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> Does Microsoft have an open messaging protocol that I don't know of?

Even better, they support an standard called SIP. [1]

> Or an open source operating system? Or an open source browser?

They believe in open standards more than open source, although the Azure group very actively supports open source lately

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session_Initiation_Protocol
Like a DynASM?
I haven't tried this yet, how fast/responsive is it?
All societies tend toward Feudalism given enough time. The rent seekers control everything, and the masses surrender their liberty in exchange for security. History has demonstrated this countless times, which is why the Bill of Rights enshrined the right of the public to form militias to protect their own rights (the original 2nd Amendment).

Unfortunately, over two centuries the rent seekers have won again, so a reboot is required. How to initiate and sustain a successful reboot is the tricky part.

I sense from your writings that you are increasingly frustrated with the current state of affairs. I just want to emphasize that you aren't the only one, and if you were to formalize your dissent into an actionable movement, many would support you. The time may have come for the Technocrat to take his place on the world stage...
> Definitely cool as a piece of gear, but not terribly practical from a client-side perspective i'd think.

Perhaps for PDFs are proprietary or sensitive. A related use case is transformation and extraction. I used this same technique recently for a client to turn VB6-generated PDF reports into HTML tables for preview, and sending the actual data to a service endpoint as JSON.
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I had never thought of it before, but LinkedIn is a brilliant place for a escort to market their services. Lots of business travellers, who are often a middle-aged man travelling alone. The marks should have money, are likely to be disease and drug free, and probably these exchanges occur in a low risk environment such as a business traveler's hotel.
Andrew Mason at Startup School 2010
In the same vein, "European" is not the same as "In Europe"
Starting from minute 20 is hilarious when he talks about how Gmail shortcuts make him happy :)
Genetically, a Somalian man, a German man and a Japanese woman have more in common than two sub-Saharan Africans who live 100 miles apart. But in the U.S., the Somalian is 'black.' This is what the article is pointing out.

When Americans use the term 'black' or 'white', they are using big bucket terms to label cultural and ethnic groups that share physical similarities. The problem is that using skin color as the basis for this is absurd, and prevents us from solving the "Race problem." Why?

Because America doesn't have a "Race problem." America has a culture problem. Some of the sub-cultures in America are doing terrible, but when we try to solve the problem in a blanket way by helping a "race" we end up blaming the wrong things and solving the wrong problems.

Nigerian-American immigrants do phenomenally well, and their second generations rank at levels matching or exceeding Asian American immigrant families. Culturally they are completely separate from descendants of slaves stolen from Africa in the 17th century. But because they are lumped together as "black", we try to solve the issue at that obtuse level.
I'd love to read how you set that up. Any links you can point me to?
You can still use mmap/equivalent to allocate executable memory and package unsafe to use it; the difference is that the memory allocated normally by the runtime won't be executable.

Or I missed the sarcasm.
In Uruguay, and I imagine Argentine as well, several social security payments are directly tied to inflation.

Salary increases are also inflation-adjusted, which leads to unions calling governments liars, governments calling the unions greedy and liars, etc...

Inflation is a serious thing, especially in these countries.
Last time I checked Tel Aviv is in the Middle East not Europe.
I am happy that the customers are getting access to the most widely used video site. I will let the companies dunk it out as to what is unauthorized or what is not. MS responded to it already, and said they are will be happy to work towards betterment of mutual customers on a day where Larry page loathed negativity among companies. Or something to that effect.
Show HN: Here is our first app after 6 months working on it. What do you think?
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Real quantum computers don't exist. If one did exist it would need to factor numbers much larger than 4096 bits efficiently for it to be considered a real quantum computer.
My premise is that based on the data I'm submitting, it might be possible to deduce my identity.

I think the goal of Strongbox is to protect sources in the event that the New Yorker is forced to turn over material to the government. What they never knew, they can't turn over, but that doesn't apply to the information you leak. The government will be able to get at that information because writers will have to keep it for reference while they're writing and fact-checking their articles.
Thanks, I think you're right that I need to read it again. I have a personal issue with this and it leads to knee-jerk reactions. Thanks for that.
I ran crunchbang on an old Atom-processor netbook with a gig of RAM from 2009. It is amazing how fast it was compared to the stock XP.
Interesting. Did you have detailed specifications and requirements for each of those three components in advance of hiring the freelancers? Or was spec'ing out the architecture of the platform part of their brief? If the latter, then how did you ensure that the architecture they were developing was a good fit to the long-term development strategy for the platform, and how did you ensure coordination and cohesion between them?

These aren't rhetorical questions, by the way -- I'm genuinely curious and would eager to have a chat about this. My experience has very much been that it's only really possible to integrate freelancers into a development process and product that's either fairly conventional or fairly mature. But if you've got a different experience, then I'd be keen to hear about it and learn from it! Contact me at nathan@podaris.com if you feel like talking in more depth at some point.
> As the only “European” startup hub, Tel Aviv...

