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The Linuxes still have different library locations, and things move around as new things get added (e.g. multiarch).

Seriously, get over it and just use autotools.
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Ok, I think it's implicit that her definition of value here has more to do with moral worth than anything measurable like earning capacity, consumption, etc. Therefore, this statement also implies that the reading of the word 'value', when used in the context of human lives, should default to moral worth.
[quote]I've seen more and more research on the benefits of fasting and skipping breakfast[/quote]

Interestingly, even research into eating habits (or at least the way the media picks up and reports on it) appears to be culturally biased, because where I live (Western Europe), there's an almost unrelenting stream of experts telling me how bad skipping breakfeast is. Supposedly it will make you fat, tired, weak and eventually even sick.

It's pretty annoying. I haven't been eating breakfast for almost 20 years without any perceived negative health effects, but every time I tell someone about it I get this lecture about how bad it is to not eat breakfast. This point of view is purely based on conjecture repeated from something people have heard before, never out of personal experience. When it comes to food & health, people really are like sheep, nobody really knows anything about it, but everyone has on opinion, and almost all these opinions are the same, based on 'common sense' and lore, not on scientific facts.

Only 10 years ago common sense said 5 glasses of milk a day were healthy, or bread and cheese for lunch. 1/5th of your diet should consist of dairy products. Today everybody thinks differently. Now counting calories is all the hype, but slowly research is starting to tell us that not all calories are the same in the sense that the kinds of food that contain them are digested differently.

tl;dr: I always get a little frustrated when people start telling me what is or isn't 'healthy' because most people are basically mindlessly repeating what someone else told them. Eating breakfast 'because it's healthy' is one of these things.
People DO realize that Sony is much more then "Playstation"?!
I mean, this article is mostly worried about gaming.. Did the author even look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony ?
>Apple was the most awe-inspiring company in the world under Steve's leadership.

I really don't get the Apple fetish. They make mediocre devices with awful UIs.
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Wow, that is truly unfortunate. How long did it take for that 2GB to be chewed up?
great post! this is what I wish I had as a starting point when I was learning how to get web apps to do work smarter rather than diving straight into celery documentation cause someone told me that would be the way to go!
Relentless pursuit of building the Best possible thing irregardless of silly things like profits, market share and time to market sounds very much like engineers I've run into. As does eschewing standard or off the shelf solutions in favour of something you made yourself since you're obviously much smarter and anything you build yourself will be much better since it will be designed around solving your problem. Not to mention that many engineers I know love building and designing from scratch rather than using something already available, simply because that's much more fun.
They can't afford iphones-5,000yuan(it will be stolen).

Not true. I can see a Samsung Note and an iPhone from where I'm standing in a Shanghai metro carriage. All bar one of the Chinese teachers I work with have an iPhone and they make about a third of what I do per month.

Actually that's only at my M-F job. But iPhones are a majority among the Chinese teachers I work with.

And China, or at least Shanghai, is very, very safe. If you're unlucky you may be pickpocketed but you will not be mugged.
Hindsight for a castratrophic news for http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4786514 , there’s still hope for indie game maker to emerge from development hell, but given with luck, and patience, really one devoted team behind you.
So the fix is to write "Windows Boot Manager" as the descriptive string on affected models. Would that be a problem?
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The ones that think about how closed source software is evil should read it as well.

All forms of software development are fine, as long as the developers manage to have some form of sustained earnings from it, which is not so easy as many think.
I'd guess you need a little bit of RAM, since you need the last y frames, but there is probably not much computation. Just copy line n from n frames back into current new frame. Maybe somebody could make an app, which does it in realtime? Current smartphones should be powerful enough.
If you don't build things covered by patents, you would quite literally never build anything - particularly in the software world, which is riddled with useless patents.

martythemaniak is right - build it first, worry about patents later.
Even on the DSLR front they're innovating quite a bit with their semi-translucent mirror technology. Sure the jury is still out on whether it's a good idea or not, but no one can accuse them of not trying new things.
No lives have different values. Bin Laden != Paul Graham
After reading the article referred to by this, I just had to do this. You know that urge ;)

def osdiscriminator(string):
good = "This is a UNIX box and therefore good"
bad = "This is a Windows box and therefore bad"
unkn = "This is not a box"
boxes = {"Linux" : good,
"SunOS" : good,
"Windows NT" : bad,
"Windows 95" : bad}

if string in boxes:
return boxes[string]
else:
return unkn

Easy to extend, simple and therefore maintainable without any inheritance or GoF design patterns. Oh, and about one minute of work.

