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> In the Victorian and Edwardian eras paternalistic legislation required access to parkland throughout London, and it is virulently defended even today.

Sort of ballpark but not quite exactly true, and a story that deserves telling.

In Victorian and pre Victorian times wealthy landholders had extensive private gardens and follies, the money spent on and by top landscape designers to simulate Arcadia (idealised pastorial setting mixed in with follies after classical antiquity) was substantial and the passive aggressive competition to outdo others ratcheted upwards.

In Victorian times a philanthropic movement started to "gift" the concept of private parks and gardens to the public and the unwashed masses (well, to the middle classes more than to the actual unwashed and more seriously socially challenged).

Rather than being government required parks these were more individual gifts and many were passed into local government management using "peppercorn leases" (some of which I've actually handled) which bestowed the land to the public use in return for a nominal "rent" (a peppercorn a year, or somesuch) and under the proviso that the the land use be retained as public parkland ... if it is not maintained as such then the control of the land reverts back to the original owners and their estates (which now, a few hundred years on would be a nightmare of dividing up prime central city real estate between potentially several hundred related claimants).

The parks are a result of paternalistic (and often maternalistic) gestures which used land transfer legislation to ensure continued public access in perpetuity.
For sure. The chorus of "Clearly you should be writing your own buffering" has been bugging me - it's not hard but there's a lot of room for an error and you're doing a lot of obfuscating of the code actually solving your problem reimplementing infrastructure that already exists in libc... If you're consuming a single character at a time from a single thread, I don't think you're likely to beat getc_unlocked by much anyway.
My understanding it's the app store download and install that gets blocked, not the actual running of apps. That's when you see the age-restricted warning, not when you run the app.

An imperfect system for your use case, for sure. An example where multi-user iPad would be great.

The whole iOS ecosystem is design with one user per device in mind. Apple ID, single user, etc.
What a crying baby taught us about customer value
Either your parent edited after your post or you conveniently skipped the '(and pay)' in your argument. I'd like to see some solid comparison of revenue numbers between Play store and Appstore. I'm pretty sure iOS would still come out ahead in that regard, until I get disproven on this. Of course I'm not saying that one should ignore Android, since this will quite possibly change in the (near) future, but still, from an economic standpoint it IMO still makes sense to target iOS first.
Old but still relevant. I learnt about locks here.

http://www.lysator.liu.se/mit-guide/MITLockGuide.pdf
Not really. You should read what information is available on the case, and the MIT report when it comes out in the near future.
Now this is getting too much. Apple should be putting some sensible reviewers there. I wander what kind of people take such steps.

Additionally, "we also received customer complaints about possible child pornography", what kind of bozos report such things.

Dear Apple, Chrome and Safari let me access porn too easily, I just need to follow following steps:
1. Open Safari
2. Tap address bar. Then tap s,e,x,.,c,o,m keys and press return.
3. PORN!

OMG, now will you block Safari as well!
Lexis and West pay the courts for these documents. They are happy to pay the fees. The courts are happy to get the fees. Do you honestly think Lexis and West would be happier if the docs were free?

Who loses? The public.

The proceedings of the nation's government institutions should not be behind paywalls.
My concern is not that I would (I am actually decent at reading abstracts and things like that, though I still wouldn't trust my opinion on a subject I'm not deeply versed in), it's that other people would. People are still not vaccinating their children because of one broken paper, it's madness.

Now, whether or not that means you should have invisible hands curating content before it reaches the eyes of the public, I'm still not really sure where I stand.
I personally feel that projects can benefit from more input and more opportunity for constructive criticism. That said, I also don't run the largest company in the US, so I'm not sure I'm qualified to make a judgment call there.

I think that Apple tends to be a bit echo-chambery, but they've historically built solid stuff, so it's hard to criticize their development methodology too heavily. It'll be interesting to see how that contrasts with changes in their corporate ethos in a post-Jobs era.
A few points, as a frequent user of PACER:

1. If you charge $15.00 in a quarter, it's free. If you charge $15.10 you owe $15.10. In other words, you don't get a $15 credit if you go over $15.

2. It's actually potentially more than 150 pages, as PACER caps the cost per document at something like $3.00, I think. So one could download five 200 page documents for $15.

3. The PACER system has become a slush fund for the judiciary. It has run huge surpluses (on the order of tens of millions of dollars) for years, even as the cost per page has increased from $0.08 to $0.10. Keep in mind that participants in lawsuits pay non-trivial filing fees for the privilege and that electronic filing has drastically reduced the cost of shuffling paper in courts.

4. Some state courts do make their documents more free than PACER by a long shot. FL and WI are good examples. Some are far worse (UT, which charges $30/month just to search!).

