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I don't see how the fact that he's a Mozilla blogger is relevant.

The file contains "just" full name, e-mail and URL. Thieves got the information thanks to their Facebook apps (no idea of its name), it could happen with any third-party app.
Europe is doing it's best to weaken social security as well, they can't afford to take care of people who have no job.

"flexicurity" is an eupheumism invented by the EU for the central neoliberal tenet "you are now a product". It's not only making it easier to fire someone, it also reduces employees to the subjective opinion of the manager; whether or not you do your job properly is no longer the main issue, your personality is.

The idea is that since you can get fired at whim, you'll be able to get a job faster and you'll be more productive, which is great because the economy is the only thing that matters in today's politics.
The very generous and un-bureaucratic short-term unemployment benefits really help as well, I think. For up to two years, you can get up to $3k/month unemployment without even having to deal with a government office, through an a-kasse, which are subsidized membership organizations you can join. They'll help you find work as well, and line up classes or unpaid internships if you need to gain skills/experience.

It ends up smoothing over some of the friction that discourages people from changing jobs, because if you quit your job and take a few months to find another one, you still get a livable salary in between, so there isn't this huge fright of being between jobs that keeps many Americans from jumping even when it would ultimately be advantageous to do so (the fact that you don't lose health care coverage when you quit your job helps too).
I think instead of having users agree to permissions on Facebook and Android apps, they should have to explicitly grant permissions to the app. Maybe by dragging an icon or something that represents "email address", "real name", and other concepts.
I am using it for a small project in my company and I'm pretty happy with it. It's nice for enterprise-level projects that are not Open Source.
You could pay for GitHub or even get a private BitBucket repo for free, but some companies just prefer having their own thing.
I don't think the accounts were 'taken', I thought he just had some of their data ...
Sun engineered some amazing stuff but eventually got bought out by a company with weaker engineers but much, much stronger sales team. After being burned in this way I could see how a bunch of former Sun staffers might use their former technology but call someone else in and say 'look, we can't market for shit - you have a go'.

And that's my guess on why their marketing spiel might seem a little vague to a tech person.
Ceefax was a great example of quality sub-editing - every headline was exactly the same length, but they generally sounded natural and communicated plenty of information
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Or we could just let them keep all the money they collect in fees, and let them set the fees at a level that would let them afford to do a good job.
I've talked to some OEMs about this.

(1) They find that offering one Linux isn't much of an advantage even for Linux users, since so many people have a different preferred distro. Even people who buy a laptop running Ubuntu are likely to replace it with something else, currently Mint.

(2) Supporting Linux is a very expensive nightmare, especially if you try to do it in 30 languages across 50 countries. Selling Linux laptops to newbies is a loss-making proposition, so you only want to sell to geeks and businesses that can look after themselves. And they're the people who install their own OS anyway.

(3) It's not such a big deal to sell business machines with FreeDOS or something similar. With consumer laptops, the pre-installed crapware basically pays for Windows. Business laptops don't have (or shouldn't have) pre-installed crapware so OEMs are not losing to much on installation fees. The exception is probably the anti-virus program, which delivers big bucks if the user signs up and pays.
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You can assume the Memoto team is having an ongoing conversation with the (Swedish) authorities discussing privacy issues for a device that only saves images.

Adding sound and video moves the privacy concerns to a whole new level. Are we, as a society, even ready for such a device?

Also, you add a lot of complexity both in terms of usage and in terms of manufacturing and support.

Plus the battery drain.
I don't think that makes sense. It's not Apple's fault that the US patent office granted the patent. Just because they changed their minds doesn't mean Apple is responsible. If anything, the US patent office should compensate both Samsung and Apple for essentially wasted legal fees.
When you are talking about "X nines, in retrospect, from a small sample" it's meaningless, and they know it. All it means is, they've had 100% uptime, because they've been lucky enough to avoid a crash. And by 100% uptime, I'm sure that's "100% of crashes weren't in our opinion our fault".
Here's what I think is the offer on gigbucks: http://gigbucks.com/Social-Marketing/26055/instantly-give-yo...
True, for one app, ssh -X is usually better

Still, most of the time, running only one application is not the usage model. Or it's a simple thing that doesn't need X, just ssh
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I have developed a Flash "library" for a web application and I really liked it, but I could never do much in Flash because creating a UI is a pain.

