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While I agree the OP doesn't seem like a great fit for HN... is there a clear and cut definition of "hackers" that should apply to who can post here?
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> It's an important question, but I don't know why we need to bunch together childrens purchasing habits, and adults. They are after all quite different markets.

Because children eventually become adults. So the purchasing habits of those who are children now will become the purchasing habits of adults in the future.

> In same way, streaming provide a convenience that torrenting do not. Add channels with preselected entertainment, and we are talking about quite different experience between streaming and torrenting.

This is exactly the kind of misconception that I'm talking about. Most HNers grew up before torrents became hugely popular, and thus don't really understand their convenience. For those born after ~1995, services like Netflix are not that convenient compared to torrents. Not only does the service require a credit card to sign up for (requiring parental approval), torrents are just not that hard once you're used to them. Learning how to use torrents is a one-time investment of time, after which you're good to go forever.

> If you are a person who careful select what you want to view before hand, and got time to prepare downloads

And I already explained this. You can get the equivalent content from torrents in <30 minutes. 30 minutes is not that big of a wait (or if you get it in SD, like much of the stuff on Netflix, <10 minutes). Moreover, once you get used to it, it's not a big deal.
Because someone found it interesting, and it's not an article about a poisonous topic like politics/economics. I didn't find it terribly interesting myself (the article was too short), so I did not vote for it, but it doesn't seem likely to generate boring/repetitive discussions, either.
It means a 57% rise in arrests of those with outstanding warrants. Either the subject was already arrested, released, and didn't show up for court, or a warrant was issued for them by a judge based on a request by an officer and they can't locate the person to arrest them in the first place. Although many of these people were technically already in the system, the effect on the system is the same as a 57% rise in new arrests, since if a wanted person can't be located, they are not using a jail bed, their case is not taking up court docket space, and we aren't paying for their prosecution and in most cases their defense.
Every futurist claim I've ever heard has overestimated human capability and underestimated the impact of other things they possibly should have seen coming.
Some people may not realize there's a warrant out for them.
I think it's a good thing too. One of the things I love about Americans is that we're culturally very intolerant of corruption and scandel. I just find it amusing sometimes how people don't know how good they have it.
Wikipedia explicitly allows that kind of thing with CC-BY-SA licenses, and indeed gets substantial funding from companies like answers.com that do it. (Incidentally, answers.com was the only way to see TeX equations on Wikipedia on my Android phone last time I checked, so it's not like they're adding no value.)
Some laws are not worth upholding or keeping, so arrests and court systems processing cases for those laws by definition aren't financially viable.
Sports results are facts and are statutorily not subject to copyright in the US.
I've been gathering some real world metrics on QR codes in UK. They seem very popular.

See http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/10/no-one-scans-qr-codes-apart-...
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/01/real-qr-statistics-from-tfl/
This is completely awesome.

It’s going to be a very regional competition - I wouldn’t even know where to find a mince pie in Seattle. Which I imagine is going to be a pretty common problem for much of the world.

As a side note - I was curious if those countries the Southern Hemisphere, (and thus a warm sunny XMas), would be as into Mince Pies, but a quick google of turned up Yes!
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Is that a comment on the article or on Israel?

Because this is a site fundamentally about start-ups, especially incubators, and so news about them is relevant. If you think the post shouldn't have been put-up because its not all that interesting or news-worthy, that's fine, although I do happen to disagree with you. If that vague post is regarding Israel (which again, this being a site about start-up culture makes me think it likely was) then you are contributing absolutely nothing by posting that, regardless of your feelings towards that situation.
I'm not only morally okay with the concept of all human knowledge being accessible by all humans freely, I'm morally not okay with restricting access to any human knowledge. It comes down to the arguments of privilege, class, race, and regional issues. But at the end of the day, no one will ever convince me that they have ownership of an idea, it's simply an abstraction gone too far.
Jono Bacon's little essay convinces me that RMS is right, and I plan to wean myself from Ubuntu and find another distribution to install on my laptops -- and I will cease my practice of recommending Ubuntu to people starting out with linux.

This is entirely because Bacon's reply to RMS fails to address his criticisms. He ignores RMS's specific points, instead going on about how great Ubuntu is, delving into RMS's character and personality, and attacking straw men, mainly the notion that the problem arises from Ubuntu's policies not being precisely in alignment with RMS's preferences.

