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The DPL is elected among Debian Developers using a Condorcet method. Every voter gives a preference order between the candidates[1], and if there exists a candidate who would win against any other candidate, he's the winner. For example here is the graph of this election[2].

[1]: http://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2013/tally.txt
[2]: http://vote.debian.org/~secretary/leader2013/results.png
So, you want to build a start-up. Why? What? How?
But those other countries do not claim moral high ground in the same way the US does on so many other issues, or claim to lead the world with respect to values such as freedom and democracy (of which the right to a fair trial can be considered a part).
Not for me, and not according to http://www.google.com/appsstatus either.
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We're going round in circles here because you keep pushing the same argument that was never even disputed and not listening to anything I've had to say on the matter. So I think it's you who deserve the facepalm.
I am not at all convinced by the author's logic.

Take television for example. Yes, television has a platform. But perhaps the biggest mistake that broadcast television networks are making at this moment is that they do not broadcast all of their programming simultaneously on the Internet, ads and all. By becoming less hardware platform dependent, television broadcasters would gain viewers.

It is not just, as the author says, that "the world is moving into platforms in decisive ways." The world is moving into certain _types_ of platforms--namely, to _portable, multipurpose_ platforms.

Remember dedicated telephones from the pre-wireless era? Compare that to the typical smartphone today: the latter goes anywhere, and allows one to check on e-mail, to receive texts, and to look in on one's social networks. It's the multiple functionality that matters.

The point: Dedicated hardware, of the kind that the author is advocating, is on the way out. Netflix is to be commended for _not_ coming up with Netflix hardware. It is much more competitive by making itself available over any computer, including all variety of mobile devices.
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Unlimited pricing is about fairness. You can't charge a small team the same as you would a gargantuan organization. They don't want to count their users and the supplier can't. The real dividing factor however is the fact that large organizations want different levels of service and different software (Active Directory integration etc).
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I did the switch at home three years ago after close to twenty years of Apples. My transition from design to dev certainly helped.
Given slavery was not abolished at the time of independence, it seems likely that the writers of the constitution did in fact not intend to apply rights to all humans as broadly as possible.

What it means now? Who knows.
Documentation for Snap! is underway...

There is some help on http://snap.berkeley.edu (without the /run suffix)

Check out the Reference Manual, which is also a concise introduction to the IDE: http://snap.berkeley.edu/SnapManual.pdf

and some introductory tutorials on Youtube:

About "Build Your Own Block: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbl2fh3igQ4

And on how to add inputs to them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZC2tDVYWBo

Also, there are helpscreens in the context menu for each block
I WAS HUNGOVER AND TYPING ON A TOUCH SCREEN PHONE WHILE TRYING NOT TO THROW UP ON A MOVING BUS. Of course I was going to explain myself badly, I did after all appolagise for the confusion and tried to explain myself better but you've been too fucking stubborn to even care about what my point actually was.

I really don't know who many fucking times I need to say this before the penny finally drops for you. Or maybe you just prefer acting like a dick online? Perhaps you're the troll?
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The complex is independent from the university.
A) It is not hypocritical to change ones opinions given time and new information. Hypocrisy is doing something you advocate against while you are an advocate against it. Believing otherwise is to argue against the scientific method itself.

B) Is it even a conflicting opinion to think a certain war may be just, but some actions taken as part of that war are unjust? One example of such a situation may be the Japanese internment camps in WWII. Many people argue that the war itself was just, and worth fighting, while the Japanese internment camps were a grave mistake.

Perhaps they thought the Iraq war was righteous thing, while thinking the treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay far from just.

C) To be Orwellian is to deny the past. Has the NYT ever claimed they didn't take a stance that they did? Have they denied printing those words that supported the war? If they haven't rewritten history they haven't been Orwellian.

Please don't cry wolf on things like this, because we need to credibly make these arguments when something really is Orwellian.
There was already some talk over this here at HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3462439
Wow – the application is almost a verbatim copy of the YC app. Glad to see other opportunities, though.
If the prisoners are ever released without being charged or tried (which won't happen because there's no evidence), they can each file a civil suit against the U.S. Government, each worth potentially hundreds of millions. I think this plays a role as well.
I don't think it's better than Gitmo at all.

Refugees, including children, are held in prisons. Sometimes for many years. All without trial. Why no trial? Largely because they have not committed any crime -- it is quite legal to seek asylum.

