool that ext uses won't work on ZFS. Great.
My painting teacher at RISD told me that when he paints an outdoor scene he always mixes a tiny bit of blue into every color he uses, because the color of the sky is reflected off everything. It's a real skill to see color arbitrarily as it actually is, without attaching labels to it.
Probably not that high, but you may be surprised.

http://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/001001.html
Advertising experiments: Market first product second
The thing with unity is that it's almost so easy to grasp that when you sit down with it, it's almost not necessary. You can spend time thinking about actual implementation details while Unity does all the "boring" stuff. That said - when I started searching for specific problems I had the community had all the answers and then some. Another awesome thing is that you can do really complex stuff, like intricate shaders, if you want. Completing a full featured 3D-game have never felt so close to me.
If #000 is not pure black but the darkest value the monitor can display then that defeats the purpose of his article, doesn't it?

Plus, he played Halo in high school? Geez, I'm not young. He meant to say Doom right?
MSDOS technically won out because Microsoft married Windows and MSDOS together to get Windows 95 killing off the other DOS variants (and the alternative Windows shells like Norton) in the process.

Also remember that Apple's reward for losing was ending up the most profitable PC vendor so things didn't end up so bad for them.
"It'd be a great tourism experience, but what's the ultimate value to humanity?"

If you realize that our destiny on this planet is to be wiped out then it seems prudent to be able to leave it and live elsewhere nearby. Sure there have been 5 mass extinctions and hundreds of smaller ones, not to mention almost doing ourselves in in the 60's over Cuba or perhaps in future due to climate change.
> Those seeking to criticize the actions of the Israeli government should have to work harder to distinguish themselves from the antisemites who merely disguise their attitudes as criticism of Israel.

This is the opposite of "no true Scotsman" - "always true antisemite"?
> what's the ultimate value to humanity?

Humanity is like a software that's currently sitting on a single hard-drive. There is no backup. The clock is ticking.
Your comment reminded me of this video on black holes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYKyt3C0oT4
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One point would be that if you're setting up rackmount server hardware, it still tends to come with a CD drive rather than DVD. That's one of Debian's primary purposes nowadays, given that Ubuntu has eaten most of its desktop market-share away.
Meanwhile, we basically nationalize Samsung's patents that are fundamental to mobile phone infrastucture...
Meh, to each their own I guess. While it is long, that does not in any way make it unclear. In fact, he explicitly states the motivations and repercussions of each decision. To persuade the master developers, who made the "mistakes" (for lack of a better word) in the first place, this seems like a worthwhile pursuit.

The only thing that would have made this more entertaining would be if he had submitted a similar pull request to Linus..
Yes, it's similar to The Setup (http://usesthis.com/), which we're big fans of. We will definitely do this kind categorization but wanted to get a bit more data first and also see if people wanted it. So thanks :)
I remember reading (a very long time ago) that the best way of getting close to pure black was to take a horn (of the type used to store gunpowder back when flintlocks were considered modern weapons) and hold the open end over a smokey candle until the entire inside was covered in lamp black. The combination of the very non-reflective lamp black and the curved shape of the interior ensured that almost all the light entering didn't leave.
Antarctic colonies haven't needed to be self-sufficient, given the relative ease of resupply, so they haven't been.
Living in low gravity for a long time may also be problematic. I'm curious what is their answer to that issue.
That's good. The new GNOME doesn't work very well with Xmonad anymore, so I switched to XFCE. How much code does one need to display a list of my windows at the top of the screen along with some tray applets anyway.
Here is an alternative I humbly suggest (in case you missed it): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4354148
Yes -- and for borders it's arguably still black, just thinner, since a 1px line at 50% black could be an aliased representation of a 0.5px line at 100% black.
> As Neil Tyson says, we can't even accurately predict the weather a week down the road, you want to terraform something?

Did he really say that? I'd think NDT would be acutely aware of the difference between short-term weather and long-term climate, given that he gets to fight climate change denialists using that absurd misunderstanding on a regular basis.
Don't forget that buying a diamond engagement ring has been a tradition dating back to before "your favorite historical figure from over two hundred years ago's" time.

Or is it five hundred years? I forget.
> We're doing science. There's a whole science lab on Mars, right now, rolling around doing science. That's super valuable. What does it need a human for?

Digging deeper than five inches?
But it's also on a tan background :p so it's probably fine. It's all about contrast.
He seems pretty collected to me. And he makes some good points.
We have invented it, it's just that there are some political (and PR) obstacles to developing and using it: http://www.islandone.org/Propulsion/ProjectOrion.html

"Our motto was 'Mars by 1965, Saturn by 1970'", recalls Dyson. Orion would have been more akin to the rocket ships of science fiction than to the cramped capsules of Gagarin and Glenn. One hundred and fifty people could have lived aboard in relative comfort; the useful payload would have been measured in thousands of tons. Orion would have been built like a battleship, with no need for the excruciating weight-saving measures adopted by chemically-propelled spacecraft.
I listen to the podcasts of precisely six people . Four of those six people have already voiced support for join.app.net ((Dan Benjamin, John Grueber, Marco Armenti, John Siracusa). I expect the other two would join fairly quickly, and, given the "open" nature of join.app.net, I expect anybody who wanted cross-posting from twitter over to join.app.net, wouldn't have much difficulty. Just have the client post on both locations (much like Path posts to both Path and Facebook)