All of this convinces me that Canonical has no answer to RMS's challenge, and that they have indeed become purveyors of spyware; in addition, that it is likely to become gradually more abusive with time, so better to get out now.
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Complete newbie at this and looking for any tricks of the trade you might have picked up, NOT a marketing strategy.

Here's the link without context : http://theboxngo.com
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> That's a nice noble reframing of humanities innate desire to have access to Game of Thrones season 2 without paying for cable.

Thank you for that. The rhetoric on this issue is really over the top. While all content I think is entitled to certain protections as art, let's not pretend that the content in question is high art. It's entertainment, largely produced by people for the sole purpose of making a lot of money.
For Java or Scala I use an IDE. Currently Eclipse but I'm giving IntelliJ an honest shot at the moment. I find that Java requires an IDE for me to be productive, even though I used emacs back in the Java 1.0 days.

For C and Python I use emacs. I'm more comfortable with emacs here as decent documentation can be had from the command line (man and pydoc) so have never spent the time trying them in an IDE.

An average day for me involves Java, C and Python. So I flip back and forth between an IDE and emacs and feel that I'm using the best tool for the job in each case.
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Ubuntu should have just kept quiet (even if the post does not necessarily represent the views of Ubuntu, Canonical or any others involved in this project, forever more, IDST; he still is a public presence for it), and let it burn itself out. It wouldn't have gone away, not completely, but they've made the issue bigger now.

RMS says things, that's what he does. He's committed to a very specific path in life and that's okay. Ubuntu as a project needs to have a revenue stream to survive, and from what I've read Canonical makes some reasonably decent money from private enterprise and so on, so they probably don't need the revenue stream all that bad.

I personally have no issues with the idea of affiliate links being embedded, it actually sounds like a nice idea to hack into Alfred so when I want a movie it'll check Amazon/iTunes/so on for it, but it needs to be made clear.

For those concerned about this being a HUGE security breach, have you audited the source? It's available online. Does it confirm your suspicions that Amazon is tracking everything search? The code is there, so if it's acting as spyware it's hardly the most secretive way of doing it.
Doesn't look like Google Maps explicitly prohibits comparing data. Closest would be

>(f) use the Service or Content with any products, systems, or applications for or in connection with (i) real time navigation or route guidance, including but not limited to turn-by-turn route guidance that is synchronized to the position of a user's sensor-enabled device; or (ii) any systems or functions for automatic or autonomous control of vehicle behavior;

and comparing results from a separate service doesn't really fall under that, in my mind.
How did you solve this issue. I am experiencing the same thing now with both IE and Chrome. I can use the Toktumi client on my PC and the Line2 app on my iphone but can't use a browser to access any of the online functions due to the cert issue.
If you think project managers are useless then I'd never want to work on a project with you.

Poor project managers are useless, but so is a poor developer, technician or any other specialty.

Great project managers are gold. Just as is a great dev.

Don't be so myopic.
Once again you're missing the point. Nobody here agreed or disagreed with you about the nature of persons. What everyone is claiming is that you're simply espousing a position withing philosophy, which may or may not be true, and requires a philosophical argument, and you're pretending that the case has been closed by neuroscience. Hell, even the "No True Scotsman" is a fallacy identified by a philosopher in a domain of informal logic, which is a branch of philosophy.

So you don't care what python should or should not do, but you think that python should not break your mailing list?
I think the argument is valid. Even some libraries have movies and video games. I fail to see how downloading media has a fundamental different effect than merely borrowing it.

Even arguing that borrowing is temporary seems a poor argument at best. Most people only play games or watch movies a small number of times and then rarely pick them up again. And, even so, there is nothing stopping borrowing again.

If the library paradigm is okay, why is the downloading content paradigm not okay?
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I was thinking that you were over-reacting and just not getting the joke. But that's because I thought it was just a joke repo that console.logged things until your CPU spiked and warmed up your computer thereby "keeping you warm". Perhaps being a tiny bit less cute could help after all.
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> unlike something like Google

Please tell me you are joking. Google exists only to sell your eyeballs and whatever it can figure out about you.
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It's true that some types of film, tv, games, and software made with huge budgets and teams. However, all of these things are still produced by individuals and small groups of people, even without the change of major financial success. The rise of things like kickstarter, bandcamp, youtube, etc. are all evidence of people looking to and actually creating something.
Now I have a walk in basement, it’s leaning against the wall.

In my old place, a second story walk up, it hung from the wall in the hallway, between the bedroom and the bathroom.

In my wife’s old place, she had her’s chained to the porch railing, and mine joined it when I stayed over.

