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It's really horrible to see how easy anyone can remove competitors from Google play.

The DMCA claim is issued by well known in Russia litres company. This company is well known by DDOS attacks (which they paid for) to some Russian ebooks libraries. Litres loose this fight. Libraries won. Now they started fight again in opposite direction - to remove from Google Play any books reader which can have access (by OPDS) to such libraries (e.g. to lib.rus.ec library).

There is also second cause. Litres company has their own book reader in the Google play. You may check the page of this reader ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.litres.andr... ). Just yesterday, in the "Users who viewed this also viewed" list there was moon+ pro (now removed from market) on first place, Google books on second, then cool reader (may also be removed from Google play since author of the reader has already been threatened about that by litres) and finally moon+ again (not in the marked now).
So, it seems, they just got attacked their main competitors (except for Google books by obvious reason).

Moon+ Reader has been installed 5 000 000 - 10 000 000 times (which is 50x times more that LitRes reader's installs number).
> police are high status

And ... that's pretty much the problem.

In the UK, policing is meant to be consensual, by the "people" for the people. The first police were intentionally recruited from lower classes to avoid the whole high-status issue. It's not a well-paid job. Police Dramas like "The Wire" in the US glamorise police work, where in the UK, we have "The Bill" which makes it look dull as hell...
Exactly, you need to understand the trade offs, which I don't feel the article touched on.
Yup but people need to be aware of the limitations of the platform, something the article was very light on.
> why is it high cost to make a truecrypt container

Because normal people can barely use MS Word, how do you think they're going to be able to use Truecrypt?
What a ponderous, pretentious load. This strikes me very much as a list of "Books I want everyone to know that I think everyone should read" which is very different from the stated title. Is Origin Of Species really a better choice than almost anything on the topic by Dawkins or Gould for the general purpose of "[learning] of our kinship with all other life on Earth"?
Exams are like job interviews, not like typical professional work. Do people typically interview collaboratively? No.
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> We also looked at Restify, Tako, and a few others.

With the long list of things checked out, I doubt they gave the "few others" a close look. Which is too bad, because Geddy may have been just the ticket.
How is "less keystrokes" unclear?
"The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (eBook) – “to learn that capitalism is an economy of greed, a force of nature unto itself.”" : Someone must have had problems understanding Capitalism, it seems.
The number of coroutine invocations, and the order in which they're cleaned up, could depend on user input. The former could be unbounded.

More formally, I'm pretty sure you can write a program that always halts, but for every pair of large numbers N, K > 0, there are at least K different input values that result in (1) at least N coroutine invocations being simultaneously active, and (2) for each of those K different input values, those invocations finish in a different order.
This makes me wonder how sophisticated phishing setups are. This seems like something that they would want to A/B test to determine which "converts" more "users".
In a car accident you want to stop people form being thrown around the car, hitting each other, steering wheels etc.

'Judy Knew Her Killer' is a good example of why even backseat passengers should wear belts - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEa8j98eR9g

On a motorbike you want the rider to separate from the bike, if a bike is rolling and the rider is attached to it they are going to get really mangled.
Stackoverflow: What is the best Linux terminal emulator?
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This is actually a one-liner, because itertools is awesome:

first10 = lambda iterables : itertools.islice(itertools.chain(*iterables), 0, 10)
Ah, my bad. Carry on, then.
The issue we face isn't about predicting in broad-strokes technology that would be useful. It's all the minute decisions that turn the broad-strokes into something great.

When something becomes popular, people often look for people who "predicted" it. I remember the article about how Microsoft's Nathan Myhrvold "invented" the iPhone in 1991. Except that he didn't. Microsoft made a hand-held computing OS before the iPhone and Palm Pilots existed a decade before the iPhone. In broad-strokes, they're the same thing. However, they weren't popular (and not for lack of trying). The issue wasn't the broad-strokes, but the minute details that made the iPhone (and other devices since) a joy to use. His work probably led to Windows CE, PocketPC, and Windows Mobile. He didn't invent the iPhone.

Similarly, before Dropbox we had options like XDrive from AOL, WebDAV servers, FTP, iDrive from Apple, and many others. We were awash with crappy software to store our documents on a server and access them from any computer we were on. Even Microsoft offered a slew of sub-par options that would get re-done as a Dropbox competitor as everyone started recognizing that Dropbox's model was wonderful.