Indeed! Use of quotes in original piece says it all.
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The properties that you listed reminded me of the Nix package manager http://nixos.org/nix/ and NixOS that uses it. I came across it originally while looking into package managers that would allow rollbacks or at least make it easy for multiple installed versions of a package.
Actually in order to get a "Made for Windows RT" sticker on an ARM device, OEMs must enable "Secure Boot" and disallow changes. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/microsoft-to-lock-out-...
I always pronounce #! as 'shebang':

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_(Unix)
There's up and down voting for that, and probably HN's spam filtering matters too. Making comments expressly meant to derail the conversation isn't necessary or useful.
Not Having A Real Job
Anecdotal but some one I know who worked at one of the big 4 had a younger co worker who "worked him self to death" in the UK.
Compared to latin american currencies, it's a safe haven :)

I've seen the Old Peso, the New Peso, and the (Newest) Peso (which was an exchange rate of 1000 to one, to remove zeroes from the bills), and I'm only 32 years old.

Same for Brazil, they had the Cruzeiro, Cruzado and Real.

Argentina had several different Pesos (Peso Ley, Peso Fuerte, Peso Convertible) and the Austral.
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Underscore.js 101 _.filter and _.contains
I did some work with ASP.net MVC. Last time I touched it it was a pretty nice framework to use. Thanks for the feedback
so the real reason why prostitutes use linked in isn't to FIND new clients or to create networks of whores on linked in -- it's to verify that their clients aren't cops.

in a lot of places, prostitution is illegal, and clients and "service providers" alike are worried about the repercussions of getting caught. some are regular people who are trying to make money, or like their side alter ego, but don't particularly want their friends or family to find out.

getting busted is scary for both parties. in order to protect themselves, they resort to ID verifications of sorts and a variety of other practices to help them increase the odds that the person they're spending their time with is not an officer of the law.

a busy linked in profile, business cards, and a drivers license that all point to the same person is a pretty good sign that that person ACTUALLY has the job they claim and they're not a cop.

source: i love hookers.
You don't have to spend very _much_ money. I pay Fastmail $40 a year for 10GB ad-free IMAP+webmail (+2GB file storage that I never use, but I guess that's nice too), I find that very reasonable. It works great with K9-mail on Android (and any IMAP mail client I should think).

I have OwnCloud on my home server with a free SSL cert from StartSSL (you need a domain though if you want to use StartSSL, but that shouldn't cost you much). This gives me contacts and a calendar, which I sync to my Android phone (I also sync the owncloud calendar to my Emacs orgmode files over caldav, giving me two-way sync between Emacs and Android; it's also possible to sync carddav contacts into Emacs, but I haven't tried that yet).

OwnCloud also has a code editor with syntax highlighting, but it's no Google Docs killer yet (but then, I prefer writing TeX with Emacs anyway).

Once it's up and running, it's just as featureful as the Gmail+Google Contacts+Google Calendar combo. If you have android, you do need a Google account for downloading from the Play store, but 1) you can use a throwaway account for that 2) there's also f-droid and other alternative stores.

I switched to Gnus+Gwene for RSS feeds, but I wouldn't recommend that unless you really like Emacs. In any case, Google Reader is dead and new alternatives are showing up everywhere.

I use Firefox sync instead of Chromium. Apparantly owncloud can work as an FF sync server, but I haven't tried that yet.

DuckDuckGo fills most of my search needs better than Google ever did, though I do use its !scholar and !i keywords which redirect me back to Google's Scholar, Image searches.

It is possible to wean yourself off Google, and even third-party control of your data in general, but it takes a bit of effort. I find it rewarding though :)
You probably misunderstood me - this wasn't an anti-EU attack. The fruit law was just an example that a law can be made when it's necessary.
good thing that didn't happen in today's culture - I'm sure his competitors would have sold the chemicals along with a no-resale clause in the contract...
I agree 100%. I've started to clone the Fever API (a very strange beast...) so that you could use ReederApp - but I think the FeedBin API is much better so I will probably add that as well. Someone has also started a "standard" feed API format: https://github.com/redwallhp/SOFA - would be nice if some of the client apps would support this.
What a surprise: the only naked figures are a) women and b) cute.
'Are you sponsored by Google?' I think so. I've been accused of being an 'anti-google astroturfer' before. 'Gosh that's odd', I thought. Then I read the posts written by my accuser. Pro-google, down the line - echoing PR talking points. Normal people don't do this. I do think Google hires PR flacks to post here on HN.
I'm not sure why you would put all off you eggs in one basket. That is what I took away from your story.

