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> I vote for who I like the best, and that does not limit it to the two parties that have a chance of producing a winner.

I with you. Well, I used to be with you. Until I realized that part of our responsibility is to help steer the ship in the correct general direction.

Voting for someone who cannot hope to win (or not voting) means that there's some probability that the better of the two candidates who could win might loose. In some cases the lesser evil could mean the difference between hitting the iceberg or scraping it. And, as disgusting as the idea might be, I'd rather scrape it.

I, too, live in California. Here's a thought: What do you think the message would be --to the nation-- if California produced a majority Republican vote in November? To say that this would send shock-waves through the political system would be the understatement of the century. It would signal huge discontent with the direction of the boat and it would put all politicians (from any party) on notice: Things are no-longer the same.

This is what I am talking about. The message you want to send is but a rounding error. The message that could be sent by supporting the "other" party would be equivalent to the earth's poles flipping overnight. That's a message.
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I am not saying "Infringing Patents". I am saying "Stealing Ideas". They are not the same terms. As Tim Cook put it in his email "sending a loud and clear message that stealing isn’t right".

It doesn't matter who the original inventor of Turn-by-Turn navigation is. It came on Android earlier. If something is not protected under patent, it doesn't mean that you are not stealing/copying an idea when you copy a feature from other devices/systems. It's wrong when you copy features of competitors and you blast at them when they do so.

http://9to5mac.com/2012/08/24/tim-cook-tells-apple-employees...
I feel I've been struggling with Rails for a while now, at the time I've got excited about the promise Merb brought, but the merge hasn't noticeable changed the way I work. Mountable engines seems like a big hack to me and I some times struggle with class reloading in development because of it. Sinatra got mountable apps from the beggining because of being closer to rack, one could just us rack mount to inclue another app. I worked for a while on a big Sinatra app and it was a pleasant experience allthough Sinatra provides too little, but latelly I started a personal project on Padrino and a found a joy I havent felt in a wile using the languaje and tools I learned to love, Padrino is like I've allways wanted Rails. I am gratefull of what Rails has taught me, but I want to get off the bandwagon, Rails has grown to big and complex for my taste.
Very similar to the arguments against Tivo of 10 years ago.

Instead of dying the television and cable networks accepted the future, accepted technology, evolved and now provide time-shifted content viewing themselves.

And tracking may be useful, but it doesn't mean that users shouldn't have the option to opt-out.
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Hi.

Firstly, it sounds like you have manic depression (extreme highs and extreme lows), however I am not a doctor, so please talk to someone about how you're feeling so they can make a diagnosis.

Secondly, no matter how alone you may feel right now, please remember that this is only temporary. Over time you will meet like-minded souls who will become your friends, but they key is in finding them.

I have lived overseas on my own before and have felt loneliness and depression, but have found that in order to beat this you must make friendships. This will involve joining new groups and meeting new people (something which is not easy, especially for a self-confessed wallflower).

Fortunately, there are many groups and meet-ups from which you can discover like-minded people and I would encourage you to try and engage with one of them if you feel that you can. Once you have attended at least one meet-up you will see that:

a) It's not that hard to meet new people
and (perhaps more importantly)
b) New people like to meet you and that you make an important contribution to this world.

I hope my comment on this board helps you and that you are able to seek the professional help you need. On a parting note, please remember that even though sometimes you may feel unloved, the reality is is that you are loved by many.
Time to failure is an exponential distribution, whereas number of failures in a given time frame is a Poisson distribution, if and only if the hazard rate is constant, which it typically is not, due to wearing of certain components. It's usually a bathtub curve.

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Funny how people here still keep suggesting Argentina is the way for Greece.
Since they only release once a year, this one doesn't only have to hold its own against the competition right now, but also against whatever the others put out in 10 months.

Yeah, some people will always wait for the next iPhone. But for others, who have a more "neutral" point of view, this iPhone might look very bad in 10 months.
This was the main thing I was referring to about the labour shortages -

Additionally, last week Chinese state-run news media reported that several vocational schools in the city of Huai’an, in eastern China, required hundreds of students to work on assembly lines at a Foxconn plant to help alleviate worker shortages. According to one of the articles, Huai’an students were ordered to manufacture cables for Apple’s new iPhone 5, which is expected to be introduced on Wednesday.

http://m.sltrib.com/sltrib/mobile2/54873765-218/foxconn-stud...

