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I've been using Unity for about a year and it's not as bad as many proclaim it to be. My biggest complaint is that advanced features are hidden away. If all those crazy Compiz editors and whatnot were easier to accidentally find it would all be fine. A separate "For Advanced Users Only" options set in "Settings" would fix it and probably resolve tens of thousands of web searches without a browser.
I think you're looking for this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maslow%27s_hierarchy_of_needs

Then you can brush up on your history ;).

http://www.doug-long.com/einstein.htm
Qubes to me seems like what I imagine would happen if DARPA threw a roomful of security nerds together in the 90's and told them to come up with something to let intelligence analysts process mixed-class data. The software equivalent of a one-way-transfer device.

It makes me long for the day that current pc's end up relegated to the attic of computing.
My Chrome location bar autocompletes my bookmarks just fine. It usually only takes a few characters for the bookmark to be the top result, and I can tell it's the bookmark since I changed the label.
I'd take DLL hell over SxS hell any day of the week.
Yes - I'm using Gnome3 "classic". It is ok - just doesn't seem as configurable as Gnome2. XFCE might be good - I just don't have the time to figure it out.
pathogen requires you to roll your own submodule thingy. This is certainly feasible if you know git well, but vundle is still easier
I "grew up" in the 80s with computers that barely worked. It took hours of fiddling with jumpers and IRQ settings to get simple CGA programs to run (not to mention copy). Even in the 90s in college, to play the fun games (xtank, hunt, muds) I had to compile them myself - not always straightforward with the myriad exotic flavors of unix prevalent at the time. It was NOT "magic".

This is the experience that taught me how computers work. This is why was enraptured by Norton's _Inside The IBM PC_ when I was 14. Without the early struggle, I'd be just another clueless user waiting for the Acolytes of Steve Jobs to come down from the mountain with a new miracle.

Screw that. When you're young, it _should_ be a struggle. Kids shouldn't be able to take technology for granted, they should have to figure it out. If and when I have kids, I'm going to make sure that their technology breaks at regular intervals and if they want to keep playing Super Mario 18, they're going to have to figure out how to fix it themselves.

All these problems you mention with Rasberry Pi make me think it is ideal for teaching children to program computers.
video of the special agent.

https://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=512364171294
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> Not sure why you're trying to be snarky.

I'm not trying to be snarky. I'm trying to point out that your thinking is muddled.

> I was clear that I meant "profit" in terms of money.

And the things that you listed were benefits received by union members, benefits that cost money, which reduces profit. What do you think the same money for less work is?

> clarified my point by listing the ways unions benefit their members.

No one is suggesting that unions don't benefit their members. Your claim was that unions were combatting some evils. I asked for an example, and you started ranting about profits, so I pointed out that the only effect that unions have on profits is to increase expenses that directly benefit their members.

> If you consider work environment, etc as part of "profit

Work environment is expense. Profit is revenue - expense. Which statement do you disagree with?

Some work environment details affect quality and/or productivity and some don't. Of the former, some provide more increased revenue than their costs while others don't.

Do you really want to argue that unions only ask for work environment and compensation things that "pay for themselves"? (Given your model of management, unions don't have to ask for those things.)

If you've got examples of unions acting other than in their own self-interest, let's see them instead of vague theories.

How can you be so certain that unions act a certain way yet not have any examples?
has linux desktop failed? Really? Correct me if I am wrong but we are talking about a concept which has spawned thousands of distros used in millions of computers still.

And main argument is rotten as heck: backward compatibility out of the box? On Mac? Please! You have to install Rosetta for that, without it you have no chance of running that escape velocity on your shiny macbook pro. Windows 7 make you feel like it can do backward compatibility jig, until you meet ultrahyperfast running software. And no I am not talking about some console application but the second incarnation of Saints Row.

I mean I would have understood if he simply said "I have started using Mac Os insert-cat-name-here and liked it" nobody would have any problems. I really can't understand the need to declare previously used software dead, bad or other derogatory terms. You use Mac, I use linux and it's still alive and kicking, considering I got security updates this morning.
If you look at the UDID's for the '“Administrator”的 iPad's or '“Administrator”的 iPhone's, there seems to be an incremental pattern in their first 2-3 digits. Does that mean these devices were purchased/ordered in bulk and hence belong to some reseller? In which case, these must not have been sold to people and thus we don't see change in the Device names maybe? And thus the claim that this came from one or two apps seems a bit infeasible, no?
I have tried it. Wasn't happy with its support for multiple monitors.
Just tried this out on my setup, and it made a huge difference. A large project that used to take ~1s to load the first time is now pretty much instantaneous.
> It is quite clear that Kickstarts are pre orders

No, it is not.

> Really, any Kickstart that isn't "we need $X to place a bulk order with our raw materials supplier" is at best wishful thinking

That's funny, because just yesterday I got my early keys for Faster Than Light[0] which should be released in about 2 weeks.

