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Mom Makes Peruvian Government Hunt Down Son When He Stops Posting on Facebook
Nobody here is saying that.

The US treats a lot of people very reprehensibly, but comparing living conditions in the US to living conditions in NK is like comparing a Mercedes to a pogo-stick.
The Pirate Bay is not concerned with your judgment. The Pirate Bay is concerned with making socio-political statements and providing access to their site, seemingly in that order. Discomfort with the situation is exactly what they are going for.

It should make you uneasy that they have to go to North Korea to keep the site online. While they are not martyrs for an easy to grasp cause, and their definition of 'free speech' may fly in the face of yours, they are doing their absolute best to keep alive what they think is important. This has recently resulted in much irony. Irony that I'm sure they're proud of.

You should hate this. That's the point. This wasn't done so people could keep downloading movies illegally, this was done to make a statement, to get you to think. So please, ice your knee, and think.
Have you considered that maybe they just overlooked the inconsistency you found? Never attribute to malice what you can to ignorance.
UnityNextSpec
You could make signup quicker by adding login with facebook. In this case probably twitter as you are also taking in the twitter username in profile.
I'm not a CCD engineer, but I suspect you're both right.

Photon shot noise increases like the square root of the area of the pixel, but the signal will increase like the area.

In that case, the important quantity ( Signal/Noise ) improves like the square root of the area of each pixel.

If readout isn't shot-noise limited, then the payoff for a larger sensor could be as large as the ratio of the areas between old and new.
Usually, when you become bound by a service agreement, you get a phone at a $200 discount. The fine print generally lets you break this service agreement - for a $200 fee. I agree the "other obligation" bit is vague, and thus scary.

Obviously, the phone seller would like to nickle and dime you throughout the length of a 2 year service agreement, but when you enter a service agreement, you are entering a contract that you can break, and you are getting something for your troubles. The government should be interested in making an even playing field for the market & consumers. I don't see what's inherently wrong here.
Well, I can certainly point to this article next time someone tries to tell me how awesome the HN comment section is.
I know MailChimp has an article on how to do this in a managed/safe way: http://kb.mailchimp.com/article/how-can-i-remove-someone-fro...
Y'know, Google has been doing this for a long time with AdWords: if your site doesn't have a high PageRank for the keywords you're targeting, you have to pay more.

I think the real problem here is the PR problem of charging for something that once was free. It wasn't a great idea, and the Tumblr example serves to illustrate how it could've been done differently.
To: JAshkenas, JWalton

From: The interwebs

Thank you for this! One of the biggest justifications for avoiding Coffee-Script has been the difficulty in debugging the translated code since there is (no longer) a 1-1 line mapping. This is now a thing of the past!

It took me all of 5 minutes to understand the new API for sourcemapping add support to Plunker. For those who are curious: https://github.com/filearts/plunker_run/commit/33eb3c5049b3e...

To me, this is the sign of a simple, but powerful API addition. Well done guys.

If you want an example of stepping through a sourcemapped coffee-script file, try adding a breakpoint to `app.coffee` on: http://beta.plnkr.co/edit/e5iLyQ?p=preview
I think it's just as interesting (if not more so) that they are moving away from Gnome to Qt!
Interesting to see long time Mac/iOS developer Brent Simmons collaborating with Microsoft in this way. Is MS beginning to adapt to the realities of mobile? I see that they also have resources for Android.
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I'm an Arch user. I love pacman. So easy to use.

But I would personally much rather see pacman (and every other distro-locked package distribution format) dropped where everyone adopted debs or rpms.

What I would like the most, though, is that the most logically technically advanced and easy to use package manager win, and everyone just adopt that. I know that pacman makes building package builds insanely easy, compared to debs or rpms.
One of the largest issues that I can foresee with this is proprietary drivers for graphics cards. NVIDIA has delivered high quality drivers for Linux/X11 for their cards and tend to release new drivers quickly when new X11 versions are released. Are gfx hardware manufacturers expected to support separate drivers for Linux (X11) and Ubuntu (mir)? and potentially distributions that use Wayland? I can only imagine how AMD/ATI will handle putting out graphics drivers for some other windowing system that Ubuntu decides to use.

From TFA: "Right now, Mir does not run on desktop hardware that requires closed source drivers. However, we are in contact with GPU vendors and are working closely together with them to support Mir and to distill a reusable and unified EGL-centric driver model that further eases display server development in general and keeps cross-platform use-cases in mind." Good luck with that. How many years did it take to get decent AMD drivers for Linux/X11? The catalyst X11 drivers are still currently a mess.
Very good point -- I will delete emails from Meetup that I have no interest in, but certain verticals I will open the email to check it out. You can customize these emails in Meetup a bit based on categories you choose, but they'd have to be pretty sophisticated to track unread emails by meetup type.
@Dave_Rosenthal can you address the licensing? I'd consider porting a nontrivial application if the terms were agreeable. I'm a little confused, though.