This is wedge politics, pure and simple.
That's a great question. I think Yelp is great for a lot of things. I for one use it to look up restaurants in a new city. But for me, personally, it's mostly been about cafes/restaurants and only good when I search something like 'Italian near Redondo Beach, CA'. I don't see how Yelp really helps you tell the story about why there's a weird 200ft mural of a whale in front of a power plant right there on the beach. Placety does that (and more). In order for the service to not start empty (the chicken and egg problem), we are supplementing more than a million geo-enabled Wikipedia places in Placety.
That was exactly the motivation for the app! I love Google and am truly thankful for capturing the world's information in one place (and have worked there and helped launched versions of Mobile Search for years). Where Google does lack though is the simple - non-search - answer to the question: Huh? What IS this? Tell me more!
Link to single page view:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2013/4/11/scrutiny-tenure-...
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Not sure why TechCrunch made it seem that way ("a breakthrough in AI"), when the author explicitly says he's submitted this to SIGBOVIK 2013 -- an April 1 conference that usually publishes fake research. (http://sigbovik.org/2013/)

It is clearly an April Fool's hack.
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Lesson learned, don't accept "market value". Squeeze every possible penny out of your deals.
Problem is, I can't move it myself. They've locked the account down, meaning I no longer have ftp access nor database access, and the site was fairly old and not touched in years so ive lost my copy of the source and haven't taken any db backups. I also can't change my account password any more
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Bruteforcing all states of NES game could result in finding vulnerability in NES emulator and then to fill memory of emulator with FFs via changing settings it could make mess from accessible file system or, some life spans of universe later, find vulnerabilities in OS, hardware or connected network.
Once again these are things he is claiming, I haven't done any research into his situation and I doubt anyone here has either. All I'm saying is that taking the word of someone who is in prison for possible terrorism is a mistake.

Clearly there was someone who felt this dude was dangerous or else they wouldn't have flown him halfway around the world to "sit in limbo" there are prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq and it's MUCH cheaper to keep prisoners there, the only ones flown to cuba are those deemed "a higher security risk".

A hint at possible charges is hidden in the third paragraph of his plea for attention: "Years ago the military said I was a “guard” for Osama bin Laden..." he of course qualifies this by saying it's not true. But if true is fairly serious because it would imply he was highly trusted if he was a personal guard for OBL.

Again I haven't done any actual research into his situation but he most probably doesn't deserve nearly half the self-righteous indignation that everyone here is displaying.
I use Koku by FadingRed. I wish I was in the US though as UK banks don't seem to support DirectConnect. http://www.fadingred.com/koku
And Hacker News. If anything really significant is happening on this planet, it will end up here. HN replaced news in 100% for me.
Rich conservatives are accepted in almost every country and city. They are like American Express in that regard
"Sorry but this account is troubling. He went to Afghanistan during the Taliban extremely insane cruel anti-woman Islamist totalitarian regime and expected a better life? That's like someone saying he traveled to Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime and expected a better pay as he didn't know anything about Cambodia at the time."

And this is enough to condemn him to an indeterminate amount of time in prison without a trial? If we have compelling evidence of wrong-doing then we should grant him a trial. Let the actual judicial process decide his punishment, rather than an arbitrary declaration.

If we don't have enough compelling evidence then we should release him. The entire point of habeas corpus is to prevent people from being held for extended time on the mere suspicion from arbitrary authorities.

What's the point of having a judicial system if we can send arbitrarily selected people around it and deny writs of habeas corpus? What will you do if one day an authority finds something you've done suspicious and throws you in jail? The protection afforded by writs of habeas corpus should apply to all of us, or it's a meaningless protection.
> Sorry but this account is troubling. He went to Afghanistan during the Taliban extremely insane cruel anti-woman Islamist totalitarian regime and expected a better life? That's like someone saying he traveled to Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime and expected a better pay as he didn't know anything about Cambodia at the time. This alone takes the credibility away from this story for me

While it might sound "insane" to you because of the stark contrast to your own life, you fail to put yourself in his shoes.

You know, not everyone was born into your (or my) privilege, freedom and education here in life.

If you've lived your whole life in poor, rural Yemen with only limited local media as your one window to the world, maybe Afghanistan, a fellow Arabic/Muslim state isn't such bad a place.

I'd say it's equally insane for, say, a Frenchman to travel to the United States while they operate secret military prisons with complete disregard for human rights.
> Yeah, who guessed that federally incentivized lending would make the cost of something go up?

