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It's shocking how close this dilemma is to the one facing the protagonist in Richard Stallman's essay, "The Right to Read." (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html) In fact, though its depiction of the future is still far-fetched in some respects, the salient points seem to have turned out exactly as he predicted.
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The legal snafu with MegaKey is that it REPLACES ads, which, depending on situation, could easily be illegal contract interference. If it steps on banner ads and contracted ad real-estate on websites (Facebook, for example) he's stealing revenue. I'd assume if he were confronted with this, he'd play the "champion of the people" card, stating the original ads were placed there by greedy, unethical corporations and thus he's a hero. (Last part is my opinion, first part is an actual legal problem ;)
I too have missed opportunities to encourage people when they needed it. I'm more forthright now, quicker to laud others for trying, but I still wince when I think of those instances.

The post is well written and the analogy seems appropriate btw. Rejection Therapy has a post on the secret fear hacks of high divers and the golden rule is to never balk: http://rejectiontherapy.com/fear-hacks-of-world-class-high-d...

Alex never balked either. Good for him. Great blog post too.
My antivirus (Bitdefender AV plus 2012) blocks the link with a warning of malware detected on the page.
I didn't read the article. After scanning it to get the gist, I saved it in my Instapaper account for later digestion. Maybe I'll pull the article up on my Kindle in a few weeks if it still seems relevant.
Radiation, such as cosmic rays and solar flare output. The Earth has a magnetic field which pulls such charged radiation to the poles; Mars has much less of that effect.
Thanks! That link will definitely help me as I move up to the 3 meter board (which scares the crap out of me!).
On Earth due to our magnetic field and outer atmosphere the radiation that gets fired at us constantly is massively reduced, on the surface of Mars the rover still needs to be shielded against radiation as there's nothing similar to protect it.
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Comments, and, one would hope, some tests showing how the obscure edge case interacts with everything else.
Exactly what i meant. :)
Labels, both big and small, benefit many artists in ways outside distribution. Many musicians join labels to be financed, hand-held for recording, cross-marketed and advertised. The financing is significant, allowing many to produce novice music for long periods while improving their talents. Websites alone and zero-cost distribution methods, including streaming, don't allow the artist to survive. Not all artists want or need labels, but many opt for them. Interestingly, even the few artists who become popular without labels usually sign label deals for the business management and exposure. Free distribution doesn't help artists to pay for production, so Mega might have a problem there.
I imagine they build the new components and algorithms for less dicey missions, get as much data back as possible and then look at reusing them in another area. NASA is basic a giant engine of risk mitigation, a lower priority mission with a lower cost is much more suitable for something new that isn't tried and tested out.
Disney sitcom says open source is insecure
Meshuggah - Catch 33.
Mainly instrumental, rhythmic prog metal that is utterly lacking in melody or anything distracting like that. Sounds like a battle between diesel engines. Instantly sends my right brain to sleep so I can get on with the maths.
I'll tell the CUPS and WebKit teams no one is using their work and they should work on something else.
Sure, but what I'm missing is a support for these claims. Using != supporting is true by it self, but to what extent is that practiced in Apple's case specifically? It's still just a claim with no supportive argument at all. Some projects that Apple supports and contributes/has contributed to that comes to mind, launchd, libdispatch, ALAC, OpenCL, LLVM, Quicktime streming server, and Webkit to name a few.
TJ's comment is pretty great:

> I would argue that the well known people (myself included), perhaps with some exceptions are very average engineers. The reason we're "popular" is because the tools we create appeal to many other people like us, other average developers. We build apps, it's not rocket science :p it's definitely nice to get recognition for helping people out in our field but I dont think anyone should look at us in awe, there's nothing we do that anyone else can't do just as good if not better.
Something full of joy, and bouncy: happy hardcore (Dune, Scooter), eurodance, etc.
It's not so much the fees, but the way the pricing information is presented that piss people off. If you went to the ticketing site, got told that tickets where $60 each, bought 4 tickets and got charged $240 I doubt most people would complain. But if you're told tickets are $45 each and then all of a sudden get charged $240 for 4 tickets that's when people get annoyed.
Computers are something that NASA has always been conservative with. By the time Apollo flew, the technology for the Apollo Guidance Computer -- RTL ICs -- was a few generations obsolete. The shuttle's main computers started out as designs derived from the IBM S/360. It takes time to design a radiation hardened board, and from there, it takes time to integrate that board into new designs. Thus, progress seems slow, but it's about as slow as it ever was in hardware. Integrating a newer core late in the game means a lot of needless regression testing for questionable benefit. Because of how orbits work, the deadlines are a lot more set in stone, and if your change breaks something, it could mean that you miss your launch window, and are sitting on your butt for a couple years until it comes around again.

