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I like when media takes an effort to critique itself but since the critics are generally simply writers, no actual progress is made in bettering things.

It has all of the effectiveness of a meeting that results in no action items.
I learned not much new from this. People have made this claim for years. The author isn't some visionary for figuring this out, and I assume he doesn't think he is. The point about financial benefit was interesting, however.
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It's very useful for the part where you need to tweak the pictures to the point where you can mash them up.

If you did that in GIMP, it would be much more of a hassle to do so.
There's no reason these need to be two channels; they're really two ways of sorting the same information. (I'm building something that I think solves that problem).
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If it's that gawdawful bad, then declare martial law already.

This is a seriously bad slippery slope, and I can see this escalating like SWAT teams have done in the last 20 years. How long until a "child abduction alert" turns into a city-wide lockdown and door-to-door search?

Wait for one of these to happen on an election day. That would be interesting.
Now stackexchange forwarded the DMCA notice to the involved users. http://meta.crypto.stackexchange.com/q/250/180

CipherCloud claim copyright infringement on the three images used to evidence the posts.

They also claim that certain statements in the posts are false, misleading defaming. While some statements look indeed wrong, others (in particular the determinism claim) are clearly evidenced in screenshots. They hint that their actual product might use different encryption from the demo video.
I read "depending on use" as a modifier to 2-3 years not on every. That is to say the cable will break sometime between 2-3 years with heavy use being sooner rather than later.
You're saying you can't compile Linux to an 8-bit micro, yet you can emulate a much larger CPU on the same chip and run linux on that? Are you sure?
And slightly on topic, here is Windows 95 on a 25Mhz 386 with 4 meg of RAM http://everything2.com/title/25+MHz+386+running+Windows+95
Yeah, you want to down vote an attempt at deciphering someone's meaning.
I contract from time to time, I'm very familiar with Windows 7, used it heavily alongside Ubuntu on a variety of hardware. I find various sleep, suspend and hibernation issues on all versions of Windows from 7 back. Apparently I'm not alone, Google this phrase: "windows sleep problem".
Massachusetts as a low murder rate to begin with, so of course it's going to have a low "gun death" rate.

Correlation does not imply causation. If you seriously follow these sorts of studies, you'd know not to trust anything coming from the VPC (well, maybe they've done a good one, but I'm not aware of any, and helped Clayton Cramer destroy their "Concealed Carry Killers" http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2095754).

And that's irrelevant to my point about the historical definition of a citizen in a republic. You aren't anymore, and whatever good you may think that does you, it still does not change that fact.
Identify one warrant issued for the search of a home in this incident. Count homes searched.
Sure, but that goes both ways. What's the monetary value of the peace of mind of people throughout the Boston area? There's plenty that doesn't show up in GDP that still has real value.
The problem with this kind of thinking is that you put the blame squarely on religion. It shows a lack of consideration of what the _core_ cause is. Why do they not like America? Did they just wake up one day and said "Okay, let's blow 'em up". Some group of people got angry at America[1], then fooled a bunch of religious people to believe following them is doing their deity's wishes. Instead of just saying, "See! Islam is bad!" you should look to the root of the issue.
Same problem with just going around saying "black people steal". When you state it like that, you make it sound like it's the skin color that causes stealing; it lacks the full consideration of history and what happened with this group of people and the current social-economics that is not balanced. Whatever you think the reason is, I can tell you that the color of your skin doesn't make you good or bad. Just like being religious doesn't make you good or bad.

1. And let me tell you, these folks have reason to be mad at USA. While I understand blowing up people is never a reasonable reaction, religion is not the origin of the problem.

EDIT: And I see your youtube vid link, it's the same issue. Religion is the not the cause, it is exploited by people who want power.
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So you're saying you can't compile Linux to an 8-bit CPU, but you can run an emulator of a much larger chip on that CPU and run linux on that? Are you sure?
Looks cool! Just FYI, I accidentally typed a capital H in Http://... When typing in my URL and it told me my URL was invalid.

Worked when I tried http://... instead. Might cause you to lose some less technical users.

Good luck with the project!
While I respect the author's choice, I have to disagree over the point about people contributing to the codebase.

I've spent the past two years reverse engineering products built on Linux with no source code or build chain available. Last week I spent two days breaking into an embedded Linux device that runs alongside entire families of motherboards using an almost completely open stack with no attribution, no contribution and no source code release. The authors (both the OEM and the motherboard manufacturer) as far as I can tell do not contribute to any of the projects I've identified on the board from their official email addresses or in a professional capacity.

When you start looking at MiFi hotspots it's even worse. I did a talk last year at BlackHat EU on one example[1] where I finally managed to get the developers to fess up the source.

