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Dude. Dude. Listen to yourself...

a) It is the same as in linux. Linux does not have a magic "Install this HERE" button for whatever problem arises any more than windows does.

b) The general, run of the mill, average person does not need, want or care about live cd's. Businesses (which form the main core of microsofts business) do not want, need or care about live cd's when they buy the system. So why should microsoft spend time on creating them when a super tiny percentage of users will ever use them?

c) Driver management (in my personal experience) is easier in windows than it is in linux.

d) Go back in time, before the internet, when linux package managers only showed you what was installed on the system at a given time and only offered you the option to install packages you had already downloaded/copied to the system. That is what the microsoft thingy (Cant remember the name atm) is. It might not be as fancy as the linux variant, but it is still, in fact, a type of package manager and the MSI files are still, in fact, a type of package manager.
Enjoy your garage parking lot + valet.

The theme from your comments is that a inexperienced user, like your wife f.x. which you used as an example, has a easier time doing pretty much ANYTHING in windows than in linux. And through technical inexperience they can cause much more damage in a much shorter time on linux than in windows.

So just chill, relax, look at the sky. The dude was just correcting some inconcistensies in the original article. He wasnt attacking you personally. He wasnt attacking your personal view of the software world.

He was just writing a comment.
> Everyone installs K Lite Codec Pack and media player classic these days (or VLC) almost as a first item to install. Same as you install win32-codecs on Linux.

You shouldn't need to know this. Also K-Lite is full of garbage, CCCP is what you want.

> Package manager. Yes there is - there is just no pick and place repository like Debian. You can get packages from Windows Update though. The package manager is called Windows Installer and the packages are MSI packages.

Well yeah, the maintained repository is what makes package managers so attractive.
I don't think it was supposed to be an argument from authority.
It's both. He's hedging their bets.
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One way of verifying this (without de-criminalisation) is to compare drug usage to alcohol usage

That's why the fact that most alcoholics don't commit crimes to get their fix is relevant. Sure, some do, sometimes, but on the whole, it's a vastly different picture; and the price, and not being pushed into shady alleys with shady people has to do with it.

Just consider the Prohibition, and also the experiences of all the countries who partially or completely decrimalized hard drugs, which is generally a success story.
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But that doesn't mean the expert witness is wrong.
Surveying preference isn't a valid way of determining product viability, or even of comparing how well two products well sell.

This is not to say that you shouldn't build it. Building stuff for the sake of building stuff is a good thing.

This is also not to say that you can't make a business around product validation. There are multiple successful businesses already in the area of product validation.

I just wouldn't recommend the "Hot or Not" approach, because it's bad and generates bad data. Think who else is doing this and get an idea for what approaches there are to the problem - for example, Kickstarter.
While I don't see how you've refuted any of my claims specifically, I will address your assertion that I should try porn with my wife.

Having used porn myself for the majority of my life, and for almost the entirety of my marriage, I have quite a number of empirical data points of its affects on me and my sexuality. I will say that my wife and I need much less of the influence of porn on our sex life, not more.
Either of "Aaron's lawyers were required to bill upfront" or "Aaron was not permitted to set up a legal defense fund" would be huge civil rights issues. A lot huger than the narrative of a out-of-control prosecutor out for Aaron's head.

Lessig really really needs to explain that sentence.
> “It is no accident that Silicon Valley is in America, and not France, or Germany, or England, or Japan,” Graham wrote. “In those countries, people color inside the lines.”

Whaaaat, you have got to be kidding me.

Colouring inside the lines? Let's see, the Demoscene is almost exclusively a European phenomenon. There's the CCC. Fravia did not exactly colour inside the lines. There's the Pirate Bay. Wikileaks. Just a colourful few from the top of my head, there's more if you dig further.

If you really have to look for a difference with Silicon Valley, I'd say it's about making money, startups, entrepreneurship, chasing that "American Dream", contrast with the above examples which are all people that did it for idealism, art or just for the heck of it, instead of for profit. In that context, Aaron Swartz falls squarely in the latter category.

Before you throw a fit about my stereotyping, stop. The distinction I sketched in the previous paragraph is just as stupid as the one Graham tried to make. I think it's stupid to draw a distinction between US and EU like this[0], after all, that's what this global communication information age is about. There's "startup-hackers" in the EU just as much as there are "tinkerer-hackers" in the US.

Having said that, the first thing I thought when reading that headline was "wow, if a big media outlet like the Washington Post names you 'American Hero', you really did something very right", and I felt happy. Which turned to disappointment when I found that the "American" part of that title was wrought with such bitter nationalism.