I have not seen any convincing data to support the idea that this had anything to do with college costs increases. Looking at tuition costs at top private schools, costs have risen pretty steadily for at least the last 90 years. I didn't see any obvious difference between pre and post Federal loan program eras.

(I looked at private schools because public schools are often highly influenced by what is going on in their state government. For instance, if a state is having a budget shortfall, one of the things they often due is cut college funding, and the colleges make that up with tuition increases).

People who assume that Federal loans are responsible for high college costs seem to be assuming that college costs follow "normal" market rules. That is a questionable assumption, for if the college marked did follow those rules, then college costs would actually be much higher than they are now. Good colleges turn away students, and so if they were in a "normal" market, they would be raising prices to the point where they are just able to fill their seats.
The author does well to point the finger for the New Groupthink at contemporary educational practices--which, on the one hand, extol "nurturing each student's uniqueness" but then only value that uniqueness if it is amenable to "being a collaborative team player." The fact is, for a lot of bright people, they feel forced into perpetual collaboration, and experience it like unto that of enduring extended root canals.

As an entrepreneur, I have no problem whatsoever in working with geniuses who need to be alone to exercise their genius. Sure, they need to be able to have some kind of contact,, and to collaborate, with others, even if on a limited basis. (Even Picasso had to deal with models, agents, and art dealers.) But letting such individuals work on very long leashes helps everyone, and furthers the work of the organization.
Having majority of the marketshare in the marketplace is hardly the best breeding ground for innovation. That is when companies usually stagnate and entrench themselves.
He can also, you know, exercise HIS right to free speech and say "Speaking as Barack Obama, this shit is ridiculous."
How does this appeal to the masses? On an individual level, this is undesirable.
I think people want digital currency to spend it with low friction rather than as a store of value necessarily.
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I am a developer and I spent a lot of time this week reading about bitcoin and I still don't understand it that well..

I don't think it's too far fetch to imagine that non-techy people would have a hard time grasping the concept.
Would have been more prescient/anti-prescient if it discussed CDCs and the Rating Agencies in some way. At any point in time there are people shouting "bubble" and "no bubble" about anything. How close people got to figuring out the underlying mechanisms of the 2008 economy-blue-screen-of-death is more interesting.

(Yes, the economy blue-screened, we re-booted in safe mode but we're still not sure if we've fixed the drivers yet)
No need. In order to maximize score, two NES's are better than one.. and three are better than two..
It is, look at the implementation.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101954.0
You'd think they would've called it AirBnB.
The goal isn't to beat mario as efficiently as possible, but to create a program that can learn to play literally any game.

Also what is that AI doing when it decides to jump into the pit at 0:45? It clearly sees the path to jump over it, but it chooses the one that jumps into it. Watching it frame by frame it seems to figure out a path to jump out of the pit several times, but chooses not to, until eventually it finally does.
There's one thing apparently missing in the article (and discussion here) that for me is the most important reason not to read news - namely, they lie. All the time. And when they don't, they systematically confuse stuff, ending up in writing wrong articles anyway.

Proof? Just pretty much every article about science, technology or business submitted here on HN gets debunked in the top comment. If they can't get simple facts right in the matters of basic science or business, I seriously doubt (by induction) that anything else they write is anywhere near the truth.
The fact that something like Stuxnet could be leaked, and yet something altogether less malevolent like Bitcoin could be tighter, and not leak? Highly improbable in my view. I think its more probable that a genius-level individual came up with it, and subsequently got lucky in that his creation became wildly successful. Would we be discussing this if noone had used it, and it remained a lone individual's spare time project?
It promises to give benefits for hashing to PPCoin holders. Won't it be even harder for poor people to get ahold of when the currency is the means of production?
again, that's not true.
Only addresses from which transfer have been made from have their public key revealed in the blockchain, until then, there is no need for it.
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I haven't been reading or watching the news for years, now, and it's had a huge positive effect on my life.

But it's also made me, I think, somewhat more sensitive and aware of how other similar things affect me. Which is why I've started to cut down on Twitter, and Hacker News.
Most good developer books are like math books, you can't just read them you have to put the material you to practice to fully comprehend it.
If you are going through developer books like novels you might be more of a software project manager type who needs to know all the jargon without truly understanding the meaning behind it.
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> The problem is that most users (home & enterprise) just want things to work, they don't really care much how to get there and to have the best efficiency.

