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Well yes, but this argument is made over and over again about cyclists - that they are a disruption and should not be allowed on the streets, especially in the cities which are hard to drive through as they are. Yet I fully support the argument that they are paying taxes and have the same right to use the road as everyone else. And yes, that includes horse-drawn carriages and donkey carts.

However, all European motorways ban vehicles that cannot go faster than 30mph(50kmh) from them, because they are supposed to be used for fast travel only, so there is a certain amount of people banned from using them,purely because they don't have a car and can't use motorways on a moped or a bicycle - even thought they pay taxes so their "rights" are somehow violated for the good of others. So I imagine that major motorways and maybe town centers could be made automatic-only. But, in the countryside, if somebody wants to drive in manual,why not? There is little joy in driving in the city,with all the tragic jams and such,but driving on the empty, countryside roads is a different matter entirely.
Too bad old age or disease is really the only realistic way to get most of these technophobe, computer-illiterate fossils out of legislature.
Thank you for your advice! I will add some examples and explanation in the near future. To add a middle tier is a good idea, thanks for the tips!
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I don't think the issue is that it's unimpressive if you're familiar with the domain. The issue is that, for what's actually been linked to, it's little more than a video showing some pretty interaction.

For a HN crowd interested in learning more about the domain, a blog post or something actually talking about it would be more appropriate and something that people can actually learn from.

A demo isn't something that people generally learn from. It's something that people look at, notice how pretty it is, and then move on, learning nothing.
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No. But those in the tech community have an unproportional influence over those on the outside.

If Google loses their hold over tech people, that will spread quickly.
Nobody is asking you to apologise. I'm just saying that we already know what the web is capable of as a runtime. Why wouldn't this have been highlighted as a flash demo? Or as a java applet?
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Amount of damages incurred from linking to ShopZilla in a post that praises the same company: Less than -$0. I guess they should send them an invoice.
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Or simply people who didn't have the skills to be a peer?!

And what about closed gardens like social networks and services that wall our data behind proprietary walls? Google data liberation front is a step forward but its still not enough.

People with such great skills and knowledge of the stakes of IT like the HN audience shouldn't put the blame on common people right?!

I genuinely believe that technology and the open source community have reached a maturity that makes the development of simple and solid alternatives are possible, even for the least knowledgeable of us.

Take a look at what this startup is trying to achieve: https://www.cozycloud.cc/
It gives everyone an easy to administrate server, you can assign your own domain name, self host it or have it hosted elsewhere. The server is a plat-form on which you have total control and ownership of your data and can install and develop apps that serves YOUR needs. It still young but with the support of talented people that could become BIG!
I want one, I may be my first smartphone. BTW: Is it smart enough?
The paper link was definitely good, but as a humorous way of gauging the tone, if you stood back and read the rest of your comment with the Comic Book Guy voice, would it sound in character?
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Directly. Would I gain anything by going through Owncloud?
i don't get how you could have feedback if we can't try how you stuff works...
And that has led us where. Class-based OO approaches became popular in the mid-90's as a panacea of maintainability and code reuse...

This has taken us to "enterprise" frameworks and layers of abstraction that offer very little actual value, and huge amounts of maintenance overhead. In VS/Eclipse, I can't tell you how many times I go through the inheritance chain only to be brick walled into an Interface, and then have to look for the specific/abstracted implementation of said interface.

99/100 times there is only one implementation, and no test coverage to justify said abstraction. So, why do it at all? Because of how strict and constrained said programming environment is.

JS doesn't have those levels of restriction, and doesn't need those levels of abstraction and inheritance. You can utilize other patterns and practices... there's more out there than Class based approaches.

For example MVC is really seamless in JS... you can have models that are dumb JS objects (they don't need to be inherited from, or to).. and modules that manipulate/use/store said objects. It doesn't need to be so complicated.

It isn't that some problems aren't complicated, and don't need some serious use of patterns/factories/IoC... It's simply that in many cases they are done because they "can be" or some overzealous architect thinks they "should" be. I've only ever seen a couple instances where most of these abstraction patterns actually make sense.. and I've been writing software for close to two decades now.

As for "but the overwhelming majority of frameworks... use class-like approach" .. arguably the single most used framework/library in use today is jQuery.. and that definitely does NOT use a class-like approach.
But in the former and latter, people are likely to wish for Intel CPUs instead (even if they don't actually need them).
> The jurisdiction is not even the litigant-friendly US, it is the UK...