> It should not be for paying speculative salaries to the campaigners (Hi, LightTable!).

Why not? I see KS the following way: somebody has an idea, somebody doesn't have the resources, I have resources and want the idea. Let's deal.

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64409699/ftl-faster-than...
Another more likely possibility would be to identify people who are on the list and compare all their installed apps and search for a common denominator.
there's a bunch of UDID apps (free) that you can download from the App Store.
Inane news like this ("some guy leaves daily job, people shit their paints in awe") is what makes renaming this site to Entrepreneur Wannabe News mandatory.
There are no "Apple IDs" in here. Just Apple device UDIDs.
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If it is a personal website, who-is-privacy is ok. If business, then better have the details there as anyways you need to provide these details one way or the other on your website.
Normally before I purchase a service or even provide my email id to a New service (read stranger), I check if the domain is legit. If its behind a who is privacy, I would hesitate in giving my info to them. But that's just me.
maybe an enterprise location or school that bought in bulk?
I have found my own UDID - I can confirm these are real UDID's - and now I want to know why an FBI agent had my (a brit) UDID on their laptop.
Yes, that's the one! Thank you!

http://www.gamefront.com/files/files/9006174/pov.exe
I wonder if YC has any thoughts on this.
I had two friends who regularly hosted on couchsurfing in the early 2000's when it wasn't that popular yet. I thought at that time it was insane for two young girls to host random strangers on their couch. They loved the experience and I guess couchsurfing paved the way for sites like airbnb. Good for them, I hope they do well.
After the initial curve of getting VC10 configured right, I did an inheritance test. It worked (copied base class prototype, called base constructor with this.) Minutes later I was happily converting C# code to nicely formatted JavaScript. Having spent the last two weeks converting JS to Dart (basically a one way process because you don't want to look at Dart->JS), I'd say this project is a winner and immediately usable. I'm positive there are C# features and libraries that don't convert well, or at all, but I'm not interested in those in the browser any way.
I doubt that they are a single app's data. Look at the repeat of certain Device names (try "Abo Mossa") and check their UDIDs - those UDIDs show an incremental pattern in their first 3 digits. This tells me: (a) those devices were bought in bulk and (b) those devices were never sold to one person - since the Device names were unchanged [assumption is that a regular customer cannot own so many devices]. I just don't see how one app (not pre-installed) could be on all the devices bought in bulk by one person and dump all its data to FBI.
I doubt very much that Apple had anything to do with this. That's not the kind of company they are.
It also allows the file to be widely disseminated and mirrored before revealing what it contains, as an anti-DDOS measure.
Wouldn't the devices' names still be changed when individual members of the enterprise/school activated them?
Openfeint shows that 'Obama' last played 'Fishing Fun 2'

curl 'https://api.openfeint.com/users/for_device.xml?udid=c63e008e6271c3ac128eb6a242a9817528b6baef

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<resources>
<user>
<chat_enabled>true</chat_enabled>
<gamer_score>160</gamer_score>
<id>1479631313</id>
<last_played_game_id>165632</last_played_game_id>
<last_played_game_name>Fishing Fun 2</last_played_game_name>
<online>false</online>
<profile_picture_source nil="true"></profile_picture_source>
<profile_picture_updated_at nil="true"></profile_picture_updated_at>
<profile_picture_url nil="true"></profile_picture_url>
<status nil="true"></status>
<uploaded_profile_picture_content_type nil="true"></uploaded_profile_picture_content_type>
<uploaded_profile_picture_file_name nil="true"></uploaded_profile_picture_file_name>
<uploaded_profile_picture_file_size nil="true"></uploaded_profile_picture_file_size>
<uploaded_profile_picture_updated_at nil="true"></uploaded_profile_picture_updated_at>
<name>Player 1479631313</name>
</user>
</resources>
Google still contributes to Firefox, in the form of about $300 million per year.
I'm using Archlinux for years now and I'm perfectly happy with it. And yes, I'm a Python dev, but I think that Archlinux' naming approach is the right one. Main reason why I love Arch is because I like bleeding edge - and I don't really care if it breaks compatibility with other distros (what does this even mean? except for the Python example most other software doesn't require any modifications at all).

At work I'm using OS X machines and "administrating" them is way more effort than for Archlinux. With Arch I run a full upgrade every once in a while and if something breaks it's always trivial to fix (if you understand the system). With OS X you have to choose one of multiple broken package management systems (macports, brew, ...). A third of the packages I'd like are missing, the next third is outdated, and the last third doesn't build at all.

It may be perfectly possible that Arch doesn't work for you. But stop assuming that everyone is like you. I don't need someone telling me what to use and what not to use. If you like Gentoo (or OS X or whatever) better than just use it.
Normally, you would load javascript files by inserting a <script src="whatever.js"> tag into your HTML document's <HEAD> or <BODY>. The big disadvantage to that is it's synchronous. That means no rendering or executing of javascript can occur while that js file is being run.

