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> "but it's a moral dilemma making first person shooters because they might make some people think it's okay to shoot people in real life?"

I don't think any non-crackpot really believes that video games cause people to pick up guns and shoot people. No one has ever played a video game and gone "hey you know what'd be cool, if I went and shot up a mall".

The moral dilemma is not about directly causing someone to become violent, but rather about creating a culture where violence is celebrated rather than abhorred, and the consequences of all of this violence in aggregate. No single video game would drive someone to violence, but the aggregation of thousands of video games, tens of thousands of movies, and a government that glorifies war, certainly doesn't help anything.

I think the moral dilemma isn't about any real, measurable harm, but rather about whether you're creating a pop culture that reflects the world you want to live in, or you're contributing to a pop culture that is the antithesis of your own principles.

> "Thought for the day: A drug addict kills someone with a gun for money to get their next hit, what aspect of the story does the media focus on?"

The fact that they're an addict. Seriously, I have not seen any major case pinned of video games for years. Jack Thompson and Columbine was a long time ago, before the mass-marketization of shooters. With games like COD and Halo being so mainstream your grandma has played it, the "video game causes deadly shootout!" angle is no longer tenable.

And we as gamers need to stop pretending the world is still like the bad old days of the 90s when every evil was pinned on us. Only the most extreme, the least credible news sources are still hanging onto this angle, and it's disingenuous to pretend that this is still a mainstay of modern news reporting today.
Yes, it is valid Excel. Naming cells is something they teach in beginners courses.

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000704.htm

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/274504
>> You are just wrong....Don't blame CNN because you are bored...Change the channel if you don't need the infom

So, you're saying CNN doesn't actually want their consumers to stay glued to the screen & news feed? Qualify that.

This is about how they intend for their product to be consumed, not how consumers can get maximum utility out of the product.
That is way too much information for me personally (I am distracted enough as it is, and I believe real-time data like battery level belongs in your menu bar, not the terminal) but I can see how it would be useful to some.
Thanks.

I can see the issue is that the current working directory for the binary is not set correctly. It should be set to the repo root (the folder that contains README.md). The ./bin/gocode/gocode file should be present.

How are you running it? You should open the Xcode project and Run it (Cmd+R). The Xcode project is configured to set the current working directory as the project root folder.
the main flaw in that show is that it assumes that the machine has access to all these devices at any point when the truth is most of those devices are on a closed circuit or not even on the global internet but instead a local intranet the same is true for shoes like NCIS where they can just pull up any video feed at any point in time is just too unrealistic, however in the near future more and more cameras and CCTV's will be put on the internet where ANYONE can gain access to them, so while its not impossible its just very unlikely (not to mention that most of the devices that are on the net and accessible are of such low quality and streaming so that if something did happen in front of them you would need a recording and a court order to obtain such data) so Possible? maybe Feasable? not really imagine sucha machine getting hacked (even in the show they say thats not possible but everything can be hacked)
I agree. Sales for my app are low. I make way more as a contractor. I suspect your app has to be in the top 1%, it's exponential more money.
Using a Chrome plugin for SSH is taking unnecessary risks.

What kind of risks are you concerned about? It's a sandboxed NaCl plugin with a strict CSP that runs OpenSSH. I suppose you could get concerned about key security (since they're stored in an html5 filesystem), but you should really have a passphrase on those anyway.

If you can't hack it in a way where ctrl-alt-f1 will get you to a genuine linux getty, running standard GNU/Linux...

Developer mode lets you do exactly this. Crouton just gives you a pleasant way of running a full Ubuntu install.

edit: I agree that vpn support is a huge disadvantage right now.
Yeah, it's definitely the case that users don't want to learn or type syntax in a search engine -- Daniel Russell of Google says that a majority of searchers think they are advanced users of search engines, but a majority of them don't know about or use "" or -.

