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Oh yes it it. US voters happily allow it. You allow it.

The problem is your government, whether Rep or Dem, sees you, the people, as the enemy. There for, the government is your enemy, an enemy with in. It must be logically. How else can that work? Now, why does your constitution allow guns? Why do so many US citizens insist on their right to gun ownership? Is it not to oppose such an enemy? Yet all Americans do is sit on their big old butts and type stuff on the internet. So, what are all those guns for? Polishing and comparing to penises? Are women attracted by them?

What makes me laugh (or is it cry) as a Brit is that mention universal health care and its commie time, people on the streets claiming health care will kill granny. Yet here is a Democrat government continuing and expanding the removal of your freedoms and privacy started with a Republican hawk government, and your all cool with it. All you do is bleat on the web, and that's that. As some one pointed out, you knew this in 2006. Yet here you are 6 years on, and its worse. You do nothing.

Don't get me wrong, its the same every where. People just accept this stuff. Which is why this disgusting spying on your own people lark, KGB style, is in fact absolutely acceptable. Your inaction says so.

Until the people say no, the government, either party, UK or US, does what the hell it likes. Its up to us.
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Some details from the Wikipedia page for Wipeout:

Wipeout was developed and published by Psygnosis, designed in part by The Designers Republic. Aimed at a fashionable, club-going, music-buying audience, The Designers Republic created art for the game's packaging, in-game branding, and other promotional materials. Music tracks were licensed from non-mainstream electronica acts to create an original soundtrack album to promote the game.[3]

Wipeout was first released alongside the PlayStation in Europe in September 1995. It was the first non-Japanese game for the console. Two months later in November 1995, it was released in the U.S. The game went to number one in the all format charts, with over 1.5 million units of the franchise having been sold to date throughout Europe and North America.

Launch activities for the game included installation of PlayStation consoles running Wipeout in popular night clubs, the release of an accompanying soundtrack music CD, and the sale of a range of Wipeout clubwear.
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Wouldn't it have been better for her to contact a lawyer instead of escalating the issue and probably damaging her cause by publishing her side of the story?
Anyone think it will be possible to crowd-fund a private rover by then?
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Cheers for that. I passed the github link and your list of features to the guys I used to work with on the Enterprise project I mention below. If it solves any pain I'll try to let you know :)
Also note that the majority of bandwidth nowadays is spent on videos and similar multimedia content. So if they notice that 100M people are watching Bieber's latest music video, they just need to store the YouTube URL. No need to store 100M copies of the video itself.
Kindles support good foreign-language dictionaries, allowing you to look up unfamiliar words as you read. This has massively improved my reading speed in German, and made reading less frustrating by making it faster.
With all due respect, changing a few settings in 1 or 2 LESS files is now a top #2 story on HN? One of three things are happening as approach the end of the world...

1) Slow news day

2) What quantifies a hacker is being grossly influenced by what has quantified a startup the last few funding cycles.

3) Get off my lawn.
What was it before (key length)? And what is it now?
Get yourself into one of the big corps with a huge R&D section?

I know IBM have a pretty big research organisation, but how easy it is to get there, and how secure the positions are I have no idea.

I don't really see why taxpayer funded research is bad, and I say that as a taxpayer not a researcher.
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one of my opera side panels was on (width 40px) and it complained, and I gave up and came back to read the comments, then went back in and switched the panel off and it was fine. I would suggest, why not work out exactly how many pixels it has to be to not look rubbish. then set the limit at that. or, put it as a warning that it could look much better as it is intended to be used at a higher res. Once read, the message can then be dismissed?
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Our mobile version is based on cheeaun's http://cheeaun.github.com/hnmobile/landing/ project but we're still working on it. We tried jQuery mobile but found it too slow, that was 6 months ago, maybe its improved.
For recommendations, we use our own algorithms. For radio, we use Echonest in some cases, but mostly our own stuff.
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Exactly. What people wouldn't do in the name of bureaucracy.
Fantastic. We can check back in a few million years to see how it's working.
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Interesting. It is certainly needed to "upgrade" passwords sometimes.

My beef with 1PW is that it's a single point of failure, not to mention inconvenience/risks. For example, what if I need to check gmail in a trusted, but borrowed device.

The main issue I think is that using only one password for security is insufficient (but not necessarily go for a 2-factor auth)
nice project, similar to my commuting project bkmrx.com but with a nicer design :)
I've seen plants in photos of the space station and shuttles.
I actually use event tracking a lot to track exactly that. For our clients, we not only know which features they're using most but by tracking validation errors in Google Analytics we also know what parts of the app is giving users trouble.