AIR is a great idea, but it would be way better (for me, at least) if they incorporated a decent HTML/CSS rendering engine that had the same potential as the ones we see on modern browsers.
Show HN: Our new property search website for London - Locatable
Maybe should have blurred out the edit line, too.
Does the web editor support editing files in a bare repo ?
The real problem is there is nothing that requires companies to provide continued access to DRM-encumbered media; they can turn it off whenever they want.

In my opinion, if a company can't or won't provide a way for a customer to access their purchased files, then they should be required by law to provide a way for the customer to un-DRM those files.
This looks great. Currently using Bitbucket, but always a good thing that an Open-source alternartive exists!
We've spent the last few weeks building Locatable, a property search website for London. We've integrated lots of transport data (tube/rail/road) to help you figure out where to live. Road travel times are a bit off at the moment, but we're working on it. Just looking to get feedback from other HNers, let us know what you think!
Teletext (Ceefax on Channel 4) had some games you could play 'through your TV!' :)

Bamboozle was a general knowledge, multiple choice quiz. A hacker at heart I noticed the correct choice (red/green/yellow/blue) went to a different page number to the rest. So if you quickly flicked through all the colours until you found the different one you could blaze through with 100% correct.

My sister was amazed when I could get every question right first time.
Some books on Amazon are DRM free. The publisher is the one who decides if they want to use it.
Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/
http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/
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This seems to be blatantly plagiarised from somewhere, although I can't remember quite where.
Just curious, is this illegal? What happens if the seller didn't disclose the method in which he aggregated the data or says I just stood in a shopping mall and asked people to voluntarily disclose these details? (Sure he'll have a hard time proving that) ....
And thus turning yet another thing into a waste of natural resources. It would be great if people figured out how to avoid zero-sum games as much as possible.
Perl6 also has a macro keyword for creating hygienic macros - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_6#Macros

For Perl5 you can use Devel::Declare (https://metacpan.org/module/Devel::Declare) or Devel::CallParser (https://metacpan.org/module/Devel::CallParser) to achieve macro like effects.

For eg. Here's the Sweet.js def add macro using Devel::Declare...

package MyDef;
use strict;
use warnings;
use base 'Devel::Declare::MethodInstaller::Simple';

sub import {
my $class = shift;
my $caller = caller;
my $arg = shift;

$class->install_methodhandler(
into => $caller,
name => 'def',
);
}

sub parse_proto {
my $ctx = shift;
my ($proto) = @_;
"my ($proto) = \@_;";
}

1;

Then...

use 5.016;
use warnings;
use MyDef;

def add ($x, $y) { $x + $y }

say add(1, 2); # => 3

So when the compiler sees the def keyword then MyDef takes over and converts the line into...

sub add { my ($x, $y) = @_; $x + $y }

... then passes everything back to the perl parser to continue compiling the rest of the code.
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(But tastes much better as 'ssh -XC')
It seems quite reasonable when you consider that they used the money to bootstrap their operations: Take some money upfront to buy the servers, and in exchange host a bunch of people for free, covering the operating costs from other income.

It was ~6 years in total duration for me (though used on and off). I recognize that buying monthly hosting for an entirety of 6 years is not cheaper, but it's not what I bought.

I paid the money upfront, knowing fully well that I would not use it continuously, to have a hassle free way to throw up some small stuff if I need it. Others often seem to have similar use cases (or hosting small websites for local community organizations and similar).

I think everybody also recognized that there is a risk the company may go bankrupt, and we're out of hosting, but what's actually happened is that they simply wanted to stop offering the service.
That also completely screws the little guy, which is one of the big reasons the USPTO is said to exist.
This doesn't really surprise me. At some point IBM did the numbers and figured out they were more profitable concentrating on services, and they ditched their printer division, ditched their storage division, ditched their laptop division, etc..

Companies are supposed to be money making machines that always follow logical decisions to make more, it's supposed to make selling business services/software to them easier because you just have to prove you'll save them money, but I don't think a lot of them would have changed over like that. They play hard ball, even with themselves.

That said, I've worked for IBM, and was treated very well. I worked overtime all the time, though, and it wasn't odd to see managers around even very late at night doing the same thing. I don't think I've ever had a full time programming job where everyone didn't work overtime for salary without overtime pay, actually. I think there were some contractors around when I was there, but they counted their hours, only did little jobs that amounted to exactly what they were told, and were not very effective or useful. You didn't want one on your projects, that was for sure.

So it doesn't surprise me if IT professionals who start demanding that start getting listed as more expensive for the business and cut out. It is the logical money making decision by the business after all.
All you do is spam this site, and half the comments under this are obvious sock puppets of yours. Why are you not banned yet?
This is a great! Well done guys you deserve real credit for building and maintaining such a well written and well thought out piece of software.

