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Interesting that not a single one of your proposed counter-options is any nicer than the one you dislike.
https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/gravityicons/id534926366?mt=...

Over the years, I have tried most (free/cheap) avenues to help market my apps. In general, I market them through PR (I know this is not a sustainable strategy despite my arguably successful track record with it). As with many 'rookie developers', I thought this app would be the next Angry Birds and little promotion would be needed for it to take off. Additionally, I didn't attempt to get PR for this app because in my eyes, it would be difficult to pitch to the media and for every media pitch that doesn't go ahead, I see this as slowly breaking away a relationship built with journalists, reporters etc.

I did try to get the icon owners (eg. Temple Run developer etc) to post on their Facebook pages etc about the app but only a few did, and the ones that did, didn't have tens of thousands of 'likes' or anything like that, unfortunately.

I added in an alert to share the game after beating one of the bonus levels (I forgot which one but I think it is around 25/30). I should probably put it earlier but in general, people close those alerts anyway without an incentive to share the app. Overall, I have made quite a number of mistakes with this app. I have learnt from them and I am moving on.
Or if they know they run the risk of getting badly beaten for breaking into someone's house, they won't do it?

And I'd guess that Europeans doesn't include Brits in your statement.
I am affected as well and I have taken anything apart from those, did not even ever smoke weed.
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I honestly don't know where I'd be without my dog. They really are amazing animals. It's been a rough few years and just knowing that every time I get up from the computer that he's ready to make me smile and go wherever I go, whenever I go... it's a perfect reminder of why I work as hard as I do.

Even though I do walk him multiple times each day, I feel bad for sitting at this machine working 70+ hours a week trying to build a business. It's taking longer than expected and it's gotten to where I can't tell if he's just getting old or possibly depressed from lack of stimulation, so I tell him (probably more so myself ;) that we're going to move on soon and have all kinds of fun. That's the main thing that keeps me going. I just hope that by the time I do get back on my feet, there's still time to give him the life he deserves.
The difference:

Does not work: http://www.foobar.com/api?v=2/get?item=1
Does work: http://www.foobar.com/api;v=2/get?item=1
It will be cheaper to engineer a die-off via covert bioweapons and such. From the perspective of the superclass, why give useless eaters money when that money could be invested in the consolidation of power?
btw To promote your app, app review sites are up there with the biggest time wasters on the planet. Unless you have some sort of ground-breaking technology in the app, it is very unlikely that pitching your app to review sites etc have any effect at all. I've tried submitting lots of my apps (even my 'successful' ones) to these sites and nothing ever comes from it. Other developers seem to have the same results as me...
>The fact that someone would say, on a forum called Hacker News, that the free software movement is a hopeless ideology is astonishing.

Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless. Nice try though, I guess.

>Hardly. Ubuntu is about as popular now as Macs were a few years ago, or at least in the same league.

Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades".

>Ubuntu has many productivity advantages over both OSX and Windows.

I've used Windows for years. I've used OS X for a few years now. I've used Unix for years and I've used Ubuntu off and on since it was started. Ubuntu had some advantages over windows for me but day-to-day OS X is simpler in every possible way. Except the "do tons of tweaking of every pixel on my desktop" way.
In my experience, most educated proponents of progressive taxation believe in something like "the marginal utility per dollar for poor people is higher than that of rich people, and the government should attempt to tax toward some concept of equi-utility," though I'm certainly open to hearing that that's not what most believe. In other words, taxing $1 from a poor person takes food out of their mouth while taxing $1 from a rich person delays the purchase of a new yacht by 1 second, so we should take that money from the person who'll lose less utility by its taking.

We also don't realistically attempt to tax people according to some abstract conception of who has benefited the most from government infrastructure.
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from my experience the aspect of constantly worrying makes it more annoying than it is. I can often go weeks without noticing it (can't remember not having it, dunno when it started, might be related to anxiety/panic one way or the other). Looking at bright single colored things makes me uneasy because of it though, eg the sky or white walls.
When this topic comes up, I tend to refer people to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment

Rifkin's work also gets a mention there.

