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Ubuntu Linux Community: Canonical Vows to Maintain Focus
I see. Are you absolutely sure? Did you do anything special?

The only hack that I know is setting the server to 127.0.0.1 in the people hub so that it doesn't sync. I have seen multiple official statements from MS that this is not supported and the syncing is mandatory.

Could you provide a link or guide on how to disable sync'ing in MS Office and for the contacts? Thanks.
I'm not sure how, but that was not the intention. It means exactly what it says. I disapprove of the line of reasoning, that's what the comparison was about, not his person. It reminded me of something.
Still, eating something in between is important to avoid wild sugar peaks and helps improving cognition performance if your job is intellectual.

I am not sure if this is true. I think in people without diabetes, insulin does it's job and regulates your blood sugar pretty well during a fast and I think cognition is better when a large amount of your body's resources are not being used to digest food.
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I like how reactionary that is, much like when people expected Instagram to suddenly gain pokes and sidebar ads when Facebook bought them. It may as well say 'WE DON'T LIKE CHANGE'.
So you're saying that in keeping with "gender stereotypes" men should be inconsiderate, sexist assholes and women should just shut up and deal with it ?

And for the record trying to equate a fashion/lifestyle magazine with the totality of the female gender is completely and utterly stupid.
If only working with multiple files was easier... what are you guys using these days ?

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Also, one thing that shows how Vim is oriented towards opening and closing it all time is that preventing acidental quitting is quite hard to achieve (only with hacks..)
> Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up

That line is a winner. Hahaha. It's a good thing though that they recognize the general sentiment that they do tend to screw up the products they acquire.

Also, TechCrunch reports that the price is $1.1B http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/20/its-official-yahoo-is-buyin...
Actually we had the same thing happening with my son - when he was about 3 he would run up to my brother as soon as he saw him, borrow his iphone, play games for as long as he could and ignore everything else around him. When he had to return the iPhone he would not be happy...

So for his 3rd birthday we bought him an iPod touch!

It sounds kind of crazy doesn't it - electronic devices prompting bad behaviour, so we go out and buy him one of his own!

However we thought really long and hard about what to do. We felt that throughout his life he will be presented with an endless parade of addictive electronic amusements. An important life skill would be is ignore them and learn to focus on other activities that are less immediately engaging but have a bigger long term reward. We figured that since it was already becoming an issue the time to start teaching this was now.

We also felt that with his own device we could better control the programs installed on it and when he can play it.

It turned out to be a great purchase! We worked hard to teach my son to play only for limited times and to have balance in the activities he pursues - some playing outside, some time on the iPod touch, some time with legos. We were also able to install some great educational programs. The final kicker was when age 3 and a half he started to learn how to spell and type, so he could search for "lego", "cars" and "aeroplanes" on youtube!

All up buying him a device of his own (and putting in some rules and parenting time around it) was a great decision.
A way to execute set-based queries is a major point you bring up here. It's also the most baffling. When tens of filesystems with sophisticated features completely omit what is one of the most common features used by database users, presumably it's not because filesystem designers are not capable of implementing it but of some more mundane reason.

> Not for stuff that's in the DB's page cache.

The database has to log what was written. It does use syscalls to write the write-ahead log. Agreed it can save read syscalls. Then again one process sending a query to another process to read something generates even more syscalls than having everything (app+db) all in the same process.

You are right about 2. I'm playing devils advocate here jumping around assumptions. I could ask why you assume an OS will use a page per file, you can say Linux does this, I can say why is your OS so heavy and point to Exokernel, you can say that's side-stepping the issue. I could say user-space filesystem having its own page cache; in the end we are talking about the same thing. In the end: the less layers the better.

When I look at the kernel I see something like the Berlin wall. A barrier that was there since you were born and which you never asked for. A kernel being hard to hack and monolithic is bound to push developers away, but it won't stop developers from building what they want in the end.
Control L works on Mac too.
Climate slowdown means extreme rates of warming 'not as likely'
Buying product from a company doesn't allow you to participate in its financial success.
Are there really rules against him distributing information to the outside world via friends or his lawyer

I think you may have misread:

The penitentiary also threatened to (list of actions) if he tries to communicate with the outside world via Internet again.

They don't object to him communicating with friends or his lawyer; they don't want him active online.

What is the point of such rules? For some stupid edge-case of suppressing mafia bosses from operating from prison?

That's what comes to my mind as well. Weev isn't a mafia boss, but he is a black hat hacker, and he is (was?) a part of Goatse Security. The Internet is his medium. If you throw him in prison and grant him free access to the Internet, have you really done anything? It's actually kind of an interesting conundrum- a thief is removed from the streets to stop him from thieving. Here we have a hacker we have tried to put into a system meant for a thief, when maybe the better analogue would be to remove him from his streets, i.e. the Interenet, instead of putting him in prison to remove him from the street.