Best part is, with Google Analytics you can see what people did before and after they ran into trouble and correct for the user experience.
But then he wouldn't look so mysterious!
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But they rewrote the documentation too! And added their names.

Seriously, this is a simple theme, nothing special, people have been theming bootstrap since it came out. Moving on then...
I think this kinds of headlines would really anger me if I were 85.
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Those are all good ideas, as long as the state works as originally intended. I think you're putting too much faith in the system.
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Yep yep yep. I must remember when I see the 1 millionth domain name suggestion website to plug our api:

https://www.mashape.com/nametoolkit/name-toolkit#Get-domain-...
Actually the "PLT" of PLT Scheme also stands for Programming Languages Theory, since it was the name of the research group which developped it in the first place (now the PLT group is spread across multiple university).
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This is true, but learning vocabulary is a long, hard slog that you have to get through to get anywhere with learning most of the other skills. It's something of a choke point in language acquisition, and your knowledge of vocabulary from related language is going to let you down again and again because you don't grasp all the senses of words you think you know or are fooled by false friends.

That said, phonology is neglected. Poor pronunciation makes verbal communication more error prone, something you don't need as a beginner, and if you rely entirely on body language for catching such non-lexical content as emphasis and modality, you will suffer when you talk on the phone. A bit of extra work here when you start learning a language will pay off.
I can't but think this is bad PR for NASA (in an unintended consequence kind of way).

"How cool is it that we've got an awesome rover on Mars! ...oh they're sending a new generation one there in 18 years time? Bah... now I have to wait for the good stuff to happen. Curiosity is already last generation gear."
I apologise for the tone of that comment.

The problem with due process and the rule of law is that those things are enforced by humans. People invariably suffer from corruption, in particular, those in power. The less they are capable of, the safer everyone is. Governments and corporations have done orders of magnitude more harm than smaller entities like gangs (though from an absolute perspective, the separation between a gang and a government is mostly ontological). The criminals are (for the most part) not the ones we should be worrying about.

The legal system we currently have is broken at best and dangerous at worst. Many people have no faith in it's ability to be just or balanced. There are concrete reasons for harboring a distrust of the judicial system, e.g. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lunchtime-l...

Not to mention that the judicial system is 'dumb' in the sense that it's primary goal is to enforce laws, not to improve society. Having a machine which processes instructions in this way and which simultaneously has the power to ruin someone's life is a bad idea by all metrics. Those two goals (enforcing the law and improving people's wellbeing) are commonly at odds due to the nature of how human societies function and how politics influence things which they ought not to.

The prison system also fares badly when it comes to solving problems - the reoffending rates are extremely high in many places - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recidivism#Recidivism_rates

So how can anyone take this joke of a system seriously and expect it to be capable of policing itself when emotion is so deeply embedded in the judgements and actions it yields? The judge's decisions are emotional. The system as a whole is crafted out of an inability to deal with emotion (i.e. prisons being primarily revenge mechanisms as opposed to institutions which help people to stop being violent against others).

This is the bigger picture of the situation we find ourselves in. IMO, adding to the arsonal of weapons which this system has access to will serve to cripple, not improve society. In other words, this is all counter-productive and does not take the reality of human nature into account. It is an idealistic perspective.
I agree with the above - rather warn the user then shutting them out completely!
The short answer for why I work 100% remote? Because I can.

That's really the single greatest feature of being a developer today. You can do your thing from pretty much anywhere in the world with no reduction in throughput.

I can (and have) set up shop for the winter on some remote Central American surf break. I can (and have) moved my main residence to a small village in the French countryside where the quality of life is good and there's enough bouldering to last me a lifetime of afternoons off. I can (and have) simply packed my whole development world onto a 12" Thinkpad and headed off on the road for an entire year.

And all those places have wifi. And I can work there. So I do.

So even if I found a company that did happen to have an office right next to that perfect left reef pass off the coast of Sumatra, I probably still wouldn't want to commit myself to working there full time. I already have an office there. As well as everywhere else I'd like to be.

It didn't used to be like this. And it still isn't for most professions. But it absolutely is for software. As a developer, I think you'd be crazy to pass up on it.