Giving David Gelernter credit for predicting Dropbox is to show a lack of appreciation for the decisions that made Dropbox great - and better than the army of options that came before it that simply weren't good. Dropbox did what many before it couldn't do: create an online storage system that people love. I remember trying a bunch of services like XDrive back in the day. Transfers would fail, the transfers were synchronous (so you'd get a pause until the write had happened), things weren't cached locally so load times were poor, the mount was finicky, etc. They all satisfied the "making documents available everywhere" criteria similar to Dropbox, but they simply weren't good. Dropbox worked hard to make it good. They made lots of little design/technical decisions that make it Just Work. Many before them had tried and failed.
Someone like Google or Microsoft can just pay to settle. No such 'tragedy' is possible.
For me, drupal is still saving lots of time in development. If you (or your client) thinks he knows EXACTLY what he wants, than do it from scratch and expect to invest much more time (money).

But I have come across enough clients that were pragmatic, and were able to understand that changing built-in feature X to make it a little different is not that crucial. They were able to live with the limitations imposed by built-in systems because they knew it saves a lot of money, and ultimately - these things are not the things that determine if a project succeeds or fails!

In the real world of limited time and money, drupal is indispensable.
PFSense is using an older and patched version of OpenBSD PF and as you said all the configuration is done using the gui. PF configuration in OpenBSD is very simple using the cli and following the official FAQ: http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/index.html
Yeah, the only really good situation where you'd want a CMS rather than building something yourself is if the technology is not the product.
Is social media changing how we record history?
If you disagree then watch every patent as they are published to make certain they are non-obvious? This guy is full of it. Of course you would have to be full of it to think this patent was non-obvious.
For some of them, I think it's better to first read works from knowledgeable dissidents. Then when reading those books, it's easier to spot the ideologies contained in them which you otherwise might have missed. (Since we have been trained since childhood to accept these ideologies without even noticing them.)

Take Wealth Of Nations' insidious creation myth of markets, downplaying government policy in favor of barter myths. To someone like Neal Degrasse Tyson, raised in that mythology, it seems plausible that such a human social arrangement is in fact a force of nature. But if you read Graeber's Debt: the First 5000 Years, or maybe even Chomsky's Understanding Power, the myths get deflated. (http://www.zcommunications.org/debt-slavery-and-our-idea-of-...)

(Though I suppose with capitalism's negative externalities which threaten to turn the Earth into another Venus, maybe there is no significant distinction between it and a force of nature...)
It's more complicated than that. Like physical security, computer security is applied risk management.

Your house probably doesn't have solid metal doors, metal bars over the windows, laser tripwires, a patrolling security guard, and angry Doberman Pinschers. All of those things would increase your home's security, but the cost of the security probably doesn't make sense compared to the risks involved with your house getting burgled.

Similarly, Hacker News doesn't require client TLS certificates, two-factor authentication, and insanely complex passwords. The risk of horrible and/or costly things happening because someone's HN account got broken into really isn't there, so implementing those security measures doesn't make much sense.

Even if the author's bank's security picture doesn't actually decrease fraud at all, the security picture was probably cheap to implement, required minimal user and employee training, and keeps the lawyers and regulators happy. The bank's risk exposure decreases, even if the author's doesn't.
Then why not make that the crime, rather than speeding in and of itself?
No, it really is worse than useless. It is trivial to fetch the image - anyone with a passing familiarity with jQuery can probably do it.
That's assuming you don't mind subgroups of society to disappear and fringe groups to achieve dominance (at least when it comes to population numbers and democracy).

The way it's looking, it means that Christianity will once again control the US at some point in the not-so-distant future.

And of course there's the "if someone else does it first we may be screwed" factor.
Yeah but are those other gems in the OpenBSD ports tree? The point is not that they are not used for other things but that they are probably not used in OpenBSD
No, there was an article recently on HN about how Intellectual Ventures "loads" a shell company by transferring a patent to it only days before filing the dispute. If you put the shell out of business they lose only the single patent (if that). They don't care about the shell, it's like an eyelash of the giant.
What is really awesome is that all those books are offered for free! Anyone has a better format to read "Newton's Principia : the mathematical principles of natural philosophy" ?
Drupal is great if you have a 10gigabit link between your web & database servers.
A former boss of mine has a theory that I endorse wholeheartedly- if you want to make a hugely successful business, start with one that is totally unaffordable in the current climate, and wait for change.

That's how YouTube started- when it launched everyone was blown away by the sheer amount of bandwidth they were eating though every day. Lo and behold, bandwidth costs dropped. The same goes for Dropbox- 2GB for every user, for free? Are you insane? But storage costs dropped and it's an affordable model. So it's one thing to predict Dropbox, it's entirely another to actually execute on it.

