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> Not the software vendor, it is Apple who does not allow all but Apple's own machines to run Mac OS.

I'm confused here. I thought Apple is Mac OS' vendor. So, yes... as I said it's because Apple. If the OS vendor wants it to be run on a PC, there's no special requirement.

Anyway, that's not the relevant part of my original comment. I can't see how FirefoxOS will be popular if installing it is difficult (even hacky) or if it only works on some specific devices.

We need a market were you buy a phone (that comes with an OS), but you're free to install anything else because hardware != software.

EDIT: typo
I don't even think that it's a maximalist approach. It's a "we don't talk about ongoing investigations" approach so there is no figure that anybody could quote apart from the maximum.
...up until the point when everyone keeps asking you when you will FINALLY bring that "hot chick" to the next party or meet-up.
Perform the following experiment:

1. Visit https://www.google.com/search?q=hackernews

2. Mouse over first result, note the url news.ycombinator.com shown in your browser's status bar.

3. Right-click the first result and 'copy link location'

4. Check what's on your clipboard. For me it's www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F&ei=fRb5UNSeD-am0AW88YGQBg&usg=AFQjCNGKJHXhsq1s0-gYR96B--m47G9oRw&bvm=bv.41248874,d.d2k

5. Visit said URL in your browser and note you get redirected to news.ycombinator.com

As you can see, you are redirected via a huge link.
How in the world is it any different? #force_encoding is not meant to mutate the data. The entire point of it's existence is to be able to correct a wrongly set encoding.
These lists are complete trash. I was at one that was near the top one year. Worst job I ever had in my life. The entire company culture was vile and back stabbing.

I think the list is called this because "100 companies for whom it's best for the CEO/board (i.e. you're going to be horribly exploited) if you work for them" would be too long.
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I moved from Atlanta (used to visit Chattanooga once a week to visit Gf in ringgold. Moved to palo alto. Couldn't disagree more. Bay Area is incomparable.
Isn't the CPU/GPU intensive part of working with neural networks the training of them? Once the network is trained to within an acceptable error-rate why would you need the cloud?
Agreed, unfortunately this is a legal case and it probably won't be judged from a layman's perspective. That doesn't make it any less bad but it does give Ortiz some wiggle room and it will no doubt be used to salvage what they can from this situation. The conversation should therefore not revolve around legal technicalities but around morality and around systemic issues. If this is 'technically correct' then there is an even bigger problem than if this is just (and I use that word knowing full well this is no small matter) about Aaron.
"...given the contract’s length and its role in the film... a lesser studio or artist might have been tempted to go with several pages of lorum ipsum"

So he's basically praising pointless lawyering! :)

Or a more charitable reading: he's geeking out as we might about the terminal commands in a 'hacker' movie.
No apology is required.
She can save the "technically true" for the other lawyers, the rest of us are not amused. The fact remains that she was seeking a severe sentence, but now want to magically make up another truth...

If she think she was right in the first place, she sold stick to it. If not she should apologize. Now she is just looking like a fool.
Was the $1.5 million only to lower the 6 months? Does that mean that if he had accepted the 4 months, he wouldn't have had anything to pay?
It's an indirect advancement. It's beneficial by expanding the circle of people engaged in the issue.

To some extent, it doesn't really matter what Linus proclaimed but he's helped here by tipping others over the edge of contributing to the discussion.

By that i mean, how many people who have great respect for Linus, previously sat quiet on the issue, absorbing the information, but now feel engaged enough to voice an opinion? I'd wager quite a few.

Good on him for not sitting quiet. A big public spotlight's exactly what's needed on this issue. Linus just helped cast the beam a little wider.
No, that did seem rather a poor choice of names to me too.
But do you know why they chose to like something? With Coke, it's possibly a fair bet that it was because of a competition. But for a local restaurant, even if they've gone there and liked it, that could simply be because they saw a "get a 10% discount on your bill if you like us on Facebook",
I'm not an attorney, but I would imagine even if Carmen Ortiz were completely at fault she would never admit as much and would never apologize. Why? Because she could open herself up to a civil lawsuit.

This just speaks so highly of the state of our society. Even if you're at fault taking the moral high ground, owning up and apologizing means you could have the rest of your life ruined. Granted in this context it's a highly sensitive issue as Aaron lost his life, but the fact our culture is so highly litigious makes me sad.
If they would keep putting the extra effort in debugging the Erlang VM C code, the benefits of this debugging would be available to the entire community of developers using Erlang. Now they are in their small corner of the world and every bug they squash is just a bug of their project.