5. The worst part of the PACER system is that it's heavily federated--searching across courts for documents containing particular keywords is essentially impossible. One has to consult a nightly index of cases assembled from each local court's database. The money isn't even being spent to improve the system.
You know, after I helped them out with picking a developer, they didn't ask for help once development started. I offered to help but they either didn't run into problems or didn't come to me when they did.

These are the ones that were successful at it...many more were not. But I don't know if the ratio is the same for people with/without dev experience (plus sample size is too small).

What I do know is that most:

1. Got help picking a developer initially

2. Had some guidelines on how to work with a developer

3. Had no development experience

4. Had to get learn how to outsource and made some mistakes (but eventually made it work)

Outsourcing is tough at first but it gets easier. Like any skill, you have to get better at it.

In any case, I do think it's a great idea to learn how to program so you're not so helpless if/when problems come up.
They're not shutting Dell down...
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> Like when I cleverly managed to mail my apartment keys to myself, including my only mailbox key...

If my mailbox key was locked inside my mailbox, I would just wait for the postal person to show up. They have keys that open the entire wall of mailboxes. Just wait in the distance until they open the wall and then go get the mail out of your box. Just act like you don't see anything wrong with grabbing your mail and they probably won't question you.[1] As a backup, have a photo id with your address on it. :)

1: I've done this myself because it was easier than using my key. The postal guy saw me and we exchanged a few pleasantries.
>but from almost the entire rest of the company just blows my mind.

I've worked at Apple before and it wasn't that different to every other large corporation. Excluding obviously the hardware design and critical features. But everything else was par for the course.

EVERY large company has politics and empire building. Especially when you are a multinational and have a driven workforce.
Nice tips. Ever since I deactivated Push, life has been better for me. :)
I'd say the policy should be: reinstate glass-steigal on steroids. If and when banks fail, blow out the management and have unlimited FDIC insurance backstopped by the Fed. No need to apply discipline on the liability side of banking because it hurts main street. If the investment banks fail ( not commercial banks ) let them die. Whatever damage that causes to the macro economy, make up for it by providing stimulus projects/tax cuts as needed. Lets stop privatizing profits and socializing losses. BTW, you are right GS and JPM would have gone under if not for the bail outs. They were experiencing a classic bank run and not enough liquidity to support. A great opportunity to clean up wall street was missed. Instead the country was looted at the expense of main street and they got away with it. That is how it will look 100 years from now.
It makes a lot of sense from a business perspective.

It costs next-to-nothing to release this old material, since the product development's already been done and they already own the rights.

Unlike re-releasing old computer games, for pencil-and-paper RPG's there are no concerns about compatibility with modern hardware and operating systems. (Tangentially, a very successful startup has had success at addressing those concerns with open-source software, allowing publishers to generate revenue from ancient games [1].)

To those who say the material, once released, will be massively pirated: Two big reasons people pirate material are (1) the lack of a legal purchasing avenue, and (2) they can't afford it. This move takes care of (1), and as for (2), the main audience will probably be older players looking for nostalgia, who have a lot more disposable income than pencil-and-paper role-playing's traditional market of middle school, high school and college students.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOG.com
How it compares to http://www.NewRelic.com ?
I am 100% sure, that at least for me, I can imagine and design a graphics language, superior to text representation of programs. And I expect that for most people, once they surpass the learning curve, will also be better. And even more sure about it working for people new to programming.

We can represent programs using texts. text is a good way to represent sequences of information. So it fit programs well, to some extent.

But text is limited. Programs contains many kinds of information, that don't fit well with a textual representation. Hierarchical data, scope, branching flow, loops, etc. After you realize this, you can also replace text commands, with symbolic representations that are easier to parse visually, and that can convey their function better than just text.

You need to maintain an appropriate level of information density. This one of the thing that has made text representation of programs successfully.

The other key thing is the UI. We are highly productive in manipulating text with editors. A successful graphical language has to beat that. It has to make possible to manipulate the information more efficiently: faster, and with less muscular effort. Allow me to call this the field of "unconventional UIs".

When I was a kid, I only had access to computer for a brief time. But I had plenty of access to console games. I used to love videogames. I spent huge deals of time detailed studying them, drawing concepts, etc. Examining why I found most of them to be bad, some average, and a few gems. A key thing was the UI. The mechanisms to manipulate the game environment.

Well, videogames are a rich field of unconventional UIs. And it is a field that I know very well. My experience with all these game UIs, makes me pretty sure. A better, more efficient UI can be designed, to manipulate programs information, on a graphical environment, than existing UI from text editors.

that's it in short.
Pretty sure they are stonger than any key you could make, so the key would snap before the cylinders do.