There was a case about 'deep linking' (and maybe framing?) from the early www. One Scottish news paper was linking to another Scottish newspaper.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deeplinking#Court_rulings)
I disagree that Cornell is an elites-only institution. Besides, how would you have spent the money within the CUNY system? According to [1], their FY14 budget is $2.154B, so $133M would be a 6% bump for FY14. Any ideas?

[1] http://www.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/bf/fy2014-s...
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Yup. Regardless of that, why is this newsworthy for HN?
I know a couple of the people at Shopzilla, and they're not idiots. However, it should be borne in mind that Shopzilla belongs to EWScripps who aren't idiots either, but do have the money to prosecute a case for a very long time indeed if they are so inclined.

Anyway, I'd recommend the same thing: contact them and see if the law firm does, in fact, represent them and isn't just 'Prenda Law'ing.
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Also, it's a weird wonderland in which you know exactly which parts need to be fast, reimplement those, and then never need to touch those bits again. In my experience, that's not the case - you're going to want to tune and alter your algorithm, and if it's API needs to go through several languages, it's going to be a pain. Every time you decide you need a slightly different input format or data store or set of hyperparameters, you'll likely be changing many more files than you would in a one-language solution, and in a way that's hard to unit-test and hard to statically type.

It's certainly doable, and definitely the right way to go if you want number crunching in a high-level language, but it's not a free lunch. It's certainly not a quick one-time conversion and then you can forget about it.
In Alberta, I passed the test for a learners permit at 14, which required being with a licenced driver. Practicing driving at 14 on Sunday mornings and quiet highways is an excellent way to learn to drive, and I think to train the brain to react automatically to events that happen too quickly for the conscious mind. My experience anyway. That said, thanks Dad and my friend that donated part of his clutch. :)
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and me. The Wifi is amazing considering you are at 39,000 ft.
I have a weapon of mass destruction at my home! Just chill guys, I use a pressure cooker to boil potatoes sometimes. Actually I have another one as well, a BB gun. I don't really know which one is the government referring to as a WMD.
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Not only isn't it a copyright issue, but Wikipedia gives you the download link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

... though using torrents is generally recommended to reduce server load and bandwidth.
Please also keep in mind that this blog post focuses on a workload that is completely disk I/O bound.

In practice, at least part of your working set gets served from memory, and compression doesn't help with the pages that are already in memory.
I'll assume you live in a first world country with plenty of expensive infrastructure that you guys were happy to pay for. Now imagine you live in a city like Beijing where traffic is bad...not just bad...but hellish. There is not much space to build roads even if they have money, there are 30,000 taxis and a few hundred thousand private cars AND NOT MUCH PARKING. The problem is extreme, the solution will be extreme; it helps that the government is autocratic.

Now say Beijing implements the change: within the 5th ring road, autonomous cars only. Most people don't own one of these cars, but its fine...the city and various private companies have a fleet of 100k or so that they treat basically as taxies. Because no humans are involved in the system, they can achieve 10x densities, basically solving traffic, parking, and pollution problems overnight.

Could your average human being handle tailgating and slack-free synchronous movement of a bunch of cars? Of course not! That's why they aren't driving anymore. Could we disable the system outside of cities without traffic? Ya, but in China, the traffic and infrastructure problems are everywhere, it will catch on.

Now your western cities, they don't have traffic problems mostly, not on this scale. But these cities will then have to compete economically with other cities with the system. Its a world market, if it the new system is 10x better, the other cities will have to follow to remain competitive; perhaps some Disney like places will exist where people can drive cars, but that is how the future works!
Same, I think it lost some magic somewhere along the way. The 4-part made-for-tv movies were lacking something and I think only a few of the episodes since then have been up to its previous brilliance.
The WMD definition is as simple as it being what the other side has. We have tactical ordinance.
just to be clear - I am not saying that the Wifi was broadcast from/to 39,000 ft ;-) Obviously I am referring to the wifi in the cabin that connects to the Norwegian Air system...
Ask North Korea.

Generally: the answer is to provide a web proxy or mirror with restrictions as to available content. And likely highly logged access.
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I recently had a drive die on me.

Everything was backed up. My passwords were safely stored. But it was going to take some time to get to them.

I did have my Google password, so I logged in. I was on a different computer, a different OS, a different network. I was asked to enter my Google Authenticator number, and then BAMM I got access to everything.

I realised just how scary the Google 'Save passwords' thing is.

