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The #1 missing feature in github for our team is that we can't attach files directly from Issues Web UI. Usually we need this for screenshots, but sometimes data files, logs and other artifacts. Workarounds are aplenty but all painful and problematic. See https://github.com/thisduck/gh-attachment or http://feeding.cloud.geek.nz/2012/06/attaching-files-to-gith... not to mention countless internal homegrown hacks that exist out there.

This lack of attachments makes it a lot harder for non-techies to use Issues (e.g., for casual or QA testing).
Don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVE the minimalist approach of Issues, and it is definitely _almost_ good enough feature set, but this one missing feature makes it difficult for one to imagine the use of issues at-large in broad organizations--an undiscovered area of growth for github.

I would definitely add this to the "I <heart> github, but..." list.

P.S., experiment0, great execution of a "feature request".
Better still: http://www.last.fm/robots.txt

Disallow: /harming/humans
Disallow: /ignoring/human/orders
Disallow: /harm/to/self
The thing that boggles my mind about the tailgating is how much of it is done for essentially no reason. There aren't that many defensible reasons to tailgate to start with, but the amount of purely idiotic behavior blows my mind (I regularly see people refuse to switch lanes while tightly tailgating whatever car happens to be in front of them, all this in heavy traffic).

Perhaps the most exciting thing about self driving cars is that they will all have and use the ability to think ahead more than 5 feet.
Not sure if this helps but the Audi system, which I believe is exact the same on VW, Seat & Skoda, will park wrong side but only if you indicate into the side the spaces are on when approaching.

Only mention this because it wasn't documented in my manual and the sales folks had no idea.

In practice i find it's too slow to use, doesn't account for high kerbs with its preprogrammed trajectory (not user adjustable), happily dry steers and can be fooled by a squinty parked car in front of the space. Not a fan yet, but has potential, and if it means ill come back to less dings on the bumpers I'm all for mandating its use ;-)

A better system today is the Toyota reverse parking assist with guidelines overlaid which adjust to your trajectory based on current steering input and speed.
This is a very low quality article; in fact, it's actually an advertisement! It should be marked by Wired as such. The pictures are all supplied by Mercedes, there's no opinion or consideration of the features except gushingly positive descriptions and there's no mention of any competition except to note how Mercedes are much better than them.

It's just an advert - if it was served from Mercedes.com, it wouldn't be considered for discussion, I believe.

As others in thread have noted, these 'advancements' are often counter-productive and somewhat undesirable. The S-Class is likely a desirable car for someone who must drive others around, but I wouldn't buy one for personal use.
It might be a sign that advertising revenue is not growing as expected. My guess.
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I was sitting in my office and coding when the earthquake hit. When people realized it wasn't a small one, everyone just started rushing outside of the building. I thought it wasn't the smartest thing to do since many buildings in Tokyo have lots of glass windows and panels which could literally decapitate you if they hit you... and since virtually all buildings here are built to be earthquake proof, you'd probably be much safer hiding under a desk in your office than going outside and exposing yourself to all the falling debris. Oh well...
I don't think I'll go back to other linux distributions after having used Elementary OS Luna. Still in beta so it doesn't work quite right just yet, but the design is absolutely stunning.
It sounds weird indeed. The literal translation of branching would be «ramificar», which also doesn't seem right. That's the problem: everyone comes up with their own translations that are not what people refer to them in real life.

I say «crear una rama» (create a branch), while most of my friends just say «hacer un branch» (make a branch). And there are also the ugly anglicisms like «branchear» and «forkear».
Hey mate I guess you could check tepco's official reports, as far as you trust them. They are written very formally and translate quite well in google translate if you copy & paste them over. http://www.tepco.co.jp/nu/index-j.html
curl -I https://localsense.com/

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
x-powered-by: blood, sweat, and tears.
He's not good at getting his point across, only at having good points.
Agreed completely. In Argentinian Spanish we say "forkeá este proyecto" or "te mando un pull request" hehe. It think, it would be very problematic if we started translating this jargon.
It may not seen on one's machine, but Wolfram Research should already have other data about how people previously use some result. Or the data can come from Stephen himself, as he log every keystroke since 1989. http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
I wish I didn't have to know anything about it, cuz life's complicated enough as it is!
a)if you are not, you should get or let someone else do it
b)right, this fits nice with forms... forms are not purely html issue, but a whole another layer of serverside complexity underneath...(escapes, xss, tokens)
c)argument against imo, if more people have to work on something more I am eager to use something common, standard...