Overall it's worse for "the world" and better for them. This makes sense for commercial software but it's weird when you think about an open-source project. Just imagine if all the effort in porting Ruby/Lisp to Java/C++ or similar translations for big projects would have been invested in improving the VMs for these dynamic languages (yeah, most of these rewritten projects didn't have experienced C guys, but the OP certainly has and is one). Is bug-fixing and hacking on compilers and VMs really that hard? (I never approached these problems in practice because I've never had to scale something that hard and squeeze that last drop of performance, so I'm really asking the question, it's not rhetorical).
What freeways in the northeastern US have average daily traffic volumes above 300k? Do those have alternative routes or see significant traffic volumes overnight? It's tough in Southern California because of a lack of north/south transit corridors.
Windows never replaced tizen since nokia never worked on tizen.
Tizen is considered to be meego with nokia replaced by samsung.
In fact it's only Samsung Linux Platform with some Intel work: Qt has been replaced by EFL.
> She/her office understood, I'm sure, that he thought he was doing things for the greater good.

I have not seen any proof or acknowledgement of that.

> That doesn't mean that he is legally allowed to nor that she is barred from prosecuting him because his intentions were so pure.

This is true, and nobody has said that she should not have prosecuted. The things that are being said are:

- this prosecution was subject to some discretionary powers

- those powers were to some extent abused

- in other cases, arguably more serious Ortiz has used her
discretionary powers to *not* pursue cases

> Not everyone when disagrees with your favored political stance on am issue is too dumb to understand it. Some just disagree.

Pot, kettle, etc. You also do this.

> Calling her am idiot on this context is simply without any basis

If she did not understand this she really is an idiot, I have no proof either way, you claim that she understood but you offer 0 proof.

> Honestly, I'm not sure if any story since a started reading this site has resulted in such a high proportion of minimally thought-out comments.

It has also resulting in a large number of very well thought out comments, not all of which you may agree with. Let's keep the meta discussion out of it.
The long/right click thing really gets to me.

One PCs you have right click and double click, which are both replaced with long click. Using PC design interfaces on mobile will usually work (2 becomes 1). But the reverse fails because 1 cannot become 2.
Same here, will buy but I really want the ePub version for my eReader.
I am expecting a clean linux mobile OS. Android's performance seems worse than iOS with its java implementation.
I suspect that the "worked perfectly the first time" basically implies (whether that is accurate or not) "they only had to create one mask before their tests passed", not that it was entirely bug free. Possibly that the mask faithfully replicated the design, but that the revision of the design they first manufactured still had bugs.

In any case, the main thing is that a lot of MOS' early success came from saving a tremendous amount of money being able to get to market quickly and cheaply compared to the competition thanks to actually having guys like Mensch and Peddle coupled with superior process (though that did not last all that long).
I think this is an expression that sums up how you view yourself in comparison to other people and how you think other people view and "rank" you. I can honestly not imagine that anyone has never had thoughts like this, so for better or worse, there IS something like this out there and if you need more proof then just think of all the brands and labels offering you mostly image and their name and a perceived step-up in that imaginary hierarchy.
He was being sarcastic =P
From my experience with a galaxy s2, most of the software from Samsung is not that great (and can't be removed without installing something like cyanogen... quite annoying).
Pre-computed? You mean rainbow tables right? They have gone the way of the dinosaur with salts. Bcrypt has a big fat salt making it mightily impractical to use rainbow tables as the space required is so large.
I don't remember 99% of sites I visit from HN but I somehow remembered this one and I've only seen it once. Maybe that's what they are aiming for.
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Linus isn't wrong. She made two directly conflicting statements in press releases, which is what he pointed out. The first, which she made at the outset of the case, was that he was facing 35 years if convicted at trial. They make statements like this in order to foster plea discussions, which resulted in the 4-6 month offer she mentioned in the second statement. While this would be considered extortion in any other context, this is entirely legal under current law and forms the basis for our entire "justice" system.

In addition, no mention has been made of possible post-release restrictions that the US Attorney's office may have insisted on, but there is a very real possibility that the judge could have barred him from using a computer or the Internet during the mandatory 3-5 year supervised release period. Federal judges are free to implement any supervised release conditions they wish, and if violated the defendant can face significant additional prison time - up to the length of the supervised release (3-5 years). I didn't know Aaron, but I suspect that this fact may have weighed more heavily on his mind than the incarceration time itself. Four months on a federal case doesn't end after four months.
I posted it on reddit first off the top of my head directly.

Then I noticed the thread on Hacker News and started writing a comment; deleted it and copy-pasted from my own reddit comment and went to bed peacefully.

Which part of this is not right?
yes, Go is a very radical language with very bold decisions in its design and it sure has the "Just Say No" attitude....
but to be honest, its one of the main reasons for me to love Go!! because this makes me sure that Go will not end up like C++ or other bloated languages! you turn your head around, and there is a new feature in language. that sucks.
They'll have their work cut out for them making a more compelling product than dropbox.
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As a non-american, i'm curious (& supportive). When are you going to get together and drop your TSA?