Congratulations on reaching 3.0!
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There're a lot of people who don't want to use GitHub for whatever privacy policy.

If you consider using Gitlab as a in-house self-hosted "GitHub-feature like" alternative, Gitlab is really good! We use it for our projects and it runs quite well.
Nice tutorial, well done Karel!! The new component tool with the octopart integration is easy to use and I love the fact that you can download the datascheet of every component directly. Thats another item on the feature wish list that can be marked as done :D
I really like this.

Do you think it would be possible to add cycling as a variable?

As in... based on average commuter cycling speed of 14mph including lights, etc.

If so, then great I'll go and tell a load of cyclists about it.

I guess the next problem for you though is the chicken and egg of getting data in there.
Some of the articles on long haul digital services are semi-interesting from a radio geek's viewpoint:

http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/bstj/vol62-1983/articles/bstj6...
Thanks for your feedback. A Few questions/comments.

> The "*.json" thing is not standard and breaks HTTP.
It's more of a Rails convention and so we just followed it in the docs. Everything works fine without .json using the HTTP Accept header.

> "tickets/search" endpoint is not a resource. It's a different projection of the "tickets" collection. It's basic filtering. Rule of thumb is whenever you're about to use a verb to name an API endpoint, you can guess you're probably about to do something wrong.

Interesting. How would you approach it? Extend the /tickets endpoint to include some search parameters?

> A RESTful API needs hyperlinks.

I agree. However at this point it just seems a lot more work and also I have never really seen anyone use it (except for a few often quoted examples). We should change our documentation to use the word RESTlike.

Thanks once again for your feedback. We will improve the documentation soon.
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The short answer is, it depends on how decriminlisation is implemented. This is a good overview of the countries implementing decriminalisation, http://release.org.uk/publications/drug-decriminalisation-po...
That's cool, if you happen to have the web app open. With Noti, the app just runs all the time (out of the way) and lets you receive messages at any time.
Since it won't be producing offspring, homosexual marriage is fairly irrelevant for the purposes of genealogy.
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Agreed, Gitblit is probably the best solution if you're forced to self-host git on a Windows server.
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Interesting, could you shed some light on the tech behind this?
For example, does this use a custom solution to display notifications or Growl / ML notifications?
Yes free as in stolen-content-without-compensating-the-author. I prefer DRM-free books myself (or ripping the DRM and making it DRM-free) but the books at this website are in fact all stolen. (I'm sure you know).
Brings back happy memories of hacking on the BBC Micro.

> MODE 7
> PRINT CHR$(136);"GOODBYE CEEFAX!"
Well, from what I've seen from both HN and slashdot(which I read for a while) is that hackers tend to take an especially in keen interest in human rights-related issues(usually with a special focus on the the online stuff and privacy but not just).

In general, I don't think your addition to the rules is useful because so far, HN has managed to stay pretty specific to hackers without it. I don't know how, but somehow the community is still very much predominantly made of hacker-types and this means that things that are interesting to hackers tend to get upvoted more than others thus creating a nice feedback loop.

HN is ~6 years old now? It's managed to stay mostly "on topic" and not become reddit without any modification of the rules, I think we're fine.
Portugal has decriminalized more than marijuana. They decriminalized "hard drugs" too like cocaine and heroin for example. Yet, in a few years, backed by some additional health policies related to drugs, they saw all metrics used to monitor drug usage improving a lot.

Here is a small article from Time about this counterintuitive, yet very interesting, "experiment" : http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1893946,00.ht...
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Thanks! Cycling is one of the data points we are planning to add v soon, pretty much as you described (using average speed profile to calculate the travel times).

We're also planning on integrating a lot more data - there's a whole load of open government stuff (think crime stats, schools data) in particular that we're looking at.
They don't want reddit's business. They know it's not real. But they also know reddit's general user wants reddit to be have better uptime. And that the user will upvote a story offering that (with cats at that).

This is just a PR stunt to gain some customers. Simple, but apparently working (even here on HN, which is quite sad).
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We're talking in the context of a court case involving two enormous multinational corporations going at it for over a year and a half with probably another half-year to go, minimum. The "little guy" can't even afford to sit in the bleachers of this fight. If some "little guy" actually had filed these patents he'd have been bankrupt a year ago.

