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The system is not "broken and completely f* cked up." Certain aspects are dysfunctional (as one would reasonably expect given the extent to which technological progress exceeds legislative progress), but you cannot impute those specific flaws onto the system as a whole. It's like saying democracy is "broken and completely f* cked up" because one particular elected official was found to be corrupt. Give it a rest already.
Hi Slava, thanks for that. I'm really excited about rethink and am really looking forward to using it in a serious project.
I got comfortable with 2 spaces over 4-space tab since it was the accepted coding standard for Ruby at my previous job. The habit carried over to Python and I now find it more succinct and clear.
"...why it’s essential that the internet remains free of government regulation"

The internet just gets switched off or blocked in some instances, we've all seen it before. China, Iran, Egypt.

You don't control the infrastructure or the pipe in, the government does.

Even here in South Africa, I wonder at which point they will switch it off. It's not ours.
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I had a colleague that was trying to buy an expensive stereo in a store in Zurich once. He was just about to choose the model when a bell rang.

"I am sorry, it is 5pm. You must leave the store now."
This is little more than a puff-piece. Zero technical details, aside from the fact that the Hamas rockets are unguided, slow and World War 2 technology.

If true, the 85% intercept rate is pretty miraculous compared to (older) US technology. But even after reading the article (which does have the title given on HN), we're left wondering "how?"
I'm amazed we haven't seen some developer say screw it and build thing using Twitters own keys. There have been multiple instances of them being published over the last couple of years, and I'm having trouble seeing what incentive a dev has not to just use them.

If you're working against Twitters interest already then why not go for broke?
best way to help the Palestinians currently is give them cameras, ways to publish their stories

I've seen lots of videos like that on youtube and read lots of stories like that over the years. It doesn't seem to be helping.

far better than firing rockets and killing innocent people at the other end.

There are 2.5 million people living in Gaza. Do you expect every single one of them to agree with you? And if you don't have perfect consensus from all 2.5 million, can your plan still work? Because it seems to me that if even a small number reject your plan and fire a few $100 rockets, the non-violent efforts of the rest will be ignored and they'll be tarred with rocketers. Right?
Herbert Hoover was a huge activist big government Keynesian.
> we're building a service that helps techie folks to provide tech support for their friends and family remotely without the need for remote desktop

What is the thinking behind that? The appeal of remote desktops is that "show me" is orders of magnitude more efficient than "tell me". I would take the remote desktop every time.

The usual problem with remote desktops is they are a pain to setup. This is somewhat alleviated by Skype doing screen sharing, but sadly doesn't allow remote interaction.

Chrome's remote desktop has worked really for me, and does allow remote interaction. It does require Chrome to be installed on the supportee's system and one extension installed, but I haven't found that to be a problem. https://chrome.google.com/remotedesktop for anyone who is interested.

So do you have something in mind that is even more efficient than "show me" and remote desktops?
nope, not the regular kind of conflict at all: for a large portion of our history the greater power would obliterate all resistance in the hostile territory, then settle the area with their own population. The Israelis are showing remarkable restraint.

The land was sparsely inhabited when the Israelis formed their own nation. They spent time, money, and effort making it a better place to live. The Palestinians should call it a day and agree to a truce, before Israel gets serious and wipes them out completely.
What you're praising, and what this proposal can lead to, is the exact opposite of "moderate".
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https://www.filepicker.io ?
I just hooked my shell to my frontal lobe. I find aliases to be restricting.
If they do that, the only thing to say is "good bye, and the 'good' ia there for politeness' sake only". Never ever talk to them again and if you have time, write most nasty review on them on any site that takes reviews (of course, tell the truth, but don't be shy about it). This would be good both for you and for the environment - sleazeballs should not be rewarded.

Fortunately, my experience shows there are honest dealers that do not renege on their promises and respect both themselves and their customer. Even in this business, notorious for some bad apples, there are also decent ones.
This is a _Republican Study Group paper_ that argues for the reform of a critically important regulatory system because --- and they lead with this --- it "Retard[s] the creation of a robust DJ/Remix industry".

I mean I'm not arguing, it's just hard to take that seriously as a Republican policy position. How big is the "DJ/Remix industry"? How big could it ever be? We have empirical evidence, because (according to this paper) other countries have robust DJ/Remix industries.

The reforms at the end of this paper all seem totally sensible. It'd be great if this stuff happened. But be honest: even if we adopted every single reform in the paper, most infringers today would remain infringers, their liability would still be denominated in the tens of thousands of dollars, and it would remain just as illegal as it is today to run businesses predicated on copyright evasion.
I think you are reading a bit much into the use of "Republican" in the blog title. Headlines all the time are written in the form of "Democrats say..." or "Republicans report ..." and so on. No one gets confused into thinking that that some sort of roll-call vote has been taken or that a 'consensus' has been reached by all party members.
I'm sure their political consultants are watching very closely how this gets picked up in the social media, particularly by those who are identified as thought leaders.