The algorithm part is equally simple to explain. Most of these algorithms aren't broke, so there's no real impetus to fix them. The equations are pretty well known, so between missions, there's really not a need to change them up.
This turned out to be a historic announcement. Note that the release was in source and binary form. The liberal copyright policy wisely chosen by Tim Berners-Lee was an important reason for the WWW's success.

In contrast, this post again reminds me that the Usenet-archives are now owned by Google. Are they also available anywhere else? Like the WWW they are part of the world's cultural heritage. It's good that the archives are accessible, but they shouldn't be proprietary.
I don't see any mention of 'shitty', just over-engineering. For the record, I would use Vagrant if I had the need, and probably will in the future (this kind of caveat seems sadly required otherwise I would be painted as somehow opposed to a software project), that said..

Fitting in with the community style/idioms is rather important for a project, especially as it grows in size. When it's a huge codebase, used by many, in many different use-cases, people being able to look into the code to help sort out their own issues is hugely valuable. If someone who knows your programming language and knows your problem domain gets scared off by how your software is architectured/functions, that's not a particularly good sign.

But maybe the problem is huge, and all that complexity is needed, and will pay-off now they're looking to have multiple VM providers. But criticism of complexity shouldn't just be tossed aside as 'trashing'.
As far as I can tell, many people use it in production just fine. As for Pyramid vs. Flask, well pyramid gives you more, but you can use it flask-like if you want.
Strength training as in the famous Starting Strength book?
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The problem is how the reader chooses to interpret the phrase, and usually such phrases aren't made in a clear context.

From what I see, it looks like most readers interpret that phrase as an arrogant arm chair expert assuming NASA, or who ever, are full of really stupid people and the person "asking" is essentially suggesting he knows better. The simpler interpretation that a person who knows they don't know is simply asking is often the secondary thought, if that thought occurs at all.

I think that has a lot to do with the combat nature of on-line "debate". People now are sort of trained to expect confrontation rather than a mellow old chat. Kinda ties in to a recent thread here about , er, negative and harsh replied to Show HN articles.

This is one of the things I'm beginning to really not like about on-line discussions. I end up spending more time trying to make sure I'm not misinterpreted than making my actual point.
Photosynthesis is predominantly powered by red and blue visible light. The manufacture of Vitamin D in our skin is triggered by UV. Also in humans Vitamin D is not an energy source, unlike the sugars commonly produced by photosynthesis in plants.
Top tip for any all companies: when someone with a good reputation and a background says you're doing it really wrong, and then half of the nerdy internet agrees, listen to them. It'll save a lot of trouble later on.

I wish I was surprised that Tesco haven't fixed the XSS attack, but it's probably languished in management hell for a few weeks until it's deemed necessary. Bolt the stable door before the horse does a runner.
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Ironically some Disney animation studios have switched to Linux/Wine to avoid paying Windows licensing fees.
It is rather confusing with just a string of boxes in the title bar.
It's a Disney kids sitcom. If you've logged as many hours as I have watching this stuff with your kids, you'll realize it's quickly-written slop. I wouldn't go looking for conspiracies in this stuff.
Firefox 14, Linux. I see only squares.
Ask HN: Review my startup: Hackerfly.com
Hi fellow Hackers,

Can I ask for feedback on a new product that I am working on: http://www.hackerfly.com

Hackerfly is a SaaS tool providing analysis and insights into the software programming industry.

The intention is to give marketers, analysts, developer evangelists, managers and decision makers a simple tool with statistics and quantitative information enabling them to understand software developers better and make more informed decisions regarding software and programming.

Currently, we're focusing on StackOveflow as a data source, but in the future we want to add many other relevant (developer-focused) data sources like GitHub, Twitter, etc.

- What do you think about the idea and the product?

- Is value proposition / offering clear?

- What do you think about the pricing model? Would you be willing to pay for this kind of service?

- Do you know of any startups doing the same or something similar?

- Do you like/dislike the look&feel of the marketing site?

Thanks in advance for all your help.

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You can already sign up and you will receive a personal invitation as soon as we launch private beta tests.
The attitude of I know better than they do is really strong in technology and programming in general. Most people who make those claims know not of what they speak.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

How tech savvy do you expect the writers of a Disney kids show to be?

Incomprehensible technobabble permeates television and movies, but only when these people accidentally make a sentence that works, is it news.
I imagine it as more of an attempt to engage with the bystanders, maybe to try and tell them that he can do better. "Ugh! I failed", he says, trying to smile in the direction of the onlooking girls. A quick attempt at a chuckle to make light of the situation and he swims away.