Edit for formatting
"Everything about big data is hard: finding data, cleaning it, UI, UX"
Melinda Gates wasn't talking about economic value. I find it difficult to believe that most HN'rs take her statement to mean economic value since, as most people have been pointing out, all lives don't have equivalent financial worth.

The rest of your point, I think, is a very interesting way to look at the value of human life, but it is a crude way of evaluating the worth of humanity purely in the context of financial value.

At the risk of getting touch-feely amongst an audience that is very rational and analytical, there is something sacred and indescribable of all life (not just human) simply because it's not something that we can create from artificial means. This fact, I think, is what makes it hard to say one life is more valuable than another (again, just to be clear, I'm using 'value' as in financial value).
Let's have a look at the immoral gameplay checklist:

Timed energy: Check

Triple Town is free to play forever. Eventually, you will run out of moves, but they replenish for free if you wait a while, and you can also buy more moves with free coins that you earn in-game.

Incentivized ads in-game: Check (wrong for both the player and the advertiser)

Update: we've added a 2-minute mode that you can play free, forever, as much as you want, by watching advertisements in between play sessions.

This is the real price of the game:

If you want to eliminate the move counter altogether, there is a one-time fee for lifetime unlimited moves.

Sorry to be blunt, but make a game with real value - not a casual puzzle game with a limited move energy - and the players will buy it.

For some nice mobile packaged games see Avernum and Avadon, Silversword, Mission Europa or The World Ends With You and Ghost Trick.
Nope! I live with my girlfriend :) You lot seem to be spending a lot on toilet paper!!
Assuming that people will keep reproducing the traditional way, live short lives and free market capitalism will maintain its intellectual dominance in future generations.
What does "scribe" mean in this context?

When I click on the link, it redirects me to http://www.scribd.com/doc/969071/All#full. At a glance, view-source appears to grab each page from http://scribdassets.com. I think Scribd is clearly serving the material from their own site. Is there a different mode for cases where they have permission from the copyright owner?
Thanks! That's exactly why I am writing this series. I plan to take people slowly through everything about asynchronous processing, message queues, handling job processing, etc. Message queues are underused in modern web apps, and I think also not understood as well as they should be. Planning to include plenty of diagrams along the way to help with that.
You are misquoting her. She is in favour of contraception. That gives a woman control over whether her body will become pregnant.

I think you should elaborate. Your view is not very clear.
Gates isn't talking about the value of human lives in terms of money, cost, ROI, investment, consumption, production, or any of the other terms you've used. She's referring to their intrinsic worth and dignity as human beings. That you've constructed such a long comment based on such a misunderstanding is rather worrying.
Do you use those services for music discovery or you stick to what you know already and only after you search for related artists?
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This works without reproduction or short lives.

If you assume human's can live forever then a similar production/consumption cycle will occur.

Free market capitalism need not be the system. This would work equally as well under market socialism (Euro), or just plain socialism (far future).
No, seriously, please just use autotools. It's way better for users and packagers of your library.

If you're not going to do that, then use an alternative that provides the same command-line interface as autotools (so that things like "./configure --prefix=FOO && make -j4 && make install DESTDIR=BAR" still work). As far as I know, there's no such thing as of yet.
I fully understand what she means (I'm not an idiot) - and I think the way people describe "morals" is very vague to the point of being useless, as correct human actions can be easily enforced using other means (for example we have laws not to kill each other - Why? Well you could say it's the moral thing to do - and of course people say that. But it's also such a waste - everyone would live in fear and nothing would get done if this wasn't enforced - Murder is just economically bad, as is fraud, rape, abuse, battery, censorship and many other things - morals need not come into it - not enforcing these protections is more expensive - for more treatment in thinking like this see "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins).

See the problem with the terms "intrinsic worth" and "dignity" is that they are almost meaningless and very fuzzy. What do you mean exactly?

> “All lives have equal value”

Melinda Gates repeatedly emphasized the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s deep belief that all lives have equal value and everyone should be given the same chance.

I've come to the exact same conclusion that she has with harder terms. We need to give people the same chance because if done so - we are all better off.
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That's the same answer as "have we always breathed air?" - no. For a long time our ancestor breathed water. Going even further back, we had neither gills nor lungs and didn't breathe at all.
A cursory search turned up this thread CSDN => http://bbs.csdn.net/topics/370249613 (CSDN being a popular IT forum in China - another one that you may want to research is iteye.com).

According to the author, paid apps are hard to make money off. It appears advertising is the easiest way to monetize apps. Post '#2' has a list of ad networks. Post '#28' enumerates popular Android markets.