House arrest and monitored or limited access to the Internet has always seemed like one of the better options the penitentiary system has tried for "Internet criminals".
U.S. Cyber Command Head General Alexander To Keynote Black Hat USA 2013
I do like how this article from yahoo finance has this heading and subheading:

Yahoo! to Acquire Tumblr
Promises not to screw it up

Fair enough. That probably is most people's biggest concern and expectation of what Yahoo will do.
http://libertyfight.com/2013/New_York_City_Crime_stats_based...

Statistics are what you make them, considering that blacks are more likely to victims of violence to other blacks, when they are not the majority, how can the outcome of incarceration rates be remedied?
The "I'm sorry" at the end reads as if to imply downandout is (was) an abused kid.
I don't think Richards should be part of that list of examples. The others named in the article were assaulted and generally treated very badly. So was Richards, eventually, but her original stunt combined with her hypocritical actions beforehand should disqualify her from serving as an example for sexism at tech events. Don't get me wrong, the threats against her after the stunt are just criminal, but they're not exactly perpetrated by brogrammers at trade shows.

That said, the article is a poignant reminder that something is amiss in the software community - as well as in our society at large but I always thought we were better than that. Like most issues, the reasons for this seem to be complex and varied. Bringing more female developers into the mix is only one measure. Clearly, the darker problem is that there are evidently a lot of men out there who like to engage in that kind of behavior. Showing them that this is not OK only covers part of the issue, the scarier part is that apparently considering women to be less-than-human is a prevalent and deep-running attitude.

As an aside, the term brogrammer is probably misapplied here. I always saw brogrammers as beefy, sun-tanned, macho douchebag coders who spit out some front-end code before heading off to the beach. Sure, there's probably some overlap between them and people who commit sexual assaults, but I don't think it's a good descriptor for sexist assholes/predators in general.
Does he need a licence if the entire map is built programmatically and no TFL 'resource' (as in artwork) has been used directly?
Tumblr seemed to do a very poor job of asking customers for money, and it's a lesson that everyone can take away. At the very least provide users with some money to spend with an easy incentive to spend it, and make the transaction very easy and quick.
I wonder how many of us are completely fluent in Vim and Emacs and still use ST2/3?
Don't get it why people are bitchin' about this so much. From what i understand Tumblr was running out of money so there was no other way out for them and their users.

So we have option:
a) cry about it online all day, make petitions ... and the whole system closes in a couple of months and you end up with nothing
OR
b) yahoo buys it and the site lives on
'Promises not to screw it up'. I think Yahoo are keenly aware people are expecting them to fail badly at this, and want to try head it off at the pass.

So Yahoo now has Mayer running the ship, and Karp involved ostensibly with Tumblr but I'd wager he'd have some input with the direction of Yahoo. He comes across as being a smart, focused guy in profiles, so he might have some bearing on where Yahoo is going.
The government gives you jobs at 2EUR a day for 100 days, this is available to everyone, Your claim that a quarter of India lives on less than 10EUR a month is wrong
My experience must differ from yours, but metrosexual and hippie are useful superficial descriptors for many people I encounter. I know many people who would self-identify as either. When I was completing college I also knew several people who would gladly self-identify as brogrammers. The terms do not describe freak phenomena that we can sweep under the carpet.

To me, brogrammer mostly can be reduced to spending too much attention on vanity and not enough on the well-being of others. There are many synonymous terms, but this one is valuable for its succinctness.
I wish the article didn't use the term brogrammers. No one actually considers himself a brogrammmer so it makes it easy to dismiss any responsibility. Every make me a sandwich joke, everytime someone asks "was she hot?" after an interview, every resume tossed in the trash because the candidate was a member of Women in Computer Science (yes someone admitted to that in a comment on hn) enables sexism to flourish. The "innocent" jokes people refuse to take responsibility for enable the more serious trangressers.

Then when visible evidence of how hostile the community can be shows up such as a thousand terrible comments on a blog it's discounted as 4chan, or "trolls". As though a bunch of 14 year olds care about a tech conference implementing a sexual harassment policy.
The investigation was fine. Its everything else that aren't. I can't see how you can support the claim that the length they did to arrests anakata was reasonable.

The use of counter terrorists personal and facilities. Three months in solitary confinement. Lies given to the defendant mother and the denying of her request for information regarding the whereabouts of her son. The lies to media about why he was extradited. The denying of lawyer. And last, the restriction to talk to his family members (and lawyer) for several days/weeks.