[1] - http://media.blackhat.com/bh-eu-12/Lord/bh-eu-12-Lord-Hotspo...
It's time there's a penalty for false takedowns. You shouldn't be allowed to just get Google or others to take down thousands of urls at a time, just by identify a keyword. And we're only in the early days of this. The DMCA requests to Google are skyrocketing every year.
In my life I've had police point their weapons at me, I've had a cop blatantly lie in testifying against me, and I've been threatened with arrest for having the audacity to wave 'hi' to a cop as he was driving by and for sitting in a car with white women (yeah, I'm black, how did you know?). I am certainly sympathetic to the view that police and police powers need to be approached with skepticism.

That said, the critics that have popped up over the past 14 hours seem to twisted skepticism into a view that no law enforcement officer anywhere should ever be trusted under any circumstances and cooperating with the police for any reason is leading us down the slipper road to fascism.

I look at the past 24-hours and see the best of civilization. Law enforcement and private citizens worked together which allowed an alleged murdered to be captured alive with no civilian casualties and limited property damage. The Boston area was back in business as of 8pm last night, and come Monday, folks will be back to work. I can't see this as anything other than a success.

I'm curious - other than RMS, is there anyone within the affected area that felt the response and the search was inappropriate?
I think the software variant of reverse engineering still surpasses it. It's the infinite complexity.

The "combination" of the two then yields reverse engineering chips. See SRLabs presentation on low cost chip microprobing for some of the challenges:

http://events.ccc.de/congress/2012/Fahrplan/attachments/2247...
My proposed security fix: kill the Java Browser Plugin.
Oh, thanks for pointing out the issue. Silly and weird. Will get it fixed. Thanks!
A couple weeks ago there was a similar installation as part of an art show in São Paulo. There were a dozen different games you could play using a phone/tablet off the street. I like the 'bike invaders' one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
> People have made this claim for years.

Indeed, and this was published in the Linux Journal in 2002. It is an old boring argument, it even includes the words "I'm not just trying to start a holy war here", echoing the famous cut and paste Slashdot troll. Georgecmu, who has over 6500 karma and who's been here quite a few years, knows exactly what he's doing: trolling (and I have flagged this submission as it's so obvious).

The Free Software Foundation is not half as dogmatic as people think either. They have released software under MIT, and have a huge list of licences they consider to be free. Pick the one that works for you.
This is nothing unusual for W95.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/138349
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This seems about right. I found various components inside with date codes ranging from 1996 to early 1997. The indicator lights had no markings on them, but IIRC the bulbs inside were 28v incandescents. Do you know any more about them? I'd be interested to know what IP rating they have (IP67?)
> which BTW proves again that Linux doesn't fit onto 8-bit micros.

How in the world does it "prove" that, when not only does it "fit", it fits in addition to an emulator? I don't see that it only runs _under_ an emulator proves any such thing.

While this is obviously a "hah, you think it's impossible? I'll show you," type achievement, and running Linux on an 8-bit is never going to be more than a curiosity, it's a neat proof of concept and could trivially be made much faster (through a hybrid approach: a lot of the Linux code could likely be ported quite easily, and a lot of it could probably also be jit'ed relatively easily (especially kernel-land - a special purpose jit whose only purpose is to jit the kernel would be vastly easier than a general purpose jit, not least because you can take a boatload of shortcuts (e.g. manual translation) in cases where a simple/trivial jit doesn't do well.

I think it's a fascinating solution - people have talked about doing ports to limited systems without MMU's etc. before, and it has usually meant severe tradeoffs that means lots of userland won't work (e.g. vfork instead of fork). This is a d'oh moment in that the "solution" if your goal is only to get a port running (rather than for it to be practically usable) has stared us in the face "forever" (there's been virtualization solutions using emulated CPU's since before Linux was around).
Speaking as a developer I keep my own mouse in my laptop bag because using trackpads is irritating, Windows or Linux.
Is this js being embedded on the site with a tracking code thats generated? (Not trying to show off, just being geeky I guess)
More or less :-) ... here's a discussion around the feature on Stackoverflow - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7849466/showing-a-demo-of...
And for people who want to convert user entered numbers, like "3.2 million", into strings, I wrote a package especially for that: https://github.com/naftaliharris/numutil

>>> from numutil import str2num, num2str
>>> str2num('1.3 million')
1300000
>>> str2num('three and a half')
Fraction(7, 2)
>>> str2num('123,456.789')
123456.789
>>> num2str(1234567, style='newspaper')
'1.23 million'
>>> num2str(1234567, style='words')
'one million, two hundred thirty four thousand, five hundred sixty seven'
John Graham Cummings (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jgrahamc)

Mostly for his ever insightful comments regarding security and CDN usage, but also for personal help I have received (having only been acquainted to him through HN) professionally from him.
So the technical solution is to have our news reading environment be aware of which items we've seen, and only alert us when new information on a topic we've expressed an intent to follow comes in.