That's why blekko and izik both invoke that syntax "under the hood", automatically -- starting in November 2011.
Update on KLyDE, the lightweight KDE desktop (ISO image available)
Newly Discovered Android Malware Was Downloaded Millions Of Times
Undeclared martial law... and we applauded
Somewhat-related: a teardown of a rubidium standard probably similar to the one mentioned in the article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymV9LwhD0W0
We're talking past each other, insofar as I was interpreting him as making a CLM by saying he didn't like first-person-shooters, not choosing not to work on them. Maybe I misinterpreted what he was saying.
Innocent until proven guilty. The adversarial justice system in the United States is here for all of our protection, including suspected terrorists.
An earlier discussion of role of Excel models in the financial sector: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5198187

One interesting thing that came out of that thread was a link to this review article on spreadsheet errors: http://mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/spreadsheet/product_pubs_files...
Start here:

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_pinker_on_the_myth_of_violen...
When we see something we don't like it isn't bad to complain about it in and of itself but what isn't okay is this self-righteous attitude people have started to acquire. It's this phenomenon where we think that we can not only publicly shame companies on our blogs and believe we're important enough for them to change it back for us but, worse, we seem to think we're objectively right.

Social media is great - platforms like twitter and facebook give people an online voice. However, this also creates an over inflated sense that their voice matters more than anyone else.

Part of the phenomenon you describe regarding public shaming is that this has become default way of addressing situations - because that's the culture those social platforms have created & reinforced.

Further, it's much easier to do this online because you're just looking at pixels on a page - not into the eyes of a fellow human.
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I am putting the months I will collect the money. The 270 collected at the begining of April was from sales in February.

I got picked up on app advice in February, and got about 10,000 free downloads. That had positive effects.

The missing months is cuz i made the app free for a few months.
You mean, were the US to implement "raw capitalism", whatever that is, the externalities from antibiotic overuse are going to be priced in correctly? What mechanism do you suggest?
It's horrible. I think they should actually watch the normal user use their site. Once they see a loading screen, they're likely going to x out of the site.
You get what you pay for when it comes to the Lenovo - the slightly bigger screen is available in IPS and blows the Chromebook screen away. The i5 (and available i7) is very powerful CPU, you can have 8GB of RAM and your choice of SSD/HD...
It appears to be a Usenet / mailing list / email abbreviation [1].
I could see myself appreciating it when skimming mailing lists or large documents, but then again I could just use Ctrl-f or the like.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Announcement_(computing)
R&R haven't blamed excel. But I think it's fair game to criticize another workman's tool choice if it played a role in a mistake.
Sure it is. Upon receiving the counternotice, StackExchange can just say "OK, we're no longer have the question offline because of the DMCA notice; as a separate matter we have decided that we decline to host this question". To believe otherwise would be to believe that a DMCA notice and counternotice somehow privileges the subject content above all other content on the site.
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I thought I would have more traction with the video. The video is from Vine and we don't have any control to it.
It was edited, but not until later in the day did someone suggest using strikeouts to debunk old material instead of "let's make sure we have the best info we have up here." If you're just editing the text, misconceptions remain.
You could say the same thing about watching sports. Why watch the game when you can't change the outcome, the highlights are on repeat on ESPN, and the final score is the only thing that really matters?
If it were "extremely regulated", then there would not be regular news reports about contaminated meat scandals and stuff like "The Meatrix" would not exist. Simply put, if there are regulations, then they're either just pro forma or not enforced enough.
Leaving the 'Bro' Gamer Culture Behind
Treating people with respect and motivating folks to do better than their best are traits of an effective leader. I think we somehow confuse "people-shaming/screaming asshole" with a good leader.
Not even close to universally true.

About 4 months after we launched our first SaaS, we fell off the face of the planet for months (long annoying story). It didn't grow… much. But it also didn't shrink. It was pulling in several grand a month on idle. We did it again a couple years later when it was a 5-figure amount, although we (mostly) kept answering support emails this time. No big deal. Now in the last 18 mos, for 6-9 mos we had total coverage on customer support, but zero new features and just one marketing push etc and again, it grew, but slowly.

Would I RECOMMEND it? No. I'm not telling you this story to encourage you to make the same mistakes we did (and no longer do). But did it kill us? Hardly. We still grew, except at the very end, and the "contraction" then was miniscule… a few hundred dollars out of $20k+/mo. (Now >$30k.)

Social startups require more more more more more more more more more more, always more. They're baby birds forever, mouths open, shrieking. Startups delivering measurable value to even the tiniest of businesses are not, do not. Business value is self-perpetuating. Your app is not less valuable next month if there are no new features; it is just as valuable as it was last month.