I trust Google, and I know they have smart people working on security.

We've seen similar where someone having their Google account hacked lost access to everything.

This should be part of your back up / disaster planning. I guess there's a niche for a single page check-list of what people should be storing 'just in case'.
Botnets, spyware, etc, are all tools of exploiting well intentioned users to harm others. Just not quite physically.
The definition or at least perception of safety does not depend solely on the frequency of sudden death. I have lived in, around (two blocks to about 5 miles), or in Washington, DC for third of a century, and do not regret it. However, I have been held up at gunpoint, our car has been stolen, I know neighbors and friends who have been burglarized more than once. Some people would look at that and decide that the exurbs are just more restful.

Nor does city residence make you immune to death by auto. You could be run over by a Metrobus (happened to two women on Pennsylvania Avenue a couple of years ago), or be in a nice hot car that you decide to drive at 90 mph across Key Bridge (young guy this spring).

Let me add that I can go a week without getting into a car, though if my wife didn't do the grocery shopping (her commute more or less demands one--20 minutes with, 50+ without), things would be different. I just happen to think that the young, urban (and commonly single) crowd should not imagine that they are certainly always going to be living in Hoboken or the Mission and taking public or employer-provided transportation, or that those who have made other choices are somehow inferior.
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Am I missing something? Why is this on first page of HN. Not downplaying, I honestly don't know.
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Well, now BOTH models are out-of-stock!
People use it because the products sound neat, and there's no friction, and then they keep using them because there's friction to move away.

"Free email, with 1 GB of email storage? Neat". "Nice fast web-browser, nice features? Neat!" etc etc.

People on HN do AB testing for button colours in an effort to reduce friction to the lowest possible. It's not that surprising that people think "it wont happen to me".

See also people who never make backups until they learn the lesson that first time they lose everything.
Dosen't NZ have relatively high road fatalities?
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An excellent guide, that I would tend to agree with. I would also like to offer up this quote from General Patton:

"When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight it's way out of a piss-soaked paper bag."
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For an old language as C++, templates have a way of staying new, exciting and hard at times.

I have respect for people who can explain the deep intricacies of the vastness of C++. Good article.
I tried running Oracle on ZFS for a while, with fairly terrible results. A bit of examination showed that ZFS was fine for table scans but had bad performance with indexes. It may be possible to tune one's way around this, but I simply dumped ZFS in favor of Automated Storage Management.
Fair enough, I still enjoyed it more than any new show out there. I guess YMMV, but I didn't feel as if they were running out of ideas.
WMD charges don't help either. A pipe-bomb has been considered a WMD for a decade now. The term has been cheapened so much some schools ban the term as useless and carrying almost no information.
Code is also in that demo.
I've written Windows software in C++ for more than 10 years, and I've compiled as recently as 6 months ago software that was written in the early 1990's, and that would compile and run unmodified on today's OS's. Show me one platform (or library even) that has that sort of backward compatibility.

Challenge accepted.

IBM shipped the first iteration of the System/360 in 1966. They have maintained, with minor caveats, backwards application compatibility with that version to the present across their various mainframe lines.

As an example of such a caveat, in 1995 the AS400 line underwent the 48-bit to 64-bit transition. If your executable was "observable", meaning it had debugging information, the first time you ran in 64-bit mode IBM would recompile it under the hood and your software would then run in 64-bit mode. If you had no source and no debugging information in your executable, you were out of luck until you got a new executable. Most customers experienced no issues.

But..mainframes? Who uses those? A lot of people, it turns out. A 2005 estimate said that globally 90% of financial transactions ran through COBOL. There is no reason to believe that this figure is significantly reduced today. The core of most of that COBOL code is decades old, and the customers are locked to IBM's platform because nobody can afford the cost or risk of a rewrite. But machines need to be replaced. Therefore IBM's customers still collectively cough up an average of something like $1 billion/month on new mainframe hardware.
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That was surprisingly therapeutic. If those chinese balls can be sold for $5 that serve the same "pain", then maybe Patio11's suggestion that someone should stick this in the app store has some weight.

Either way, if it doesn't require too much coding, and I have honestly no idea of how much coding it does or does not require, since i'm not a coder, but i'm assuming it's not that much work to pick up a HTML5 framework and run with it.

Better still. If it can't be charged for, it's a sure way of generating interest and creating a crowd or audience of a group of people that clearly like something like this, which should open up ideas for associated revenue streams with this serving as a hook.