I do wonder what the next company will be to follow this pattern. I'd like to believe that it's Spotify, but their limitations aren't technical, they're the entire industry. So there's no guarantee that they'll fit the model.
Yes Drupal is not for creating custom apps, but it is not really that bad, for specific systems (ex: where you have anonymous traffic) or publishing systems, Drupal really excels. the huge amount of queries (200+) executed on each request can be easily cached and scaled using a bunch of layers (APC,static files, varnish) and it scales very well.
on the other hand, if you try to build the CMS features you get (out of the box) in other framework like Django or rails, it will take you really a longer period of time.
I think msvan may have been referring to books too. For instance: Origin of the Species spends a great deal of time presenting evidence for why evolution should be believed. At the time this was of course necessary to convince all of the skeptics. Now, it can be sort of dry. Dry as in "not stimulating". It's much more interesting to follow a book that deals with things that are controversial today. Reading Dawkins for instance is likely to push some buttons even in those who accept evolution. It's also arguable that this sort of thing isn't science, it's just philosophy (the idea of the Meme, for instance) and if it is philosophy, how can we separate the philosophical import of evolution from the science of evolution.

Yes, saying this is likely to rile up some Dawkins defenders, but then I've proven my point, the issues it discusses are not dry the way that pages and pages of evidence presented for an argument you already accept the conclusion of is.

But I shouldn't really speak, I barely read these days.
are these 1100 lines of code executed everytime you render a link field ?
If you have many different implementations running on thousands of different servers, it makes taking down the whole thing much more difficult.
What's so good about it? Looks like any other MVC framework to me.
Ok, what do you say about this prediction? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America-Lite:_How_Imperial_Acad...
True -- any visualization that doesn't get the message across is just about useless.

Luckily we have very tight feedback loops -- and I can push new versions every couple of hours so I can customize it really fast to suit their needs/mental models.
Playing the devils advocate here as I agree with you: What if Coke walks away from CBS - it wouldn't be very fair from the perspective of CBS as they applied the same rules to everyone, and a lost a massive customer.
CBS probably doesn't care what consumers think, CBS are effectively dumb pipes, and can charge through the nose for their service.
I don't think symfony is dying, however, bridging the two systems might produce a mess. but we better wait and see.
I was a Drupal developer for a year or so. That was at the end of my stint as a PHP developer, and presaged the end of my use of PHP as a language, and my introduction to the larger world of software engineering.

Thinking about it now, I'm really not sure what Drupal is good for. All in all it is a pain-in-the-ass to work with. Having switched to Rails after that (and please don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to insist that Rails is the be-all-end-all, but for the sake of comparison...), I know now that the same amount of development time in Rails can yield far greater results, despite the fact that you can essentially build functionality through a GUI in Drupal--a GUI which is as incomprehensible as the codebase is. This is something the author of this piece acknowledges when he talks about trying to customize Drupal.

This has to do with two things, I feel. One is that, fundamentally, Ruby is a more expressive language than PHP, and you can accomplish a lot more with less code. I say this not to start a language war but simply because I think it is true--the same way I feel that Lisp is more expressive than Ruby by a significant factor.

The second, and much more significant reason, is that Drupal doesn't have any sort of sane architecture to let you safely plug in modular code. You are essentially hot-loading code into arbitrary points within the system. Frankly, it suffers from the same problem a lot of PHP apps do (and more Ruby and Python apps than many of us would care to admit) which is that it's people re-inventing the wheel from the ground up, all over again, poorly. The fact that they are now talking to the Symfony guys about putting some of those ideas in place suggest to me that someone on the Drupal team finally realized MVC exists. I have this vision of someone in the PHP community at some point randomly picking up the Gang of Four book and being like "holy shit, check this out people...they had a solution to some similar problems 20 years ago..."

I'm joking a bit...but after years and years doing web development, I only finally realized the whole world of software engineering that was out there, and how out of the loop I truly was (and still am). Many developers exist in a little bubble consisting only of their language or worse, their platform. The Javascript folks, Rubyists and Pythonistas (fill in your favorite language/platform here I suppose) can all suffer from this.