You get to choose which path you take.
This has nothing specific to OS X, unsure to why OS X is in the title.
Would it be possible to introduce the white-labelling feature on lower priced tiers? This would be perfect for MVPs for rapid iteration, however that area also implies stringent financial constraints. Specifically, I am thinking of how to utse this in a B2B idea I'm exploring, but the B2B sector is a great deal less forgiving of 3rd party brands in the UX than the consumer web.

[edit] One solution could be a plan catered specifically to MVPs - white-labelled for up to X views in y months where both X and Y are relatively low values. This will make the service accessible to early stage startups without becoming an obstacle to on your viral growth (as their collective traffic is very low), and also will allow you to collect your due revenues if their project becomes successful (win-win).
phill, this is hacker news, and if someone finds you're wildly unqualified to comment on something, don't worry, he'll be vocal about it and explain exactly why he thinks you're unqualified to comment about it. That's why I love this site. On any similar site aggregator, I'd get cat pictures and people telling me my opinions are stupid because my face is stupid.

More towards the topic, I'd say these kind of articles have to be taken with a grain of something, preferably salt or cynism, depending on taste. I'm usually more of a material science/electronics technology buff, and news articles in that area will not hestitate to present a relatively minor paper as a breakthrough in battery technology that will solve all our energy problems in the next 5 years. But then you read on, compare it against the existing technologies and you realize that they just did something funny to the diodes that increases power density at the cost of usuage time. Somewhat handy in some applications, but not a game changer.

PS: You're certainly not the youngest here.
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At least not in child nutrition, unfortunately the only usable reference which is not vegan propaganda I could find are in German (http://www.focus.de/gesundheit/ernaehrung/gesundessen/tid-21... and http://www.dge.de/modules.php?name=News&file=article&...).

TL;DR: It is extremely difficult to sustain the needs of a child with a pure vegetarian/vegan diet.
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Y-Combinator's policy requires all notification to be physically delivered - i.e. US Postal Service or UPS or another delivery service is acceptable. Email is not acceptable - and presumably fax is not either, since no number is listed.

This means:

1. It will take several days for most takedown requests to be acted upon, by which time material will probably have rolled off the front page.

2. There is significant documentation when an entity pursues takedown in less than good faith - and if it came via USPS there could be substantial penalties for any fraud.

3. It makes bulk takedowns more difficult because each notice is required to provide adequate documentation.

In other words, Y-Combinator places a meaningful burden on those claiming violation of copyright, and I suspect that this creates enough friction to eliminate many claims - making HN better, and letting YC staff do more important work.
But it does privilege that content above all other if the service provider wants the liability protection. You either treat that content specially or you are open to being sued for having hosted it before you took it down. To meet the requirements of the act, they must actually "replace the removed material and cease disabling access to it" (H.R.2281 Sec. 501(g)(2)(C)). Doing what you said would fail to meet that, as would some kind of "it was available for a split second but you didn't see it" prank. Real judges don't take kindly to trying to weasel around the intent of a law.
Excel isn't the problem. Mediocrity is. Or, I should say, mediocrity when you need something more (like reliability, because you're making major decisions based on the data furnished).

Excel is great at providing a mediocre database, presentation template, calculation engine, and model builder, all-in-one. It's even Turing complete (although it makes it hard to write decent code, since that's not the point.) It does a large number of things, and a mediocre job of all. Often, this is enough. It gets the job done for small toy problems, and often that's a start. However, basing billion-dollar decisions based on Excel code? Are you kidding me?

This is exactly why I rail so hard (and without giving, ever) against Corporate injections into software. Corporate America is founded on mediocrity being good enough. Sometimes it is. Sometimes, it's fucking not. When it's not, stop using Excel as a database (it's not one) and fire all your CommodityJavaDevelopers writing SingletonVisitorFactories and start doing things right. Since you don't know how, you have to hire someone like me and give that person lots of autonomy, but it can be done.
Because a lot of decisions in Silicon Valley aren't rational, despite what people would like you to think– it's mostly political based on who's buddy with who.
It is not a zero-sum game. Depriving a right from a suspected terrorist does not necessarily guarantee the right of some other, unrelated person. Rights are rights, selectively applying them is the slipperiest of slopes.
>Maybe you should avoid generalizations that need to be carefully qualified just to become less wrong.

