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@math0ne: It seems like you've been hell-banned since your first post 4 1/2 years ago.
Going to court against single users over fantastillions of dollars didn't prove effective for the RIAA/MPAA, and going after the hosters in court didn't prove effective. The methods employed there were bad enough.

It is frightening to see that their new weapon of choice is essentially a sort of collusion with monopolists (or oligopolists) in the ISP market. I'm sure them messing with basic infrastructure in the name of profit, ah, sorry, "justice", will work out really well for the rest of us...
Indeed. Maybe focusing on alternative desktops could even be turned into an advantage for the BSDs.
I think I'm more curious about what they need 1500 people for. That blows my mind.
How would any of that help? TSA workers are not allowed to administer anything and do not have power of arrest (they supposed to call law enforcement if somebody needs to be arrested). BA in liberal arts may help if they want to discuss Renaissance music on a slow shift, but in their direct responsibilities it would be completely useless.
As for psychology, you don't need major insights in human psychology to look at naked scanner pictures, and profiling is either completely taboo for political correctness reasons or in case it is still secretly allowed it is not done by rank TSA workers, for the same reasons.
Apple Wins Patent for Digital Page Turns
Nonsensical article: In the game of big numbers Linux is almost irrelevant in the Desktop as well, but it is winning like crazy in the server market, where BSD could compete.

So BSD is being marginalized for other reasons, not desktop software.
We are talking about a five hundred year time line. As I mentioned in my post, there will be massive reductions in the cost to orbit and back. Hell, we are already witnessing the very beginnings of this phenomenon with SpaceX.

Certainly in five hundred years time, and possibly just in a few decades, it will make about as much economic sense to import rare materials from orbit as it now does to import them from China.

Also, I'm making this argument primarily to counter concerns of material scarcity brought up by cletus. As I stated above, with this time span, I think we will likely have developed molecular assemblers and disassemblers, leading to essentially programmable matter and perfect recycling, which would lessen our need for materials.

You could also make the case that super realistic VR systems would drastically reduce our demand for materials. After all, who needs to buy an actual Porsche when they can just close their eyes and have an experience much better than the real thing.
"Well, the question is how long OpenBSD will continue to survive without a modern desktop version."

How long will Cisco IOS continue to survive without a modern desktop version?

Even our most die-hard OpenBSD "everywhere" fanatics (and we have a number of them) don't run it as their Desktop OS, and have never suggested you should. OpenBSD is a server/router/network service OS.

OpenBSD has found it's sweet spot. It owns the market for stable, well defined, well documented, consistent, x86 Firewalls and secure servers. People need to realize that trying to shove OpenBSD onto the desktop is the ultimate case of square peg/round hole.
Fake “Apple Inc” apps end up on Google Play Market for Android
Excuse the naive question, but how does one detect intrusion when using bi-key authentication ?
Global warming hasn't stopped. Any easy-to-find factual article refutes that particular canard quite easily. Here's one: http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-19...
But their job is not to profile. Their job is to not let the nail clippers pass. Profiling in not PC, and would lead their superiors in trouble with the press. If they were allowed to profile, we won't hear any stories about five year old girls being groped and ninety year old grandmas given strip searches because their dentures looked suspicious. Judging from their actions, they have very little leeway in deciding what is dangerous and what is not. They never talk to people, never make contact with them for more than a split second, and mostly rely purely on either technology or good old groping. You do not need psychology degree for that.
The entire review was about the hardware specs. The conclusion, ultrabooks are better because they are roughly the same hardware and they are 10% cheaper.

No discussion of purchasing experience, user experience, app eco system, media asset management, and interoperability with other devices like phones, tables, and televisions, etc.
Nice, I've been looking forward to seeing games like this.
This all makes sense, if you think of the future as a linear progression. Technology however, progresses exponentially (I don't want explicitly invoke Kurzweil here because his theories have their own faults, but the exponential part he gets right). That means 500 years from now, we will probably have solved the problem of survival. We will probably be much more intelligent, not have to work, almost certainly beexploring space etc.

