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> The only reason they're still around is because everybody uses it

And since we are supposed to have democracy here, maybe it's a valid reason?
> Everybody has the right to leave the US

that's not true, both in terms of citizenship and geographical position
If they did, they would probably do it the way Amazon does with Kindle or Samsung does with Android. A giant tarball you can download from somewhere on their site, but not necessarily easy to just know about (like a link on the homepage).

If you go here: http://opensource.samsung.com you can see that they have the OS for some TV's. This is the typical way they comply (with unuseful, unannotated giant dumps).

LG actually has some appliances:

http://www.lg.com/global/support/opensource/index
And more importantly, an executive order can be ignored by any subsequent presidency. This change needs to be in law for it to have any teeth.

Unfortunately, that kind of stuff takes time.
1/ Why do you have different rates for Helsinki and London? I appreciate those datacenters might cost you different amounts, but as a customer, this complicates my purchase. Are you attempting to push people toward London?

2/ I noticed something about 'Availability Zones'.. but now I can't find it again. Do I need to setup servers in different zones, or do you handle it transparently? Hint: I want you to handle this for me. To me, engineering this is still a major drawback to AWS.

I like the private VPN, especially that it's multisite. Nice work.
lol. i'm so sorry that you are still under the impression that voting is how you change the system.
Agile Is Not A Panacea
In addition, there's always the very human potential for non-malicious failure. Building a new government in concept is hard enough to occupy truly brilliant minds; doing so in practice requires brilliant minds in multiple fields working hard concurrently and in concert, and that's another very narrow, rickety bridge to cross.
I hope so.

It seems the Occulus Rift does not have anything similar.
Perhaps hotel art is not the right analogy that OP should have used?

Here is a better analogy: Think of hiring an artist to paint the walls of a building, where painting them is defined by a rigid instruction set by a PM, we have two week sprint cycles where your progress on each wall is measured. You are actively encouraged with generous redbulls to crush painting the wall and work long hours painting the wall. You furthermore see that industry is obsessed with dozens of articles on whether people should paint their walls horizontally or vertically. There are people talking about making their first millions painting a building which has odd geometrical shapes.

Yet, the reason you got into painting/art was because you loved to design and create. You loved the fact that art school gave you the opportunity to do that. You are sometimes hopeful when you go interviews and you are asked questions on design, ask to create something amazing. Hoping that maybe this time things will be different and you won't be asked to paint fucking walls.
Ubuntu has been a Canonical project that is based on Linux for so many years. It is hardly community driven OS that people believe. I think it is a good thing. They are moving forward in some direction. They will make mistakes. Hopefully they will learn out of it. There is nothing wrong in it. In general Linux userspace is very fragmented. Organizations and developers seldom agree on anything. Ubuntu can't provide a true desktop user experience in such a space. And there are always distributions like Arch Linux which offer true freedom and completely stick to Linux specs.
This is a fundamental misunderstanding of Ubuntu's raison d'etre, which is to bring Free (libre) software to the world.

Except the rest of the (consumer) world doesn't value libre as a first-class feature. They want the shiny.

The way we get to bring our values to the world is to be commercially relevant. Because otherwise, hardware vendors don't care about you, ISVs ignore you, app developers target other platforms, and so forth.

Market share isn't the end goal. It's a means to the end.
Meaning you'll have to opt out of your contract (and pay early termination fees) prior to unlocking. At which point, you will have paid for your device in full. I think this is completely reasonable.
If you're doing stop motion, can't you just do longer exposures? Or is that impractical in a stop-motion workflow?
Hence "native software" isn't dead.
Not this again... You could have complained about this years ago, but it makes no sense today. PulseAudio got fixed.

> user experience

you can set up PulseAudio for LAN audio streaming with padevchooser (GUI). Could you do this with ESD? Arts? Tell me about this audio streaming solution with super UX for Linux that you know...
I did something similar using Blade (https://github.com/bminer/node-blade) which is a great client and server-side templating engine, but it wasn't as smooth as I would've liked.

I guess we'll have to wait (or do-it-ourselves).
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That can be true. But that doesn't mean the US is on the same level as NK. Maybe the poster could have been clearer, though.
In 2013 XML is widely used. What alternatives would you suggest?
Not quite the same thing, is it? We are comparing huge monopolistic corporations who use an anti-competitive, anti-capitalist technique with selling a primitive mechanical device that doesn't require a network to operate.
Thought about trying OCaml [1] instead? You may find the Q&A on StackOverflow useful [2].