This library would allow you to run it asynchronously, so that other js code can continue to run.
Exactly! I heard a story about a guy who started off with a pen and ended up with a truck. I don't even know if it's true but it is inspirational. Actually that could be an interesting system in its own right - I have a CD and I want a car - show me the swaps available to make it happen ... though I actually think the major limitations for such a system would be an intractably large search space.
Cool stuff, very handy. Next step, add dependancy support. Maybe pass in an array of scripts, along with their dependancies, and load them all in the right order.
And if the data came from Apple?

I can't think of any apps that take a full address. Perhaps there are some, I just don't know them.

Apple could have been compelled to release this data to the FBI. Unfortunately, we're unlikely to ever know this and Apple are equally unlikely to want to shed light on it.

If the claim is true, that the source data included full postal address, then I find it hard to identify a better source for all of that than Apple themselves. And that the data was brought together from various systems, and that we're glimpsing data that was shared between Apple and the FBI.

Not to say that there's anything illegal about that, more that the laws that allow that are a bit screwed but that's another issue altogether.
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You are right. I misread the announcement. That still leaves the issue of the personal data, but as I said: app developers could acquire that directly from the user.

Possibly, the fact that personal data is missing so often actually might point to a non-apple leak, because they would have the link to personal data. Of course it could be fake, but it would be prsesent.
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I don't think so. The device token is even generated over the version of the app. Meaning: you get a new device token if the app version changes.
Awesome start for a soloprenuer! A quick question if I may. What was your strategy in generating this much traffic?
That's not a contribution, it's a business transaction.
What? Unity is the first shell that actually properly supports multi-monitor setups. I use it with two monitors actually and it's been just amazing to work with.
Have you ever traveled to the US with that handset and did you buy it new?
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One question... where are these people usually, where do they talk? IRC? Random server in the outback? Encrypted channels?
This is silly, benchmarking against normal is the only reprieve I get from worrying that I'm 24 and knowing that I am thus too old to have done a lot of things that I feel I should have by now, like publish a fiction book or two, found a successful startup, publish a couple of academic articles of the transformative kind to computer science and so on. At least publish any academic articles at all.

I mean, do you know that Turing was just 24 when he published the Turing Machine paper? And a mathematician whose name I can't remember right now, practically revolutionized set theory at ~22.

There's a bunch of other examples like that.

Hell, I have friends my age who've published more than one academic paper. Some of them highly acclaimed (enough so to present them at MIT)

Comparing to normal every once in a while is definitely the only way to keep one's sanity and allow oneself to get some sleep now and anon. OP has no idea what they're talking about.
S3 is also used as intermediary data storage when running Elastic MapReduce queries over data in your DynamoDB tables.

http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/01/aws-howto-using-amazon-el...
I am finding the discussion rather strange. It has always been quite clear to me that Kickstarter was a modern patronage model--I give to the arts because I like the arts--nothing more, nothing less. There is no investment, no sale; it is a pure gift. The artist may show her appreciation by gifting me something in return. I concede that a games console might stretch some people's definition of art, but it is still a speculative and creative project which may or may not succeed.

Clearly, I am in the minority on this subject. Most people seem to view it as a pre-order website, or even an investment. This is quite different from my understanding of the whole thing.
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There is a Feedback session at the end of the spec. You can leave your input and questions there, or you can alternatively continue the discussion on the thread at the ubuntu-devel mailing list. Thanks!
Reminds me of Marcus Aurelius:

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
Devices being used in a kiosk-like or other setting in which they are mostly not being used by people who would be responsible for activating them?
I haven't traveled to the US with this particular handset. I got a replacement handset a few months ago on the insurance. The serial number makes it seem like it was assembled in week 31 of 2011, so what happened to it before it got into my hands I'm not quite sure.
Actually, it appears to only be UDID's, APNS tokens, device name, and device type.
I have a moderately-successful side project in the education sector that I'm not posting numbers about... not because I'm worried about competitors, but because I've already lost a few very large signups ("can we sign up every student in our school district?") when they get a sense it's a small project.

Even though the site has been up & running (and stable) for almost a decade now, they don't want to make the jump unless there are OTHER entire school districts already on board that they can talk to.

I'm not quite sure how to solve this chicken/egg problem yet. And since it's a side project, I'm not even sure I want to solve it right now -- that would sabotage my primary work, unless I could rapidly find someone capable to help with it.

But posting obviously-non-corporate-level sales numbers just a google away really doesn't seem like it would help things; ESPECIALLY because those same numbers will still be just a google away 5 years from now, even if the actual numbers are an order of magnitude higher by then.
You're right, but at least in my head there's a _big_ differences between $5 or $10, or even $300 Kickstarter pledges, and the amount of money required before "whether equity is expected in return or no".