Enlive is kind of like haml from what I see.
For me its right on the border, I like it, I see the benefits but you have to take some leap and believe you wont hit the pit.
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> I just wanted an email for my domain and that's not worth 50 bucks a year.

How much do you make per hour? How many hours do you expect to spend per year maintaining your own email system?

How much would you pay to stop one hacker, one time, from reading your private email?

Are you going to bother to set up two-factor authentication, or just wing it?

For a lot of people, $50 a year would make total sense.
Thanks for the link, looks useful.

That would be functionality that should be in Github itself. Good to see that I'm not the only one with that pet peeve.
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There is for his party though.
This comes across as a very biased piece. In the "Matchups" that they do. Distributions are scored are arbitrary metrics with no real meaning or valuation behind them. I skimmed down to the Fedora section to see it lost because PackageKit isn't as good as other package managers. I know Mint is the new Ubuntu, but you could at least get a schedule of criteria and then rate everything on how it preforms across those criteria. As it stands this is just how some guy feels about a half dozen distributions.
Ubuntu is also shipping with two new Firefox extensions that ask to "install" certain web apps when you visit them. Havent audited them yet, but my tinfoil suspicion is that these add-ons are leaking private information to Canonical by asking "is this a web app that can be downloaded?" (this is in addition to the current controversy that Unity searches are being leaked).

By the way, Amazon is pre-installed. I noticed yesterday that Amazon web pages still open up in the Amazon icon on Unity -- even after I had removed the unity-shopping-lens.
It's only 90 pounds per year. I know free is good, but that doesn't seem impossibly out of reach. I spend more than that on coffee.
Dwell on this for a second, if you will.

These days in western societies, quite a few people hold this notion that can be best summed up as, "Happiness, to a large degree, comes from within"

Or as a corollary, one can use whats been offered by neumann_alfred below:

If something in the exterior world makes you discontent,
then it is not that object which troubles you, but rather
your judgement of it; yet to blot out this judgement
instantly is within your power. And if your
dissatisfaction is based on the condition of your soul,
who can prohibit you from correcting your views?

However I feel that people resign to this world view essentially due to powerlessness or the perception of one's powerlessness.

The external world and the facets one finds disagreeable or troubling in it, just seem too Olympian a task to impact, much less expunge.

This paves the way for one to easily resolve to the aforementioned world view where one just finds easier to remedy his or her "judgment" of that disagreeable or "troubling" aspect, rather than engage it.

There must be a label for this phenomenon in the study of strategic decision making (Game theory).

Please do enlighten, if you're familiar with it.
I don't think that this would be a problem. It's not likely that a photographer would have a large number of photos that were each earning lots of money, so they would tend to just let the copyright expire. They can always take more photos to continue earning.

This is just a way of saying that the vast majority of individual photos don't represent a lot of creative work, and hence are a lot less worthy of protection. I would imagine that even a major photographer such as Ansel Adams wouldn't have more than a dozen photos earning good money more than a decade after the photo was first published.

My objection to steko's idea would be more that it is precisely the most important works that we are going to want to copy / create derivatives from, and yet these are precisely the works that will be the most able to perpetuate their protections.
JQuery still seems to be king at the moment. There's some pushback against it in this new world of a mobile web since it adds size to low-bandwidth pages, but there doesn't seem to be a risk that it'll be dethroned any time soon.

If I were looking to make a portable and semi-futureproof toolkit right now, I'd use jQuery as a base, but limit myself to some big features, like dom queries, events, and ajax. Then I'd make sure I had it sandboxed inside all my code via anonymous functions (function($) { /* my code */ })(jQuery); so I could swap in a lighter replacement later on without a headache.
I think a good feature in this predictive interface is it even could let user send feedback to improve the result.
What was "over the top" about the linked piece? It's got to be the most even-tempered thing I've ever read from RMS. Did you actually read TFA before posting this comment?
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I believe its the other way around; the general public is not generally good at understanding the wisdom of his points.
I wonder how soon it will be before they eliminate free domestic calling on Google Voice?
I don't think this is remotely relevant to this post, which about building a better UX in iOS applications.
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I wonder if there is any service out there that actually does have lifetime subscriptions that have lasted for a serious amount of time.
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"When the user searches her own local files for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical's servers."

That's not how I see it. I'd correct this to "When the user performs a global search for a string using the Ubuntu desktop, Ubuntu sends that string to one of Canonical's servers to perform that search".

If a user wants to search his own local files without searching the entire Internet, then perhaps he shouldn't perform a global search.