Many times, these big companies are not the best in their offerings for a given service but rely on their brand to push adoption.
This reminds me a quote:

> Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Paying attention to detail and keep things simple, not just for design but coding as well.
That thread of unsourced speculation, you mean?
Aljazeera.com article a case for Betteridge's law of headlines?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
I've been using #! exclusively on my home laptops for over 2 years now. Here's what I like about it:

- It's a minimal Debian. I have a good idea of the installed packages on my system. Very few surprises.

- Openbox is great. I cannot ever imagine myself going back to GNOME/KDE/Unity/XFCE and all these "desktop environments".

- #! looks great. The theme, the icons, the fonts, ... Very good work is made for this. A special effort has been put on proper and pretty compositing.

- cb-welcome script is run the first time you login a non-liveCD session. It lets you configure your install nicely.

What I dislike:

There's only one thing I dislike about this distribution. It includes some questionable apps by default (like GIMP or Abiword).
This wouldn't be a problem, except that ever since the latest 2 releases, the size of the iso has risen above 700MB and won't fit on a CD anymore.

Who should try it:

Everybody can try it, but you should know what you're stepping into. I recommend it strongly for people who enjoy minimalism and control over shiny magic.
As far as skill level go, there's nothing inherently difficult about using #!, but I think it will be more appealing to people already familiar with Debian.

My rule of thumb is that if you know how to manage your sources.list file (and you understand the difference between running Sid or Stable+backports) then you're good to go.

Shameless plug: I have written a more extensive review of the first build of #! 11. You can find it here: http://www.tech-thoughts-blog.com/2012/05/first-builds-of-ne...
Keep in mind that the distro has had one year + to mature since.
This seems like a checklist for when to factor, not when to refactor; he appears to be describing massive mutant code that has never actually been split into manageable chunks.
The escorts definitely didn't miss the opportunity.
Romanian. Of the languages I've encountered, only English (and German?) appears to capitalise titles.
All the three points in the "wishlist" are real-world problems, something which academic conferences will shun straight-away. All work in areas like configuration management must be either a)Evolutionary work based off existing tools. This unfortunately doesn't qualify as good-enough research OR b)A radically new approach, which is almost useless unless a robust enough solution is developed, deployed, and tested. Researchers prefer multiple papers over perfecting the engineering of software tools.

Hence there is no incentive for academic systems researchers to focus on these (it's no fun having paper after paper shot down).
That just makes you sound as bad as capo.

We live in a world where weird fanboys exist for just about anything, including Google and Microsoft.
If we are writing programs to write to arbitrary memory, wouldn't it be easier to write them in C? :)

int main(int argc, char *argv) {
*((char *)addr_to_write) = val_to_write;
}

On a more serious note: this is a fun compiler bug, but I wouldn't call it a valid exploit. If you have the power to run your own binary on a system, then of course you can write to any memory the process has access to.
trying to lock out millions of Windows Phone users from Youtube by sending a C&D takedown on the app

Open browser → type youtube.com. How exactly are they "locked out"? Please stop throwing FUD; whether they should provide API access is a fair discussion, but let's not make stuff up.
Sure, he designed it, but I don't think those nice printed PCBs are "homemade". I'd be more impressed if it were through-hole construction. Still, it's pretty cool.
Beautiful website. Best of luck to you! How's support in the UK?
Tesla Motors’ Bid for Cash May Also Energize Critics
I don't think so. People posting overly-wordy comments is already a problem here, I assume because it makes the comment seem more "in depth". I think a minimum length would make that problem worse.

The redditification problem comes up every so often, but from what I've read in those threads I think it's being dealt with by other means, i.e. by tweaking the vote weighting.
Humans need a space program and space elevator
Thanks! :)
We use foursquare for all the places, so it should work everywhere. We had people testing it all over the world (brazil, russia, canada, UK, etc.).
Its probably already covered under "natural justice" setting up a better appeals process is far better than the EU eventually noticing and regulating you.

I have worked for heavily regulated companies and it sucks not even knowing that you will be allowed to launch a product you have spent years developing and to have that nice MR Murdoch get favored son treatment and be allowed to cross subsidise his products where you are not
looks promising, wishing you best luck
Agreed on wave. We wanted to use it for projects but there was always the 10% of the team that didn't have access.

That seemed like the perfect way not to introduce a product oriented toward collaboration.
You will make serious money if you'll release it as a Google Glass app ;)
The design is very clean, I love it !
What's the point of this post? It's a link to a forum discussion that's been gone over a million times, 10 years ago, let alone now.