Unless otherwise stated, my personal expectation would be that amounts under about $1000 wouldn't possibly be expected to have equity in return.

Other people may have different thresholds, but surely nobody really expects equity for sub $100 "investments"?
In the lines of #SOPA #PIPA #ACTA meet #TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership
Chrome seems to want to give preference to any random page I visited once rather than my bookmark. And the list is so short - if it's not in the ~6 items you just can't get to it. And you can't just trim the list like you would in Firefox by hitting delete on entries you don't want to be in there.

I'd go back to firefox if their sync system was improved since I last used it.
Kinda odd isn't it. My organization issued me a laptop to store all the confidental financial data I work with.
There's a flag for a new algorithm in chrome://flags.
I'm kinda bummed that it doesn't cover installing to linux.

Not that installing Linux is difficult, just that A. I suspect we'll see a lot more people on Linux computers, especially in the developing world, and B. beginning programmers should be introduced to the concept of Linux as a programming environment
This is interesting.

http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/85031537.jpg

I've never heard of Jill Stein, but if her platform is that similar to mine, I think I want to.
His delivery is painful to listen to.
Well - for this apple user, I'd take any flush adapter.
We're talking about the FBI, not the CIA. You know, the same FBI that walked from Gitmo because detainee constitutional rights were being violated when they were being tortured.

I'd love to read the warrant that granted this disclosure. If one doesn't exist I'd love to hear Apple's reasoning for releasing a 12 million + user database to LE without being legally obliged to do so.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Funds collected by Kickstarter aren't "investments." They aren't "pre-orders." They are DONATIONS. In many cases, they are donations to for-profit companies, which I still can't really wrap my head around.

Like all donations, Kickstarter pledges are freely given, with no promise of anything in return. Yes, many projects pledge to provide you with a sample of their finished product, or a DVD of their documentary, or your name tattooed onto the creator's tush, or something like that, but there's zero legal obligation for anyone to deliver on those promises.
Maybe you'll find someone else to help you.
Maybe Black Mesa
THAT WAS A JOKE.
HAHA. FAT CHANCE.
Anyway, this cake is great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6ljFaKRTrI
you're right. the pattern is weird. and it shows up a lot (see Admin's iPad, Ahmed's iPhone etc...)

EDIT: unless... is it just a side effect of how the data was exported? Sorted on Username, then on UDID

Ya, the more I look at it, the more I think it's just secondary sorting on UDID
> First correct color panorama of Mars from Curiosity rover

It is not "correct color" as one would see it on Mars. As explained by its creator, it is color-adjusted to correspond to how the pictured landscape would look if it were on earth. If it were truly "correct color", the sky would be pink-orange -- like this:

http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/jackalope/assets_c/2012/08/...
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Don't read up on Gauss ;)

I'm just shy of 31 and I have to say when I look back 23-24 was the peak of feeling like I was "too old" to accomplish anything meaningful.

I think one of the hardest things for me to see at 24 was just how non-linear and strange life is, and likewise how truly meaningless it is to try to establish a useful system of measurement and comparison between individuals.

For what life advice from a stranger on HN is worth: Get out of the game of comparing yourself to others as fast as you can. Focus on what you think is interesting, and also take a few moments now and again to really appreciate the wonder that is life. Aside from being happier, you'll most likely accomplish more if you don't spend energy casting yourself in the shadows of others.
Tonight I learned that I've been tying my shoelaces the wrong way (granny knot) for as long as I can remember. Thank you, JonnieCache.
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It's like the Drake Equation for word-of-mouth.
The gun control question seems to be bugged. The only major candidate who has ever banned guns is set as not supporting increased gun control, while the only major candidate who has not banned guns is set as supporting increased gun control.
http://imgs.isidewith.com/results-image/85040485.jpg

Haven't been following elections, never heard of Jill Stein or Gary Johnson.
There's really not much point in covering that in a book beyond pointing you to http://golang.org/doc/install

Go is dead simple to install to Linux via either binary or source. Even building it from scratch on non-standard Linux systems like embedded armv5 systems is easy. Basically if you have a non-broken gcc already, go will build just by invoking one single shell script they provide.
I suggest that you follow your own advice. Your post is laden with cognitive bias and fallacies, and is actually a little bit offensive. Here's the thing, no matter how much you whine that Samsung/Google were innovating by copying, you are wrong. It's plagiarism plane and simple. This does not foster "fair" competition. It is not innovation. It does not offer consumers reasonable choice, it just makes the plagiarisers rich off the back of doing little intellectual work. The irony of course is that copying is hard and copying well is extremely hard. It's easier to come up with your own solutions.

Now go off and explode in a sealed room. That much bile won't be a pleasant sight.