[edit] Also, the financial benefit to apple of doing this is not just in the sale of cables, but also in the control of licensing for third party peripherals, which it is losing a grip on as there are so many people geared up to produce their old connector. There is also a possibly huge lump of money from content producers if you can sell them the promise of being able to restrict the devices you can plug their content into.
For me caffeine is also closer to a placebo (I do know that it works, just weakly and randomly for different people). The major positive effect of it I think is drinking 100-200ml of hot drink. I feel the same after drinking coffee or any tea or some cacao mix by nestle. Drinking water a lot is very helpful for human brain, especially in cold and arid offices where we mostly sit without moving.
Agreed. Apple can't accuse competitors of being copycats when they are a copycat too at times.
Now Im curious. How many of your clients a) truly support IPv6 b) require IPv6? And the follow up to b, what does IPv6 provide that v4 does not?
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I couldn't use the Internet without Adblock and Flashblock. Just like I couldn't read a novel if it every page were surrounded by flashing neon and ads randomly inserted between paragraphs, I can't read your website if the content is dominated by ads. Let me spell it out - if your website is worse than a newspaper, it deserves to be adblocked. Every site I've seen with ads, well, they're worse than a newspaper.

As for feeling entitled, I just want to point out that bit torrents trackers have never had trouble supporting themselves without ads or paid content of any kind... (Despite which I'm happy to support things like my local public radio station.)

(Though I'm a big fan of Ghostery, too -- the amount of trackers sites use is ridiculous and who knows what someone is able to do with the data.)

Also, my new pet peeve: links that don't go where they say.

Google is especially bad about this -- any link in your Gmail goes to some Google URL that then sends you to where you really wanted to go -- though plenty of other site are doing it too. They could be sending you to malware-r-us and making it look like a link to happy-happy-choo-choo.com. I think browsers should refuse to display links that don't display the same location they're targeting, however it's done. I think it might be on the way out though -- it seems to have been 'undoned' from Google news.
I remember seeing videos of some lectures by Hal Abelson on a project he was working on (in scheme of course) about a network of processing units sharing informations and distributing computations.
Usually standalone compilers have more ways to optimize.

Maybe it would be enough to make NGEN more configurable, on the other hand I am yet to check the 4.5 improvements.
While I'm sure that there are some people who are quite happy about what the Fed is doing, that sounds very much like conspiracy theory nuts.

From what I understand, the Fed is politically in a very crappy position: they have a mandate for high employment (which is a good thing!), but they cannot really do anything to meet that mandate.

To create jobs, somebody needs to actually spend money. Spending money means moving money around so that afterwards, person A has less monetary assets and person B has more monetary assets.

However, the Fed is not allowed to engage in such actions. All it can do is asset swaps. So it can swap short term for long term bonds, for example, but when they do that, everybody still has the same amount of monetary assets afterward. It is only the maturity and interest rate structure that changes.

The hope is that lower interest rates encourage private investment and thus private spending on jobs. However, that's not very realistically going to happen on a larger scale, because demand for products matters much more to firms than a tiny change in interest rates does. And as long as unemployment is high, demand remains low, which means that firms have no incentive to create jobs.

It's a vicious cycle, that in theory the government (the union of legislative and executive branch) should break out of, because they are in a unique position to do so: they are not bound by market constraints. But the government is instead bound by partisan politics and an unscientific belief in the religion of austerity.

So with the government not doing anything, the Fed at least tries to do the best they can to help the situation, which happens to be almost nothing - but they still try, because of the miniscule hope that there are, after all, some positive effects.
Google needs to be harder on these manufacturers for the good of the consumers, the ecosystem, and ultimately the manufacturers as well. What will the "Android ecosystem" become if they create bigger and bigger incompatibilities and make developers jobs that much harder?

Devil's advocate: How has Kindle Fire hurt consumers? It hasn't but it has hurt Google. This is the same (minus the market share) like Microsoft saying to Samsung, Sony and Acer "Release Android phones and no Windows licenses for you" or something to that effect, considering the Google Apps /vs Android code.
No, I don't. I don't have anything more than the DVB-T and DVB-S channels.
Did you try contacting the developer of AdBlock and asking him about this?
Great work! As someone who relies waaaay too much on Twitter Bootstrap this is really useful - now to get round to adding my own Bootstrap idioms.
That's another myth. Apple products had never been easy to use. iTunes is heavy and cumbersome and play lists never work as expected. Wheel iPods had erratic behaviour and its random/shuffling were crap.