Plus, you need to be able to allow the entire mechanism to turn in order to disengage the lock, which the broken cylinders would interfere with.
> the reason why many people mistakenly believe that SSRIs are effective for moderate and severe depression (as opposed to not effective for any type of depression)

I'm taking an SSRI now, after about ten years off, and have taken them on and off for more than two decades, and they most definitely have a dramatic effect on anxiety and depression - the effects and general mechanism are pretty obvious. Basically, emotional reactivity is reduced as well as the tendency to ruminate. For me, this effect is clear as day, as are why it causes the side effects that it does which is why I typically don't stay on them for very long. While they don't work for everyone, SSRIs have been enormously popular for at least two decades.

So I gather that you believe the entirety of SSRI's popularity, as well as all the good/bad physiological effects many of us taking them find so apparent, are strictly placebo effect?
I can't quite grasp how elixir works with immutability. I have used erlang and am familiar with how it works. In elixir, is it saying that if I create a record and store it in variable "a", I can later set "a=3", but I am unable to change the record once it's created?
So this begins today?
The newer products are actually pretty good: XPS 12, XPS 27, they announced the XPS 13 with a 1080p screen, and so on...

However, I think they had some problems before that and this might be one of the reasons why they're in a pretty bad shape right now (the other big reason being the iPad, tablets in general, Android, etc. of course).
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I get that, and it's a source of much frustration. The idea of buying an iPhone for your four-year old strikes me as lunacy. These things are marvelous at keeping kids entertained and quiet when you're waiting at a restaurant or checking out at the grocery store, and expecting that there will only be one user of the device ever is annoyingly myopic. It also occurs to me that if you're going to gate it at install time, the iTunes password already does that. Don't give the kid the password, she can't install anything that isn't approved.

There's a tremendous disconnect between how it should work and how it does work. If I want to put my device in "four-year-old mode", I shouldn't have to uninstall everything to get there.
Is University Necessary? A professor debates a student.
Ignore the down votes, I agree with you 100%.

These guys have tried really hard to do something complicated nobody has really done before. Sure, it has a few bugs and isn't 'perfect'. Neither was the space shuttle, neither was the HTML 1.0 spec. Nothing ever is.

It's currently in style to put down tall poppies and complain about everything and anything, even when it's free and you don't even have to use it if you don't want to.

A community like Hacker News should be praising people trying to get off the beaten path. Sure, constructive criticism is good, but flat complaining "It's just unacceptable" is complete nonsense and a waste of everyone's time.
I use ownCloud!

It has a CalDAV and CardDAV server, works perfectly with the iphone. It also has file sync built in, which replaces Dropbox for me. :)
This has nothing to do with protecting Lexis/West's profits (there is very little that's on PACER that's also on Lexis/West that isn't also on e.g. Google Scholar). It has everything to do with understanding why things are the way they are.

Mr. Foster drags Lexis/West into it so he can work the "$6.5 billion" + government conspiracy angle to build outrage, even though blaming Lexis/West for PACER's problems makes no sense, nor does it give any insight into how the system evolved to its present state.

Someone has to pay for the operation of the court system. Usage fees are an (until now) uncontroversial way to do that. They reflect a policy choice: do we want to completely subsidize a government service, or push some of the costs of running it onto the people who directly use it? Thus, you see usage fees in many different contexts: toll roads, subway fares, traffic tickets, parking meters, court filing fees, and access to public records. There are lots of kinds of public records that require paying a fee (you should price a FOIA request sometime).

Are usage fees a bad idea for court dockets? You're welcome to make that argument. But make that argument for what it is: a proposal to subsidize one kind of access to the court system by diverting revenues from elsewhere. Evaluate the costs and benefits of those proposals. E.g. are higher filing fees (for people appealing to the court system for justice) worthwhile in order to allow reporters, etc, cheaper access to dockets? These are practical, concrete, educated arguments. But don't clothe your argument in uneducated conspiracy theory bullshit.
Evolution:

1. This is the greatest thing ever! Absolutely the path to enlightenment!

2. I had a crazy trip. I need some time to recover and to digest these thoughts.

3. This crap just gets in the way.
People overplay the Apple Maps card.

There was only ONE thing Apple did wrong with Apple Maps. And that was to not license data far, far more aggressively.

The fact is that Google Maps as an app is buggy, lags terribly and clunky all round. It's the high quality of the data that sets it apart.
Yep, roundcube, integrated into ownCloud for CalDAV/CardDAV
I've only worked at small (<100 employees) companies, so I guess I've just never run into this. It's a little sad to think that you could work alongside someone and have to consider them a threat rather than an ally.
No, he's referring to a font. [A version of Monaco][1] that shipped with the Macintosh Programmers Workshop editor for a time. The paragraph above the MPW reference notes that he was using TextMate (which he'd be using since the 1.0 release)

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monaco_(typeface)
This doesn't have to be an "either or" choice. The great thing is both of them live on the wonderful BEAM VM. They both can take advantage of a completely concurrent garbage collector and all the other goodies. Some modules can be written in Erlang some in Elixir.