Had this been a non-political matter, then it would had been a regular case with regular results. It wouldn't been a blimp on the HN radar. Sadly, because of how it was handled, its now a mess.
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Tumblr will be joining Yahoo
Ubuntu and the Missing Community Link
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The diplomatic solution would be to have a doctrine of cyber warfare drafted by the U.N. that explicitly states when a cyber warfare attack is an act of war. There would also have to be guidelines of evidence that a state was sponsoring or had knowledge of but failed to control these acts. Unless and until such a resolution is adopted there's very little we can do other than incorporate cyber warfare defense as a component of our overall national defense.
Your login form posts to HTTPS, but you blew it when you loaded it over HTTP
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Not listed, but as a long time emacs user I have been (slowly) trying to make the switch to Adobe Brackets
Well I'm sure it's not hindering gender stereotypes when Alissa Quart chooses a publication which treats women as objections for fashion, who are desperately insecure about how they keep their man, and what secrets are kept.

I find it funny how she forgets that some of the criticisms of Adria Richards came from women, she phrases it as if the whole negative actions are the sole property of men. Myself I don't find tweeting someone else's conversation, with their photos and identities easily determinable appropriate. Gender and Sex have nothing to do with that.
This seems like as good a place as any to ask for some parenting advice - I've got a 5 year old. Everybody in his school has iPads. I've noticed a few kids have minecraft, but I've resisted installing it on his iPad because from the sounds of it, mincraft is a diabolically addictive game :-)

However the story and this thread is having me re-think my opinions.

So what age should I set him up with mincraft? Is it suitable for 5 year olds?
There's some sort of NFC detection of the current cover and apparently you can hack some settings based on which cover you're currently using. See http://www.jolla.com and scroll down.
If you're looking to sell apps, both FF and Jolla are a bad bet I believe. If you're looking for a mobile computer like the N900 (or to a lesser extent the N9) was, then I don't think FF really qualifies...
Implementation of +,-,*,/ with bitwise operator
I was kind of surprised that this wrapped up without including Cassandra. Excellent series regardless.
I won't doubt you, but HEY if you could send a link, I could use a VPS that has that kinda of pipeline for that price :)
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Why do this? Why have a page with nothing on but an embedded youtube video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0...

Somebody please explain to me what benefit this site gets from this?
What happened to that alleged Flickr press event today? Is that a thing that's going to happen?
| Humans are likely to ignore a problem that
| doesn't affect anyone they know or identify
| with.

That's what I was trying to hit on with 'one of us.' That we (the HN crowd) care mostly because he's part of the 'techno elite' so to speak. Less so because he's white/middle-class. It just happens that the 'techno elite' is (seemingly) disproportionately white (not sure about middle-class). It also doesn't hurt that we see him as a bit of a martyr because he got a prison sentence that we don't feel fit the crime (and therefore feel that he's drawn the ire of 'the man' so to speak).
No, but the topic was network testing more than anything realistic. I missed the point, essentially. YouTube does have some 4K video though, which probably does hit that sort of bitrate.
Tumblr+Yahoo!
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Compare this with that both Russia and China now support some of the world's worst dictators (e.g. Syria, closing rapidly on 100,000 dead) -- without any real outcry. This seems like details (except economically).
He's a citizen and therefore entitled to respect from his government servants. Everyone else can tell him to piss off.
Hope they'll keep promises
> What you call "solitary confinement" is standard procedure before a trial. This is not considered torture by either the UN or Amnesty International.

That entirely depends on how long that situation lasts. Whether it's a few days or a few months.
You misspelled "emacs".
First ever acquisition announced by animated gif :) https://twitter.com/marissamayer/status/336453536298717184
Ironically some of the worst discrimination against women in particular pregnant ones is at womens mags.
I can't imagine a majority of facebook users making decisions. ..that sounds dangerous.
Python's methods on unicode strings also apply this logic. E.g.:

>>> u'١٣٦٨'.isdigit()
True

>>> int(u'١٣٦٨')
1368

I suppose this could be potentially abused if you are storing and displayeing what is supposed to used as a number as unicode text, but later convert it to a number. E.g. an online shop where you are asked whether you want to pay '5꯸' for some item which looks like 5 plus some weird square, but is really int(u'5꯸') => 58 -- http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/abf8/index.htm
Marissa Mayer's blog post about Yahoo! having acquired Tumblr leads with the "Keep Calm and Carry On" propaganda image that the British government generated during the war but never used because it was only meant to be rolled out as a very last resort in the emergency situation that Nazis had occupied England.
It's also like the common advice that you should watch carefully how your date interacts with the waitstaff. It's too bad Americans can understand the one but not the other.
After reading i felt like their main selling point was the customisable shells, which indeed is a nice feature, but nothing that would make people switch in my opinion.

Is this a special video just focused on the shell or is this really what their marketing wants to display?
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Dairy industry petitions FDA to approve aspartame as additive to milk
Its not really a claim Im just quoting wikipedia
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I don't work for Yahoo, but I must say I would seriously consider working there now with Marissa Mayer at the helm.