So yeah, that's why.
I think you're misinterpreting the article regarding production worker tasks. While they do suggest that production workers were involved - "By considering the workers who would have to put the water heater together—in fact, by having those workers right at the table, looking at the design as it was drawn" - they don't say that the production workers themselves designed any products, let alone from scratch. It's fairly clear that feedback from some production workers was taken into account during the design process, nothing more.

Mechanical design work of appliances is not something that you'd do alongside shift work. The workers getting paid $13.50 an hour are not going to be mech-eng degree holding designers.
Unfortunately that's a bit difficult for us in the tech field, where English is often the lingua franca of daily work.

Ok, so my brain is soaking it up, but rather more slowly than I'd like. My ability to read and understand Hebrew has grown far more quickly than my ability to actually speak and write it. Too much of what I need to say and write all day consists of technical material for which even the local native speakers will switch into English.
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I love the 'Story' Page. Honest, passionate, ballsy. Hold on to the fire, dude!

"Visimojo is developed by Martin Angelov, a 23 year old developer / designer from Bulgaria. What makes this project interesting is that it shows how a kid from the farthest corners of Europe can build a service that can teach the incumbents in a $7 billion industry a thing or two about interface design."
Finally, HTML5 for Youtube that works on all videos. Not sure why it's taking Google so long to move Youtube to HTML5.
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Intuitive (or quality for that matter) and 1and1 don't go well together. Telling people to use the extension .pl for Ruby files is exactly what I expect from them.
Despite this, I know that a lot of professors in top labs do not like you to do reading in the laboratory. Yes - they expect you to read academic papers and know everything - but that is for your own time. When you are in the lab you do experiments (my experience was in genetics/biology). In fact I knew of a lab where you had to leave a note on your bench with your whereabouts if you were going to be away for longer that 10 minutes. These were very successful labs.
So your argument is that I should not be a part of this system? Because you don't agree with it?

As a person interested in PRIVACY and LAW and INTENRET TECHNOLOGY, who would you think I'd rather have working on this type of system? Someone else? Or myself: a person who knows what his motivations are, who knows what the laws are, who knows what the implications for others are, and who wants to see things done properly.

If it's all the same to you, I'd rather it was ME. Believe me, you're lucky to have a guy like me pushing back against law enforcement when their requests get over-broad.

Remember that good people are part of this system and use their judgement to make sure abuses dont occur. I trust my judgement.

Given how much worship Richard Feynman gets around these parts, I'm wondering how people reconcile that sentiment with the fact that he worked on the development of the atomic bomb. FWIW, he seemed to be pretty OK with his role.
I could see that being deleterious to our access to markets in Africa long term. If the Chinese are perfectly willing to just "throw money at the problem", and we take the position of "standing on principle", well it isn't hard to see who the Africans will be doing most of their business with(1). Africa will be very important in the future as a market. If I'm a US policymaker, and PARTICULARLY if I'm a FRENCH policymaker, I have to think that I wouldn't cede access to that territory so casually. Especially not over something as trivial as them wanting Google to pay routing fees. That sounds, to me, like something that can be worked out. The complication, of course, are Chinese telecoms that are there, money in hand, perfectly contented to pay those fees.

Anyway... that's just one drawback I can think up off the top of my head. Arguably, the most important one long term. But there are others. Some probably far more important in the short to medium term.

(1 - I realize that the Africans MAY ALREADY be doing most of their business with China. I only used future tense because I don't KNOW that they already do most of their business with China.)
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It used to be random alphanumeric, eight characters. JTR tore through that. It's now ~15 random characters, not all ASCII.

Possibly worse, 1Password used to have a mistake in their key generation algorithm that means you could verify a password without the time-consuming key stretching, effectively making it thousands of times faster to crack. JTR doesn't use that method though.
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I have some experience in this area, here is my wishlist that I haven't seen yet in dynamic survey/assessment builders:

1 - Form Item labeling. I can't say "First Name" = 'firstName' in wufoo, instead it gives it an arbitrary id of form_1_154. This is BS and means I have to create a mapping table.

2 - Embed on site. Give the ability to embed the form as-is on an existing website without having to rely on an iframe or other such hacks.

3 - API. API. API. Allow the creation, deletion, edit, export, and import of form information.

4 - Internationalization. Allow me to translate my text in X languages.