There's probably a patent regime that actually would protect "the little guy" but it's long past time to let the USPTO wear that fig leaf over the current system. (Which is to say, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm more saying, your point is inapplicable. And that's a shame.)
I laugh at the censor fail. See selected field.
dev make and app, user uses app by granting acces to basic infos, which every apps asks for. dev save details of each user in spreadsheet and sells it.
It would indeed be hilarious if Microsoft mangled web-standards to comply with Apple's broken non-standard additions.

The circle of incompetence would be complete.
"tentatively"

That doesn't sound like a sure thing to me.
I love that Linus can talk directly and without marketing B.S.
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>Besides, was that 5-6 years of hosting for $500?

And how is this any good? 5-6 years of hosting for $500 is $100 per year. Costlier that other hosting arrangements, even better performing than Joyent.

And "lifetime" is "lifetime". If the company went down, that would have been another thing, but as it is they should have honoured their deal, even if it "sounds too good to be true".

Oh, and deals that "sound too good to be true" is the province of snake-oil salesmen and crooks, not of hosting providers you want your business to depend off.

You just make half of the conclusion ("the buyer should have been more careful") and forget the other part: "the seller was a crook".
Oh, it's a trend? How often is scientific computing about pixels anyway? I'm willing to bet not very often. Most of the time the results are a bunch of digits, a few matrices at most - a configuration, a solution to a problem.
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https://enterprise.github.com

Your own private github.
I am sickened by these interviews.
I love this guy, but mostly he always faces the same stupid questions and therefore has to explain for the 1000th time

- why he could departure from Linux tomorrow and it would still work,

- why he doesn't use the GPLv3,

- how the stand is about hardware support and drivers,

- why he started Linux,

- was it intended,

- did he want to take over the world, ...

it's really always the same.

This guy has deserved more than having to sit in a room full of jerks that abuse him to get answers to questions that he has already answered numerous times and are all out there.
Sad. This is not a generic patent. It only seemed obvious now. Its not something that will stop innovation (as people scream about). A scrollbar implemented without rubber-band effect will do just fine. And why was this never implemented before anyways.

There is all this hype that "Apple is Bad because they sued Samsung". But considering everything, they had no other choice legally. They had to make a case on some grounds, and these 5-6 patents were the only patents they can sue on. What would've you done to protect ideas you spent years refining?
> Lindsay Shaw is a member of the Joyent Marketing and Communications Team.

This says it all really, just a bit of PR to boost awareness of their product...and the HN community has taken the bait.
Or you can just get your own real github on your own servers for $5k/year: https://enterprise.github.com
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Seems like you want to throw the baby with the bath water.

If the project is lacking tests -gasp- that right there is an area you could have contributed.

If the project needs CI, I can tell you, it is not very hard to add. We would be happy to host that.
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I don't have control over it on my work computer.
I would have loved to ask him if he maybe wishes (or regrets) that he'd been more entrepreneurial and raked in billions on some project. Certainly he has the technical talent for it.

I recall reading that when he received the MacArthur prize, he was happy about the money award and said it would go toward his children's college tuition. I had been thinking that he made enough money that that would not have been a problem even worth thinking about for Linus; but apparently not -- he's rich, but not insanely rich.
This costs money, GitLab does not. The benefit is obvious.
And that's why I use the https://mypermissions.com plugin, so my email doesn't end up in places like this.
it's nice but the help popup is extreamly annoying.
Wow, five bucks.

As the saying goes, if you're not paying for the product, you're the product. The new twist here is that the product (i.e., your FaceBook info) is now being sold in the open market for only $5.00/1,000,000, or $0.000005 per person.

Prices normally go down only when supply exceeds demand, so the inescapable conclusion is that there's abundant oversupply of this product in the open market. Yikes!
If you will not acknowledge that this course of action could well increase the class divide, or that widening said divide is bad for everyone, there's not much to be done.

Could you justify this claim? Or is this simply an axiom of yours?

(As an aside, why again is it undesirable to simply help them get running water and schools in their own countries?)

It's not. It's just not as cost effective. Building running water in India is not under our control, nor is it free. Allowing people to live and work in the US has a negative cost - we benefit from their labor, and they benefit from our consistent water supply.

I think those benefits outweigh any liberal angst created by increased inequality (within US borders) and decreased global inequality.
I have Windows 8 (desktop). I cannot express enough how much I DON'T want that version of Skype.

If Skype force me to use their "app" version then I will literally stop using Skype entirely.

I also don't want to be "always on." In fact things like Google's Circles where I can select with greater granularity who I am "on" for is my number one request for Skype. At the moment I am forced to have two Skype accounts, one for home, and one for work for that reason.