The global search box (the Dash) didn't previously exist before Canonical invented it. I think it's fair that they get to define what it does. If you don't like it, then don't use it, or change its behaviour (it is open source, and you don't need a fork to change what is effectively a setting), or just use Xubuntu, Lubuntu or Kubuntu, all of which are acknowledged as official flavors by Canonical and none of which use Unity or the Dash by default.

"People will certainly make a modified version of Ubuntu without this surveillance."

And Canonical even support the existence of these modified versions! If you don't like it, just vote with your feet and install Xubuntu instead. Install popularity-contest to show people your vote. Job done.

By all means go ahead and complain that the default doesn't do what you want it to do, but please stop with the hyperbole that is actually misleading to readers about what the real situation is.
Parking assist is fairly useful in Europe, where there are many areas where parking spots are both rare and rather small.
The equivalent bug report on Chrome/Chromium:

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=41756
Issue 41756: WebKit gradients show banding on Chrome
Does he have a Pi yet?
I have to say, having been a huge ubuntu fan for many years, I am seriously dismayed and dissapointed. This destroys my trust in Ubuntu completely. They have ruined a great thing.

Was just about to put Ubuntu on a new machine, now I'll have to switch distos. Any recommendations?

Edit: I think I have misunderstood. I assumed this referred to a commmand line (s)locate or find or grep or similar. Apparently it refers to a GUI search box on the desktop from which you can do global searches (local plus web). OK not so bad - in fact I have no problem in supporting Ubuntu in this way, providing local searches remain private.
Great work. I had to build one of these a few months ago. This would have saved me a lot of time. Only addition I would want is multiple stops on the same slider.
That's almost certainly implemented by looking for HTML offline cache manifests.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Using_the_appl...
That's an interesting question. Obviously human beings are more than capable of splitting up into tribes of haters, even in cases such as social media where one can, at no real cost, participate in them all.

But, while generally there's less "holy war" drama of this type on HN than you might find on a generic tech news site, on the topic of Google Plus succeeding there seems to be more.

My personal (and not particularly charitable) assumption is that in addition to the people who'd normally relish a dispute of this type, there's also a subset of people on HN who feel on some level that their experience as early/heavy Facebook adopters will give them some sort of "leg up" in understanding or creating the future, and if something competes with Facebook, it threatens their "insight".

This particular theory aside, it does seem mysterious to me.
Right, and for his good point to 'get across', it needs a connector of some sort. One end point of that connector is in your control.

RMS has been /clearly/ right-on regarding these matters from day 1. It is the proverbial 'you' that is refusing to 'listen' ...
Do people using Ubuntu not also use web browsers? If so, then they are also being spied on by others such as google, amazon, facebook, twitter - every time they use one of their sites.

I just find it overly dramatic to be focusing on this one point of Ubuntu's search being harvested for keywords when this sort of thing is commonplace on the web. At least with Ubuntu you have the option to turn it off.
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Platforms - Android, iOS, web

Languages - Java, PHP, Objective C

IDE's - Eclipse, Xcode

Various technologies in use - jsonengine for GAE, Twitter Bootstrap, Apache server, MySQL
Stop arguing with everyone, long-term marketable securities doesn't mean what you think it means.

You're right in that it's not cash, and in some cases it's illiquid. However, you seem to think the 'long-term' in 'long-term marketable securities' means 'will take a long time to sell for fair value'. This is wrong; long-term just refers to the maturity of the instruments. Again, these long-term instruments are more likely to be illiquid, but they're not illiquid by definition. 10-year Treasury notes are 'long-term' but highly liquid.

So, in conclusion, it depends on what these "long-term marketable securities" are, which is what most of the other replies are trying to say. If you want to argue, argue that Apple owns a bunch of RIMM stock or something, don't accuse others of misunderstanding the term.
I'm not going to go line by line, but you could start with this:

Proprietary software is associated with malicious treatment of the user

I don't believe 99% of people out there associate proprietary software with malicious treatment.
This times a thousand. For $50 a year I can have Google's security, spam filtering, and 2 factor auth.

Totally understand someone running their own mail server due to privacy concerns, but that's a different argument to "not worth $50 a year".
Great read - thanks! I love the river metaphors. The metaphysics discussion also brought back memories of college philosophy classes on Plato's theories around ideas vs. forms. Probably my memory is failing me here and someone more versed in philosophy could help me out here :) But to me it's interesting how classical philosophy could even remotely be related to computer programming.
I found referring to the Kindle as being for "virtual book burning" straying into rhetoric.
Yes, using find and grep won't trigger a network search (unless of course it's on an NFS server or something like that)
The problem is not software. The problem is people.

Rather than trying to explain the problem (which most people who work on logging struggle to see), let me outline how you determine when the problem is either solved or absent.