Seriously, a tweet like "Wow maybe the Republicans aren't so corrupt and stupid after all [link] please RT" could make a noiceable difference in the behavior of Lamar Smith and his ilk.
All of the insurgents in these conflicts have been armed by third parties.

The Vietcong got weapons and supplies from China and Cambodia, the Afghani insurgents got weapons and supplies from the US to fight the Soviets (including explosives [1]), and the current Iraqi insurgents get money and supplies from extremists all over the place, mostly from the Emirates (afaik).

All of these fighters did not build their own weapons and skills out of nothing.

[1] "Other CIA specialists and military officers supplied secure communications gear and trained Pakistani instructors on how to use it. Experts on psychological warfare brought propaganda and books. Demolitions experts gave instructions on the explosives needed to destroy key targets such as bridges, tunnels and fuel depots. They also supplied chemical and electronic timing devices and remote control switches for delayed bombs and rockets that could be shot without a mujaheddin rebel present at the firing site. " http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/pol/wtc/oblnus091401.html
Wait, so if you say the likely equilibrium is no violence at all, what's bad about it? If violence-suppliers form a cartel and people are happy about the way it serves them - what's wrong with that? If some become unhappy, they do 2 things: stop paying their monthly fees and seek a new company to protect them (which will inevitably emerge, because there's a demand).

On a side note, libertarians call violence suppliers "private protection agencies". Reflects their nature better, since we agreed that the equilibrium status quo would be no violence.
Thanks for the feedback on that. Maybe we need to rethink the name for that package. Now that you point that out, I can see how that can be confusing.
You're wrong. The USPTO has an obligation to review any prior art that raises a substantial new question of patentability, even if the patent has already issued. Post-issuance, any person can request ex parte re-examination (even anonymously), and the cost is $2,520. That's a couple orders of magnitude cheaper than you asserted, so in the future, please refrain from commenting on matters about which you know nothing.
I upvoted you for admitting upthread you mis-understood the premise of the conversation. Its probably best to leave it at that.
Daigou, a novel e-commerce business model, is an intriguing Chinese export
Are any current Republican politicians socially apathetic? I can't think of a single example. It doesn't seem like that's a viable way to mobilize the conservative base in any part of the country right now. Jon Huntsman tried to run a campaign that wasn't so extreme on social policy and look how that turned out.
Obviously the "DJ/Remix" industry is just an example of something that (it's hoped) a wide audience can relate to. I think it's a trial balloon to see if there's any chance of finding a new issue on which the party can resonate positively with younger voters.
The TSA does two things successfully:

* It is a large-scale jobs program

* The more intrusive security theater is, the better a CYA effect it provides. Up until the next terrorist attack is conducted by some sufficiently determined group.

Nothing will change.
I could just as easily say that whenever one argues with a non-libertarian, he or she lays out an endless series of straw men.

See how that works?
"Your argument doesn't accurately represent my viewpoint" is what both No True Scotsman and straw men are about. So rather than opting out of an argument by calling "logical fallacy" on someone, why not clear up the definitions and be sure of what each other are talking about?
"Throwing Hollywood under the bus could pay dividends for GOP"

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/01/throwing-hollywoo...

Republicans have suggested pivoting their platform in a free-internet direction.
If somebody who I don't know would suddenly eagerly want be my friend, first thing I'd do is to check if my wallet is still where it should be. Next thing I'd consider how rude I'd have to be to get rid of this wacko. I think "I want to sell you a car for the best price that you can pay while also making a little profit" would work much better on me.
> It prevents most of the money in circulation from accumulating in the hands of a very small number of individuals.

Like Bill Gates, the richest American? Oh wait, he didn't inherit that money. Ooops.
Had you asked about the death of ~500 Palestinian civillians and ~700 Hamas members in exchange for the improved safety of Israelis under the given conditions, my answer would be yes. I can't really explain it over HN comments though.

I've skimmed through the page linked, couldn't find anything relevant to the current situation. I might read further, thanks for sharing.
Twitter doesn't have to subtract 100 characters if I post a URL that is 100 characters; it could automagically shorten it or not count against the 140 at all. Instead, I am forced to manually use bit.ly to shorten it.

