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The so called leaders of the original movement (against the raise in the bus fares) were on an interview today and negated that the protests are because "Brazilians had enough" though. [1] They said that even though all the people are commenting on their Facebook profile for days that it's not about the bus fares anymore.

The people on the protests are already being manipulated by the original movement, by left wing and right wing. Even the mass media and Internet celebrities are capitalizing on it, each claiming the protests to be whatever they feel like. The swing on the public opinion between last monday and today is so severe that it is scary, a clear study in group dynamics.

Without an objective, this is more like a massive flashmob than a real movement. It's also a catastrophe waiting to occur, all it takes is one radical leadership to pop up.

I hope the people get more critic or this won't achieve anything meaningful, will just fulfill the ego of the people who went to the protests to have an Instagram pic of it on their profile.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXxQ6ntyM-U&feature=c4-overvi...
That assumes people are smart and informed. What happens if someone less informed than you gets in a bad situation with the police? Should they be punished for it?
No harm meant but your post just sounds like a coping mechanism.
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As a Drupal dev, I couldn't recommend any CMS if we go by that standard. None of them are secure forever. A security policy is what makes a CMS trustworthy, as there will always be holes.

As a guy who dislikes it (and doesn't know all that much about it), I still find Rails' security policy to be efficient and reasonable.
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I've never been an Apple employee, but read enough about their sales tactics. Probing <> Underselling.

If you know you want to buy a MacBook Pro, they'll be glad to take your money. But if you demonstrate that you're not sure about which model is more appropriate for you, or you seemed uncertain about the differences between a MBP and a MBA, that's when the "[P]robing" and the "[P]resent a Solution" make sense.

It's a lot better to have a happy customer today (even if for a lower ticket price), than an undecided and confused customer for the rest of the week/month. (Or, worse, with buyer's remorse for years).

That's the opposite approach of most other retail shops. The sales person usually pushes for the most expensive item first, usually motivated by the direct commissions model. Good for him/her and for the store, but not always in the best interest of the customer.
In the courtroom you have legal counsel, and if your lawyer doesn't help you to the best of their abilities they can be disbarred.
I've been downsold on MacBooks as well. I certainly appreciate that they try to get a great idea of what your needs are and match you to that.
If a salesperson can make you feel buyer's remorse before you even purchase the item, then perhaps you were doubtful that you wanted/needed the item to begin with.

That said: You don't have to do what the salesperson suggests. Do your research and tell them politely, "Thank you for your advice, but I'm going to go with my first choice."
It definitely varies, with glue holding some products together, while others are extremely elegant inside and easy to upgrade.
Yikes....mystery meat buttons.
What does this have to do with Hacker News? From the guidelines:

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Don't worry, you are not that interesting.
LLVM and Clang’s documentation has been migrated to the Sphinx documentation generation system which uses easy-to-write reStructuredText.

good!
Well, I've heard and seen good things about yoleorss and Feedly , in combination with http://www.feedsapi.org , you should be good to go
Off-topic, but I'm curious about why you use VMWare instead of VirtualBox.
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At the end of the day, Apple's goal isn't to get rich off the App Store. It's to do what they can with the App Store to continue driving sales of iPhones and iPads. At the moment, what they believe is that by promoting apps (via these lists) that promote and show off the iPhone/iPads in the best light is the way to do it.
How in the world "Would the shells from his shotgun match the shells found at the murder scene?" is "the government is not actually forcing him to be a witness against himself"?

And why police even allowed to ask questions like this when person is not even a suspect?
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Imagine looking at the current IOS 7 interface in the dark. Blindingly bright.
I find it interesting that Synopsys would attempt to compete directly with Xilinx's System Generator product. The latter is to my knowledge completely endorsed and supported by The Mathworks. Something to investigate ...
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Paywall busted: http://const.it/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014241278...
This is not language I'd normally use here. But virtualwhy's advocacy of such a fatalistic viewpoint, and characterization of a parent's death as a "gift", touched a nerve.

Fuck fatalism, fuck acceptance of the inevitable. I'm an agnostic, I don't think there's anything else beyond this life, and having it ripped away that suddenly and unexpectedly is a raw deal, not a gift. I don't know if it'd be preferable to a long, agonizing death; I haven't experienced one of those in my family. Maybe you do end up being fatalistic if you have to live through one of those. I dunno.