[0] I'm leaving Japan out of this because I really hardly know anything about that country and don't want to be caught with my foot in my mouth, somebody more knowledgeable than me can make that part of the argument.
>You can't blame a prosecutor because Aaron reacted violently to them doing his job,

Their job is to perpetuate violence, rather justified or not.
Yes that looks exactly like the rape with the firearm... Either GUILTY & 6m or even worse.
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a) good for them, that's a sample of 1.

b) I cannot agree more. However this is still a great parody as to the fact that getting even a sniff of windows is an effort in itself if you didn't have it installed.

d) Sorry, a unzip with rollback capabilities and upgrade tools. Still not close to apt / homebrew / etc. Look if windows installer didn't have the ability to say that MS Visual C++ distribution is a requirement for running this software, it would not be worth the space it takes on ur hard drive.

In any case. Let's do one with a linux user trying to install Mac OSX... Fast one

- Looks like I need to shell out 1000 dollars on a macbook air because there's no way to even try it out on my laptop without spending days making a "hackintosh"
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Convicting a felon is not a feather in the cap of a public prosecutor. It only shows the failure of government to prevent crime. Boasting about a conviction where the jury and the judge always gives the prosecution a higher stand is shallow minded and shameless. She talks like investment bankers who made a fortune by cheating their investors. The UIEGA is more hopeless and shady than this cheap prosecutor and is illegal as per international conventions.
I may be wrong but I thought ninite grabbed the latest release from their respective website?

"Always Up-to-date: A Ninite installer always gets an app's latest version no matter when you made it."
The videos only show the technique using small digits. For the larger digits this method quickly becomes cumbersome.

Latttice multiplication is much better for large numbers and deals with a lot of the carrying of overflowing digits which occurs in both normal and "Japanese" multiplication.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cijuPxHgZAA

edit: spelling
so why not use a master password with 2 factor auth ? then the password is useless to a keylogger.
The 1977 Broncos finished the regular season with one loss to the Dallas Cowboys. It seemed a bit fragile to me, though, given the three or four games won by trick plays. They me the Cowboys in the Super Bowl, and were soundly beaten...
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"You can always think of a million reasons NOT to do something"

This. Upvote and share.
Indie devs: We made a Launch This Year invite code for you.
Hey. I'm Mikael, one of the co-founders from Launch This Year, a step-by-step guide to building a mobile app. Launch This Year was put live mid-day on January 1st, 2013 as a single page website with email collection.

About a week later, Lifehacker and VentureBeat covered us and we've now got over 20,000+ total members. We're hoping to create an awesome community of indie devs and mobile lovers.

We started Launch This Year with the goal of giving indie devs a list of action items they should do along the way to releasing their apps.

The premise is simple. After selecting the date you want to release your app, we tell you what actions you should be doing next to stay on track. There's a lot of hurdles when it comes to the App Store so our hope is to break this apart into smaller, actionable steps. The first steps are pretty basic: defining your project's problem/solution, basic app details, and setting up a landing page.

Eventually, we'll get into more intensive tracks like designing the icon, getting press, and App Store Optimization.

URL: http://launchthisyear.com/

Launch This Year starts tomorrow but use "hackernews" (without the quotes) as the invite code to get immediate access today.

Curious to know what you think.

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This is a method that is occasionally taught in Japanese classrooms, but one could also say that of chunking or the traditional long multiplication algorithm. Want to know the real super-secret-special Asian magic math sauce? Practice. (But if calling it kungfu math lets you teach it is a US classroom and get precious instructional hours by calling math cultural studies then by all means Orientalize away.)

[Edit: I have a pair of chips on my shoulder about this, one on my right shoulder and one on my left, as it were, and that's why I sort of blew up here. I really don't think I'm wrong re: the irritant, though. The SMSC referenced, for example, is Spiritual Moral Social Cultural (skills), and it is pretty much exactly as froufrou as you are guessing. You'll also note that every sentence in the post mentions "Japanese" and it's at the most rage-inducing Stuff White People Like level of surface-learning one could imagine, too.)

[Edit: Please up vote tokenadult's comment before this one, because while multiplication is taught by drill2kill here, that comment is better than mine re: math pedagogy generally.]
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Say I'm a Python developer and I'm looking to write services that are fast. Would I likely be better off going down the route of node.js, Go, Haskell, Erlang? I mean they are all fantastic languages and I've dabbled in most of them but from what I've read, Go seems to be the best one to use if you don't want to shake your world up, but if you do, Haskell or Erlang are nice new paradigms to dive into. Is this true?
I always think about this. In fact, I have seriously considered making this document for my wife since I don't think even she knows everything.
Well, yes, there is. When implementing locks, it depends on how likely and how long contention is. If the expected cost of busy waiting is less than the expected cost of interacting with a heavier-weight scheduling system (which may mean crossing the kernel boundary), then busy waiting is better. This is, of course, for lower level codes. For example, spin locks (so-called because they spin - or, busy wait - on a status variable) are frequently used in kernel code, and I have used them in a memory allocator.
Not quite. It only installs the latest version they know how to install.
Yes and in particular, it's not the other way around: "justice" is not defined as "that which a judicial system purports to implement". Just like "good" is not synonymous with "legal".
Erlang does not have a problem reasoning about the program, because it doesn't share any data. They are actually independent from each other in the same ways that two OS processes are independent from each other (that is, there are still resource contention issues but abstract correctness don't unduly depend on each other).

