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It's difficult to see where the "uncertainty" or "doubt" that RMS is alleged to be spreading is: as far as I can tell, both he and Jono agree on the facts, they just disagree on the fear. Accusing RMS of spreading FUD seems a tad alarmist.

It is interesting to examine the claim that the Amazon search should be included because it would provide interesting and relevant things - unlike something like Google, Amazon's search engine has a single goal in life, to sell things. Whether users like the integration or not, even the more fundamental question seems to want answering: I cannot think of a time when I've been searching for stuff, locally or online, and thought, "You know what, I wish Amazon results were integrated into this - that'd be great!".
Moreso KDE though, surely?
You don't need to fault the program to take a stack trace.
I've used Google's services from both an end-user at a company who uses Google Apps, and from a IT/Infrastructure Manager who moved his company to Google Apps.

For 95% of businesses who don't do a lot of intensive activities (be it scheduling, emailing, or anything else), google apps works fine.

If you're in that 5% who push the limits of your email/calendaring setup, then Google Apps (and their lackluster support) aren't the choice to make.

We had a support issue where the CEO couldn't send email to the company-wide mailing alias -- every time he did so, it was marked as 'bulk' email, and rejected. Google's support was non-existent (read this support page -- did that help? No? That's all I can do). Fast forward to a few weeks later, when users would randomly get non-delivery notifications when sending email internally. Google mentioned that they couldn't see the notifications come from their servers.

Another option was when a trial ran out, they'll lock EVERYONE out of email, calendars, and everything else until the trial is cancelled, or, until they pay. If an admin unknowingly signs up for something that will cost him a few extra bucks/user/month, and then forgets to update a credit card, every user in the organization will be locked out, and they can't call support (because you can't get a phone pin when you are locked out of a domain like that).

If you want minimal hassles, then Google Apps works great for small places (up to 20 users). Then, it's probably wise, from both a business risk and a infrastructure standpoint to just start running your own.
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Would that be such a bad idea? You get the $5,000 now when you need it. In 105 years' time you're most likely either a lot richer than you are now, or dead. It wouldn't suit everyone, but I can see that being a useful loan in several circumstances.
Like "bison", or "libiberty"? I fail to see how this is a "new trend". (edit:) Oh, you are also complaining about the readme being obtuse; yeah, I agree with that problem: documentation other than "a short readme in markdown" used to be much more valued. :(
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I currently live in South Korea. It's interesting to note that I cannot visit any of the DPR government-sponsored North Korean sites. The only way to view content was using Google's cache. Periodic restrictions like this make me appreciate how truly 'open' the internet still is in the United States.

www.korea-dpr.com/

http://i47.tinypic.com/4zw11v.png
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My mistake! And there I was wondering how they were so similar.
Can't face the copy/paste, but I should add my 'idea dump' posts: http://willgrant.org/category/idea-dump/
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oh pulease....thats like sayign check that url is not a sticker....some people are too dumb to be using the internet.
Obviously having something like this happen sucks. If nothing else, you should be able to have a specified timetable for updates (every 4 hours, for example), even if it's just "we're still analyzing this issue" or "we are evaluating potential solutions".

That said, when you're dealing with a cloud-based application, fixing a problem like this is not going to be easy. First they need a clear enough understanding of how this happened to prevent it from happening again. Next you have to start coming up with scripts to correct the issue. After that you have to test the scripts to make sure you don't make things worse. Finally you can update production.

Most likely the support team has engaged an operations team and probably some developers as well. But even if they've been working through the weekend, there's no guarantee that they'll have a solution yet.

Or maybe Google doesn't have the necessary people on call over the weekend so nothing has actually been done. I can't say.
Global trends 2010 from the National Intelligence Council.

http://web.archive.org/web/20110519014210/http://www.dni.gov...

Surprisingly, the direct link no longer works, so I had to go through archive.org
Unexpected things that use bytecode
That's why an attacker will try three common passwords against every possible login name.
The tricky thing with digital lending is that anything online that is capable of abuse via scale will be subjected to it. If the fee for one borrow is $X and the cost of buying one borrow on Mechanical Turk is $Y, if $X > $Y then someone will arbitrage.
> My question is will it continue to be the case that the largest consumers of media continue to be those who actually pay most once you have a generation who've been bought up with torrenting as their primary method of consumption?

This is a very important question to keep in mind. Forget about when the economy is bad, like the last couple of years. Even in the best of times, children have a very limited amount of money when it comes to purchasing media, and conversely have a relatively large amount of time. Torrents completely obviate the need for children to spend their allowance or money they worked for on content, and are easy for them to figure out with some time. Why spend that precious money on music or movies when you can spend it on a physical object instead?