It's been almost thirty years. I'm largely over it.
I like most of your ideas. Agreed 100% on the icons. You lost me on the reminders screen though, yours looks 100x's worse to my eyes.
As somebody who's really feeling the squeeze now from skimping on RAM / SSD from my MBA purchase in 2011, I'm tempted to say he should have stuck with his first instinct. You can't upgrade the damn thing later, so do it right the first time!
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Meh, still looks like it took less than an hour to create each of those icons.
I'd be curious to see some math on this. The top ranking is probably following a power law, such as the most cited papers etc. etc. Now, what other weighting algorithm would you suggest? how to find the most interesting nodes? did someone ever published a proper study? What clustering will be predicted?
So, say hypothetically I wanted to check a hypothetical game console's use of SSL to make sure it didn't use RC4. How would I go about it?
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Scripting should be considered a basic form of digital literacy along with learning enough Photoshop to know what can be faked and understanding why Wikipedia can only be trusted so far.

The particular scripting language doesn't matter that much but I'd say JavaScript is the most ubiquitous and accessible. The main concepts people need to learn are: 1) Decomposing a problem into steps and conditions. 2) iterating through and transforming text and numbers and 3) responding to user events.

All of these concepts are useful to "average" people wanting to take control of their data or understand how their applications work.
I'd say you are missing something :)

I'm in the process of implementing a "headline mode", as mentioned here and elsewhere that will bring that sort of two column functionality for those who like it.

Also regarding the shortcuts, you're using Firefox? I noted in the blog and through my notification system that users using firefox will have issues with shortcuts until I squash whatever bug is causing the problem.
Design wise, a $100 FPGA board with a bunch of peripherals won't actually be able to run many of them at once.

I have however designed a ~ $150 or so board (for prototyping) that has 10 bidirectional serial ports, a fast USB 2.0 port, and 20-30 general IO on 2mm headers, and runs on either a high or low precision 27MHz clock.

The rev 2 one also has an ethernet port, a TiWi module, and a RAM chip, and a better/cheaper clock, but those features add on a bunch of cost. Connecting the RAM makes for a much more expensive pcb.
Meh. It doesn't seem like an obvious win to me. Especially the notepad.
What worries me most are two things:

1. as was pointed out on an HN top story a week ago, if the surveillance is accepted by the public, then the public will accept regulations prohibiting use of software to avoid surveillance (i.e., most tools useful to software developers). I'm not really looking forward to the day when downloading crypto software requires me to pay certification fees and have an ID verifying that I'm a licensed software engineer.

2. I can't wait for the day when we can type with our brains (and no hands). Maybe we do that with pupil tracking software or facial cues... or maybe via direct brainwave input. Some products like this already exist, but they're in their infancy. One day though, when we all have bluetooth head masks and carpal tunnel is a thing of the past, I don't want every thought I have tracked by guys at an NSA lab... and I doubt the government wants that either, but it's going to be hard to not have them get that data.

... and I guess the third problem is just basically the death of liberty. But that's a harder issues to argue about, amazingly, when people are worried about terrorism.
to me it was about the lame state journalism is today (for some time)

Instead of camping in congress to try to get some word from the politicians taking early flights home instead of voting on this, they are home, masturbating between forum searches trying to be the first ones to came up with the most page view generating dirty detail.
Students changed grades by tampering with professors' keyboards
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That's not a dumb question at all. The answer is simple: by cramming for logic in between registers. Since you (or at least the tools) are in complete control of the routing, you can place as much logic as you would like between registers, thus accomplishing everything in one clock cycle. The trade-off, however, is that every level of logic adds delay to the path and you can't clock your registers any faster than the sum of all the delays allows (with some exceptions).

This simple diagram sort of demonstrates the concept:

http://m.eet.com/media/1176731/sync-vs-async-01.gif
I think there's a secondary issue that should be at play in this case (I haven't read the opinion, so they might have addressed this). Independent of the 5th amendment, prosecutors are generally not allowed to introduce prejudicial evidence, or evidence that would exploit the irrationality of humans more that provide actual evidence. It feels like this type of body language analysis would qualify. Perhaps if there was someone with training in body language, and he could cite research generally accepted by the scientific community, that his method of analysis produces reliable results, then this may be admissible.

Of course, they should also maintain a recording of the interview so the defense can use it, and to mitigate the potential for human failures. The cost of this seems negligible, so the only reason I can see them not doing this is if they don't want the full account of what happened precisely to be shown.
Lion (fixed in 10.8 AFAIK) has a bad habit of preferring to page to the disk instead of freeing up RAM that is being used for caching.

I was able to remedy this by using the terminal command "purge" occasionally, and also disabling the dynamic pager[1]

[1]http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-de...
Apologies, I missed your original point.