But that's what 90% of startup blogging is about! :)
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Let us all stop pretending that people were pursuing austerity because of some paper by Reinhart and Rogoff. Cutting government services to citizens for the sake of repaying foreign debt has been going on as long as there has been foreign debt. And that is longer than three years.

Reinhart and Rogoff were important because their idea supported an existing financial theory. If their paper had reached an opposite conclusion, there still would have been austerity.

Now that their paper has been shown to be in error, there will still be austerity. And that will be because the people who benefit from it have the power to impose it. Where they don't have the power, it will not be imposed.
Some admin should fix it: it's for Bash and ZSH.
This reminds me rather of a Google+ post I read recently:

https://plus.google.com/105363132599081141035/posts/W3ys5fKn...
It does not need to be personalized, it only needs to be associated with a given data set. How it's applied to the personal device in question is an implementation problem, not a matter of whether anonymization should have been implemented.
Terrorist Hunt Sends America Over the Edge
There are thousands of pages of regulations on federal meat standards. I think your statement would work better if you said, "If it were 'well regulated/sensibly regulated'..."

It's also possible that regulations are confusing, unenforceable, out of date, or addressing symptoms instead of causes.

I don't disagree with you, but I think your comment needed some clarification.
On that note, I though Kreedz Climbing[1] and Grappling Hook[2] were interesting takes.

[1]: http://kzmod.com/news.php
[2]: http://ghook.speedrungames.com/
How much 'lifelogging' could you tolerate?
That's what I had been doing. What I ended up doing to get it to work was unzipping the file, running xcodebuild and then moving the binary to the root of the project. Thanks for the help.

EDIT: Still getting this error though from within the running application:
libc++abi.dylib: terminate called without an active exception
ls: ./GenProgram: No such file or directory
Why You Shouldn't Take A Start-Up Job
[it is just a theoretical concern. I do not give ssh passwords or keys to applications I am not comfortable with. Any browser plugin qualifies as such.]

I haven't one, and so far thought against purchasing one, yet if developer mode gives me a real console, I may give it a try. Is it sandboxed or restricted in any way (storage, network, etc), like for the privileges in android, that may prevent me from running an important daemon (say openvpn, creating or accessing tun/tap interfaces, doing tcpdump etc) ?

From http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/developer-information-fo..., I understood that one had to reboot to get a command line.

I don't want to reboot everytime I need a terminal.

Is it possible to Ctrl-Alt-Fx to get a console while leaving the browser running? Could you please detail about your experiences in developper mode?

(ie can you leave X, or do you just get a xterm)

In http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11205504/chromebook-chome... it mentions Ctrl-Alt-t - but is that a xterminal or a text-mode getty?

I'm old school and prefer having gettys in inittab so that Ctrl-Alt-Fx gets me to the xth getty - and yes I know about tmux and screen.
Your use of TM™ indicates to me that you are arrogant and cynical. You personally can't make the world better (see: dictator) and that really hurts an ego.

You would rather see yourself as a helpless pesant being oppressed than admit you're closer in status to the bourgeoisie.

You sound like my old friend Steve. So let me say this: don't do anything stupid, you will get caught. I think he's out of prision now but I don't talk to him anymore.
He originally wrote it back in December: http://www.charlesncox.com/blog/2012/12/why-ill-never-work-o...
The original question and answers has been put back up, without the CipherCloud screenshots.

http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/3645/how-is-cipher...
It's a career limiting move in the same sense that my career as a doctor is limited by the fact that I didn't choose to go to medical school. There's no evidence that any of his opportunities outside of making violent shooters have been limited. If he wants to turn down those opportunities then props to him for standing up for something in a way that actually impacts his bottom line. Whether you agree or disagree with his reasons for doing it, this should be applauded. We just shouldn't pretend that he's being persecuted for his choice. He's not a whistle blower that's exposing a conspiracy. People like violent FPS games, they buy them, studios make more of them. That's all there is to it.

Now if you want a conspiracy, you should be looking at gaming addiction and how studios are explicitly engineering games to keep people coming back and spending money. That's where you'll find the real shady stuff.
What's DRY?
There is nothing stopping any web app from not using applets.
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You are right, the final update was 3 days ago: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_version_history#cite_ref-6...