--

I’d curious as to why you want to know….
Yes, in order to achieve unrealistic goals, you have to be willing to attempt them. But there is survivorship bias at work here. Of course the people who've succeeded in their unrealistic goals will tout the importance of never giving up. You won't ever hear from the people who failed.

I think you (the general you, not the author in particular) have to come to terms with the fact that unrealistic goals are unrealistic for a reason, and that failure is the most likely outcome. You have to find failing at what you want more desirable than succeeding at something you don't want.
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The police department in my home town (Utica, NY) has been posting arrest photos on Facebook for a couple of years now. I wish there were data to determine whether or not it was having an impact, and what kinds of impacts it's having.

Most people I know are pretty disgusted by it. They feel that publicizing arrests is fueling an already ripe negative PR image against the city and that posting arrest photos in a very public place leads people to assume that the arrested are guilty before they are convicted.

At the same time however, think of the deterrent it is to "young punk" type criminals to have their mugshot posted in a public forum for all of their friends/family to see and for their neighbor's comments.

I wonder if those who made arrest records (not conviction) public record would have done so in light of these kinds of developments.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/City-of-Utica-NY-Police-Depar...
They credit just about every mapping source there is.
> "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."

He's not disputing this point. His point is that YouTube, in an of itself, would not have made either of those people the dramatic successes they are today. His statement is that the labels, like it or not, are a crucial part of the ecosystem, instead of purely vampiric like they are being portrayed by many people in this thread.

People are citing Louis CK as a reason why labels and agencies are entirely predatory and unnecessary, even though without them he would would only be moderately successful - and certainly unable to command nation-wide independent attention like he is able to now.
Because library shelves don't consist 90% of pop movies, video games, and music. Pirating the latest Halo game is not the same as borrowing a copy of Nineteen Eighty-Four.
"The study warns of the risk that terrorists could mount a computer-network attack in which the casualties would be measured not by the hundreds or thousands killed but by the millions severely affected by damaged infrastructure, like electrical grids’ being taken down."

I wonder about this. It seems like every study about the dangers of terrorism mentions this kind of cyber-attack as a possibility, and I just don't see it as being feasible. Hurricane Sandy cut out my own power for a week, and several people I know were without power for 2 weeks, and we got through it. I just don't believe that a cyber attack could damage the electrical infrastructure so badly that it would kill thousands.
I'll give you a quick feedback about my first impression. When I clicked on the link, I was presented with a modal lightbox dialog: "Please enter your location", with the options "OK" and "Never!".

Not knowing what the service was about (maybe I could have read the washed away background, but we're trained to focus on the dialog), I would not enter any information, especially something private such as location or ZIP code.

I would click on the "Never!" button but does that mean that I would never again be able to enter that information? I could change my mind later. Since there was also an "X" button, I clicked on it to close the window.

Next thing I read: "Please. Don't Get Up." Err.. ok, I'll stay put.

Only THEN there is something telling me what the service is about.

Overall, it was not a pleasant or intuitive experience.

Edit: You'll probably also want to avoid having your code and variables show on error messages such as "Notice: Undefined variable: openTime in /home/couchadmin/public_html/couchster.com/www/business.php on line 826"; something bad may happen such as one of your connection strings or passwords being shown as part of an error message.
"Your iPhone is wrong" would be more effective.
Hyperthreading works by duplicating just enough circuitry to allow use of CPU resources for a thread while another is stalled on a load, nothing more. No "5 cores" about it, it's simply a hardware assisted scheduling trick.
mmhm, for one thing, I wonder why there's no mention of what's going to replace/augment the relatively cheap fossil fuels of today. And point at some massive current developments in that area.
Xiaomi's phones run Android, so what sets them apart? Just the price?
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All source is available for RHEL -- hence the existence of nearly identical clones CentOS (http://www.centos.org) and Scientific Linux (https://www.scientificlinux.org/). The only differences for the clones being the removal of trademarked branding elements.
http://www.ciocookbook.com/philosophy/business_case.html

I wrote this some years ago, and have been wondering if my central idea (apart from the jokes) that a business case should contain falsifiable assumptions that is the analysts / entrpreneurs job to disprove would ever be seen as right outside of my own head

Of course it is exactly what Lean is all about - ah well, this is so badly seo'd even I could not google for it
I completely agree. I had a friend who used to always tells me "dude, you need to be realistic", and I would always refer to that video of Will Smith.