What jurisdiction do you live in? I ask because in the UK, individuals are protected by the Data Protection Act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998

On the wikipedia page, on principal #7:
Appropriate technical and organisational measures shall be taken against unauthorised or unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data.

Many UK citizens would consider the NSA's actions of snooping around our personal data as a breach of this act. Unless of course we added them as friends on our facebook page. Last time I checked, I didn't.

The other principals of the act include the upload of personal information, that it may only be used for the purposes intended. When I upload details on my facebook, I'm not intending its purpose to fulfill matters relating to US security.
I can't speak for the OP, but my office chose VMWare over VirtualBox after finding VMWare to be about 3x faster running the unit tests for our main code repository, which are both I/O and CPU intensive.
This is rather interesting. Have you thought about the conflict of interest between Google Glass and casinos? Very soon you won't need to count cards anymore; you can just walk in with your glasses on and OpenCV recognition.

Heck, you may not even need OpenCV. Just livestream, and let somebody far away tell you the probabilities..

Very soon they'll be banning Google Glasses from Las Vegas. Or any glasses, for that matter.

EDIT: ok, seems I'm the last person on earth to arrive in this conclusion: http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/06/06/casinos-ban-gamblers-... We'll have to wait till Google Contact Lenses.
Limited time and a leaning towards mobile/casual has led to very simplistic intros to games.

The best games are simple to play, hard to master.

Back in the day games like Zelda or Metal Gear on the NES were very hard without a Nintendo Power Mag and maps (they even used to have a Nintendo hotline for players stuck). Mega-man is freaking hard, pixel level mess ups. I played Mega man 9 with throwback sprite single buffer flicker and difficulty, it wasn't as fun.

Plus all this was pre-internet and pre-mobile with much less entertainment vying for our attention. Games should be fun, usually that means simple to get started, but deeper and harder to master still needs to be there.

I have always thought the mobile appstore type gaming handheld market we have now is closer to the experimentation of the arcades and back then it was all in-app purchasing only tied heavily to progression (via quarters/tokens). Now it is to deepen the experience and customize it for the most part. Customization was very minimal then. I really think this is the best age to be a game developer and game player. The console markets stopped many great game devs from entering and helping to propel that market, mobile and web gaming has no such limitation to their benefit.
In practice it's no brighter than iOS 6.
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I got a 1TB WD passport drive to pair with my 128 MBP after a POS Lacie from a few years ago failed on me and am very happy with it. It's tiny!

http://www.amazon.com/Passport-Portable-External-Drive-Stora...
At least there at thousands of people out there, and the government can see they won't have it forever. I guess that's the main point of it. It doesn't matter if the protests started for a reason and turned into something else. People are fed up, period. They are going out there to express their contempt for one of the world's most abusive and corrupt governments.

Some are saying they are going to invade the National Congress. I really hope they do.
I've been using it regularly and I think it's ready. I used it some time ago when even basic commands would fail with cryptic error messages, but over the last couple of months, the version that came with Xcode has improved a lot. I find that it can evaluate more C++ expressions that gdb can now and I think the command structure feels more regular. Heartily recommended.
A lot of older games abused "cheap" ways to make the game more difficult (though still sometimes happens today, but not as often). Games of today, in some cases I think have been watered down for the sake of letting a more casual game player beat them before getting overly frustrated. However, not all games are like that and some of the games I've played in recent years are as hard as they come if you're upping the difficulty. If you're playing on easy/normal, then that's the issue :)

Just some things I recall from really bad games in the 90s and early 00s:

-Only having one or a few lives for the entire game

-No saves/continues (usually combined with the above)

-Ridiculously short timers for getting through an area

-No health meter (one hit and you're dead)

-Having to go back through areas of the game you already beat to do some inane mission that's slightly different and feels like it was added to pad the difficulty/play time

-Spawning for the sake of having more fodder thrown at you (or spawning in ridiculous areas like the ledge you're about to jump to and the enemy was not there before jumping). I still hate spawning to this day in most cases. If you just left an area and destroyed everything in sight, it should not be totally rebuilt as soon as you turn around.

-Unfairly slanting difficulty towards enemies (like bullets that travel through objects, while yours do not)

-Dying and having to restart a huge level all the way from the beginning

-Poor clipping so your weapon passes through enemies unscathed or you get hit by an enemy when you shouldn't have. Also clipping that results in you missing a platform when you clearly didn't.

-Poor controls (still a problem now, but nowhere as bad as it was)

My list is nowhere complete though and I'm sure others have plenty of annoyances to amend it with.
What Is Strategy?
Buying what you need today and no more

+

Upgrade unfriendly hardware

=

Faster obsolescence cycle.