What I find weird about the article posted here is that it treats it as a new thing, as if this time is so different that the only time it can be compared to is the industrial revolution.
Guns are expensive (well, the illegal ones, not the legal, they're not expensive). Most burglars won't use guns. To expensive, way to noisy in a country that is very crowded and is very afraid of guns (I imagine over 100 people phoning the police for the sound of a gunshot) and too high a fine ($ 10.000) and too high a sentence should they get arrested breaking and entering.
This has been an open secret for years and years, or so I thought anyway. There's plenty of bedroom producers smashing out EPs, but when you're working on big, stadium hits it requires a production team to get it right. Or, if you're a biggish name DJ you're expected to drop some tracks of your own but being a good DJ doesn't mean you can produce a track for toffee, you just know what works for your sets.
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The applications folder is in the dock by default.
If other people aren't worried about it, why should I be?
Not true. With the exception of CSU perhaps, every party with a seat in the Bundestag either has internally passed its own concept for a basic income or is discussing the idea:
[1] http://www.die-linke-grundeinkommen.de/WordPress/
[2] http://www.gruene-partei.de/cms/partei/dokbin/207/207470.auf...
[3] http://www3.fdp-bundesverband.de/files/363/Abschlb-Buergerge...
[4] http://www.kas.de/wf/de/33.20403/
[5] http://library.fes.de/pdf-files/wiso/06193.pdf
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In Italy you can harm someone physically only to defend people (self-defense, which of course also applies to your family or any bystander) , not to defend property. I guess that most European laws work like this, and I agree with this attitude.
As another piece of Eurotrash who has seen (much) more of the USA than the average American, I have some objections to your ehm, objections.

1. Don't get sick - probably true, but apparently they're working on it. I've found the level of health care mediocre compared to back home, but the prices absolutely insane. Think 10 to 100 times higher for the exact same treatments in some cases. Prices are so out of sync with the rest of the world that my insurance explicitly covers full healthcare costs in the entire world except the USA.

2. Don't have that in my home country either, except for the right to take a certain number of weeks of unpaid leave without losing your job (mothers only). Tbh, I don't think it's unreasonable not to get paid for time you don't spend working.

3. If you think this is better outside the US, you're in for a shock. Cultural sensitivities you take for granted will be different or completely absent, and others that make no sense to you will be in place. Simple math will show you that cancer screening of asymptomatic people is completely pointless by the way, but that's a bit off topic.

4. The only one from that list you really don't want to be in the USA is openly atheist. Just say you're not into organized religion instead, and you'll be fine. That said, I've never set foot in a place where being part of a religious minority was considered a good thing. Americans are less likely to openly say what they _really_ think about your kind than Euros.

5. Probably true. In most Euro countries, waving the flag outside the context of international sports may be associated with wingnuts on the extreme right
> Since I never clarified what I meant and you came up with such a specific notion, it would appear you're projecting some defensiveness here.

Correct, I was taking up an example, which is why I used the phrase "one might say". I didn't advocate a specific position (higher or lower taxes). I am completely detached; I don't participate in the political system in America (neither do I plan to ever) so I simply don't care.

I am not in disagreement with your thesis. The problem that bugs me is this presumption that the people are not cognizant of what is good for them. Maybe, the people do something for a reason which is of interest to them (but not the reason that someone else thinks is right for them). E.g. maybe, the people who sue McDonalds don't want their neighbor becoming rich while they are poor. This of course is not limited to the poor; this is a human thing. I would argue that it is not in Warren Buffett's self interest to vote for higher taxes; then again that is my opinion and is not necessarily the same as his. If you examined your decisions over a certain period of time, you will find that the reasons you do something are not necessarily in accordance with what society (or $person whom you think is smarter than you) does them for.
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You can try the open sourced project, webrtc based, Sharefest.me for filesharing p2p with no cloud storage...
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I don't follow HN enough to recognize "an endless streaming of [duckduckgo] posts". Regardless, as a user I will happily inform people about what I see as an alternative to Google.

I'd do the same for xmonad (or tiling window managers in general) in a conversation that related to that. Because good software deserves mention.