And please don't start talking about XCode and development in general.

Things have worsen these times. "Acceptably understandable" is not the same as "easy".
well by "software alone" - what i implicitly meant was that most employees would already have some hardware – latptop or desktop – in which case software given for free would motivate and encourage them to develop their ideas and even more apps.

If one has some hardware machine then one can install several OS’s in Virtual Machines for development and testing. one need not have separate hardware to develop apps for different OS’s.

If MS has to give hardware for free for whatever reasons, wouldn't it be a great idea to give the hardware to customers (non-MS) for free. This way if the product is really great; it will cause some buzz in the market and help the company market their product as well.

I just wonder if it’s really worth giving free hardware; instead of software. Once a software is given; and an employee discovers the potential in it; no matter whether the employee remains with the company(MS) or not; the person will become a lifelong investment and asset for the company - as he may/will buy product upgrades and related software – which may not be the case with hardware .
I can see the experience benefit but what you described, there is a HUGE problem: if anyone steals your phone then they too can just place it there and tap on it. I doubt everyone locks their phone and there is nothing verifying that it is actually the real owner tapping. That's exactly why CCs and ATMs require you to have your card AND a PIN or at least require a signature.
which is probably more competitive to the reduced feature set of smartphone-based devices such as android and iOS

Walled-garden says no. That and the fact that you can bootstrap and run Debian on Android on ARM, for starters.
Sorry but you're talking crap.

There is a reasonable expectation that an application won't screw up your data and there is a reasonable expectation that the OS won't screw it up either.

Even "consumer grade" hardware has this expectation as after all it runs precisely the same enterprise grade operating system kernels. You don't get ECC, RAID and power redundancy - apart from that it's literally the same kit and software.

Backups I agree are a requirement, but you don't take a backup after every iCal entry you add do you in case iCal screws up your data do you?

Myself, I backup daily.

Regarding Windows XP, I was the fortunate overseer of 2500 corporate desktops for 5 years that ran XP on decent quality Dell Optiplex desktops. Not a single blue screen. Probably because they were all WHQL certified.

99.9% of the Windows reliability problems are related to buying trash hardware. Just pay some more.
I'll be there, I'm in Tokyo until November
True, before this article I had no idea how much tracking is done. I knew it is done, but did not realize the extent of it. Now after installing Ghostery I see that I'm being tracked by 10+ different trackers on almost every page I visit (except HN which has just one as it seems :) So this article helped me a lot, though not in the way they intended.
Either way, it looks to me like this approach has to manipulate HTML strings to find a {{tag}} like that. Which seems like it's a lot more work than this:

<div id='thingToReplaceWithData1234"></div>

and then adding a child text node or such to that element. Whether you do that via InnerHTML or CreateTextNode doesn't matter, either seems faster and easier to me than doing a string substitution.

But I don't know, I never really got the appeal of the framework of the week. If it helps write decent web sites, then I guess that's good, but I've noticed that simple sites now are ridiculously slow and I'm guessing this is the reason.
> The modern Internet MUST have Javascript. So when you use NoScript, you’re breaking the Internet.

All the Javascript, Flash, Webfonts, etc are breaking MY Internet. Why should I let everyone send executable code to my browser?
Thanks for posting this. I live in Kansai and had no idea. Just signed up! It's my first meetup.
Your post contains a great example of what was called the Worst Argument in the World on LessWrong: http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_worst_argument_in_the_world/

To be more precise, you are using the moniker "money printing" to confuse the issue. See, inflation isn't caused by printing money, inflation is caused by spending. If there is too much spending power going around and the productive capacity of the economy cannot keep up, then prices are going to be bid up.

QE isn't going to cause much more spending, because as grandparent correctly stated, nobody's total amount of assets is going to be changed by QE. After all, suppose you hold long term treasury bonds. Now the Fed offers to buy them at a higher price. Maybe you will take that offer. And maybe you'll use that money to buy some other class of assets. But will you now actually put that money into the real economy, buying some produced goods or services that you would not otherwise have bought?

Most people won't do the latter, and that's why QE isn't going to cause additional spending, and this is why it isn't going to cause inflation.

Note that this is very different from historical episodes where money was printed by the government for direct spending, e.g. by the southern US states during the civil war.
Oh look, you just implemented an open proxy. Those are rather prone to abuse, aren't they?
I have a naive question regarding MapReduce.