Point being, any of us who consider ourselves "software engineers" should be constantly reviewing our own skill set, and while we should certainly be refining our skills in our particular language(s) and toolsets of choice, we should also be constantly reviewing other languages and ways of thinking about architecting software for guidance, inspiration, and to combat our own tendencies towards small-mindedness. We should be refining our knowledge of algorithms and comp sci fundamentals if we are lacking (as many web developers are, especially self-taught ones).

After all, "those who don't know history are destined to repeat it." This is just as true--if not moreso--in software engineering as it is in any other discipline or domain.
I think the moral is to incorporate company A, which sells source code without any warranty to company B (also yours), which sells the binaries to users. Company B is perpetually in debt to company A; if they are sued they use their remaining assets to pay A and then declare bankruptcy.
There are lots of Drupal developers around. Why not hire one instead of training people from scratch? If your job involves something new like Drupal then you get on and learn it, there are plenty of resources around. Perhaps novice Drupal developers are the problem.

Note, I do not like working with Drupal but I have seen some really impressive things done with it.

The author says Symfony is dying. The opposite is true. Symphony2 and it's components are becoming more popular and are being used in other frameworks like Laravel. If you are following php into 5.4 at the very least you will know about symfony. You will probably be using some components of it.
I didn't mean to imply that the motorcycle rider should be strapped to the bike, but rather that if the seat belt law is about safety the legality of motorcycles seems a bit hypocritical.

Although your point about not injuring other passengers within the car could be part of it.
Effective SEO a break down of numbers
If taking your foot off the gas still doesn't work you can also squirt the vehicle behind you by cleaning your windshield.
I'm not sure if we're talking about a language problem here. The tools are there for you to use them in the proper way and there's always a chance that someone misunderstands how things work.

Perl Data::Dumper can be used with eval for serialization, but it is a bad idea. Just like using pickle in Python (most of the time, at least).

No matter what you do, there's always room for someone doing something stupid. So I rather have the tools.
Not working for me, either. But I see people upvoting the link, indicating they are able to access it.
My bank (BNP Paribas in France) has an even worse policy: 6 digits. No more, no less. They try to prevent phishing attempts with mouse-based PIN entry, require you to change the password every so many logins, but the fact remains: there are only one million possible combinations.
Of nature. Although, now I'm questioning whether I've misunderstood the goal to be a TOE, when perhaps it's more incremental and unguided.
I don't understand, Americans are still getting shocked that is in the students nature to try and cheat their way to graduation? Both parties are guilty, one of cheating and the other of being so naive.
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What Happens When You Walk Into a Bar Wearing Google Glasses
I just don't see being loud as a necessary way to express yourself. Hell, you could teach your children to use sign language if they want to express overt emotions. That would actually be pretty awesome.

On the bright side of things: maybe this scenario will drive the children to "fix" the computer. Maybe they'll learn new things that they never would've learned if not for their father's "repression". Maybe they'll realize that parents are sometimes full of shit, and shouldn't be trusted implicitly.
Does Miguel's love affair for MS really ever go "off"?
Or move to another country. I'm glad I'm not in the US and have to deal with this crap.
Jobs was the intuitive enabler, Woz was the thinker who almost knows how to dance.
How to Write Code That Embraces Change
I guess it's about harm minimisation and if you banned motorbikes, I guess you'd have to ban cycles too.

There were moves in the EU a few years back to limit engine capacity of bikes.
They are selections for everyone, including 'beginners' which I assume is the reason he selected them. They would have very little quoting other sources with little explanations why.

Not a bad selection imo, though I would have thrown in the Torah/Koran as well as the bible to inform you of all the major religions and differences. And maybe remove Art of War for a maths primer like Euclid's Elements or somthing.
While all you say is pretty much true, you have to see it in the context of the service that SAP provides. SAP implements the workflow of their costumers (the process is called "tailoring"), not the other way around. As every customer has a different workflow, the maintenance nightmare you describe is always looming, especially as the systems are built to run for decades. SAP knows this, but sadly, there is no good solution for this problem.

Full disclosure: I worked for SAP Research, but not on ERP systems.
This is part of a system called Passmark which was acquired by RSA many years ago.

As part of the newest releases of RSA's security approach it has been deprecated. In a few years you won't see this anywhere on the web (or, if you do, you'll know that the login and security portion of that site hasn't been looked at in years... also scary).

The banking industry is moving toward one-time passwords sent out-of-band and/or Google Authenticator for "something you have."
Are either of those points actually true? I don't think so.
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Yup, and that's why I suggests you create a new fresh user and try it there. If the bug doesn't show there it's something in your personal settings somewhere, if not it's in the system settings.