First:

"FoundationDB Beta 1 is ready for production use."

Then:

"The community edition will include the full capabilities of FoundationDB and will allow production deployment."

Finally:

"FoundationDB grants you a...revocable license...for test purposes only in a non-production environment"
> the country I live in hasn't executed anyone in 40 years, and we certainly didn't think it was a big deal to destroy our nuclear weapons arsenal, stop stockpiling nuclear weapons, or ban landmines.

From all countries with nuclear weapon 40 years without death penalty match only UK.
I do not have scientific data on the subject. I know a lot of people have expressed their disdain for Unity, with not so many expressing affection (though people bitch more than compliment.)

I personally switched to Xubuntu and shaped the desktop to act like GNOME 2. There wasn't much reason to do so before Unity; Xubuntu's take on XFCE is almost as heavy as GNOME2 was.
I think one of my biggest problems is having been involved in too many very poorly-managed companies and totally losing perspective on what it means to be loyal to a company and why it's not always a bad thing. It's very hard to get that back, and if you can't, it feels extremely dishonest to expect it from someone else.

This is why I hope my company gets big enough to push me out of employee management and into strategic development before too long. I think I have a lot to offer, but I definitely don't understand this part of it.
No. But I wouldn’t want some UI designer to remove the ‘SM feature’ entirely simply because he thinks that it’s barely used and only clutters the UI. The user has to choose the right tool for the right job and as a designer it is your job to make that decision as easy as possible – surely that includes sometimes not offering a feature, but that will simply force users to choose between your tool and another one if they have a specific job to do.

Not to mention that you were probably aiming for something like (special) relativity rather than the SM if you want to compare it to Newton’s formulae. :)
Ubuntu To Use Its Own Display Server Called Mir, Unity To Be Ported To Qt/QML
This is very cool! Things like this are what's going to allow CSS to become the design language of future UI.

I can see this being used in a car where an interface is displayed over the top corner of a screen.
"Don't make objects that end with 'er'."
Ok, then he can go to jail for a tweet.
As an aside: working from your friend's can be a blast. If you're recently freelancing/starting up and loneliness is hitting you, working from the house of a friend (who is also working from home, obviously) can REALLY take the edge off.
"But that is NOT an apprentice that is a Technician (aka Associate professional) doing the a traditional day release course (ONC/HNC/BTEC) for Technicians which is how I came into IT."

Actually, it is. The Ordinary National Certificate was replaced with the B/TEC National Diploma half a decade before I came into teaching in 1989. You must be a mature person!

And yes, the whole program takes 4 to 5 years. With another couple of full time years for degree top up.

Those programmes do still exist but I agree entirely with your point about the shelf-stacking and mickey mouse stuff the current administration are bringing in (as their political forefathers did in the 1980s).
I think everyone has their expectations set too high for A. what a petition will really achieve and B. that the executive branch has any position to change laws. The parent to your comment seems to sum this up pretty well.

So while I see your point that many may view this as ineffective and therefore a loss I definitely consider it a win in agreement with the parent.

1. Petition was made
2. Signature goal was met
3. WH responded favorably in agreement with petition supporters.
4. ...
5. Profit! ;)
Why would you unlock a phone when you are still on your contract? That doesn't make any sense. If you switch carriers, then by definition you have just ended your contract, and you should be able to use your old phone. This is exactly what the petition is talking about.
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Really, now.
It says launching in early 2013. so when is it? BTW interesting concept, I'm one of those "would be" users and shared it too :P
OK, looks like we need to look at it from another level.

Once upon a time there was a group of people. They had common interests, but it was hard and inefficient to make decisions as a large group. So a government was formed to represent the individuals in the group and to tend to their common needs.

Let's go back to the present.

So one side is a big corporation that has one voice, the other side are consumers, i.e. people that have many voices. Government (at least a properly working one) is there to represent the will of the people and to give them a single voice. I don't see anything wrong with that.
Agreed. CoffeeScript is a leaky abstraction of JS; the underlying paradigm of JS still peeks out even though it's papered over (see the fat arrow =>).

Once you have a grasp of JS (and the things you might not like about it), you can then move to CS. When something looks a bit off in CS, you'll probably be able to translate why it is that way due to the JS underpinning.
Just checking now, vi keys work for diagonals.
The US also executes people that were minors when they did their crime and mentally handicapped people.
This isn't just good will towards the consumer; retailers are paying per e-mail that is sent out, so it is good practice to prune the list of addresses that haven't opened e-mails in a while.
Yes, I love the punchline at the end. You don't leave Manhattan and you don't leave SF if you have good rent control.
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Mine (Gmail) is not, but many (Outlook, OSX Mail) allow this by default. The URL of the tracking image contains a number or hash that is used to uniquely identify the person opening up the email.
Most emails these days contain graphics or other 'call home' sorts of bugs that are activated on render. Its another form of analytics. Especially easy to do for 'shopping' sites.
I don't take the driver situation into consideration and it seems that Ubuntu is contacting closed source manufactures to allow driver support for mir.