There's almost no way to try to predict what life will be like in 500 years (try the predictions people had 500 years ago!). When I think about this, the most interesting questions are philosophical. If ou didn't have to die and could simulate whatever pleasure you desire whenever you want to, what will the point of living be? What will the definition of a human, a life and consciousness be if you can simulate/augment it using computers?
WORLD WAR 3 UPDATE, GAZA AND US PRESSI
Companies forced to share customers' information on buying patterns
I think this is very suitable description of today's HN - I'd just love this to emphasized more clearly, since it seems like a common mistake to believe that HN is about actual ground-breaking stuff. It's not even if it were ment to be just that.

I must say that I agree with people stating that people should present their creative works here, with the intention of getting feedback of the product - How is it any relevant for any other HN reader (than OP), that we praise him/her as a person, rather than the product? The FAQ states, that relevant information is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" - Of course that's a quite vague definition, but still this is hardly intellectually stimulating.
Perhaps my comment was too long.

1. I posit that without desktop support, OpenBSD will continue to lose upstream support, including support for packages related to network services,

2. and that this might eventually kill OpenBSD, because they don't have the resources to continue reimplementing their own version of everything, as they have with e.g. httpd and smtpd,

3. and that OpenBSD already has nearly nonexistent support in a new, rapidly growing server market (VPS).
I think the opportunity Twitter is leaving behind won't pay off for Twitter's investors, but it is enough to be worth Dalton's time and effort to scoop up in Twitter's wake.
Already been done, see status.net/identi.ca
Not sure what was doing, but it was kind of fun. What I'm really hoping for now is multi-player pong (with up to 32 rotating pong bats).
Looks like we will be seeing Android 4.2.1 very soon
Someone should build a decentralized (p2p-based?) alternative to twitter/reddit.

This way we will finally have something we can settle on, we will have multiple competing clients and no censorship or arbitrary rules, and no monetization.

Only problem is that it may be a harder technical problem than it sounds.
Doesn't read-write on a hard drive generally scale with linear density? Twice as fast to read, half as fast to read the entire disk.
I'm not really sure that's a bad thing??
My bad, I thought this was a separate point.
If you don't get paid, it's not a job.
Ingress proves once again: Google gets its users
ARM is even worse when it comes to binary blobs. Take a look at any major SoC out there and you will see BLOBs for the LAN and graphics interfaces. Occasionally boot firmware is a BLOB as well.

We need a completely open patent unencumbered platform as well as software. Unfortunately the barrier to entry on this is seriously high; much larger than even bringing medicine to market.
I'm only curious here, but how do you have so much insight into the operations of the TSA?
Incoming iOS advert: "Supports all months, January to December"
Wow, yeah. That's a much more dramatic demonstration. Looks great though, once it warms up.
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It all depends on political culture. If the voters for the small parties are community-minded enough to not let their representatives go too far - it may work. If not - it would be a mess. "Constituents to be heard" can mean very different things - from actual concerns of minority to pure and overt bribery. It sometimes comes to minor parties openly saying "if you don't give us one minister post, X percent of the budget and except our constituency from Y legislation that hurts their pockets - we won't vote with you". Of course, it happens in 2-party system too - see what happens with unions and other "vote contractors".

>> In a system like this, the ruling party can still lead just fine

The whole point that it can't without a stable majority. You need majority to pass budgets, appropriations, appoint officials, etc. And if your opponents can get a majority - even temporary - they can pass a law dissolving the government and declaring new elections at any time they think they'd have advantage. Imagine something bad happening on your watch and next week opposition declaring you are at fault and calling for new elections because they think now the vote will swing their way. If the citizens are willing to accept this kind of games - and in many countries they frequently are - it will work. It sounds cynical, but I have seen such things happen. It is exactly as disgusting as you think it is, but it is what it is.
Indeed. Not like the VIDC that they used to ship before they were spun off from Acorn.

I wish someone would solve this problem with an open source graphics core that is ARM bus compatible.
I see, this sounds very likely. It seems like this is irresponsible on the part of the therapist to essentially disclose a patient list to a third party. Do you know if there is any kind of legislation about this?
Yes.

http://rcs.seerinteractive.com/money/
I always wondering if its monetization that people are criticizing or the path. Perhaps it is a bit of both. If people have something they like, and it was 'free', and you ask them to start paying for it, well they are going to grumble. And economics tells us that for some there is no amount of money they would 'pay' to be part of the twitter universe. So those people will leave in a huff and complain loudly.

But more interestingly for me it seems that the way they have gone about this seems like they are trying to piss people off. Their actions have the same sort of uncomfortable feeling around them that you get when a sensitive relative asks how you like their plaid and striped outfit. The words conflict with the reality and its clear to everyone that is the case.