I'm running out of polite ways to say this, but Node advocates really need to learn about other ways of doing things before advocating so confidently that Node's way is better. Cooperative multithreading does not have the reasoning advantage, which is one of the reasons why it has been abandoned for so long at the OS level. It's incredibly harder to work with that preemptive multithreading sorts of things, combined with other techniques that have been developed over the decades.

(Also, I said "Node advocates" and not StavrosK or "you" specifically; I mean that more generally than just your post here.)
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Lucky enough for the guy who wrote this. He didn't try it long enough to know that there's this thing on Windows OS called "Virus/Worm/Trojan" that eats up everything on his PC. ROFL.
> It sounds like he grew up in a two career family where no one was paying much attention to anything he did.

What if his parents stopped paying attention because he wanted absolutely nothing to do with them and made it known?

That's how I started treating my parents (one career household: pop worked; mom did everything else) at twelve years old and it wore them down after four years. I still feel quite guilty about it, as they were and are excellent parents.
Interesting indeed. Reminds me of this [Chinese suanpan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suanpan).
You misconstrued my comment in a very appropriate way.
I am using a mix of Ruby, Node and Java in production but after some hard-learned lessons chose to minimize the Node usage to things I absolutely need.

My experience with the Node community:

- Great people (Substack!)

- Great attitude #node.js/freenode

- However, many hours spent on solving bugs in existing libraries.

My experience with maintaining production Node code:

- It may be more maintainable than EventMachine, but it's absolutely not more maintainable than Ruby.

- V8 garbage collection is a real pain when you do work that needs it (this also includes memory held by open sockets).

- Was V8 built for the server? (rhetorical)

In the end, I prefer threaded Ruby code to evented Node code. I try to offset the inefficiencies of "threads vs evented" or "Ruby vs Node" by using the JVM and JRuby.
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> Can't one hold a patent and also offer the product for free, provide open source code, and allow others to do the same?

Yes, or you could write open source software and defend prior art in precisely the same way as you'd defend a patent. Given that one option is free and the other one requires the patent process, it's unlikely that they're patenting something just for kicks.

> Do you really think that humanity (or the US) is going to benefit from competing copies of a program that changes the color of our screens?

Yes. How about this as a built-in feature on iOS?

> Are you truly concerned that the patent is going to take this program away from us?

Yes. The lifetime of software, especially indie software, is dwarfed by the lifetime of a patent.

> Why is the pantent-pending "pretty important" for this piece of software? Why not patent this idea?

Software patents are rare outside of very large corporate entities, and it's worrying to see that a small group would think that they're worthwhile.

> If the only answer is "software patents are bad!", then it's worth thinking about these questions more.

Even a brief, two-minute read of the wikipedia page or any other of the top few google results on software patents should make the case that this is more than knee-jerk reaction.
This is really awesome work Shay - I love your intro to html and css guide as well, and have used it as a resource for many of my students (they loved it too). Fantastic work. If you ever need help with any piece of this, I'd be more than happy to pitch in.

I noticed one really strange thing - when you hover over any of the circles on the homepage, all the ampersands change font. Never seen this before and I'm sure it can be fixed quickly, just a heads up.
This submission really should have kept the original title of the post.
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This does not teach you multiplication as much as it teaches you a trick to get the result of multiplication. I doubt anyone is transferring this abstraction that results in the answer into something they can do in their head or extend on paper to larger numbers.

Teach kids to open the calculator app on their phone rather than to do this.

No fast way to learn multiplication other than to practice it.
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I suspect this type of information is pushed to manipulate the market and provide flip opportunities for hedge funds. Apple is down 5%. Imagine if you knew on Friday this story was going to be published.

Given Apple's forward looking cash position, the stock is extremely underpriced, even if sales were to decline significantly.
Great. Now do it for 79*86.
Even if you're right, the word you are looking for is "impatience", not "greed".
I think it's interesting that the engine is so small, are all engines of that caliber that size or is this one special?
The system is there. They publish bids out with requirements then there is a process that companies go through to get that contract. So it is better but it is often just the motions, it provide official deniability "see the paper/electronic trail show it was an open and fair bid process".