It doesn't subtract URLs at character value; it does automagically shorten URLs to a uniform tax. A bit.ly link will digest just as many characters from the tweet as a 1024 character link -- 20 characters per link. Not a recent development.
Then the browser localizes for you what it can and you'll get a very ugly-looking page that is almost all in e.g. French and dates in English. Seen that with some CMS which auto-localize their UI but not content, obviously.
This is a weird headline. Part of the issue wasn't that he didn't know how to secure it, it's about doing it relatively in plain sight when as many people are watching as must be when you're the head of the CIA.
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How seriously should anyone take an economical argument based on the dollar losing "99% of it's value" since 1913? The purchasing power of the average American has in the last 100 years increased by over 200%. And this is one of Paul's key arguments.
> By extension any woman who suffers a miscarriage is a murderer

With all respect, this is not "extension", but rather "gross distortion".

> It prevents most of the money in circulation from accumulating in the hands of a very small number of individuals.

What if such accumulation was just? Would it still be wrong? If yes, then why? If no, then what's the problem? Shouldn't we worry about making game rules fair, rather than making sure outcomes are "equalized"?
Kurio Kids Tablet with Android 4.0 - 7-Inch 4 GB
The Kurio was a gift from my parents to our 10 year old son - who thinks they are the coolest people in the planet! He absolutely loves it - and so do we. From our point of view, we love the fact that we can control what content he sees, when he sees it and for how long (that is a GREAT feature!). The initial set up was pretty straight forward (once connected to WiFi - things just `flow'), it took about 10 minutes for my husband (he is an engineer) to get the tablet up and running for him. We did go back at it later and tweak some of the configuration to make sure we had all our bases covered in terms of what he has access to. Again - this secondary set up was pretty straight forward. Once we gave him to him - it took him a little while to figure out the controls/hand gestures - and well - he has been loving it since. The preloaded apps/games have kept him entertained from the beginning, and then we looked for new ones (we wanted a few educational games on there). He has enjoyed those as well, and now he is able to search and download what he wants (within the limits we stipulated).
We have looked at the non-child interface (we followed the instructions to activate the full Android interface - and we can see that it is useful for adults too. Basically it seems to operate in the same way as a normal Android tablet. That is a great option too!) The tablet itself seems to be well constructed, and we have spoken to him about taking care of it (don't drop it, clean your hands before use, etc.) so that it lasts long. We were a little bit disappointed that we could not find the Google Play store on it, but this was easily remedied by installing the Amazon app store instead (Little Piano is a huge hit!). So really - this is a minor point. Our son loves his Kurio and we are very happy with the level of control that we have over what content he can access. We cannot really ask for more!
>I'd rather pull in libapr and apr-util.

I haven't checked recently, but the problem with APR was for so many years it had (possibly still has) no documentation other than Doxygen. Also, the memory pool design seemed an enormous complication. Have you used it recently and have either of those factors improved much?
That's not what a conflict of interests is. There's only one interest there.

Things are going to get very tiresome if everybody is going to be expected to preface every published opinion with their entire background so you can decide whether their argument has merit without reading it.
How Obama’s tech team helped deliver the 2012 election
Their P/E is astronomical because their business model is based on buying market share. If you don't think that's a valid strategy, you don't invest in AMZN at all.

Would that it were true that you could simply compare tech companies by P/E to get a read on how "jazzed" the market is about a company, but Amazon and Apple are great illustrations of why you can't.
Ah, didn't know. I'll maintain that this is an even more random way of dealing with this and in my case, even worse since bitly links aren't even 20 characters. That there should even be such a thing as a URL tax is crazy.
Libertarianism is just as much a patch-work of different beliefs as any of the party ideologies. There is a huge internal inconsistency, for example, between it's reliance on economic theories with its embrace of "natural rights" approaches to freedom of action.

Libertarians deeply want to believe that we live in a world where you can leave people free to transact freely in a free market, and that will maximize total value. And economic theory tells us that isn't true.

Once that ideological purity is lost to brutal reality, libertarians are stuck fighting in the mud like the rest of us: arguing over which particular bits of government intervention maximize value without much in the way of theoretical projections or empirical proof.
Show HN: Trckstr an app that converts revision notes into audio
Hi, I'm 18 still studying. I began recording my revision notes and listening to them on the bus and train repeatedly. I realized that I learn well by listening. I began sending these recordings to my friends and soon realized that this would probably be useful to all students. So here it is:

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PS - Please tell me what you think about the concept.
For me the date picker appeared on my secondary monitor when the chrome window was on my primary monitor.
I think scarmig means that the equilibrium would be a monopoly which would then take the role of government. And in fact, on an international scale, there's an oligopoly violence suppliers, it's just that they're not "private", but "public".
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I'm giving the Win RT Surface 5 stars; it is a great product, with a terrific build quality and some serious usability innovation. All in all I think MS is now very well positioned to compete with iPads and Android tablets.
Yep, so if you put this on, make sure you override it back in the Markdown-specific settings.
Wireless charging blazes path toward mainstream
I think this is getting to semantics, but revealing semantics. I would say a situation where "violence-suppliers form a cartel and people are happy about the way it serves them" to be a wordy way of saying the State. And the same agglomerating forces that lead to a cartel in the first place make it difficult for another violence-supplier to appear: if it offers a better deal to customers than what the cartel is offering, the cartel will point its guns at it and say, "are you sure? You should reconsider."