Both python and PHP are very mature, backend languages for web development. This subject might have been debatable in 2003, but for heaven's sake it's 2013, the fact that this is on HN is beyond me. A better question would be something like "what is the future replacement for RoR/node in 10 years"
Worth noting that this exact feature was mentioned in Bram Moolenar's plans for 7.4

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/vim_announce/ZWWgK9aXQ...
Tel Aviv scores fairly high in the funding and support index but poor on the performance and trendsetter index. Kind of proves the point that $ isn't all it takes but sure helps you become visible.
What does that have to do with anything? Netscape invented Javascript. Oh look another random point that seems to provide nothing to the conversation.

I think it's pretty well aware Microsoft (or should I say a select few working on IE at Microsoft) invented "AJAX"
Taiwan Begins Military Drills Near Philippines
I am struggling to find budget statistics that go back to earlier than 2010, but since that time the budget has been flat at $11.8 billion (1.5 billion less than Obama requested), and thanks to the sequester they are experiencing a $600 million cut this year. At the same time, they have been required to take on new duties and are struggling to maintain the employment they need. Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/04/25/us-usa-tax-irs-hea... and http://www.irs.gov/pub/newsroom/budget-in-brief-fy2013.pdf

What's absurd is that estimates of ROI on IRS funding range from 7:1 to 10:1. So it's really not about the budget. I'll leave it as an exercise for the reader to speculate on what's really behind the underfunding of the IRS.
It sounds like you want an employee / contractor who will act like an owner. If you want this level of commitment from someone very good, you usually have to give them part of your company. And I don't mean just options and profit sharing; I mean partners or shareholders.

Even then it is difficult, because you already have invested years in this, so obviously anyone you bring on will be a minority stakeholder. As a minority holder, they will have no real say-so in the business (you can always override them in a disagreement), they have liability they wouldn't have as a contractor / employee, and there probably will not be any profit to share for a long time. And even when there is profit, you get to decide what to do with it - not them. And you get the added burden of not screwing over your new minority holder, at least not too much.

Try putting yourself in their shoes: let's say a programmer has invested 3 years in writing a cool new program and has developed "cutting-edge IP". But they have no marketing or business experience. You do. What would you want from this guy to dedicate 3 years of your life to him and his company in a "critical role", and "take genuine ownership" for developing his business? (The quotes are not there to be snippy, but to use your own words to describe what you are looking for.)
Doubtful you can get an FPGA of that class in a thru-hole package. The dude was smart to shop out the PCB instead of spending weeks trying screen and drill his own.
Interesting problem to solve. It certainly exists. Look at the life/business/sales coaching industry. There are almost as many chiefs as there are Indians.

I think it comes down to "buyer beware" and a little common sense. If someone is going to give you advice, it should be from their own personal experience and not theory or hearsay.
I am speculating that the reason LinkedIn did it, is to get distanced from legal problems, not only in relation to prostitution laws (for example, Brazil says prostitution is allowed, but facilitating prostitution is not... LinkedIn was a facilitator? Also, several other countries have equally, or even more confusing laws on the subject), but also to law enforcement efforts against sex slavery and human trafficking.

I guess LinkedIn don't want the ball thrown on their court and be responsible for checking who is a real prostitute and who is a slave or a scammer.
I wish that the government tailor suits the laws for my needs... I'm not talking about the right to use something. I'm talking about right to receive the support when you're paying for a service / product (and I'm not counting FAQ as support).
The title of the article raises a good question, though: what is the rationale for clamping down on this?

Have they had a real problem, or is it merely moralistic?
So there are people who are paid by the government to have sex with hookers and then arrest them?
Uh, no. None of them existed before Google. What did exist were two pieces of infrastructure (Webkit and the Linux kernel), and Google could've used both without open-sourcing the rest of the application, since the licenses allow it:

- Webkit is LGPL/BSD, so it can be linked to proprietary code without forcing its redistribution.

- The Linux kernel is GPL, but the license has never applied to userspace code, and everything "above" is either written by Google or non-copyleft open source code.

I think it's only reasonably for Google to contribute some after getting so much from open source projects, but that doesn't mean they didn't have the legal choice to do otherwise.
It's a lazy version of Man on the Street, which news used to do a lot. The difference being 1) laziness and 2) the ability to cherry pick to a much greater extent.
ok, a try with another one:
"42, but since that * mrspeaker got hn to allow only long comments, i must do some trolling here to match minimum character restriction"

if i want to make a two char comment or even a 2000 character comment, pls let me decide!
I quit using terms like "real job" and "real world" a long time ago (back when I was working as a deckhand on a ship). I don't like that it implies that you are doing something less- that other people are more legitimate because they are on the beaten path. Now I use the term "regular job" and "regular world". On another note, some people thrive in the solo-work arrangement. My creativity has soared since I quit having senseless meetings, or bureaucratic red tape to get through. Good that you recognized that you don't naturally build social networks- As my business has grown it forced me out to meet so many people that now I have reserved entire days to be back in my private office working alone- hoping I can tap into the creativity that comes from solitude.