When it comes to research, no one cares that much about what home users and enterprise-users-small-enough-not-to-use-custom-software-stacks want now. Case in point: I don't think many IT mangers were that eager to switch to using ZFS in production when it was announced back in 2004 (and ZFS wad been under development for years at that time).

I've considered doing a PhD project pushing and stretching the boundaries of SSD firmware/operating system/filesystems because I think there's a lot of improvement that can be done in this area. The cost of OpenSSD that the sibling comments mention wasn't even that much of a problem. I seriously don't think someone not associated with a research department somewhere would have the time and/or know-how to do original research and implement a working prototype. Hell, I might get a devkit, but I doubt I'll do anything interesting and original at the same time. Which brings us to the actual problem:

Documentation and NDAs. For lots of ICs, microcontrollers, processors you can freely get hardware documentation, programming manuals, etc. For flash controllers and high-density NANDs? Almost nothing at all. Maybe some stuff can be reverse engineered and you get some documentation for OpenSSD. But the NAND manufacturer won't tell you stuff that's really, really important about things like failure patterns, which would allow you to optimize error correction and wear leveling for example.
I think the bitcoin fee is optional? or at least doesn't apply in many cases?
From the post:

"This is annoying at the level of Arrays, but gets more difficult with more complex types, and function interactions. The recent brouhaha around the Promise/A+ highlights one such example: It is difficult to return a Promise of a Promise as a value from onFulfilled because then duck-wraps the return value as described in the Promise Resolution Procedure"

Could anyone share a pointer to this brouhaha around the Promise/A+ [spec, I assume]?
And yet you are posting on Hacker "News".
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> Lot of things mentioned here are not that easy. To legally bring citizens of other countries in American justice system and have them fair trial you need to have respect various treaties - many of which may simply require sending them back to their respective country to be handled by their own governments which usually is not the best thing especially for terrorist suspects.

Bureaucratic considerations are of no consequence. The reputation of the United States of America is at stake.

It's 2013. These cases need to be resolved. The innocent should be sent home with apologies and fat Treasury checks. The guilty should be executed. And Gitmo should go back to being a Caribbean naval base with a cheap annual rent[2].

I can't say if the current case is valid, but I am reminded of the case of Ahmed Errachidi[1], Guantánamo Prisoner 590, who turned out to be a London chef who had journeyed to Pakistan in 2001 and was kidnapped by crooked Pakis and sold to the credulous US for $5000. Errachidi was finally sprung in 2007. But you have to wonder how many similar cases there are.

[1] http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2011/09/16/ahmed-errachidi-...

[2] http://books.google.com/books?id=atTyCI8ZwboC&pg=PA243&#...
If only there was a currency that would do it for me even better than a bearing account. Oh wait.
If they were sent home, very many of them would be instantly killed, imprisoned or worse. For many of them, Gitmo is probably a lot better than they'd be facing at home.
So if that is a standing order - then they are operating Gitmo in clear defiance of a direct order by the President of the United States?

Gitmo is a prison run by the military, and he is the Commander-in-Chief, so every day any soldier performs any duty there - they are in clear violation of command?

Seriously? How does a country operate like this?
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It's probably a tongue-in-cheek statement, but the idea behind it is pretty sound. Besides, we are already doing that. For example, we have factories in middle America building airplanes the army does not want or need simply because the workers in those factories need the jobs.
Subject's DoD dossier:
http://projects.nytimes.com/guantanamo/detainees/43-samir-na...
Is the last one less than at least 90% the case?
Yeah, legacy systems, you are fortunate if you don't have to deal with these.
Build a business around it, then howl loudly when they turn the supply off. Seems to work for a lot of people. Even better, just pour it down the sink and claim you built a business around it. This gets you all the sympathy without any of the hard work.

I'm joking, but the fact is that there is an audience who eats up that sort of story so you could think of it as a marketing hack to get a bunch of free publicity.
True. I think if we analyzed the predictions of so called 'experts' before and after the fact of any event, the result would be extremely embarrassing.

But then, we should already know that.
A hardware based platform strategy and a multiple-devices strategy are not mutually exclusive. You can have both, and when you can , why not?
(The kindle reader app on multiple platforms is an example.)

But the millions of kindles that are sold today are definitely an advantage in the medium to long run. Same for all of Steve's devices. Given how powerful these devices are, they are not going away any time soon.