I really only want about a dozen people on Join.App.Net, and most of them are already there. So, for _me_ it just has to scale to twelve people - it just needs to be the right twelve people - and so far it looks good.
9 hours to go until Ouya's Kickstarter campaign ends
Well at least my interface will look natural to people born and raised on an interstellar space voyage, where high contrast is the norm, and soft, diffuse lighting unexpected... : P
Honestly, most of these are necessary evils these days. New sound cards are cheaper than old ones, and don't support software mixing. Hence Pulseaudio. (Not to mention things like Bluetooth headsets, which don't appear as ALSA devices and instead are natively supported by Pulseaudio.)

NetworkManager is similar -- editing wpa_supplicant configurations is a nightmare. It works from the command-line now, so it's not like it's imposing anything on you anymore.
I'm going for that one too, backing up my sms messages as we speak :)
> People that really care about optimizations aren't going to install the default Debian install anyways. They'd do a net install and build from there to get max performance for their old computers.

I recently installed Debian on a Dell server with Broadcom network adapters. Couldn't use the netinstall image because by default Debian doesn't include non-free firmware. It was nice to be able to use CD1 to get a fully functional headless Debian system, to then install the non-free firmware package from a USB flash drive to get network connectivity.
Learn to code from an artist
"little fixed investment cost"

? I think you underestimate the costs for a company like Apple to go through the design, test, review, tweak cycle over and over again for each of those pixels. The cost to get it just right is not "little".

The extensive costs from the required multiple iterations required to arrive at such designs before they are seen by the public explains why companies like Samsung would prefer to save money, skip the iterations and simply jump straight to the end result by copying.
As someone especially sensitive to smell I applaude your decision to not wear smelly deodorant.

In the same token, you should know that while other people might not detect your BO, I certainly can and will. But I won't mention it - I'll just get my desk moved to the other side of the office and generally try to avoid you entirely.

Just hope that people like me are never in a position to influence your life - because your BO can and will play a factor to those people.
While I wasn't privy to Meredith and Quinn's conversation, Meredith is a world-class security researcher, as you can verify with DBLP; and she has a strong interest in protecting political dissidents. So I strongly suspect that she covered all the relevant issues.

Quinn knows plenty of security researchers.
It may be easy, but it'll still take time to develop. If it's not critical and won't keep you from getting your initial batch of users, it's much better to launch and add it in 3 weeks, rather than waiting an extra 3 weeks to launch.
Based solely on the title, I thought for sure this post was going to be about piracy/anti-piracy. Glad to see it was not.
Do you know where the setting is stored, to skip the decrypt/encrypt stage?
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Bane coerces a trader ... to bet all of Wayne Enterprises’ stock on bad futures

Couldn't he just short the future himself?
It's frustrating that this idea persists. Yes, the GPL was explicitly rejected, but no, it wasn't because of fear of Linux compatibility. It is true that we refused to dual-license (we didn't want to create a license-based fork), but the reason the GPLv2 was rejected is actually very simple: the strong copy-left left way too much ambiguity for our IHV partners. In particular, we wanted to allow proprietary, closed-source drivers to be shipped for OpenSolaris without a Linux-esque "taint" of the system. We also wanted distros to be created that had entirely proprietary components -- including the binaries that constituted elements of the system that we could not ourselves open source due to third party restrictions.

So yes, we rejected GPLv2 -- but it was not because we were afraid of becoming an organ donor to Linux, but rather because it would have overly restricted the freedoms of our community. In this regard, we were forward looking: it is now broadly accepted that the GPLv2 is an anti-collaborative license[1], explaining its acute decline for new work.

[1] http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2012/08/01/post-revolutionary-op...
It's not really about what users would answer on a survey. The point of the system is to turn off tracking on users that care enough to go press a settings button. This is an extremely small hurdle, but it's there for a reason. Because a lot of people that might say 'no' don't actually care. So the site can make a lot of tracking money without upsetting anyone.
Reminds me of the time I was looking through a page wondering how the designer got the greys to look so good. I was surprised when I saw the css class called "bluish-grey", and I suddenly realized he had been using a blue tint and I hadn't really noticed. (He also used #333 for blacks, which looked really good, and I've been using ever since).
"MD5, being cryptographically sound"

Uh, not for a while now...

Which is not to say that the general point isn't sound - MD5 was aimed at generating high quality entropy while most non-crypto hashes are aimed at generating entropy-enough fast - but don't use MD5 for crypto stuff anymore.
You got it perfectly. I want to go for the experience and opportunity. But I also want to build something for the future. No one remembers the people that stay behind and live out their lives, but the names and deeds of the founders of Pensacola, St. Augustine, and Jamestown are taught and remembered.