What often happens behind the scenes is that requirements are written to a specific software product that is already effectively pre-determined. Like let's say it is a complicated inventory tracking system, out of 50 or so requirement points, every one basically matching the system that L3 provides without naming L3. Stuff like that.

It is vital to do behind the scenes networking, hiring insiders, that needs to happen besides also having someone full time that knows how to jump through the "official" red tape.
It may adequately explain the 'former'.
It's not 30 days. It's 3 days.

It's from the Wednesday before the Saturday of the election, until and including that Saturday.

http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/bsa1992214...
Sad truth about Brazilian Press and Aaron Swartz.
You can go to any Brazilian news website, or even put your television in any Brazilian News Channel that you will not even see the name "Aaron Swartz".

I find this amazing and at the same time sad, and when i say that Brazil is a fucked up place, everybody disagree. lol

Most Accessed Brazilian News Websites:
http://br.yahoo.com/
http://g1.globo.com/
http://www.r7.com/

Biggest Brazilian's Newspaper:
http://www.estadao.com.br/ (a little mention about it)
http://oglobo.globo.com/ (Now they are talking about how Anonymous is taking revenge on Aaron's Death)
Sorry about that Nicholas, the 'Learn Advanced HTML & CSS' button should be good to go now. Thanks for the heads up!

Let me know what you think of everything once you've had a chance to further check out.
This is not an eye for an eye. Aaron's dead, and we're not talking about killing the attorney. But firing her? Absolutely.
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Also, since the game is deterministic, there are known patterns that let a player win every possible board with maximum points: http://www.math.montana.edu/~hyde/pacman/ .
IT Communities like Hacker News are full of assholes
10 Awful Crimes That Get You Less Prison Time Than What Aaron Swartz Faced
Surprisingly short on facts, even if it is a parody. Very slashdot circa 1999.

Congratulations! Now you know exactly how Linux users have felt for the past 10 years every single time someone wrote an "I tried Linux, but . . . " article.
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Can you give us a bit more of your perspective on the case, esp. regarding the common sense view of it from a law perspective? I'd love to hear it.
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Lovely website! I always kick myself when I'm two weeks into a project and my CSS is starting to get unwieldy.

Keeping CSS rules clean and well thought-out pays for itself in the long run, I know this; yet - for some reason I don't follow my own advice. Hehe.

Edit: Another great website with no fluff and pure awesome content is www.htmldog.com.

I learned about HTML and CSS there when I was a wee lad, helped me grok floats.
Sorry, but no, they weren't "just doing their jobs". They were operating way outside the parameters of their jobs, which - as extensions of the Executive Branch - are subject to oversight by the Judicial branch which, in turn, is subject to direct popular oversight in the form of trial by jury.

The critical fact is that the Prosecutors were doing everything in their power secure guilty pleas without going in front of a jury, where they were very likely to lose. That's why they were offering a mere 6-8 months in jail on multiple felony confessions vs. 35 years in prison, a $1mm fine and a trial process designed to be financially ruinous. In other words, their "offer" hinged on their ability to place an insurmountable wall between Aaron and a jury. In doing so, they avoided a key provision of the Constitution. The breath-taking abusiveness with which they pursued him only underscores why that provision was made in the first place.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB1000142412788732458150...

Faced with power this unchecked and malicious, most people simply cave, which is why fewer than 10% of Federal crimes end up before a jury. But apparently, Aaron considered life as a convicted felon to be a fate worse than death. As with so many other things, he simply wasn't like most people. While his suicide brought an unusual amount of attention to the abuse that's going on, the abuse itself is far from unusual. Indeed, it's become par for the course. That's the issue. That's why the response is about people regaining control over a terrifyingly out-of-control system.

Extending this to the specific individuals is essential, because that - and only that - can reflect the moral dimension of the situation. After all, we're not talking about a busted sewer pipe here, or a faulty traffic light leading to an especially bad traffic accident. The DOJ's standard operating procedure represents a calculated erosion of democratic safeguards. That's what makes their conduct a violation of their oaths and crime against the people. So yes, the public's reassertion of its moral authority over its government should absolutely involve severe punishment for those who have so egregiously betrayed the public trust. Given the context, "career ending" is hardly too high a price for the specific individuals to pay. As any prosecutor will tell you, the law is about deterrence as much as it is about punishment.
Absolutely, I understand and maybe even somewhat support that. The problem is when this proud nationalism comes at the cost of taking a dig at other nations/countries or cultures.

Yet that's exactly what this article did.

And they really did not have to do that, in order for them to make their point (and nor did Graham, for that matter--but perhaps that was an old essay and quoted out of context).

It's a particular stumper when you consider that Swartz has loads of fans outside the US as well, and they are following this news with just as much interest, reading also US mainstream articles like these.
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