OTOH it does sound like the kid in question was a lot younger than 16, especially considering his reaction and the fact that he was at the pool with his mother.
It looks like the sponsor can choose (via a 'no forking' option) whether they are happy with patches to fix the issue or if they require them to be committed upstream. It's an important distinction because there can be a lot of extra effort in going from "patches good enough to fix the case I care about" and "sufficiently general and well-engineered solution to get through code review and be committed upstream".

Presumably you wouldn't take on trying to fulfil a bounty with the 'no forking' option set unless you were sufficiently familiar with the upstream community for the project to know that you had a reasonably good chance of getting your change committed. (That doesn't require that you have commit privileges, of course. Conversely, even if you do have direct commit access that doesn't necessarily mean you'll be able to get any old rubbish upstream without going through the same code review process as a non-committer.)
I usually prefer silence if I can get it, but failing that I listen to pandora stations based either on Bach or Mumford and Sons.
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Some entity must commit funds to storing and keeping those archives available. I understand your concern, but no one company or government is more or less likely to do something folish with those archives than any other.
#each can be seen as special case of #map where the mapped function returns its argument.
However, it could start a revolution in information access

I'll say...
I don't know why, but when I type "google.de" in the address bar, hit TAB, enter my search term and hit ENTER, it sends me directly to the first search result. Doesn't work with .com though...
She should have used Free (as in freedom) Software instead.
> However, it could start a revolution in information access.

They had no idea.
I recently watched a miniseries from 2002, it seemed like another era. There were cell phones and the Internet of course, but no text messages, Twitter, smart phones, touch screens... Everything seemed slow and primitive. A journalist had to "get back to the office" to check her email, and start calling people in order to disseminate information. It was like watching horse carriages in the streets instead of cars.

But I don't think it's because technological revolutions are becoming more frequent. IMO, the quick change witnessed in the last decade is exceptional, and a direct outcome of everyone, all over the world, coming online during these years; a situation which helped actualize the Web's potential.
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Google owns the most extensive archives of usenet because it has put in the effort. There's no reason that anyone else couldn't have done the same, they just failed to do so. Google acquired dejanews, an old usenet archival site, and they sought out personal archives as well to expand the collection. We should be happy that they have done anything, the more likely outcome was for no comprehensive archive ever to have been made.
I dove for 9 years, through college, and the trick I always found is to just do it as much as you can. The more time you spend at 3 meter (or 10 meter) the less fear you have. As an example, went to a practice about a year ago after not diving for 3 years and it took me a lot of time bouncing the board to get comfortable throwing dives again.

Spending time higher up also makes coming down to a lower height that much better. Train on 10M for a full day and then come back down to 3M and it seems like nothing. Was a good strategy to break your fear. One of my coaches (from Hungary) her father was her coach and used to dangle her and the other new recruits from the platform at a young age to break their fears. Not a strategy I would use with my kids, but worked for her (a 1988 Olympian.)
The rationale for the distinction is given: deterministic performance.
There seems to be no other way to communicate with you or 10xlabs, so excuse me for cluttering this thread.
You have an error on the sign up page - 'lounch' should be 'launch'.
There are a lot of key differences. Bussard IEC can be characterized by recirculation of electrons, virtual cathode, "wiffleball" magnetic compression. VASIMR can be characterized by helicon antenna, single phase instead of multiphase.
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Baroque music and jazz are nice when it's quiet at the office but it rarely is so I have to resort to metal.
Exactly. I just went over my credit cards' reports and it specifically says next to the international deals "fees: 0.0"[0].
Both reports checked are for the business/corporate versions[1] of two famous credit card entities (Visa, Amex, Mastercard, Diners).

Is it the same for my mother's credit card she got at the supermarker for club discounts? Probably not, but she uses another one outside the supermarket.

[0] There is probably some hidden fee in the conversion rate, but it seems to me a fair conversion rate, not unlike I would get at the post office.

[1] Personal cards
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No, it's because they bought the company, Deja, that was responsible for putting the first widespread web interface on Usenet. Google groups used to be just Usenet until it forked into something different (user lists). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Groups#Deja_News
Reality is stranger than fiction. I didn't find the story unbelievable--I'm far more conservative on trusting the psychoanalysis than the events--perhaps I've just had exposure to more "weird people" than the above commenter. If you had written the kid had let out a shrill scream of rage I wouldn't think you were lying from that alone, people are weird and have weird reactions to seemingly trivial things. What never ceases to amuse me is the array of reactions others have when meeting (relatively) famous people they are fans of.
"Disney-owned Pixar recently released some of its production code under an open source licence."