Apple isn't doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They're doing it because it will make you buy their products more often. It's a smart way to do business.
Well, they do produce value. Ford couldn't possibly service every municipality in the country and thus relies on dealers. So, the dealers take the risk and do the market research, but Ford is always able to undercut them on price. But Ford probably still can't service all these locations, so they'll only undercut dealers in the most profitable centers and kick dealers out to pick up scraps. Understandably, many won't bother, and so now purchasing a vehicle becomes much harder. Since most dealerships now are full service centers and they have a monopoly on the diagnostic equipment necessary for servicing modern vehicles in some jurisdictions, this also means servicing a vehicle becomes much harder.
Arguing why Apple should incentivize higher priced software is a common but mistaken refrain amongst developers.

Apps are complements to the iPhone and iPad. Spolsky has a great post about the competition between complements here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html

Basically, the less apps cost, the more iPhones Apple will sell. It makes the entire ecosystem more attractive to consumers because they know there's 100's of thousands of apps they can buy for < $5.

Imagine how much less your mom would want an iPhone if she scrolls through the App Store and finds mostly stuff that's $20 or $30. The platform becomes too expensive for casual users, who are 95%+ of iOS customers.
I've used both on my various Macs, and I find that VMware Fusion generally seems to perform better. Parallels Desktop seems to have better virtualized 3D, though, so I've found myself moving more to that.
I would pay to hear this talk.
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> I'm continually surprised by how few software engineers in industry spend the time to pick up HDL and FPGA programming in general.

While I appreciate your sentiment, it isn't programming, it's hardware design. To do anything beyond the somewhat trivial you need to learn a pile of EE stuff. Thinking of FPGA's as software might be nice, but that's not reality. Some examples of this are signal integrity, metastability, transmission lines, propagation delays, timing closure, SSO, etc. And that's the tip of the iceberg. You can't just shove in a 600MHz clock, write something that looks like software and expect the darn thing to work. I once spent nearly three months chasing a 3 nanosecond timing problem on a complex design. The "code" was perfect. It was a layout, routing and timing problem. FPGA's are not software.

Of course, this is assuming an EE has done the hard work of designing a solid board with all the right I/O, interfaces as well as the all the initialization and setup files. Again, as an example, a DDR3 bank is not a trivial piece of hardware to design, layout, interface and configure.

None of this is to say that it is impossible for a non-EE to learn and become quite capable at developing with FPGA's. however, this isn't just like learning a new programming language. I'll venture a guess that most programmers would have trouble committing to going down the deep and twisted rabbit hole they'd have to navigate. Again, not impossible. Seen it done. But it isn't software and it requires serious dedication.
Some old games only had 50 or 100 levels and were intended for repeat play. So the developers made some games super hard so that people could get many hours of play out of them.
That is a partial option, but there are ways in which it is inadequate. For example, with the January Rails vulnerabilities, dropping an IMG tag with a well-constructed URL on a site on the public internet was likely enough to suborn a developer's browser into connecting to and rooting a Rails box that was firewalled from external traffic. You still want to patch things, to prevent that and similar issues.
BTW, by "optimizing" laptop to customer needs, they sell machine less future-proof, which will result in sooner upgrade. I always believed that companies make more money on entry-level models than on professional ones. (not just apple)
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I remember playing Ocarina of Time for N64 shortly after we got internet connection at my house in 7th grade.

Like many people, I got stuck at the water temple. I tried for weeks to figure that stupid level out. One of my friends linked me to a site (I think I had been complaining to him over AIM about how difficult it was) that had a walk through. I stared at that link for days, sitting in my internet explorer bookmarks, internally debating whether or not to use it, before finally giving in to just use the walk through...

I went on to beat the game shortly after, never able to fully accept that victory, as I had cheated my way through a major part of the game.
"... there is very little income redistribution ... "

Non-Brazilian here, but: doesn't Brazil basically _give_ you money if you're poor[1]?

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters...
I've helped a lot of people buy laptops over the years based on description alone (I eventually wrote a wiki page to help people decide on factors). Mostly it boils down to portability - after I explain what it's like carrying around a 15" item, most (not all) start looking at 13" or smaller. Being guided on screen size is the sole attribute that people mention after the fact (usually 'thank you' or 'I wish I had listened'). The rest is much of a muchness and varies on more detail in the use case.

Sometimes a 15" or bigger is warranted, but I've only seen it suitable for the rarely-mobile, not the always-mobile.