The real problem is that once the torrenting habit is established, it's very difficult to break it. I'm talking about people under the age of 20 here - people who started torrenting at 12 or 13, when torrents first took off in the early 2000s. Contrary to what many people on this site suggest, torrenting is not that hard once you've learned how to do it when you have the free time (as a teenager), and viruses are not rampant, particularly if you're downloading only media (and not software). The only thing it's missing is live streaming, but with fast connections these days (which will only get faster over time), you can still get an HD movie in under half an hour.
Really? I was under the impression it was largely those with little or no income. Have you got a breakdown to link to? Not saying you're wrong, genuinely curious.
The solution they've adopted in Sweden is that each library card is only allowed to make n digital checkouts a month for some low value of n.

Although the problem they where trying to solve wasn't so much abuse as the fact that the service was far more popular than they'd anticipated and legitimate use was high enough to seriously risk their budget.
This maybe appropriate for middle school and younger kids. As kids go to high school they should be capable of making responsible decisions and not have 'big brother' monitoring them.
I agree with the direction of your points, but not the magnitudes. Justin Bieber, Kendrick Lamar, Smashing Pumpkins, and Louis CK are already big stars who made it largely through the use of labels, and are thus bad examples. Independent artists who have made their success entirely through unsigned online distribution are much smaller in terms of popularity and monetary success.

Also, it's unfair to simply assume that labels are middle men and are gatekeepers to success. They're essentially venture capitalists who reap licensing deals in exchange for large marketing investments, while providing production direction (with or without the artist on board). Compare to hands-on tech VCs who invest a lot of capital, own the majority of the equity, and provide product guidance, with or without the founders on board, who might be soundly fired. A solo artist can't really be fired, but band members have been replaced.

Labels are indeed becoming less important, but they're far from dead. I don't see them ever completely dying off -- we'll just have more of them (like Google/YT itself), each with smaller wallets. Sorta like larger seed/angel rounds. Any predictions on a Series A crunch ... in music? Maybe it's already happening.
> Artists and authors aren't going after the library for copyright concerns the same way they go after torrent sites.

Actually, the American Association of Publishers, which represents exactly the people you might think it does, has repeatedly and publicly attacked the existence of libraries. They've kind of backed away from it in the last few years since it seems like a poor argument from a public relations point of view, but that's clearly the view they hold: all libraries should be eliminated.
I am not excluding that there may be people who have knowledge of X in politics. Even the Dear Leader Berlusconi has a law degree.

But it seems self evident to me that people skills, leadership, charisma, street smarts, good looks etc are more determining factors in a politician's career, than any knowledge of a field like education, healthcare etc.

So, a good politician with zero knowledge >> a bad politician with great expertise.

For a trivial example, just check the careers of the latest "Secretary of State for Health" of the UK, I quote wikipedia:

Jeremy Hunt: After university Hunt worked for a short period of time as a management consultant, and then decided to pursue life as an English language teacher in Japan.

Andre Lansley: Before entering politics, Lansley had "a promising career in the civil service". Lansley worked for Norman Tebbit for three years as his private secretary at the Department of Trade and Industry.

Andrew Murray Burnham: He joined the Labour Party aged 14 in 1984, during the miners' strike, and was a researcher to Tessa Jowell from 1994 until the 1997 election. He joined the Transport and General Workers' Union in 1995. After the 1997 election, he was briefly a Parliamentary Officer for the NHS Confederation from August to December 1997, before taking up the post as an administrator with the Football Task Force for a year.

Alan Johnson: [he] stacked shelves at Tesco before becoming a postman at 18. He was interested in music and joined two pop music bands. Johnson joined the Union of Communication Workers, becoming a branch official. He joined the Labour Party in 1971[..]A full-time union official from 1987, he became General Secretary of the union in 1992.

I don't want go on, but trust me, I did not stop because the next in line knew something of healthcare.
More significant: MapReduce.
I don't see anyone scanning them here in Boston, but I have heard that in other parts of the world people do use them. They're supposed to be popular in Japan and South Korea. (Can anyone confirm that?)
Not against the idea of making some websites "an experience", but that site is mostly an eye sore to me. It forces my eyes to look in too many directions at once.
I didn't put down all the ideas, and in fact one of them I'm working on in a different form! (I'm not putting too much stock in it though; it's more to scratch my own itch than anything else.)

I made a broad and sweeping generalization that they're not especially high quality ideas. I honestly don't believe the market is really there for a lot of them, nor that they can be turned into decent businesses even if there is a market due to monetization issues. (Yes, I know, actually charging people's credit cards isn't as appealing as a sexy exit strategy.)