The problem is solved when people like me (a hands-on system architect who writes code and tries to make decisions on behalf of a number of developers) do not have to think about logging APIs, facades or backends anymore. When nobody in my organization has to spend time trying to resolve the conflicts that arise from different logging technologies (and different versions of same technologies) being in use in the same system.

We have an example of that in Java: the collection classes. For most bread-and-butter uses Java has List, Map and Set types that people can just use. They are well designed, well documented and you can count on them to be available at no extra cost. It is unusual for a non-mad() Java programmer to feel the need to introduce extra dependencies for simple lists, sets, maps etc.

You most likely are not going to feel the pain of logging chaos if you are writing a single application. If you try to make decisions on behalf of 50+ projects, some of which rely on an obscene number of libraries, that pain will manifest itself every day and you will re-live the same pointless discussions and get the same pointless advice over and over and over.

Hope this sheds some light on why I think what I think.

() there are idiots who depend on third party implementations where the types in J2SE would suffice.
As someone who nods my head in agreement to RMS most of the time (although I use proprietary software extensively), when I actually went to see him speak in person, I ended up feeling that he had weakened his case with the way he presented himself.

However, this article is well-written and clear.
He definitely got the point across to me! I had been considering installing Ubuntu desktop, but this article definitely made me think twice. So, I'd say the article had its intended effect.

That being said, reading the other comments here, it looks like there's more nuance in what is actually happening here. This is Ubuntu Desktop using the global search, which sends search queries to a central server. While I don't appreciate that either, at least it's not what I had thought from reading the headline that it was sending all local file searches to a server. So, it's a particular behavior, but still, Ubuntu should provide transparency as to what is happening, and even though the user can turn this feature off, (Stallman even states as such: "Ubuntu allows users to switch the surveillance off") the default on behavior is what I sense he is objecting to.

Perhaps a suggestion for a more nuanced title (which might not have the same dramatic effect, but would be more accurate): "Ubuntu Desktop Global Search sends Queries to Central Server, and shares with Amazon, by Default!"
Thanks for the tip about indicating - it is a VW Golf Plus. What has surprised me is how good it is at parking between badly parked SUVs on the side of our street that doesn't really have much of a kerb. On a few occasions I've actually walked round the car and wondered what it was using as a reference point for parking - because it definitely wasn't the kerb or the cars in front/behind. Of course, maybe I'm just lucky in picking the starting point.
Some people are just cut from a different cloth? You can get there, but you have to change your mindset about your mindset about many things.
This is wonderful. I especially like the display range of dates. Is there any plan to add date editing via calendar selection as well?
This is a worthy cause, right up there with banning dihydrogen monoxide.
Thanks. It's relevant though that nothing like this is likely to come from the EU itself.
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After last few years here in Poland I've stopped believing in good reporting. No matter what you say, press is going to present it the way it wants, and it's impossible to break the glass and say to public what you really want. If there's order to show you're stupid, you will look stupid, no matter what you say. If there's order to show you're great - you will look and sound great.

I wish traditional massmedia fast demise. There's nothing there worth saving at this point.
I'd guess that the only way to really dislodge the Amazon widget would be to make sure it remains unprofitable. If it remains a major talking point and doesn't pull in enough money to compensate for its negative effect on community evangelism, it won't last long.

I have mixed feelings about the new system. On the one hand, I respect a lot of what Canonical is doing with linux regarding mainstreaming, streamlining, and even Unity. I also recognize that they are a company and need to make money, and think Amazon integration is preferable to dozens of preinstalled, hard-to-remove junkware applications.

On the other hand, I really don't like the intrusive-by-default nature of the integration, and the fact that I'll have to go tell all the folks I've installed Ubuntu for that they need to essentially disable spyware the next time they do a distribution upgrade.

On the third hand (what, you don't have one?) I'm not sure what other profitable solutions Canonical might implement in a community that values privacy and freedom.
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I hope Google can offer a cheaper plan for those who needs only domain and email.
What is the pay rate for someone who knows far, far more statistics than this, and can communicate at a coherent level?
I think you're being sarcastic, but I can't tell. Please remember that this is the Internet and someone has probably misjudged your intent with this statement.
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Whilst his point is clearly that Ubuntu should be punished (by users switching to alternative distros), it would have been nice to provide or link to some detail about how to disable this behaviour, for those who can't or won't reinstall.

Also, 'virtual book burning', really? These snide little terms detract from his core (and important) message, and come across as just petty. I think there's probably an Internet Law that you can safely ignore anything by people who use a $ symbol in the word 'Microsoft'.
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