So imagine that CNN tries to reinvent themselves after this weeks fiasco. They spend a bunch of time and money setting up their newsgathering operation to tag everything with metadata and provide special software to consume the tag feeds and manage users attention; gobs of customisation options, in depth access to the underlying data, not just for financial news, but also the analysis of breaking events and the public reaction thereto. Basically a Bloomberg Terminal, with a broader focus.

And if they do all of that. They will continue to lose money to outlets that treat events as a cross between a circus-freak sideshow and a particularly bloody genre of morality play ( FOX and NYPost, as instances of the Grand Guignol approach to journalism ).
It's a slippery slope. Right now is voluntary, but there's a very good chance that if it happens more often, police will find public support for arresting people who don't comply.

The news media is making it worse by taking "lockdown", a term that originated in prisons and then appropriated by schools and throwing it around in this context.

Schools, at least, have some sort of legal basis for restricting movement as they are loco in parentis for minors. There is no legal basis for doing this to adults in cities short of an actual declaration of martial law.
Stallman himself has advocated for non-copyleft free licenses when he considered they would increase the total user freedom (particularly, by helping Ogg take on MP3).

https://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3
Your second premise sounds similar to what Circa does from a news-app standpoint. Curated updates to stories you've designated that you're interested in following-up on.
I don't like it. It pops up a huge attention-diverter on the front of the webpage. Why not just have a link in the corner of the page giving the option to provide feedback?

The current culture of pop-up upon visit for some reason really irks me.
More like:

Scenario 1) No lockdown. Homeowner goes to work, goes out to dinner with colleagues after work, goes to a movie/bar/club and doesn't return home until 1am. Notices boat has been disturbed, checks and doesn't find anything because the suspect fled hours earlier.
Not McCain. He strongly criticized Rand's filibuster.
Lachesis uses Philips Twin Eye PLN 2031. This sensor have some z-axis issues. Anyway its minor problem in comparision with mx518, which have some serious angle snapping/prediction.
I also don't think you have to disprove Godel's theorem to create an AI that thinks outside the box, however, I believe you would have to for it to be a rational agent. A rational agent by definition operates strictly within the domain of a formal system. Thus by definition, a rational agent is in direct conflict with the notion of "thinking outside the box."

Of course any simulation is implemented in some formal system, but that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying the inherent problem with a rational agent is that they maximize utility within a formal system -- that is what they do, that is their entire purpose. Once we start talking about rational agents that can "think outside the box", or think beyond the formal system in which they're defined, we're no longer talking about rational agents.

I agree with your belief that we may some day build AIs that think outside the box, I just don't see how it can be a rational agent. I think it will be much closer to a neural network, or probabilistic reasoning model, or some extremely "organic" or "fluid" device from which intelligent behavior organically emerges. Because if intelligence emerges from a strictly formalized framework, then Godel's theorems prove some very crippling limitations on what's possible within that fixed framework.

FYI there is definitely a connection between Godel's theorem and intelligence, though it may not be immediately obvious. I would highly recommend this as fun learning material: http://ocw.mit.edu/high-school/courses/godel-escher-bach/
The intro paragraph of that 2003 FAQ looks eerily like a comparison of smartphones/tablets to laptops might look today!
Can I ask what you are using to get that clean weather display? It looks wonderful!
I meant the external DRAM thing - this chip would never be able to run Ubuntu without external RAM and bit-banging DRAM in software is more akin to "crawling" than "running" to be honest.

But yes, in a sense, you can run Linux on 8-bit micro or even a sufficiently long Lego brick Turing Machine.
Previous Discussion:

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3. Offer proprietary licences to companies who wants to use it in a proprietary product. The x264 devs makes money on their GPL licenced code this way for example.
Easy solution: Don't read, listen to, or watch the news.

If I recall correctly, there was even an article about this idea on Hacker News just a few days ago.

If there is ever anything really important, I am bound to hear it via conversations with my family, friends, or co-workers. Or even a quick scan of headlines on HN. No need to be glued to CNN.

However, articles on HN about inspiring topics, software engineering principles, or new ways of thinking, there's something worth reading.
We allow you to "target" those questionnaires in various ways; e.g. you can choose to display the survey only to people who have spent atleast 60 seconds on the page. Take a look - http://webengage.com/survey#targeting

Plus, you can always choose to use the feedback tab which is passive (only opens when the user clicks on it) and not proactive like surveys.