I like your scenario because I believe a interesting element is that Valve is trying to port most of its Steam games to Ubuntu and they do have muscle with Nvidia and AMD. And with the rumours that the steambox called Piston would be based on Ubuntu.

So in my opinion it looks bad for distro's not using mir and good for distro's using mir. If that is a good thing altogether is another debate.

And as mentioned above profesional game development to Ubuntu is coming at a rapid pace. Maybe at the price of another horrible fragmentation as you call it.
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Here's an idea. Allow people to build more buildings in San Francisco.
d... I can't...

I am not one of your biggest fans.
Just curious, is it the kinds of visuals, or...?
Yes, that 'scheme' has lost me a really good student who was attending a college course off his own bat. He has been required to waste his time totally in a mickey mouse scheme that won't get him anywhere. We will try to catch him up when he is let out.
If you are in Los Angeles, you can go to the Stanley Kubrick exhibit at LACMA and see the f/0.7 lens in person, right now. For that matter the entire exhibit is awesome.
I agree with. The only problems I've ever had with it have turned out to either be problems with the actual hardware or problems with the clients, not problems with Pulse Itself.

I will admit having a lot of a hate for figuring out which audio 'profile' is which...

If you've got the plugs for 7.1 and a normal line in as well as possibly a digital one, they you've probably got 23 choices of profile for your built in audio device. Add in a GPU with HDMI and the NVIDIA driver and you probably get at least another 7+ choices all labeled Nvidia... I find I frequently have to guess multiple times whenever I hook up a TV via HDMI.

But it works quite well if you define works as works without adding on any usability riders.
The current RavenDB documentation still warns against using "system transactions" because of performance reasons (http://ravendb.net/docs/client-api/advanced/transaction-supp...), so I think it is still fair to say that RavenDB was not designed for applications requiring high performance cross node transactions.
I think it could work well to start with CoffeeScript -- that is, to learn JavaScript by first learning CoffeeScript. For the real world you must understand native JavaScript, of course, but that could come incrementally. I don't actually know anyone who's done this, however.
I don't think your viewpoint is fit for dignified public discourse. It's theft. It's not a new, modern crime, with deep implications still being processed by moral intuitions, legislatures, and courts. When something becomes easy to steal, it doesn't become less of a theft.
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I agree they do not have the personnel to put out a major software component like this themselves. Just go to Launchpad and read the bug reports for their forks. Here is a typical nux bug report:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/nux/+bug/846444

So Canonical decides to go off the beaten path and create nux. Dozens of Ubuntu users indicate a problem. Indicating at least hundreds of people probably see this problem?

Resolution? Nothing for 10 months. Then "Gee, our nux developers have been at work on a cool new version instead of fixing bugs, why not upgrade to that and try it out".

With Ubuntu upstream libraries from Gnome, freedesktop.org, Debian etc., you have a confluence of people from different distros who can work on bugs that come up. With these Canonical forks, realistically only Canonical employees are going to fix 95% of their forks. But they're too busy working on the next cool thing to fix bugs.

My Ubuntu 12.04 LTS desktop currently has hundreds of zombie lightdm processes running on it. I reboot but they come up again. This is not specifically a Canonical fork problem, but is an annoying bug and I and many Ubuntu users have come across many of these bugs. I can imagine what Ubuntu will look like as it forks more and more functionality, and less and less help for bugs can gain help from Gnome and fd.o.
The crappy thing is that some clients (Apple Mail) download images even if you haven't opened the email, so Fab would think you're opening all the sends. But if you moved over to a better sign of engagement like clicking on an encoded URL, then you might be throttling sends to some folks who are actually opening.

I wonder where Fab landed in this discussion.
They are not talking about Ubuntu being closed. They are saying that Ubuntu would drift toward being more like Mac OS X, but be more open than Apple is with Mac OS X.
Wow. The sheer level of FUD and negativity that you can find on these comments is just mind blowing. It seems that most of it (with a few knowledgeable exceptions) is coming from folks who don't know what they are talking about and have never probably developed graphical applications for Linux. They can't elaborate a single technical reason as to why they dislike whatever it is they dislike, yet they still jump on the bashing theme du jour (which nowadays seems to be Canonical).
I think it's difficult that the current state of things fall into stagnation. Firefox, for instance, still supports Gecko, which is open source too.
The entire reason why desktop Linux has been a failure is exactly because it does not fit the needs of most people. And for that audience, "shiny" is equally important as "featureful".