As for your second question, it is probably no problem. You just need to sign up with one of the many Chinese equivalents of Paypal. I'm sure there are then ways you can get the funds transferred to your account.
Make brands pay so that they think about what theyre publishing? Ridiculous. Ive got 3 million fans on facebook and my reach has gone from 8 million per week to 2 million. Posting the same type of content ive always posted. Its not a question of posting better things in order to maintain the reach i had before. Ive been doing this for three years and the switch that fb turned off two months ago is just a nasty way of saying thank you to the content generators that gave them billions of pageviews during the past years.
A little trick to spare throw more lines:

return boxes.get(string, unkn)
This fact, I think, is what makes it hard to say one life is more valuable than another

Just last night I said "those Brussels sprouts are worth less than me" by eating them. I don't find it hard at all.
But that will put asymmetric stress on the toilet seat. As an engineer, wearing out one side of the seat more than the other bothers me.
I'm not all that familiar with the field of law but I'm almost sure the "pro bono" work does not compare with the amount of effort that developers put into open source projects.

And even if law is an exception, just consider a lot of other professions, accountants, bankers, managers etc...

How much open-source-equivalent work do they do? How much do they have to do?

What have been the achievements of any of this work for other people (if any)?

Compare that to the things that open source community have achieved, entire billion dollar companies are relying on these technologies that started off as hobbies or what not and are maintained and developed further by the community.

Given the achievements, I think we deserve a lot better than what we are getting.
>there are things Americans perceive as having been that way forever that did not exist at the beginning of the 20th century.

For example, 8 and 10 year old kids used to play free in the streets and come back at home late at night, even in urban areas.

Or, there weren't movies aimed at teenagers and kids (and never-grown-up geeks) like now, until the eighties. All movies were made for everybody.

Two tidbits of freedom-past I learned from a very good article:

http://www.austinchronicle.com/columns/2003-08-22/174046/
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I agree, and remove these sorts of games from my son's devices. We try and steer clear of them in the first place, but its not always obvious.

Hayday was the last one, and I carefully explained the extortionate business model before doing it. I enjoyed and appreciate Hayday but t'aint no way I'm going to get either of us into that open-ended financial sink.
... there is something sacred and indescribable of all life (not just human) simply because it's not something that we can create from artificial means...

In the future, people may find ways to create life from artificial means, and that does not make life any less sacred. So please don't try too hard to find a reason behind holding life sacred.
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No sarcasm here, I'm simply looking at things from your point of view, based on speculation and acts of faith.

Looking through your comments on other threads I can see that you clearly have an "agenda" against MBA grads. Looks like a smart way of using your time. Good luck with that <- this, sarcasm.
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>A larger ecosystem. People writing android programs for the Chinese market will probably also upload them to Google's stores.

Don't bet on it. Most of those will be highly localized, and those people, mainly Chinese, would have to jump through hoops to get them on Google stores for not much benefit.

In fact, Google does not make much, if anything at all from the whole Android thing, Samsung makes a killing though.
On a wholly irrelevant side note, Daniel Cook looks like my identical twin. I didn't make the connection with Triple Town and got a nasty fright when I clicked on the link.
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>More interesting (for Google) is that 90% of Chinese people don't buy Windows and iOS phones.

70% of people in the west doesn't buy Windows (nobody buys Windows phones, period), or iOS phones anyway.

So, it's not much surprise that Android does well in a much poorer market. It always catered mostly to the lower end of the market in the west too.
All lives should have equal value, maybe.
Wow, and a crazy trolling biblical comment on it already, saying that people in the third world must deserve what they get because their idle ... amazing.
When I went to a starbucks in NY recently (I'm British), I ordered a medium-sized tea, and got given a tent-sized teabag sufficient for a very large teapot. It made the tea extremely nasty, presumably in aid of a quantity=quality impression.
I'm using a nightly that's reasonably stable but occasionally freezes the browser when typing in input boxes
Reminds me of Linus Torvalds. He works on top of a kernel he has (initially) written himself, using a VCS he has (initially) written himself, and using an ancient heavily-customized editor [0,1]. Somehow his tools are more successful than Pike's. However, I doubt we could convince Torvalds to create a programming language.

[0] https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/iySKQGtkmtb
[1] http://git.kernel.org/?p=editors/uemacs/uemacs.git;a=summary
It is. I just happened to be one of the earlies adopters, provided some feedback and received 5$ voucher... I know this task is much more sophisticated but just for I just post it to let is off my head, to resonate :)

<there is also £10 cheque for the most hardcore hacker>
You haven't come to the "exact same conclusion" that she has. You've come to a different conclusion that just appears to you to be the same because it has the potential for the same outcome.