In any event, shouldn't we draw lessons wherever we can, regardless of the situation? After all, I'd rather look at a list like this and have it reinforce the tenets of a good business model. It's easy to get caught up in the "what-can-I-do-to-make-money" trap, rather than create something that delivers massive value to people with credit cards and painful problems.
Gujarat may be prosperous (this is open for debate), but I'm not sure a place that still has alcohol prohibition is India's 'most progressive' state.
Am I the only one who is pessimistic about a superhuman-capability future?

Regardless of the accuracy of the predictions.
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Remember, according to Derek Sivers, everything is your fault.
I just went through the process of changing passwords to sentences. You'd be surprised at how many sites do not allow sentences.
Something tells me that this will not be accompanied by a 57% decrease in crime rates, but will absolutely be accompanied by a 57% increase in imprisonment and legal expenditures to detain and prosecute these people. An argument can be made that, except in the case of dangerous fugitives, using a more efficient means of finding wanted people may cause more harm than good.
Well, if you have the time, expertise, and inclination, make me wrong! I love seeing people succeed, even if it means my judgement was wrong (and it often is).
What about Bullfrog's Magic Carpet? It had resource gathering and terrain modification as core mechanics. I think it also had base building. It was first-person though.
Blog spam, inaccurate headline.

Original article on npr: http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2012/12/07/166678...

The boost was in 57% of "warrant services" whatever that means, not arrests. No numbers given for the increase in arrests, just that they "actually got more people."
We're all capable of configuring our chosen distro in such a way that it's comfortable for us to use. We're all also capable of applying our values when choosing that actual distro (in the same way that Richard Stalman does).

Having said that, and i don't mean to insult anyone here, but why are we actually going to go directly into the meta of discussing other people's opinions here?

Why is this discussion relevant here on Hacker News? I don't see this as thought provoking, rather i see it as an open invitation for everyone to contribute to a perverted gossip column.

Resistance to this design decision by Canonical should have been intense when it was announced, and not when someone with an audience decided to state their opinion.

Again, this is in no way meant to insult anyone currently involved in talking about this. As much as everyone here has the opportunity to state why they support either side of the issue, it's also important to make opinions on it's context.
This particular feature isn't offered by anyone else, so I would not write a program with it and force anyone else who wanted to compile the code to use an unsupported, bleeding edge version of GCC. But I /will/ create a branch of a project or two, using this auto deduction, and send bug reports back if necessary.

I, and many others, have been writing code in Clang and GCC for years that could not be compiled in MSVC. But that code was standard c++11. This is experimental and people should be aware of that while using it.
I'm not sure whether I'm supposed to upvote this post, if I do, does it mean I support the idea behind ? because I don't, I don't think that denunciation is right way to support justice ... but I'd like the post to go to the front page, the see HN comments about it!
They misplaced the main hospital in Cambridge, UK.
> Justin Bieber, Kendrick Lamar, Smashing Pumpkins, and Louis CK are already big stars who made it largely through the use of labels, and are thus bad examples.

I agree that Smashing Pumpkins and Louis CK were already big stars, and you're right, they don't fit into that category. However, my point was that the initial successes of Justin Bieber and Kendrick Lamar were founded from YouTube videos and without them, they probably wouldn't have been discovered by record labels. Bo Burnham (comedian for those of you who don't know) found success the same way.
This is something I'm very interested in and would be keen in helping make this come to fruition.
For keycaps, you can often find mechanical keyboards at goodwill. Failing that, there are many companies that will sell keycap sets to you (Like WASD)

For the shells, yes, those will cost a bit of money. Or you could make friends at your local hackerspace.
I love when a post starts or ends with "This is a personal post and does not neccessarily represent the views of XXX".

I know even before reading it that their post will be in the interest of their employer 99% of the time. I'm not against it sometimes there are insightful posts but there are also not very objective by definition.
projects that made the mistake of actually using it

You mean stuff like Unreal Engine... ?
So you are suggesting that some laws aren't worth upholding because they aren't financially viable?
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Not that I know of. It was probably an issue in Firefox if Firebug wasn't installed before it got built-in devtools.
Oh, is that what that .au means at the end of the URL?
Let's not conflate the issue. If poverty was a contributing factor for obesity, then poor people worldwide would show higher rates of poverty. People don't get fat because they are poor, they get fat because they don't care that they're getting fat. If anything, being poor would be a disincentive for obesity - why spend money on something that you don't have to when money's in short supply? By basic logic, the poorer you are, the less obese you should tend to be. Notwithstanding the occasional actual medical condition which leads to obesity, being obese is a conscious, cultural decision, and blaming it on poverty seems ridiculous.
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It's a language specific issue. Sure clang++ has improved error reporting and GCC is actually quickly catching up. But the problem is a language issue because an error in a template confronts you with implementation details of the template. There is nothing the compiler can do about it.
We still know little about how memory works, and they speak of tweaking access times and recall? I doubt there will be a breakthrough by 2030.
surprise, surprise hacker news is a great place to crowdsource market research. I had a fun time looking through the list but I can't edit the comments on the Google Doc.