5 - Reporting. This is where wufoo really has a good setup.
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A startup is tooo much work for a single founder. A team of 2 is ok (at least). You can hire someone on the technical side, But at least you need a dedicated co-founder on the business development side( yes BD is API centric now, not people centric, but there should be an Owner for this). This is required to scale up your business. The actual growth of the companty has to be on the side of Gaining more business from customers, Not on the technical side, That you can give to someone else who work for you. But in the beggining you need to know how to do it.
i see people saying deadmansswitch, but if you are in a coma, or go to jail, kidnapped, etc, not dead, but in a condition where you are restricted, but can still make it out.
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Saw this the other day on reddit, tried it a few times with minor success.
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nice, do you know if there is a reliable way to PUT binary data using XHR in JavaScript?
8 years, not 18, and I don't think many people think of Mars rovers the same way as they think of their phone.
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This is good. They'll be able to ask the Chinese to walk over and repair it if it breaks.
Perhaps we are obsessed with learning words because it's the easier problem to solve.

I think that depends on the person and/or language.

My Polish grammar knowledge is now pretty impressive, but I'm having a terrible time trying to remember words, so spend the majority of my time attempting to force memorisation with flash cards.

In a way it's kinda fun - I can go through pages of grammar exercises, conjugating and declining correctly, but with no idea of what Marta did in the past with 101 of somebody's somethings.
"PLT was an acronym for some 30 minutes. It was coined in response to a request by Ken Kennedy to distinguish our group from the compiler group. The "T" never stood for theory because we never identified our work with plain language theory.

I could make up a lie on how to spell out PLT and what it stood for in those 30 minutes, but I'd rather just leave this in the dustbin of history.

The people who maintain PLT Scheme now are the very same people who started the project at Rice in January 1995 (two days after POPL to be precise). By the time I left Rice for Northeastern in 2001, Cormac, Matthew, and Shriram had graduated; all other PLT students moved with me, including Paul Steckler our research scientist. The only person not to move along was Mario Latendresse, who went to California for personal reasons.

-- Matthias Felleisen, who coined the term"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Racket_(programming_langua...
To add to smanek's reply: Meeker was part of Morgan Stanley during a period of heavy conflict of interest. MS did not separate the function of investment banking from research, so you can imagine why her investment ratings on no-profit internet stocks were quite high. (Henry Blodget got caught (the infamous "POS memo"), it is unclear how much farther Eliot Spitzer would have gotten if he hadn't been caught with his pants down.) She eventually admitted that she did not author investment reports with her name on it, so who knows if the article above is actually based on her words or not.

Whether it's true or not about people "giving up possessions for the internet" is immaterial. The takeaway with Mary should be: A shyster of a saleswoman is trying to sell you something.
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The text on the homepage has drop shadow too...
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What's Obamacare? My life hasn't changed.

And when Obamacare kicks in, my healthcare life will still be fundamentally managed by insurance companies, with somewhat changed regulation around the margins but still extremely profitable.
> "You probably use most of basic features of Google Analytics - you know how to get information how many visits was made each day, you know your users browser segmentation etc. But how can you measure effects of your blog post?"

That hits the nail on the head. Great article, although I wish you went into it a bit more in depth on how to do those actions, how to do other actions, and then maybe talk more about the benefits.

I love browsing Google Analytics but I will be the first to tell you that I don't really understand much from it, other than than the obvious things. I really wish I could figure out how to integrate it better with my web sites, like you quickly demoed. Again, I really suggest doing this same article with a bit more information. It would really help out those who are your target audience for this article. Thanks! :)
Yup, this is the solution, as weird as it seems to have to go to a Google preferences page to control delete behavior in the iOS mail app.
Google runs thousands of A/B tests...there is a good chance you've just never seen one.

Regardless, there is published data about how people click on the top 3 links the most, and click dropoff is precipitous after the second page. They simply don't need to do infinite scrolling...most people will requery the engine before checking the second or third page.
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The quick & easy way to handle things like this is to cross out that clause on the agreement and initial next to it, then sign the document.

From that point on, if they want to make a thing of it, it's them making a thing, not you. Chances are they won't.
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Note that I said in my original comment that my experience has primarily been implementation of shallow inspection.

Subscriber-connected edge gear is often oversubscribed. Lots of little pipes coming in from households; one or two medium-sized pipes headed to the core.

> It's the users traffic, why do you think you're in the best position to decide to drop one website's traffic over another?

All too often it's not actually the subscribers' traffic that causes problems; it may be malware.
I think that the main problem in the Gmail for iOS is that I can't configure the refresh time. For people who receive lots of e-mails it drains the battery so bad that it last only half a day.
I just pass. There is plenty of other entertainment out there.