So why doesn't Twitter just charge for API access? $X per K API calls? They charged for the 'firehose' (too much though, nobody seems to want to pay that much) but still. It may be there is no pricing model underwhich the current company can survive, perhaps its the tech equivalent of Hostess.

For me is it always comes back to what they want to be, what is their "mission" statement? Is their mission to be real time news? Is it to be social situational awareness? Is it to be a highly focussed advertising channel? A club house? I wonder if they have a mission, does it tell them what to do next? If not why not?

Yes, I'm just as confused by them as everyone else.
I thought those were centrally hosted (aka, you can set up your own instance, but you're not serving as a peer server on one big network), and business-backed too? And not handling anything like the traffic of Twitter.
Fair point, but Cisco IOS is supported by a large company with deep pockets and a vested interest in its continued development. And, OpenBSD is far more complex than IOS; it has a much larger problem set to solve.

Also, I'm not arguing that OpenBSD needs to compete as a desktop OS. I agree that that is not its niche. But I am arguing that without a desktop presence, upstream support for OpenBSD will continue to diminish, and at some point that is going to seriously harm the project. Today, it's Gnome; imagine if tomorrow the Samba team decided that future versions of smbd would require systemd, and justified their decision by saying, "Well, it's not like the BSDs have been active on our mailing list." What does OpenBSD do then?

At what point does their niche become too small to sustain the project?
Is this still scheduled to occur? I'm in the area and would love to meet up. How many ppl are likely going to show up?
> It was kind of Charlie Stross to take time out from writing his latest novel to post the interesting blog post shared here.

I think it's an interesting topic, so I'm glad that it got posted, but let's not get TOO fawning - since when is it "kind" to submit a link to your own blog? Stross wants readership and book buyers - posting a link here makes as much sense for him as it does for any other entrepreneur with a product to sell.
An Attempt to Get More Users
Thanks a lot for your thorough reply.

You certainly have a point that the kind of discrimination that nerds receive is in no way comparative to what homosexuals have to put up with. Gay people get killed just for their sexual orientation alone, and that is certainly not comparable to the bullying nerds receive.

But it was not my intention to claim that these two are the same, and if you got that from the "thought experiment" I described you misunderstood me. Still, I hope I haven't hurt anyone's feelings, yours or some other reader's, with what I wrote. My point was not so much to say "both groups are exactly equal in the discrimination they experience", but rather to raise awareness that there is, in fact, discrimination happening against nerds. People today are more sensitive to gay rights, and imagining that an article was about gays rather than nerds might help illustrate potential problems in that article.

That said, let me point out one more time that I do not think that this particular article is especially bad. I've written it before that for the most part it is a fair depecition, yet it cannot resist the temptation to throw in some of the same old cliches that are well-suited to manifest a certain discriminatory picture of nerds.

If you are right and the number of flattering articles is improving all the time, that would be a very welcome development. I certainly hope for it. But that doesn't mean we should accept anything less than that. I am not sure I agree with your assessment of people's opinions in the wider world, but even if it was a minority that discriminated it would not be acceptable.
When did the word 'extractive' become the opposite of the word 'inclusive' anyway?
If you want to change policy, there are two routes you can go I think. Proving false negatives is one way, since it proves them worthless, but making false positives skyrocket could be another method. If they simply become an unworkable solution people will call for change just as well.
Reads like a fair extrapolation of the past 500 years. Although, assuming everybody adapted to climate change, the unknown unknowns are possibly underestimated. With 2000 gt more CO2 this is a completely different planet and there might be no technical solutions to the full spectrum of rising social tenses, when a billion people and their jobs are forced to move, because of rising sea level or too much or too less rain. To develop sophisticated solutions like synthetic biology you need places where weather is of no concern and only a few places will remain when temperatures rise by 4 and more centigrades.

So in short C. Stross painted a rosy future where technology - like in the past - solves everything. But he overlooked game changers like the permafrost bomb, a burning Amazon rain-forest and all upcoming social implications.

I'll give an example: In 2010 the jet streams stucked over South Russia and Pakistan and brought heat over Russian fields and devastating floods in Pakistan. As a result food prizes exploded, Russia stopped exports leading to food riots in the Arabian world and finally sparked revolutions.