I tend to observe that MapReduce is often used to do "search requests" that would be more easily answered with indexes.

Am I missing something?
Previous submission (still on the front page right now, at least): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4518588
Its a joke.
It translates Java to Objective-C code without GC support (uses reference counting which you need to annotate).
It doesn't define any UI so effectively you need to work on a Mac just without all the wonderful tools for UI building that apple provides and without any of the WORA you get from Java.
When something doesn't work you are still stuck debugging in Objective-C.
And googling stack overflow trying to understand how to translate Objective-C code to your problem.

Codename One solves all of the above issues by giving "actual WORA" which is the true value of Java.
Tolerance. I guess I just have less of it. Machines are faster now than they were back then and I am not going to tolerate slow response time just for the sake of the latest version of an OS. Windows is the same game. Upgrade, again and agina and again. All the while, no speed gain. I once worked for a guy who said, "Software is like a gas. It expands to fill space." Nowadays I use UNIX exclusively, as much as I can. Whenever I have to use Windows or Mac it slows me down. With UNIX, I can keep the software expansion contained and enjoy the speed gains as hardware improves.

Everything with computers is a trade-off. I'm happy to make some trade-offs and forgo whatever Cupertino is hawking in order to have flexibility and speed like the "good ole days".
Here's a list of the trackers Ghostery blocks on his website:
- AWeber
- Federated Media
- Gigya Socialize
- Google +1
- Google AdSense
- Google Analytics
- Twitter Button

I could see his point if he was just using Google Analytics to see traffic statistics for his website. You want to give free access to my personal and browsing data to all of these?! Go fuck yourself and your anti-Ghostery rant.
Where does the index come from?
OSX as the "package" of OS, iTunes, apps etc does.

You are wrong. This is not a personal issue - it's very widespread and makes a huge number of people suffer constantly:

1. How broken is it: http://www.id3.org/iTunes

2. Other people with problems: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=ipod+wont+play+songs
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i've stumbled upon PDF.js a while ago because i was looking for js tool that allows me to extract data from pdfs... sadly i'm still looking for a good lib to do just that.
how is this worse than someone setting up a "hello world" web page?
What about sending a message by giving a third party a significant vote?

I'd argue that would "put all politicians" on notice, much faster than simply playing tug of war between the same two parties over and over and over again.
No, Chrome has its own binary plugin. IIRC it is closed source and not available in Chromium.

Pdf.js is developed by Mozilla and now shipped with Firefox and it works quite well so far.
I guess I got the wrong impression from your argument. It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish, as you say.
Not bad.

Never thought of doing the buttons on page 2 with an icon on top and a text underneath.
I'm not sure I want to tune stuff constantly myself.

Ngen is unchanged in 4.5. There were a few big changes in 4.0.
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> No more than I should be feeling guilty not going to McDonalds because I don't like the taste of their sauce

If you don't go to McDonalds, you don't get the burger.

If you go to a site with AdBlock installed, you still get the content.
When you're using the patent system to beat up your competitors in court over your right to innovate and crowing in public about the deep creative values at the heart of your company you need to bring your A game when it comes time to launch your new flagship product.
My major pet peeve with python is that closures are not done quite right ..

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/141642/what-limitations-h...

Ruby does seem to have somewhat more powerful constructs (e.g. blocks).

One nice thing that python has (which ruby doesn't) is indentation-based syntax. With ruby you have to use "end" all the time to signify the end of a block.
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Yes, I really love PDF.js. I was consider switching to Chrome just because of the (proprietary) pdf viewer. But the Chrome PDF viewer even lacks the concept of pages! I had already kicked out the Adobe Reader plugin but using an external viewer every time makes PDF just so more annoying.

Mozilla is also working on something similar for Flash: https://github.com/mozilla/shumway . I'm a bit sceptical but with the success of PDF.js I can't wait to use it.
I m not an economist, so i might've understood your point wrong, but you just argued that the Feds offered to purchase your long term bonds for a higher price - logically this must mean you've made some money (ala, profit).

So having made profit, wouldn't you then spend that profit on something that you otherwise wouldn't have afford to spend? Thus, this introduces more spending power, and thus, introduce the inflation that you said wouldn't happen?
Interesting market, though it is not uncommon in major cities of China. You will find comparable ones in Beijing, Shanghai, etc