That's why "private protection agencies" really doesn't get at their nature: being plural is contradictory with having a single cartel supplier of violence. And it's hard to say "private from whom" when there's only one party you negotiate with. And when you're negotiating for protection from violence with the only likely source of that violence... the word racket comes to mind better than protection agency.
Huh. That would certainly make me think more favorably of Republicans, and it fits with the older, more moderate Republican concept of "less government involvement". There's a ways to go on some other topics, though.

It might seem to be an anti-business angle, but the music business is shrinking rapidly and it's kind of like kicking a ball while it still has a bit of air in it.
you do realize that is a valid argument though, right?
The core concept of the no true scotsman argument is the wishy-washy definition of what is being debated. He isn't a true scotsman because a true scotsman would wear a kilt!
something like that.
If the definition of scotsman is "wears a kilt" the same way a libertarian would say "pure free market" then it is totally valid.
You're right. Again, gah. I forgot Groups, because Google "disappeared" it!
Let's break down the absurdity of this situation.

There is a likelihood of falsified tests despite the fact that the machines were "tested by a third party".

Why? Because “before [a test] gets underway, we might believe the system is on one configuration when it’s not in that configuration.”

So the "third-party" that's responsible for testing this isn't actually auditing that the revised software is running, they're relying on the vendor's configuration and asking them to show them the output.

What could possibly go wrong?

Especially with a deal where the first order was for $90,000,000 worth of these machines? And, the former Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff's firm is doing "consulting work" that is vehemently written off by the vendor as "unrelated".

Give me a !@%$!@ break, as long as our government is run by fellow humans we can't expect them not to be as self-interested, greedy, and tribally protective as the rest of us.
Maybe you should, you know, download Sublime and try it out? The settings are stored similarly to Vim.
None of which is relevant to the original assertion, which was that defeating a modern army requires heavy armor (which we can use for discussion purposes as a proxy for the complete spectrum of modern, high-tech weapons) rather than small arms. The Chinese weren't funneling tanks to the Viet Cong, and the US wasn't funneling A-10s to the Afghan insurgents. It was small arms and man-portable weapons like mortars and MANPADs.

And while those armies did eventually get arms supplies from abroad, in their early days they had to improvise. Viet Cong fighters early in that war, for instance, had to scrounge old French weapons or even homemade shotguns fashioned from galvanized pipe. The Iraqis' first IEDs were jerry-rigged artillery shells lifted from abandoned army depots. The foreign arms pipelines generally don't open up for a revolutionary army until it's proven it can fight and win at a small scale on its own.
You are obviously talking about Palestinians attacking innocent civilians by launching hundreds of rockets into densely populated Israeli urban areas, right?
They absolutely can't. Yes, you are right.

The alternatives? Two state solution needs to go ahead. But Israel seems to be in full steam to stop the current UN bid. At the same time they don't want a one state solution either(Which more or less is sort of inevitable now).

Their neighbors don't love them much. No matter who they are, the rulers of those nations might, out of force. And that more or less is only to save their seats. But Arab spring has proven nothing is permanent. Egypt only looked super pro Israel under Mubarak and now is super pro Palestine just months after.

Absolutely the worst sort of geographical location to be and form your nation. Unless you want to be in a perpetual state of war, crisis and fighting. Yes Israel seems to have an upper hand in military wise currently, but as I said what is permanent? But Israel was not formed to be in an infinite state of war, but for Jews around the world to live in peace and without fear.

A big deadlock situation, dominated by massive distrust between both parties.
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"Design patents are only granted if the design is novel and not obvious for all items"

Are you saying this is wrong? Does it not reflect the current state of things?

"it is now unquestionable that the nonobviousness requirement applies to both utility and design patents."

The article seems to very clearly explain that novelty is a requirement for design patents. The authors think that should not be the case, but recognize that currently it is. Did you read the article?

Are you conceding that the page turning animations described in this design patent are not novel? It seems to me that you are conceding that it is not novel, but wish that were not a requirement.
We're been really focused on the office manager specifically. What things drive that person crazy. Showroom is our first stab at easing that pain of moving. Lots more to come.
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