And since I can't edit: "Crowd-sourced shipping" has been done. http://www.uship.com in Austin has been doing this for 5+ years.
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Are you from NK or an admirer from the outside?
I remember reading in 2000 that every home would have domotica in 2010.

Yeh, right. I think around as much homes have it today, as there were in 2000.
GTK is written in C, not C++.
if you really want to see people scanning QR codes, there is a website for that http://replycam.com/browse.php has a few thousand or more qr codes (http://miniqr.com/reader reused the http://replycam.com flash webcam), should count them sometime.
Short answer: no. Long answer: no, because we derive these distinctions from the real world instead, changing them as necessary to better reflect new knowledge. See "birds are dinosuars" and "the brontosaurus never existed".
I don't know how it compares to the modern scene, but there was definitely a large amount of RTS modding and mapmaking going on long before 2005. Particularly for the old Command and Conquer games, which were much more accessible to modders than modern, full 3D titles. It's much easier to plonk down some 2D or isometric tiles, carve a vehicle model out of voxels, or edit the "ini files" of those games than it is to create a similar experience with a full fledged 3D modeler and modern toolset.

It may not have really been programming, but modding Tiberian Sun and making simple websites from plain HTML were my childhood "I can make the computer do what I want?!" moments. They were such limited environments, but the ease with which a kid could do interesting things with them really opened up new worlds to me.

People talk about the "little coder" problem a lot. I wonder if it's better to start a child with "making your own pong," so that they are confronted with actual programming from the beginning, or to give them a powerful but inflexible tool so that they can do impressive things right off the bat, before starting to think "why can't I do this? If I had made it, it would be like this..."
I've had a lot of trouble with this at my current job. There's a strict policy that requires a review before anything makes it in to a deliverable branch, but there's also a culture of emergency fire fighting where they will expect problems fixed quickly, often outside of working hours when a code review isn't really possible. So far our team's done full blown reviews for all new components, but we've waived reviews for small bug fixes. One big hurdle is that we are using proprietary source control software that does not play nice with any of the established review tools (another battle I am trying to fight.).
"Could they have been faking it, to impress foreigners?"

The BBC article linked to discusses the internal mobile phone network. Additionally, my guide would have had to also be faking the voice coming out of the phone and somehow getting information some other way and pretending to have received it on the phone. I'm going to go with actual genuine mobile phone network. :)
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The problem with citing Louis CK or Radiohead when discussing this issue is that they are outliers. They are individual artists, working in mediums with little to no overhead who have established reputations.

But film, tv, games, software - some of these projects take thousands of people working full time for years, and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to produce.
Tech products and services -- free, private, profitable: pick two.
So you think we should just give up entirely on trying to stop, say burglars and car thieves?
True, but it is one specific case and not multi-platform (Mono does not run everywhere where C++ does).

If you need to make C# work in all scenarios C++ is used, then a compiler with static linkage is also required for scenarios where deploying CLR is not possible. A compiler like Bartok.

Specially if you would like to replace C++ everywhere where it is being used.

So I've learned to make use of "Worse is better" philosophy and keep using C++ for my native code needs.
That NPR article you point out (which is really way better than this one) claims:

"Warrant services" is police speak for arrests.
I actually find this submission downright offensive. I clicked in good faith and was presented with no content.
It is his stuff. People can do that.

Sometimes people want to do something different,
Well in the case of East Germany at least, most engineering standards were already established so it made no sense to change them.

The problem that they had was ultimately the political and social system that produced the manifestation of the designs. The underlying designs were sound.

I'm slightly inclined to agree with the principles of Marxism-Leninism but it suffered from one of the many things that the human race is good at doing: Good specification, bad implementation.
Denonciations are a good thing if you believe a criminal should be arrested as a consequence of his initial actions.

Denonciations are a bad thing if you believe that someone who didn't get caught in the act should be able to escape

972 - est-tu de Martinique ?
I had never heard of Jono until he was working for Canonical.
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