[1] http://ocaml.org

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/179492/f-changes-to-ocaml
WTF are you talking about? You are aware that you are comparing a ~300m country with a ~20m one, right? "It seems like the United States is about an order of magnitude worse". your own numbers prove you otherwise. And that's not even counting the proportion of them that are political prisoners (for posing even the tiniest threat to the regime)...
Nothing is a panacea if applied blindly
It draws process boundaries in the wrong place then forces enormous complexity trying to deal with the resulting synchronization problems. To be fair, when X was designed, I doubt it ever occurred to anyone that one day you'd have opaque resize, much less a fully double-buffered dance between application, X server, and window manager.
It is to beautiful to be true. Gamification cannot be used everywhere, life is not that simple.
PHP and .NET are the clear front-runners when we asked this question on our community site, so while I can't commit to any specific timeline, it's safe to say we'll be adding them soon.
TCP traceroute relies on ICMP responses, too.
There is a difference between programming as a creative piece of work and asking to figure out why project A designed by a moron can be glued together with project B which is another clusterfuck. The true answer might be to redesign both projects with open extensible interfaces to connect with each other. However, you won't have the time to do it in the 16 hour deadline period.
And what country are you from?

Edit: Oh I get it, if you you don't say what country you can pretend they are perfect. Brilliant.
Starbucks Steve Jobs prank called still receives orders for 4,000 lattes to go
That's a really great rule of thumb. I think I might use that. x::xs might not be so nice if the body of the match has twenty lines in it, especially if y::ys also exists. That'd be the pseudo-equivalent of saying, "Joe and Sam were getting food and he wanted a burger but he wanted steak so he finally argued that they should go to Bob's Grill which had both and he agreed." (Not really, because the sentence is actually totally ambiguous whereas with variables it just involves an extra lookup for the reader.) But if the body is one or two lines, there's not much purpose in the extra characters.
And I see no problem with that. If you're on contract, your cell provider gave you your phone for free (or at a very steep discount) in exchange for your agreeing to use it exclusively with them for the next 1-2 years. Having the phone locked to only work on their network is part of that agreement.

Don't like that part of the agreement? Don't sign it, and pay the full price for the phone.
If North Korea has a lot of good going for it, I'm sure you can give us a few examples.
Google Closure is a JavaScript library and compiler: https://developers.google.com/closure/ && https://developers.google.com/closure/compiler
And the entire western hemisphere is an imperialist hell hole where there has been an ongoing holocaust of (native/indigenous) citizens for 6 centuries.
Thanks for the feedback! We're going to work on that. We've got some architectural advantages vs. Heroku that we think will become more apparent once we get some new features in place, but right now the main benefits vs. Heroku are WebSockets, the ability to persist data to local storage (for running databases/etc), and much simpler/cheaper billing for the beta. We're trying to come up with a way to summarize this in a bumper sticker slogan :)
CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps
as an American, I'm glad that we are at least able to get an official response from the White House, but deeply pessimistic about their ability to deliver on the policies they claim to support. this isn't really a win for democracy. its a win for a mass communications platform but it has no real impact on getting shit done. congress is a mess and we're no closer to a solution.
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"Launchpad is free-software by name only". No, it is actually free as in freedom software. I think you meant to say that it's free by license only.
Using your numbers

USA: 0.71% of the population
NK: 0.63-0.83% of the population
"Unity fiasco": any data on the net decrease of ubuntu users caused by unity?
One problem with this is that whether you understand it or not, it will impact you. Simply not weighing in does not address the problem at all, it allows the problem to continue.

I would say this is simply unavoidable, but it could be mitigated if such proposals were written (or at least summarized) with an eye to fostering universal understanding of the proposed legislation. Failing that effectively excludes people who should have a say from doing so.

If you are incapable, for whatever reason, of understanding something, then that's one thing. Being incapable of understanding it because of the way it's phrased or the manner in which it's presented is vastly more common (the existence of the term "legalese" should be a strong indicator of this) and a far more serious problem, as it does actively exclude people who should and probably could express an informed opinion if being informed were more feasible.
could not have been more disappointed
The Wayland people really sound like they know what they are talking about, based on decades of experience. See, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIctzAQOe44

Are these people designing a better answer to Wayland because it's really better, or because it always looks easy when you don't intimately understand the problem space? I honestly don't know, but it's a question I'd like answered before I get excited.
At first read yes. I thought it meant that there is an office shared by 5 people and they each go "to the office" 1 day a week and the other 4 they work at home.

<epic fail>
I haven't had any recent trouble with it. Back in the early days, it didn't always work well with SDL, but that was fixed years ago. I've been able to crash the daemon with stress tests, but it seems to restart automatically.