(Edit: added "potential for the same outcome")
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>No, mostly not. At least not without help from regional oligarchs or colonialists.

Those two types tend to be at best relationships with new "enterpreneurs" in the areas.

>There's very little utility to the west in most of Africa being poor. Like, most of sub-saharan Africa isn't especially resource rich, their food production isn't very efficient so we don't source much of that, nor do we outsource much labor there.

Well, I wouldn't be so sure.

See Shell and Nigeria, Congo and blood diamonds, C.A.R, etc. Things like this: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/inside-france...

And the West might not get much utility of some particular African states being poor, but it gets much utility of them not being richer and stronger: it gets to keep the nearby states at the status quo it wants. A stronger sub-saharan state might alter the power status in the region for states the west _does_ get utility from. It's for that very reason that the West would never allow some "pan-african" federation to operate freely.
Calm down there Hulkomania, this article is very clearly written from the perspective of the British Isles, and the Romans were kinda a big deal there.

Before you start implying people are trying to "seem clever", maybe check that your indignation hasn't blinded you to the patently bloody obvious.
I'm jealous of the depth of single subject knowledge they have.

But, my day job requires a T shaped employee with really long arms.
Iced tea is awesome! Especially when done right, with lemon and honey. I grew up in Miami and getting iced tea on a hot (32+) day was godsent.
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can you elaborate on the PCBs ?
Just wondering what "Japanese layout style" means. Too many layers ? Not crowded enought ?
How is it different? Both actions amount to the same thing don't they - protect and help the poor to make us all better off. The reasons may be different - but the outcome is the same, isn't it? If both theories produce equivalent actions, then the theories are equivalent, no?
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I am anxiously awaiting an update to the Podcast app which fixes the issues that I am having, but perhaps I'm too optimistic. I listen to some podcasts from the BBC and the app doesn't recognise that a new daily show with the same name is new, the only way around it I have found is to delete my subscription and manually find the podcast every morning. Apart from that the thing crashes and runs very slowly at times.
He's wrong.

For starters, there's this assertion: "The far-fetched version is to use back holes as power sources [1] as this is, as far as I've read anyway, the only remotely viable method of providing propulsion without reaction mass to speak of and reaction mass is the death of any form of interstellar propulsion."

Not true. We can definitely build something with today's technology that allows for propulsion without reaction mass: light-sails pushed by lasers[1]. I can address some of his other points but it's not necessary. If you crunch the numbers, it should be doable to travel to another star in about 150 years.

[1] See Humble's canonical text on space propulsion design:
http://www.amazon.com/Propulsion-Analysis-Design-Ronald-Humb...
Nice clear introduction.

You can write a simple Async DB system without running into deadlocks. Deadlocks tend to occur when you have 2 processes trying to lock 2 different resources in differing orders. Not a case you'll run into here.

Also, you could do something like (correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it should be safe):

update queue set owner = '1_time_use_rand_key' where owner is null order by id limit 1;

Not that I'm advocating this, you should definitely use a proper system to manage these types of tasks! :)
So what is the problem they are trying to solve by looking at the boot entry description?

If you want to detect malware, I dont think looking up the boot entry description will do it. Malware do not say "I am a malware, press me to be infected!". It is however a excellent way to prevent competition between operative systems.
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This. We had a client complain that their password failed validation using IE7. Even simple passwords that should pass failed.

Turned out to be an IE7 specific regex bug (a look ahead bug), that we couldn't replicate using IE8 and IE9 set to IE7 compat mode.

Tracked down a copy of XP with IE7 and replicated the bug. Which led me to Google regex bugs related to IE7 and managed to track down the exact issue.
Because Alfred is basically a replacement for Spotlight, so I just use Alfred instead.
It does not matter which is fastest as long as both continue to make performance improvements where possible. We now have great performance from JavaScript (a key technology) in all modern browsers - which is the good news.
I'll take 1% ;)
Yes the first flatscreens were rubbish and for interlace SD video the best type of screen is a CRT (the screen, the encoding and the transmission technology were all built around each other to actually gain benefit from the weaknesses).

However the deinterlacing, upconversion and motion interpolation are massively different now to the first models. Plus content is available in HD (progressive) formats and you can get 1080P models.

A 40" LCD can be moved by one person and a 36"CRT would probably need two people to move it at all, was full of nasty chemicals, used more power and takes up more space in the room. If you still have a CRT that you use much it is probably worth replacing it, the phosphors will be substantially diminished in brightness so power consumption will need to be higher to achieve the same colours/brightness as before and HD video is truly here now.

Progress is amazing (even if there are the odd dips on the way). I joined Sony just as they were killing the non flat screen products.