Could you band together this year and get rid of it?
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This is pretty stupid in my opinion.

If you have real friends and family in your Facebook why the hell would you want a fake girlfriend?

They will grab some random photo from the internet and create a fake profile...and your friends will ask you about the new girlfriend and you will have to lie to everyone about it and you can only take it so far.

Soon (very soon) people will find out and you will look, well, pretty damn pathetic.
It's kind of depressing, that promoting phoniness and deception, is elevated to the top of HN as a cool 'hack'.

Seriously? What ever happened to.. I don't know.. honor and integrity?

While not all are guilty, it does appear somewhat hypocritical that a presumably similar group, would grumble about the ills of Wall St. execs, and yet simultaneously employ analogous reasoning, just splashed with a little erudite cologne.

"Be creative, think outside the box", chanted COO Jeff Skilling whilst driving Enron to bold new heights. Results are all that matter right? 'Fuck the environment, or society or those pesky things of the past. What did you call them again? Morals? Oh how adorably cute and quaint.'

What's it called when the effects of your actions are not easily measurable and are lost in a web of causality? Who cares... it's not like we're hurting anyone elses feelings directly.

But I digress, and ranting somewhat, but please go ahead and rationalize it away (you'll feel better):

(a) 'What nonsense, you're just over-extrapolating, those things are in no way connected.'

(b) 'Ooh tell us how you really feel'

(c) 'meh'

(d) ...?
Really funny that in the logo guidelines, they don't use their logo correctly:
https://www.tizen.org/about/tizen-brand-guidelines
> The truth however is that the link between query intent and your social interactions for interests and places is much weaker than FB wants you to believe.

i must diasgree with this line. facebook is not the place that you could search for a specialized query (for example algorithms or scientific data). instead it is a place to search for people, restaurants and other day to day subjects that people tend to talk about in daily chats, and they may share links or write status about them in social networks. yes, maybe number of likes is a bad measure to rank the results, but it definitely is a measure.
There's a concept called "lie". Dying your hair is cosmetics. Saying you're in relationship when you're not is a lie.
Then there's hope. I haven't lived in Office Space for three years now as a developer.
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The Hobbit is a story for kids; and by the point grown men make million-dollar budget movies out of it, there isn't much of the original life left, anyway.

The original contract is super short; the movie contract is extremely bloated... maybe it really does take a lawyer to call that bloating "an impressive piece of work". Impressive would have been to make a children's movie out of a children's book, instead of doing whatever with it and staining the careers of otherwise fine actors, just because it can't fight back and money is nice to have.

If this offends anyone; good. The existance of all these movies, their treatment of legit stories for children to turn them into brainless crap ala Star Wars, offends me as well.
(Footnote 1:)

"Why don't we have a word for this? By "unit of hacking", I mean the work that goes on between starting to hack on a change-set and doing a commit."

Hackit.

As a unit, Ht, similar to Hz for Hertz.

(I was going to add it would be named for Jim H. in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes_Minister , but his name was Hacker.)
In Scandinavia (and other places with strongly Germanic-based languages) "Eeeh Oh Ess" is probably just as common. Haven't seemed to hurt Apple at all.

Android is Android everywhere though.
Playing devil's advocate here: Ultimately, isn't this like a form of story-telling? A lot of books claim they are based on a true story, faking the story online makes it feel even more real and as long as it isn't abused to extort money or post naked pictures... as long as it was just people's interested they invested in the story.. is that such a bad thing?
Thank you! I have this problem and find it immensely frustrating. Not frustrating enough to write a blog post and post it to HN. Glad they did.
Agree strongly with this. Because pure information lacks a clear limiting factor (space in your apartment) I find it to be even harder to handle. It builds up fast, and if I don't clean it out every few months the noisiness of it makes it almost unusable.
It may not but its enabling people to learn new things. The most difficult part which i find if i want to learn things on my own is the direction. Its like when you are reading a book you can not just read different chapters from different places, you may go to other places for references. What online platform like Coursera provides is direction.
P.S. Yeah i also doubt that it could ever be replacement for one on one classroom session.
One thing I always thought would be interesting to do is make it such that the "enforced stylistic" bits of a language were tied to the optimization settings. For example, make warnings not halt the compile on the compiler's equivalent for -O0, and then on any higher optimization setting, they become compiler errors that can't be turned off. It doesn't completely prevent people from doing stupid things (e.g. deploying a debug binary to production), but it's, in my opinion, a good way of solving exactly the problem mentioned here.
This is why I use paper and a large assortment of pens ;-)
> She can save the "technically true" for the other lawyers

She is saying this 'for the other lawyers', specifically her bosses in congress. She likely doesn't give a rats ass about what Joe general Public thinks about the case but is likely scared shitless that if this turns in to actual culpability that Aarons relatives will sue.