If all of the above didn't make any sense, we have a JS API to open the survey at the click of a link at the bottom of your page :-) - http://docs.webengage.com/api/js-api.html#survey-api
People have different viewpoints of what freedom means.

I am not against the GPL but I haven't used it on anything for 11 years and would be less inclined to use a product if it is GPL and I'm thinking about modifying it.
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The article has indeed some fairly cringe worthy parts:

"Developers were keen to talk about new graphics possibilities with Web programming such as richer color and "extra draw distance" so players can see farther away from their character's local environment."

Web programming: more colors than Java.
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There seems to be some numerical instability in the rotation. In the shapes demo, several of the shapes start spinning faster and faster when I pick them up. Particularly when I press the outside edge nodes into the center so that the shape sort of flips inside out, after that the shape just spins continuously when it is in the air.

Another way to exhibit it is to take the center node of the wheel and press it against the wall. The whole shape will spin.
I have, however, come to the conclusion that software licensed under the GPL is far from "free software".

Not to take on OP himself, but this kind of semantic argument gets tiring.

Free Software is a name for a concept that essentially means, "all software that gives the user the four freedoms state in its definition." The whole discussion around what it means for software to really be Free is a pointless red herring.
> You're doing it wrong.

Perhaps, but he's doing it as intended, and that's part of the problem.

News outlets aren't incentivized to let their customers be on their merry way after 5 minutes. They're in the business of getting eyeballs on screens for the maximum duration possible.
I disagree. Particularly when nothing is happening, you can't beat a TV crew telling you that nothing is happening (or talking about / repeating old information which is the same thing as saying nothing is happening).

When all you have is a twitter stream and a few websites to cmd+r you are left with the feeling that you are missing something. It's the advantage of visual media and aggregation.
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The issue is that Watsi commit to funding all projects themselves, so they'd need more and more donors in order to support bigger projects.
In a sense, GPL is not free. It is free as in "freedom for society," but it is not free in a selfish, individualistic way. It does not give you freedom to not respect other people's freedom.

By using GPL, you sacrifice some of your personal freedom for the good of society.

But this is sometimes necessary for progress.

>A majority of companies have already decided that their product will be closed-source before they even started designing it.

Such a close-minded company does not deserve to benefit from FLOSS Software. If more organizations release their code under GPL, it will give this group of organizations an advantage over the once who prefer closed source license.

You can also just dual-license it, and give the companies that want to use your software in closed-source programs a chance to pay you money.

>If a closed-source company decides it could use some open-source code in its product, it will do one of two things (if the code is licensed under the GPL):

>1. Use the open-source code and not tell anybody

>2. Write their own code from scratch

If an essential library/framework this company wants to use is licensed under GPL, they may reconsider their decision to release software under closed-source license. And if they are so stubborn as to not even consider using FLOSS Software, then they do not deserve to exist. Newer, more innovative companies will take their place, leveraging the benefits of FLOSS.

I also think Linux's popularity over BSD kernels is a great example of why GPL is far better than all the permissive OSS licenses.
Oh it's just so easy for people who have never carried the onus of a multi-billion-dollar company (or really a company of any size) on their shoulders, as someone like Steve Jobs does, to issue middlebrow comments like this one.

No organization/endeavor/enterprise rises to tremendous success without an extraordinary leader at its helm, yet many failures have had armies of smart engineers/builders/managers on their staff. There are underlying reasons for that but I'm of the opinion, of late, that absorbing them from a book or commentary is rather hard for most people - you need to actually experience/witness the right set of circumstances to really appreciate the true nature of what transpires behind success at the top tier.
Twitter as news is bleeding edge, not for the weak hearts, and it is not trying to replace news channels.

most of the initial tweets were wrong, you are seeing the thought process before it has been confirmed.

One good part, with people tweeting and the power of amplifying via retweets, it would tough to stage events as in conspiracies
You are making a bunch of unwarranted and incorrect assumptions about how owners value both real estate and stock. Both follow bubbles, and both also track underlying value.
I have an xps 13 and a MacBook air.

The MBA died 2 months out of warranty, and had to have the logic board replaced. Apple comped this, thankfully. Lately it's been getting flaky and requiring forced-restrts.

The xps 13 is still under warranty and had a hdd failure requiring a new unit from dell. I also find the trackpad extremely annoying with cursor jumping from thumb bumps, so much that I cart an extra keyboard around for it.

In the end I favor the MBA for better build quality and finish but I'm not super excited about either.

And no, I'm not a laptop killer. I still have a 15 year old compaq working, though with no battery life and the DVD is dead. I've just had a rotten run of luck with these two.
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