I can't understand all the dislike of PulseAudio either. It certainly has a nicer API than /dev/dsp.
Sure: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/fashion/08halfmill.html?_r...

Title: "You Try to Live on 500K in This Town"
I don't think that's the reason. Apple even relicensed launchd to make it easier to use. It still didn't get adopted.
There are some that think a two party system isn't democratic at all (Most Europeans, except the UK, but they don't consider themselves Europeans). Others here think parties are not democratic at all (Some Italians for example).
It it going to be compatible with existing window managers for X or does the change mean that Ubuntu will work only with Gnome or window managers developed from scratch for Mir?
1. Noise increases as pixel size increases. So you can't just make the pixels bigger.

2. The 5 megapixel camera on an iPhone 4 is pretty amazing. I wouldn't call it a waste of resources.

3. Displacing MF from high-end camera manufacturers requires tiny pixels. You can shoot pictures for e.g. magazines on a $2,000 D600 today, but in 2003 you would have needed at least $4,000 MF camera plus a $10,000+ scanner. Yes, this is just a niche of the photography market, but it's an important, high-profile niche.

In my mind, the quality-conscious consumers were taken by digital at 6 MP, and the studios were taken by digital at 24 MP. There are a few morons around with more money than smarts who will buy crappy cameras because the numbers on the box are higher, but it's clear to me that they're not driving the market right now.
Do you really want North Korea to know exactly which copyrights you've violated and which banned books you've read? I mean, your torrent client sends that information to the tracker. (But then, it also sends it to other peers.)
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> This makes it sound like unlocking a phone while you are still on contract would not be excepted.

I don't have a problem with that. The phone's essentially lease-to-own at that point.

As soon as the subsidy is paid - via monthly contracts or early termination fees - it should be unlockable.
As a European, I say HN is the European equivalent of HN.

Now there may not be a French language or German language equivalent, but then again there are a lot of non native English speakers in here anyway
Yeah, and why is AS39138 in /all/ the AS paths I tried on that site, when there other ways to AS22351
Awesome article :)
They moved to Norway and Spain, and were forced out of Norway as well. I haven't heard about Spain yet.
I worked from home as a freelancer for several years until one of my clients insisted that I spend a full, regular work-day at their office at least once a week. When I did that I discovered that I was far more productive, even if the space they gave me was noisier.

I'm a lot different from others, though, in that I'm not only easily distracted, I also have chronic problems with motivation. I.e.: when I'm at home I'm a slacker, and when I'm at an office I'm not (or not _as much_).

After a few weeks of this I began offering to spend full days, once a week, at some of my other clients, and observed a boost in productivity there, too.

I know of some work-at-home freelancers who have set aside a room in their home that they treat quite strictly as their office, even dressing in a suit and tie every morning and "commuting" from their bedroom down the stairs or across the hall. They find that it helps them get into the right mindset so they can more easily suppress the temptation to knock-off for a few minutes and watch TV, or play with the cat, or whatever.

Meyer might be doing something slightly different, though, which is that she needs to get Yahoo! onto a new track. This must be accomplished psychologically as well as technically and logistically, and I know many companies have tried a variety of tricks to get their employees to think differently, shift into a different mindset. Changing decor, company colors, cubicles-to-open-space or vice-versa, different dress codes, and so-on.

This might be a permanent thing at Yahoo!, or maybe they will begin slowly re-introducing work-at-home. A kind of reverse if what I did, perhaps: one day a week, or month, while keeping tabs on how the employee's performance differs. Some may perform better, some (like me) might not have the discipline.
looks great. Also want to point out https://github.com/peers/peerjs, which is focused on the data-channel part of WebRTC
> So, if your neighbor builds another such turbine on his land, your output will drop.

This is not an important effect. The optimal spacing for wind turbines is 5-15 times the rotor diameter, and the largest turbines are 75ft in diameter, giving a largest spacing of roughly ~ 1/4 mi. In the rare cases that this is an issue, property liens can handle the conflict.
> It certainly improves certain details of the user experience, when it works correctly, also usually consuming more CPU than flash player

You make a sweeping statement which is not true for every system. Looking at what happens playing a Youtube music video, according to htop:

- pulseaudio is using between 0 and 1% CPU

- plugin-container (wrapping Flash) is at 3%

- firefox oscillates between 20 and 40%

Now, my understanding is that, at the time pulseaudio came out, it was using untested functionalities in audio drivers which, for many chipsets, did not actually work and progressively got fixed. There was the same problem with graphics drivers when KDE 4.0 was introduced. Maybe you're out of luck and actually have a defective driver?
No, you're not the only one. I'd been forewarned of the awfulness of pulse, but didn't even notice its installation until later, when I discovered all the useful things I could do with it: play music over the office Apple airplay thingy; use two sets of headphones simultaneously; send audio to another computer in the house. Without any typing, searching, or rebooting,