In the modern marketplace, you can't choose either/or. It has to be both.

Ubuntu wants to do both and additionally add libre.

The strawman fallacy you inferred from my statement has the additional fallacy of incorrect causality.

People are initially attracted to Ubuntu for a variety of reasons, and we hope to keep them because we are fit for purpose, not for whatever ideological reason or niche feature, and certainly not due to any sort of con job.

Desktop Ubuntu has failed to reach that critical mass of users to be taken seriously by industry (our good friends at Valve notwithstanding), and the only logical place to jumpstart the install base is the mobile world.

The mobile market is brutally competitive. Ubuntu will succeed or fail on its own merits, not because of any dishonest manipulation of innocent users.
Outlook hasn't done this by default for at least two if not three versions now. However if you read a heavily stylized with images email you'll almost certainly tell it to download images (just as one does in gmail), giving them that feedback that they want.
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It seems they are rewriting Unity, which I think is great. Unity is too slow. It should never be used for mobile devices as it is.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityNextSpec
"Is there a country other than NK with such a piss poor human rights record?"

Sure. Germany and Russia to name just two. Several European countries in degree if not in sheer magnitude.
They're defacto standards. Not formal standards. The fact that you can compile and run a GTK program that will run on most linux and even other unix like systems without problem.

It means that someone creating a program, proprietary or open source, can, with little effort run that program on most linux distros.
We have quite a handful of internal GUI tools, some use Qt, some use GTK, written in python and some in C or C++. The GUI stack makes up the biggest stack here, but they use a few other libs as well, e.g. cURL, openssl, gsl.

All these are readily available, and we run these on various versions of RHEL, Debian , Ubuntu and FreeBSD beacuse of the defacto "standards" provided by these environments. Even porting these (at least some of them) to windows, where many of these libraries are available would take too much time because of minute details - there's other real problems we need to focus on. We hope we still can run these programs on Ubuntu in the future though, but it will not take that much to make it infeasible
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Pixel tracking is one way.

http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/ywa/faqs/tracking/advtrack/...
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> We really, really, really don't want government interference in voluntary private contracts.

I'd advise you don't click this link: http://www.fdic.gov/regulations/laws/rules/6500-100.html, it might be pretty upsetting....
Good to know, it's been several years since I used Outlook.
Why would you unlock a phone when you are still on your contract?

So that you can switch telecoms when you're travelling, to avoid extortionate fees. This is one of the complaints in the petition.
> Unity has been extremely unpopular from a user-experience point of view

Has it? Do you have numbers?

Because I see a small number of people who complain very loudly, and often make sweeping claims about how unpopular it is without any evidence, who always get followed by responses from people (like me) who love it...
Early in my Javascript career, I read "Javascript: the good parts", and started with Coffeescript very early. And I very often would look at the Javascript that Coffeescript was generating for me. I was pleased to find that Coffeescript automates a lot of the things that the book recommends. Totally worth doing early, in my mind, especially if you're interested in Coffeescript.
"Stift" does not mean "Pen" in this case, it is an unfinished nail - without a head (like an apprentice) ..
Most modern clients prompt the user to allow remote images to load - it's usually not automatic. If there are some images you want to see (ie the message is in the image, etc) and it's from a site you trust, chances are you won't even think twice about allowing images for the message.
That is a gross misinterpretation of the role of government. The government exists for the common welfare, but that doesn't mean it's a consumer advocate.

P.S: I think it fair to suggest that what the majority of consumers want is the cheapest possible phone. That means locked phones on subsidies.
Oakland's not that bad. It gets a bad rap, but most of the crime is highly localized to a few precincts...just like in every other metropolis in the world, SF and NY included.
I don't consider Ubuntu usurping the focus of game development and drivers a good thing. And notion like "using Mir - good for you, not using Mir - too bad, no drivers" doesn't sound good as well.

Ubuntu is already quite isolationist. This will only make matters worse.
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I've had the same experience at times as well, when the store is not as crowded. But when all employees are helping 3 people at once, they don't have the time to stop and checkout your $15 ear buds or whatever and you get sent to the line. That's why every other store in the world has dedicated cashiers who just check people out.
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It's a joke. THAT'S the point.
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About a year ago I spent several days trying to get a full puppet system. It was a real headache to be honest and many of the modules have no or very vague docs. Coming back to my setup it's very hard to read or trace what my setup is or how to do one off deployments.

Today I have started with ansible and have already gotten a huge amount done and deployed. Very happy with it. It's all in a small git repo and its very readable and concise.
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because they do not want to pay 10 cents for a bag every time they go shopping?
unless you live there.
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The issue for me is that every unread email is a to-do item for me. So I often just click on an unread email without reading it just to mark it read.