Her political career is dead in the water, she might hold on to her job if the shitstorm doesn't get any worse. Google "carmen ortiz" to see how it is developing, you might as well google "Aaron Swartz", the results are much the same.
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I suspect Ortiz's statement was absolutely true but missing the point to the extent of being misleading. No they may not have sought the maximum but in trial they would still have sought years in jail so the threat of 7 years is still terrifying, harsh and unjust.

Don't let the discussion get too focussed on the maximums as you will give Ortiz a way out. The real threat was still too much (More than twelve times what Ortiz says is reasonable as the offer) and the idea of pleading guilt to 13 felonies possibly as unappealling as the 6 month prison term attached.
Sadly, many systems for many years will still use unsalted MD5s. Rainbow tables will still have a place in the cracker's toolkit for some time.
Yes, but that is not the url type being talked about by patio11 or the original article. For the url type under discussion here:

1. Visit https://www.google.com/

2. type "hackernews" into the search box and hit enter.

3. look at the long url in your address bar.
This is also an option: http://play.golang.org/p/qJ5vSnPzb3
In the weaselly shades of English used by lawyers and politicians, the two statements highlighted by Torvalds do not necessarily contradict one another. The older statement accurately describes the maximums the law allows, and was used when that was the emphasis. (At the time, the DoJ probably didn't know themselves what sort of sentence they'd ask for, so the only informative and unfalsifiable thing to put in a PR statement would be the statutory ranges: "faces up to".) It didn't necessarily imply the prosecutors were seeking or ever would seek that penalty.

Even if the prosecutors kept mentioning the maximums, over and over, whenever the opportunity arose, unless they also specifically said they would ask for the maximum, the finely-crafted later statement from Ortiz isn't necessarily contradicted. Reminding of the maximums, to the accused and jury, could be an effective 'framing' rhetorical strategy to help make actual proposals of less (in negotiations or later motions) seem more reasonable or generous.

None of this excuses the law itself or overall prosecutor conduct. But we still should read their statements fairly, aware they contain self-serving spin, but also recognizing the precise things they do and don't claim via their word choices.
The objection here is that "I can't hack and hack to get the answer without inconveniencing myself".

I watch people using this approach all day every day and have to sort out the shit-tip mess that is left behind because it ends up with sprawling crap.

Stop. Think. Write it once. Test it. Fix it. Done.

The "think" bit is the most important bit but is lost now that instant feedback is possible in favour of keep changing it until it looks like it works.
This sounds indeed defamatory and Linus was once again too impulsive. Not sure if the target will be as complaisant as his other victims.

However the situation is indeed very shocking and Carmen Oritz's public reaction is also in my view extremely disappointing and shocking.

Apparently all this was an attempt to use a "big mistake" [1] of Aaron as a leverage for her self promotion with political goals and it backfired in a way she didn't anticipate.

This demonstrate to the whole world the internal "corruption" of the American justice system. Apparently there is no shame about it and no intent to change it. Probably too many influent people profit by various indirect leverages from this "state of art" and money is probably not the least of them.

Her childish response and pseudo justification it's not my fault, I didn't do anything wrong is appalling from a person with such high responsibility.

A more appropriate response is the one from the MIT director: what happened is a catastrophe and wrong because it should not have happened, we start an investigation to clarify our role in it, what we may have done wrong, what we can do to avoid that this happen again and we will make the conclusion public.

In her public comment Carmen Ortiz demonstrate her lack of honesty, objectivity and sense of justice and in short intelligence. Unfortunately it seam that people can get along with the claim she made by the benefit of complaisance of other mediocre people. Mediocracy: +1, Democracy : -1

[1] It is suggested it was a conscious disobedience meant to be a provocative political act to draw attention on a society problem without intent to harm anybody or for selfish interests like money or a political self promotion
> Now Go is a great language with great ideas but hacking something together in it is such a pain that I don't get a warm feeling when thinking about coding in Go. All those small things add up to where it just gets tiresome. Not something I want experience during programming.

This has exactly the opposite effect on me. I feel the strong grip of the compiler greatly comforting me during development. Form frees.
So is it possible that a technical solution isn't really needed for a pen-n-paper "problem"?
> If this offends anyone; good. The existance of all these movies, their treatment of legit stories for children to turn them into brainless crap ala Star Wars, offends me as well.

Well, the inability to appreciate beauty or subtlety in a movie offends me. What's the more brainless, the person who watches a movie and contemplates it, or one who dismisses it without a thought?