I remember OSS and Alsa, and I don't miss either. As far as I can see, it makes Linux audio work like any other computer in this millennium.
(Shrug) They can make rules, or they can make money. Their call.
Nice. I hope the next feature is to use localstorage to save your current state so that when you return it picks up where you left off.
I hope some of you find 'em useful ;)

Please direct all thanks for this over to http://github.com/jwalton. He's been toiling away on these for a couple of months now, originally as a bit of a skunkworks. Managing to get them merged in cleanly to an oft-changing code generation codebase was no small feat.

Edit: If you're having any trouble getting these to work, `npm cache clean` and reinstall. I screwed up the initial publish.
How do you index your pages? is that a manual process by creating your json file to be read?
Perhaps, "free speech" is the best term to use here. I think you refer to free culture, and/or free knowledge.
Sorry! I should have quoted this line:

> Am I the only one who believes that the lean startup movement is a positive for early stage investors at the expense of true innovation and causes founders who would otherwise try tough challenges to try somewhat trivial business ideas?

"No, you're not the only one".
Taking into account population:

200000/24,451,285 = 0.0081
2,266,800/313,914,040 = 0.0072

I'd say those are roughly the same - it certainly doesn't support a claim that the US is an order of magnitude worse.
You have some very good points.

Brief note: Rodman's trip was very different than most NK trips. He spent a lot of direct time with Un.

#1) Good point. I don't know anything about who gets sent to the prison camps in NK.

#2) 1/31 of the U.S. adult population is in prison, which is higher than 0.69%. If you were a black male, that number shoots up to 9%. If you were playing the ovarian lottery and wanted to optimize for not being in prison and could choose between NK and being a black male in the U.S., you should choose the former.

#3) Good point. I don't know anything about the prison camps in NK.

In general my point is, don't make decisions based on facts provided by homogenous sources. Gather your own sources, see things first hand, and make judgements and decisions based on your own findings. If you make decisions based on data provided by a single source (in this case the U.S media), you aren't making decisions at all--they've already been made for you.
Refusing to comply with a law and refusing to comply with its punishment are different things. For one, passive inaction suffices (see Gandhi). For the other, you must act, at some point violently. Since your moral stance hinges on your conflation of these distinct concepts, I cannot see how it is valid.
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Personally I tend to think this is corruption though. Stuff like this even happens quite often in the developed world. Some official grants a job to a friend of him and perhaps the profits are shared somehow. A recent example from the Netherlands also involving a Wordpress site (translated to English):

http://bit.ly/W0dUkt
It may do some of the things that getmyo.com does.
Democracy looks a lot more like direct action than petition writing and voting. Look at the fight against the Keystone XL. All the campaigning in the world couldn't beat the fossil fuel lobby. But a few days of direct action in east Texas has resulted in route changes that even the best connected farmers couldn't implement.
Bigger burn than reentry.

You're right though, this feels a bit like not developed here syndrome. X is horrible to hack on top, and has had a good run but Wayland could be a fantastic base for them, especially given Qt has spent time working on it.
the enemy of my enemy is my friend
The couldn't even spell 'creat' right!
Largely, yes, and that is as it should be. It's an agreement between two willing parties with benefit received by both sides. A simple, legal, contract.

We're not talking about a legislated monopoly here, like your local power company. No one is FORCING you to go down to your local Verizon reseller and buy a contract phone. You're free to either buy an unlocked smartphone (at full un-subsidized price), or a prepaid phone, or any other of a multitude of options.
Dungeon font at second screen appears too small.
Comparing the actual number of prisoners in two countries isn't very useful since the two countries have different populations. It would be a little like comparing the food consumed each day by everybody in China, compared to the same number in the US. China will consume more food, simply because they have more people! You can't conclude that Chinese people must be 2-3x fatter just from numbers that don't take the population into account. Instead, you want to use the per-capita food consumption; in your case, you would want to look at per-capita prisoner numbers.

The population of the US is around 315 million. The population of North Korea is around 24 million. [1]

If we divide the number of prisoners by the countries' populations, US incarcenates .69% if their people. Assuming NK incarcenates 175,000, that is .71% of their people. These numbers seem similar enough, so perhaps we should instead look at prison conditions. By all reports, North Korea has significantly worse conditions. It's incorrect to claim that North Korea rulers are "less effective".

1. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populati...