I'm not sure how many of you guys have seen this series, but "The Men Who Built America" on the History Chanel is one of the best series I've seen in entrepreneurship in a long time.
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FWIW, It's better to stick to the facts rather than spreading even more FUD - "sell it's users searches to amazon"

Ubuntu is not "selling" your searches to amazon. Ubuntu will only get paid any money if you click through, and purchase something from Amazon. Ubuntu is sending your searches to Amazon which may or may not be 'right', but they only get paid if you buy stuff.

I'd guess Ubuntu are desperate for revenue and have run out of other ideas.

Also FWIW, the number of people who use these desktop search things seems likely to be tiny. Particularly amongst those who use linux.

Do people here use desktop search on any OS?
Here is the actual report instead of just a summary, in case any one else was looking for it. To be honest i found the technical projections/forecasts to be quite spare on details (at least compared to the geopolitical ones; but I suppose that is to be expected)

http://www.acus.org/files/global-trends-2030-nic-lo.pdf
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If you got 10 scans after distributing 80 stickers I would not conclude that "no one scans QR codes". This is, instead, an impressive proportion of responses, unless I misunderstand.
That's a sweeping over-generalization. More like "many inferences based on statistics are not as strong as they appear to be many are not even true". That article is important (and well known) for a certain type of life sciences publications; it's a problem that is being addressed already. That's another good thing about science, you can measure how wrong you are.
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But are stop-loss positions guaranteed to be triggered ? What if there are no buyers in a plunging market ?
No. You said it would be "read by pretty much noone". I pointed out that the Australian news media monitor the site.

Pretty stupid comment, really. No need to get uppity, I'm an Australian also.
It's saying that taking the whole country off the grid would be worse than killing a thousand people.
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Yeah, this is one of those things where unless there is a major factual error, they are better off just letting it blow over.

(Speaking purely in terms of PR strategy, I don't know anything about Ubuntu or this issue.)
Seems the text heavy, chaos, crowded design mirrors the Japanese life-style? crowded cities, most of the people in metros. May be, that is why it seems acceptable. And also having lot of content, avoids page-refreshes on tiny mobile devices where the web-adoption was more in previous years.
This quote stuck in my craw:

"Google said it complies with all tax rules, and its investment in various European countries helps their economies. In the U.K., “we also employ over 2,000 people, help hundreds of thousands of businesses to grow online, and invest millions supporting new tech businesses in East London,” the Mountain View, California-based company said in a statement..."

Everybody contributes to the economy, not just entities like Google, and they pay a higher tax rate for the income they derive through that contribution. Bringing these issues up is asking for double credit.
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Well, I'm a former GNOME and GTK+ developer and a former Canonical/Ubuntu developer and I had never noticed him being involved in GNOME outside his Canonical duties.

Of course you could still be right about him being entwined in GNOME though, but I don't think you are.
The craziest thing about looking through the warrants is the amount of charges that are either about property or drugs.

The media focuses so much on violence and sexual assault that I thought there would be more violent offenders in the mugshots.
At least I don't. tabbed vim, combined with vim --servername and --remote-tab works great.
Found poetry there: "desires to obtain pain in the bullet train" -- I like it.
"We provide a lottery where you get just as much back as you put in (on average), as long as you're willing to wait a while.	"

Target market : "Socialists, Communists, Poor people "

WTF
byuu:

I am neither a gamer nor a game collector. However, the size of this collection and the effort you put in to amass it are incredible.

If the only reason you want to sell this collection off is to get more money that can be invested in improving emulation for European and Japanese sets of the games, would not a KickStarter/Indiegogo campaign be a better idea?

You would get to keep your prized collection, while the emulation efforts get funded by people who would benefit from it.
I think the part about perfecting your skill, instead of relying solely on talent, is probably where most people will find success in their lives.
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Can you give specific use cases? Obviously there are some things that need e.g. manual memory management, but my instinct is that situations where you need to have the same module do both that and use high-level C++ features are vanishingly rare. So I'd be inclined to replace C++ with C in a few cases and a high-level languages in other cases.
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FFS, you know damn well what the post meant. Your comment adds nothing to the discussion.
>He's not disputing this point. His point is that YouTube, in an of itself, would not have made either of those people the dramatic successes they are today

>His statement is that the labels, like it or not, are a crucial part of the ecosystem

I agree, but that's not my point. The only reason why they were discovered by labels is because of YouTube. He's absolutely right, they wouldn't be on world tours solely from YouTube, but they also wouldn't be going on them if it weren't for YouTube in the first place.