Elixir it seems very easily can call Erlang functions. I don't know about vice-versa though.

A lot of things in the article are related to syntax. I agree that single assignment is not needed for concurrency and the if statement can just return a nil. This, I argue is a matter of preference. In a large system knowing that a variable you set could not have changed, makes state management more explicit, some might see that as a benefit.

Also if statements are actually expressions, they should return a value. Choosing a default value of nil seems arbitrary. Just add another clause to if. Besides you'd probably want to use 'case ... of' anyway in most place. Just because 'if' in Erlang matches with the same keyword from C, doesn't mean that both work exactly the same way.

Now with the records, yes, there has been talk about adding "frames" (the equivalent of dictionaries or hash tables in other languages). The developers are thinking about it and I believe in release after the next or the one after that we might see that.

Now one thing I am really excited about in Elixir is macros. The ability to create a DSL. That is what probably will get to start playing with it.
Like I said in reply to someone else, ownCloud works perfectly for me. Syncing apps for Linux and Mac OS X, web access on my tablet, Android client, and I think iphone is either out now or very near. Check it out!
> Now, admittedly, not all the productivity gain is from types. However, they certainly help me, not just in making the code robust but also in writing it in the first place. And typeclasses actually do make the language concretely more expressive in certain ways.

You said you started out in Racket. Did you try Typed Racket? You don't necessarily need to move to Haskell to get a type system (though you won't get typeclasses).
> Every large company develops internal politics with various degrees of harm to itself and its performance. If the business is led by a non-founder, non-technical, non-performing CEO it is a given that he will always feel like an insecure usurper/impostor more concerned about protecting their job from rivals than actually leading.

Not just large companies, but also small businesses, even open source software projects, and even those projects building a programming language.
Yes, but as the OP describes, the process involved much iteration and constant feedback and energy from Jobs, not just a memo of what he wanted to see on launch day
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This is something I totally agree with. I wish the borders between academia and the professional world were a bit more permeable. Academia (often) suffers from a severe disconnect from practice, and the professional world could really benefit if there were more space for research. What if you could occasionally take a year or two teaching and researching on a subject important to you, and then go back?
Agreed. My guess is that we'll get somewhere closer to what you're looking at eventually. True focus of the company is very much in the personal device area, though.

However, they have started some work mainly focused on accessibility that might be good for this use. iPad only at the moment:
http://www.gottabemobile.com/2012/10/01/how-to-lock-the-ipad...
You should look back through the history of http://minimsft.blogspot.com

Microsoft is worse than most because its ranking system actually encourages you to compete within your team not just outside.
I do have a startup idea and I am very interested in this proposition. But, the idea is still fully in development and no actual "beta" is available, as I am still developing the product. Is this proposition still open for just an "idea" test?
Can you please elaborate on (2) and (3)?

I've had about 5 or 6 trips, and although some of them had bad moments (I get paranoid about unusual sensations with heart or breathing which are just exaggerated by the mind), I never regretted those trips. They weren't “eye-opening” or something, but the experience was very exciting, especially the nature, the music, the animals & the people part.
Depends on the type of mailbox; some styles have a drop-slot for delivery that doesn't allow retrieval.
My understanding is that you can't set the variable per se. Rather, you can only bind a new variable with the same name, shadowing the old binding. This is very similar to how let bindings work in other languages like OCaml and Scheme.

So changing a is more akin to creating a new scope with a new value bound to a rather than mutating a. However, I should be clear that I'm just inferring this from how let statements work in other languages--I've never actually used Elixir.
It's more about the author than Steve Jobs and there is no new information about Steve Jobs.
It is likely that they got a few flaws, but they make an effort and so many security researchers look at them.

Ultimately, they have a good chance to be the most secure hosting service available for masses.
I'm just using it as a back of the envelope measurement between two paid-for photo enhancement apps. Is there any app considered widely successful that has a relatively low number of reviews?

I would also point out, anecdotally, that I haven't heard of anyone in my social circle using Mixel...not friends, but the people I follow online, on both the tech and photography world. This is not to say that Mixel was a bad app, just that it doesn't seem popular enough to buy for the tech or user base alone.
Do not bring money or anything of value with you on your voyage. Why? Inevitably your "higher" self will feel compelled to toss the stained worldly items away.

Later, your "lower" self will regret having tossed them ;-)