Then I guess now we know why...
An even cooler project would be proving once and for all that a swarm of small, rugged drones can indeed cover a larger area in harsh conditions and are a much more sensible strategy in exploration than a large single drone.

Iff you have ten, twenty expendable machines then you don't need the same level of QA, thus opening up a lot of interesting possibilities. If we can get equivalent amounts of exploration done in just half (or maybe quarter) the cost then it opens up room for an arms race of sorts where each generation can be rapidly iterated upon and we can plan such missions within a one or two year timeframe instead of an eight year one.

Of course, this is easier said than done... ;)
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I also have a feeling sometimes the security team never gets to read it. The guy managing their twitter account has probably no clue of even what's going on. His supervisor is too lazy to look into this further and asks him to send a template "we are secure" response. I really feel like security@website.com should become a standard for researchers to be able to at least talk to someone who understands what they are doing.
This. Once an episode of Criminal Minds had a criminal whose IP started with 300-something. That would be immediately corrected if the writing was minimally revised by an specific consultant, which suggests it wasn't. So I'm going with s_henry_paulson and the Hanlon's Razor on this one.

On a side note, isn't the term "freetard" extremely pejorative?
Thanks.
This article is also clear about the differences: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochemistry
Take a breath, it's gonna be ok. Not news.
A startup is a lot like a PhD thesis or dissertation
That really was a NOOBS mistake, Mr. Nerdy Boy.
21 years to go from science lab side-project to the foundation of many of the largest multi-billion dollar companies in history and the glue to a worldwide communication network right out of science fiction. What will the next 21 years bring?
they obfuscate technical information for legal reasons, they couldn't have mentioned the existence of "pirate" software otherwise the kids would be looking for "pirate" games and other type of software from the back of watching the show.
Here is the Reymond Chen blog, which I would +1, sorted by most popular post:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/default.aspx?PostSortBy=...
> C# doesn't have an Enumerable.ForEach

It's trivial to add it as an extension method though. I've seen it done, and I wanted to punch them for using needlessly overcomplex idioms. It's discussed here http://stackoverflow.com/questions/225937/foreach-vs-somelis...

> More significantly, it has a Parallel.ForEach which is recommended for iterations that can be done in parallel.

Yes and no. I've seen Parallel.ForEach misused more often than I've seen it used right. If you have a small ( < 16) number of loop iterations then don't bother with Parallel.ForEach. If each of those items to process is time-consuming then use tasks and Task.WaitAll for them to complete. Where Parallel.ForEach works well is where there are a very large number of iterations, and the scheduler can split batches of them up between cpu cores, and even tune the batch size as the run progresses. That's just not going to happen when there are 5 loop iterations.
It seems quite appropriate that this page is one giant gif!
The fluff in Freeman's article (Journal of Irreproducible Results, I think) is the same cheerful fluff students were subjected to in the non-honors physics class at my high school in the 1980s, where the point of using physics predictively went out the window (leaving only untestable descriptive math, which isn't a waste of time, but could be applied to something testable), and with the same fundamental failure of simply not caring whether there might be an underlying mechanism related to the impression of remembered time versus the subjective speed of time currently.

A change in behavior can also have a huge impact on how fast current time is flowing. A simple hypothesis that the subjective rate of time passing is related to the intervals between encounters with the unfamiliar easily leads to a more fruitful set of thought experiments than Freeman's weak exercise. And potentially one that could be rephrased in biological terms.

I've noticed that when I take trips to elsewhere in the world, the more different the place, the more time dilates, both while I'm there and in memory afterwards. Doing only the familiar is the recipe to time slipping by, unmarked and unnoticed, like driving to work and realizing upon arrival that one has no memory of the trip.

So the question is: What should you do to extend your subjective time?
That's probably not an error. It's like phone numbers starting with 555, so that it isn't accidentally someones' phone.
> On a side note, isn't the term "freetard" extremely pejorative?

This is The Register we're talking about. I see it as no coincidence that it has a red banner, it is a "Red Top" of tech journalism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_tops#Red_top
I would love a view into the self-talk /automatic thoughts that (self-professed consistently) happy people have.

What goes through your mind when you are stressed or anxious? What is the immediate, automatic, unblockable thought(s) that come up?

What is the first visceral response when you have setback?

What is the script that plays when you are exhausted?

I think the author's habits are admirable, but also think that they might be symptoms (rather than the cause) of a another form of health - a mind that is filled with patterns of thought that lead to happiness, and I would enjoy seeing into those minds a whole lot. Anyone?
Use of free software in Mac OS X over time