Mayer appears to be doing everything she can to drag Yahoo back to being relevant, and to me that sounds like an interesting (and potentially rewarding) challenge.

I just hope she is looking for innovation from within as well as from acquisitions.
:bn [buffer next]
:bp [buffer previous]

:bn is mapped to backslash on my installation.

:b <tab> for a list of all open files where you can pick the one you want to switch to. Mapped to ",." on my machine.

vim might have its problems. But buffer switching isn't one, for me.
It only takes one counterexample to nullify a hypothesis. That is the epitome of science.

The t-test isn't science in the strictest sense. It's a statistical method which informs us of probabilities and distributions.

If I find that eating fruit makes me fatter while a study concludes that it makes people skinnier, do I believe my own experience or the study?
The documentation says \d should match if you use /u on the regex
Signed off in true tumblr form:

Fuck yeah,
David
It’s Official: Yahoo Is Buying Tumblr For $1.1B
“We promise not to screw it up.”
The two companies will also work together to create advertising opportunities that are seamless and enhance the user experience.

A closer look:

"to create advertising opportunities...that enhance the user experience."

Yahoo, Seriously?
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Something about this doesn't sit well with me. I'm not certain what it is, but here's my attempt to explain.

You say that the inspiration comes from other sponsored bloggers, but there's a difference between what you are asking and what they are asking. John Gruber and Marco Arment have both created useful products. They proved that if they have the freedom to manage their own time, then they will build things that other people want to use. I flipped through many of your blog posts and Tweets trying to get a feel for the type of work you do. I couldn't find anything of value.

All I found were number of pop culture references and one paragraph summaries of tiny projects that you gave up on when the time came to implement. For example, Maelstrom was something that was related to Twitter streams. If I'm reading the dates correctly, you appear to have started work on the 18th and then quit the following day, stating burnout after a few hours of programming. Now its the 20th, and you are here asking for money. That is not the type of work ethic that gives me any confidence in your ability to produce valuable content in the future.

@Prawn compared this to the million dollar homepage. However, I think there's a big disconnect between the two. That homepage was always explained as an advertising experiment. You are asking for money in the hopes that a few hundred dollars will be the missing key to producing anything of value.

It feels smarmy to me (someone who works a 9-5 and still manages to slowly grow his own company in his free time) to see someone who built nothing of value ask for a hand out. Its actually worse than building nothing. There is evidence that you cannot focus on a project for more than a weekend.

In all honesty, if your Twitter account hadn't been created back in September, I would assume this is another elaborate test to see how social networks can be gamed.

If that all came across as overtly negative, then good. I think that we could all use more positive comments when they are warranted, but I cannot find anything about this that isn't slimy.

To be fair, if anyone cares to dig through my own history, it's easy to find that I actually did the same thing at one point in my life. The difference is that I was 15 at the time.
A+ for effort. But (and this sounds harsh I know) I fail to see any innovation here.

Codewise it's cute, but functionally wouldn't a canvas element make more sense than a couple of hundred list elements?
This story isn't happening in the US, so it's not :) The EU has its own silly laws to repeatedly slip over! :)
Really? Because to me it sounded like he was describing the type of thinking, not making a statement about the person engaged in that thinking -- I don't even know which person it is supposed to be an ad-homienem attack on.
People en-mass are often short-sighted, self destructive, and like to feel like victims. I'm sure they would have been perfectly happy with option A.
It's especially misleading because "services" like Amazon RDS and the provisioning systems offered by the big IAAS providers are listed and the self-hosted (+- open source) alternatives don't get mentioned.
"I want to be an investor - a very small one - in the services I use. I don't want my attention to be sold to the highest bidder on the stock market."

The second sentence explains why allowing investors described in the first one is a bad idea for a startup. Investors have rights, and investor relations is time consuming. It is better if the interests of investors align with those of the business owners, e.g. making a large amount of money. Otherwise, there is real risk of being dragged down by lawsuits.
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The 'Submit Your Startup' form doesn't validate because there's no way to say no to the 'Is this a cloud service intended for developers?' field (because it's a checkbox rather than radio buttons).
http://xkcd.com/435/

5 digits accuracy ... that's essentially being entirely wrong :).

(and for various new physics theories I'd argue that 5 digits accuracy is not actually there, and there's the matter of the holes in the theories, like gravity)
- The US might not like these because then they can't send malware into Iran to disrupt their nuclear program.

- Tracing the 'real' source of an attack can be difficult. E.g. what if it's only being routed through China?

- This would only encourage a more 'locked down' Internet. Reducing the current open-ness of the Internet, and putting up strict national boundaries in order to make it easier to control/find attacks leaving your country so that they don't trigger a war.