If i was a coder, i'd suddenly give it a shot, even if it was only for my own learning and experimentation.

The reasons, at least for me, to give it a shot would far outweigh the reasons not to.
Yep. I was seriously considering buying it. Didn't do it immediately because I was hesitant. Now I just can't :(
The time that children need adults does not come in a convenient block. A few minutes here, 20 minutes there. It likely adds up to less than 4 hours in total (once they're old enough to tie their own shoes or so) but it will be spread out and unpredictable.
There's definitely an argument to be made for that but I still loved that show immensely and I'm sad to see it go.
For those who, like me, were looking for a more in-depth "About" page, the "Big picture: problems and solutions" link under "Research" is what you want:

http://www.gocircuit.org/big.html

(also, to the maintainer: the "Ideal architecture" header at the bottom is on the wrong column)
Just because a company isn't talking about something or releasing something, doesn't mean something isn't in the pipeline. Apple is notorious for keeping their new products a secret.

I love the prospect of an iWatch and hope it happens. I think there is a lot of potential in Apple TV and its no where at the level it should be within a year or 2. Once they figure out an app store for Apple TV, they'll have a big impact on the gaming market and streaming video.

I've had almost every version of the iPhone. Is it getting stagnant? Yeah, sure. If you want something different more often, move to Android; a new phone comes out almost every month and there are hundreds to choose from.

It's not Apple's style to talk or release new products quickly. They wait until their products are polished. The iPhone was in development for years before anyone knew it existed.

I had high hopes for Microsoft Surface, but in traditional MS fashion, they rushed it and its not as good as it should be. They only feature I wish the iPad had was a hard ethernet connection (or dongle) so I can take it into the server room (we don't run wifi at the office). Surface Pro has this, but its out of my price range and the the product just seams sub par to me. Maybe version 2 will be better...
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...and it's free. I'm super impressed with Norwegian Airlines.
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Military definition is what we think of as WMD. The FBI definition of WMD, though, is any improvised explosive device with more than 1/4 ounce of explosive.

(Used to be able to buy firecrackers stronger than that so it seems like a trivializing definition to me.)
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Everyone where I work swears occasionally, no one minds.

It's particularly insulting and prejudiced of you to attribute negative traits to people that swear. If you can't prove the causation (or at least support a correlation), shut up, because you're wrong.
It would be nice if Google, when they threw you out, let you download a glob of your data. That would make the thing a lot less painful for most people.

> Google told me for the first time that it reserves the right to “terminate your account at any time, for any reason, with or without notice.”

No one reads the ToS / AUP, but this shows why it's a problem. It was not the first time Google told this guy; he was told in the legal documents that he agreed to when he signed up.

Yes, Douglas Adams had it right.

> "But Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months."

> "Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them, had you? I mean, like actually telling anybody or anything."

> "But the plans were on display ..."

> "On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them."

> "That's the display department."

> "With a flashlight."

> "Ah, well the lights had probably gone."

> "So had the stairs."

> "But look, you found the notice didn't you?"

> "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."
Empirical evidence, or just posturing?
Try the one-shot option. 'redshift -O 4700' should set both your monitors to 4700K.
Next time you get the chance to ask astronauts something (in the Netherlands we had that once with Andre Kuipers I think), ask them to do a traceroute from space!
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Link it to the accelerometer and gyroscope and watch as your photo flaps about as you move your phone. Combined with tearing up your photo I bet it would get a few downloads.
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Completely agreed. The military definition is reasonable. the domestic criminal code and FBI definition is a bit silly: any IED with over a tiny quarter ounce of explosive.

They've essentially made WMD a synonym for explosive when we already had the perfectly serviceable word bomb. And now there's no room for a more serious charge (ahem).
I wanted to order the Keon, but was late. When it first went out-of-stock, I realized that Peak might be running out soon. Got lots of db errors, hit F5 several times, payment stalled, but bought the Peak finally!
Snarky as this is, I'm sorry to say that it's probably correct. I've never had to have any configuration or other problems with f.lux on OSX, it just works there. On Ubuntu, it just doesn't work. :)

(Ubuntu user since 2004, OSX since about last year)
Swearing is a proven analgesic. I can't see taking that away from people; it would leave people angrier and meaner than they would be without a "what an asshole" after a call with an annoying person.

http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2009/07/13/swearing-...
I'm a UK netflix user too, it's pretty great.

I wish HBO would offer a similar service to non-US citizens