Another reason to settle other places in the solar system is that we can do so without guilt. In America, we have remember the atrocities commited during the building of the USA. On Mars, the moon, and anywhere else it's all fresh and no one is there.

I don't have my own family yet, so the idea of literally building a new world where my kids and grandkids grow and thrive has a strong attraction too. Maybe they would hate that they were born on Mars with little or no chance of returning to Earth, but I have to hope that they see it as their world and their future.
I don't want to name names because for many of the people, breeding controversy is not their only goal. However, the Westboro Baptist Church and various notable Fox News celebrities (the ones who frequent the monologue of The Daily Show) are two cases where there is nothing going on except for profiting from false controversy.

Like I said, they are few. But they do exist, and they do irreparable harm to the discourse of political correctness by feeding off the fear that a group of people has of discrimination.
The CDDL was a great harm to the broader community

In the same way as GPL did, no doubt. FreeBSD is chock full of CDDL tech, but can't use GPL. Illumos can use *BSD code too, but not GPL.

This is back to the BSD vs GPL debate. That's just, like, your opinion, man.

Sun drops some really nice tech out in the open, which is the only reason Illumos can exist (and is now firing on all cylinders). FreeBSD nabs many of the good bits to good effect, as does OSX. And all some people do is complain. Bizarre.
Radiation is by far the biggest concern. To some degree there's a bit of a guinea pig aspect for any early Mars astronauts. We do have the ability to at least ensure that the astronauts will survive the trip there and back. The best way to do that is with a combination of shielding around the outer hull as well as a "storm shelter" in the interior of the spacecraft surrounded by lots of water (such as the crew's water and food supply as well as their waste) for sitting out solar flare events. We can monitor solar flares quite well these days so we can keep overall radiation doses in check.

Beyond that we could look at other technologies such as artificial magnetospheres. That sort of thing would probably come into use by the time there are dedicated flights between Earth orbit and Mars orbit.
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I was surprised when it wasn't free. It goes against the goals of the device and the surrounding community.
Just write the facts and let them stand for themselves.

Life's too short for that shit. That's boring and dull and bland and insipid. Live a little, loosen up, we'll all have time to worry about "just the facts" when we're dead. Which, ironically enough, will probably happen far too soon, unless Ray Kurzweil turns out to be right about some of his crazy "life extension" ideas.
I've been using zfs on linux recently. http://zfsonlinux.org/
I'm not using it for the file system though.

It was painless to install and so far has been reliable. I'm not yet trusting it for primary storage though.
So is this close to a true color image or is it still way off?

If it's close, I think it's fantastic. For me, part of what would make any desert more psychologically tolerable would be a greater variety of color.
So beautiful and peaceful; there is something magical about this picture -- a planet that human feet never touched. No human installations, no radio haves (other than from this rover) running, clean.

I wonder if it would be possible to GMO-engineer some sort of plants that could survive and grow/evolve in Martian atmosphere. Would be amazing to see the result -- humans brought life to Mars and it evolved on its own. We definitely should try!!
Spoilers:

In the context of the plot that would be fine. It only had to be an issue for Bruce for a day or two for them to move forward with their plan. Which was to show his incredibly bad decision making and to make him powerless to stop them from taking over his company. To reverse the outcome of all that would have been a far more difficult thing to accomplish than to reverse fraudulent stock trades.

I always felt he had his money back by the end of the movie.
As pure black is the absence of light, nobody can claim to directly see pure black. The detection of pure black goes like this, 'Nothing to see here, moving along'.
hahaha, I think you underestimate the level of crassness, frankness, and rudeness my friends and I have with each other.
Black holes are not black dude.. You can't see them at all.
Valve brings non-game software to Steam
See the wording for me makes it seem that the backers would get a percentage of ANY income that the person makes, regardless if it had to do with the project funded or not, for 10 years.
I agree. If you let me pick a couple ad categories to be shown to me, like electronics/programming/whatever, I can see myself agreeing. But I don't want you recording my activity.
Not sure if anyone has beaten them since, but a few years back my alma mater came up with the darkest man-made material to date.

http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2393
I just don't buy that there are really many people willing to do that.

You don't need many, you just need enough.
I believe everything has the capacity to reflect some light except a black hole, which is able to trap that too[1].

But as far as the human eye can detect, there are probably a lot of things (whether real or artificial) that are indistinguishable from this 'true black'.

[1] Black holes can trap light outside the visible range; I'm not sure if there's something that can trap the entire visible range but not everything outside it.
Yes, wpa_supplicant is a nightmare, this is one thing FreeBSD got right

I didn't need PA with any of the new sound cards, and the BT dongles don't "support" PA (some are certainly ALSA, but others may "get in" in another way), but what happens is that it makes it easier to use it with it

That being said, I don't care to use new hardware, unless it's something essencial like a video card, chipsets, etc
It sounds to me like people are not using it correctly and consistently, are mixing it with regular deodorant, or have very extensive bacterial colonies on skin and transdermally.

AKA no true Scotsman. You are doing a great job of speaking in patterns used by advocates of homeopathy and spiritualism.