Sure, there is no proof of one event based on the other. Anyway, there is no science available to estimate social consequences of climate change, but does that mean it will have none? Just think of the secured gas transports in NYC after Sandy. How many days longer with limited supply and it would gone worse? Now, answer one question: Which technology stops gas riots?

Eventually the author is not wrong with his vision of 2512, but what scares me are the next 50 years with an unleashed economy going frenzy over excluded environmental costs.
The Too Big to Fail Whale
Can't the People app be updated through the Play Store like Gmail?
It makes a lot of sense - it's hard when you get too caught up in your projects to let go when they're going downhill.
Just checking that you are aware of OCamlCC. If you aren't, good news! You will have plenty of notes you can exchange with Benoît.

http://oud.ocaml.org/2012/abstracts/oud2012-final10.pdf
TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP is the major part of the internet's virtual infrastructure (although you might say that there are others, such as router configuration protocols). The physical infrastructure is rather complicated, and owned by large ISPs which connect to each other and smaller ISPs that connect to one or more large ISPs. The 'last mile' provider collects money for access to this infrastructure.

Free physical access is provided in the US by public libraries. De facto free access is provided by a wide range of retail businesses, such as coffee shops.

With your own device connected to the internet you will have a NAT'd IP address from which you can request anything you want. Unfortunately, until IPv6 becomes commonplace, one has to jump through hoops to expose the device - the most common being some form of dynamic DNS.

At the coffee shop the packets that your computer sends are travelling around the world on de facto public infrastructure. It's true that a bad actor can shut down routes, but the internet is rather cleverly designed to treat a shutdown or reduction as "damage" and simply use a different route.
Why would we have massive climate change if we have nanotechnology (either wet or full on drexlerian)? The author seems to have completely missed the mark. The only interesting conclusion (massive climate change) is contradicted by his own assumptions.

This is a pessimistic, probabilistic, poorly thought-through vision of the future. The Elon Musks of the world will steer things in a different direction.
It looks like a good module that stands on its own merits. Adding irrelevant demographic information weakens that.

If this headline was "I'm black, and I released my first NPM module" or "I'm a Republican, and I released my first NPM module" would it be appropriate?

It's as if anyone who's not 20-40, white and male needs to somehow draw attention to that fact. Shouldn't this be an inclusive community rather than one that needs to tag its members?
Hiring by Curiosity
Anonymous attacks over 650 Israeli sites
free services.. hmm.. whats in it for you?
As a further optimization, why not memcpy an uncorrupted JVM to some backup place in memory and then when you want to 'reboot' just memcpy the image back again?
It's also a great platform for C development/testing. Its really tight security configuration has a way of shaking out subtle memory bugs that go unnoticed on Linux or OSX.
You can do it alone
My SublimeText 2 Configuration
Time for Apple To Let Go Of The 100 Testing Devices Limit
ImageMagick FTW Go buddy go!
> There's been absolutely ZERO warming for the lat 16 years...

Hahahahaha

Good trolling, you'll get lots of bites.
Hey everyone - Ayo from Hipmob here. We published Couple a few days ago and thought it would be helpful to show how we put it together. We've also published the source on github (https://github.com/Hipmob) so you can take a look at the server & client side bits if you want. Would love feedback at ayo@hipmob.com
Scotty - anti-censorship Java proxy, works on Google App Engine
Yeah no doubt. And this kid is miles ahead of the SEO goons as far as I'm concerned. Besides I always assume that means "I don't have experience so I'm just putting that out there before you stone me for something I did wrong". And as harsh as some of these comments are you can see why. I guess we all have to be tempered by the flames.
I never said that they'd all be approved. Surely an extension request from someone the committee had never heard of would be rejected, but from the WebKit or Mozilla crew they would give it consideration.

It would help break up the formalization process into smaller components.

Even then, until it's absorbed into the standard there's no obligation to implement that property. It would just mean you could be assured that if your proposal did make it into the standard, you would already be using the correct name.
Strikes me as what most journalist learn and try to do. Don't confuse pundits with journalists.
Wow. I was just feeling pretty stupid about some of the bugs in my code. Thanks for the pick-me-up, Google.
LWN is, rather obviously, (highly) Linux biased.

The people there tend to make mistakes when talking about other operating systems.

I guess that's what those comments are about.