If you don't want to see discussions about search engines then maybe, just maybe, you shouldn't view the comments for links that pertain to that certain topic. It seems fairly idiotic of you to even begin complaining about this, honestly.
I wanted to make the same comment after reading the article. You're correct. The "+" literal in the URL is a painful remnant and at least when encoding I think it should be avoided entirely - so I think the article has it wrong when they say the string has to be encoded differently depending on its place within the URL. However, it's something to be aware of when decoding.
I've lived in both London and NYC. NYC feels more diverse simply because it's a bit strange to have loads of foreigners in the country when we know very well that it's very difficult to enter the country legally, whereas London is about 50/50 british to non-british. Not to mention, GB is comprised of England, Wales, Scotland, so you have that combined with the Aussies, Kiwis, Saffers, Italians, Germans, Irish, Spanish, Russians, etc. Not a day goes by that I'm working with a non-British citizen in London. Couldn't say the same for NYC.
First release was on Oct 20, 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngularJS#Releases
I'm not sure how that's actually relevant to the conversation on the subject? Plus you may as well post the same comment when any mobile phone is mentioned, be it an iPhone, an Android or a standard dumbphone.
The question is not so much "where is NUMA effective," but, "given that for highest speeds memory needs to be attached directly to the CPU, how do we deal effectively with the case of multiple CPUs?" If you want multi-socket SMP, these days you need to deal with its inherent NUMA architecture. Or sweep it under the rug as Apple did with the old Mac Pro and sacrifice performance.
For those who've never heard of the author, Matt Mahoney is the author of a number of compression algorithms (and implementations), including the famous PAQ family of arithmetic coding / context modeling compressors. PAQ and its (many) derivatives are still among the strongest available compressors to date (meaning that they compress very, very well — in general much more than popular compressors like 7-Zip or UHArc), while not being practical due to their incredible slowness.
He's released - again - a powerpoint presentation. The NSA phone record stuff? That was public knowledge in 2007. The GCHQ stuff seems like it was a powerpoint presentation too - no one's claimed anything more.

It's a leak, yes. He should be prosecuted for it, yes. But it's also widely disseminated internal data by nature of being a presentation.

Everything else is him claiming to have knowledge of things, without providing specific details beyond "his word". There's no reason to think he had the powers he claims to have and he's been leaking the NSAs foreign survieillance programs in broad-strokes like a sieve, but American specific stuff? Mysteriously quiet. With equally quiet walkbacks of the claims by the Washington Post and Guardian.
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I think it was about fear. They would tell you that they are listening so you would be afraid to say anything.
As opposed to... religion? Most of which endorse stoning, slavery and mutilation?
It was fun playing the old Infocom games on Frotz (just add the Z3/Z4/Z5 sources using the file transfer feature on iOS). For iOS, the sources are at http://code.google.com/p/iphonefrotz/ and http://sourceforge.net/projects/jfrotz/ is an Android port for those who prefer to roll their own.
Well it's a huge difference with Europe. Specifically in Austria where I'm living everyone gets an education for free, there's free health care, even menial jobs are well paid. Everyone lives a pretty solid middle class life but there are much fewer people struggling to change the world. Fewer success stories but everyone is taken care of. It's an interesting situation, hell there's not even credit card debt since if your credit isn't paid by the end of the month it's locked until you pay your balance down to zero.
America was settled by people who got kicked out of their countries for being too religious.
I don't eat rice from mainland china if I can avoid it; I prefer Thai or Taiwanese rice when available. Of course, this can be very hard considering that 99% of the restaurants don't have anything else.
I had an idea but lack the understanding and skills to verify if its useful or not.

Could you set up the Hyperboria layer with a built in crypto coin payments system, so people that need to leach of the Hyperboria layer can pay some small amount of Bitcoin or Litecoin and this fee is distributed to the nodes that are carrying the traffic.

This might give an incentive that would get more people to sacrifice their power/electricity/bandwidth to become a node if they received a small donation in return.
Toronto is great, but I don't see it as more diverse than other big cities in the US, such as Boston, Chicago, or Washington.
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You are missing the point; I don't dislike or like any of the reasons. I am merely pointing out that a simplistic model is crude.
It was in a slightly upmarket housing estate type thing about 20 minutes drive out of the city - clipped lawns; all the houses look identical and made of premade plastic parts; you get a visit from some sort of supervisor if your bins are out one day too long. There wasn't that cement board - another house had lost one of its 'boards' and there was no such thing behind it. The house was certainly a rush job though - inside the power points were slightly off-plumb, that sort of thing. It was supposed to be a 'nice area' though. The house was kind of puzzling, given that.
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joined just a couple days back, I'm impressed: IRC, Jabber, Social Network and a bunch of cool sites. Not perfect, but very usable!
You could click on the translucent bar button on the top right of a DMG-window, then you get the sidebar on the left back.

But apparently it's been removed in Lion: http://myintarweb.com/dispatch/lion-tip
Agree. I use Yoink! for this all the time.
Agreed. This is a list of buzzwords, not a list of architectures.

An architecture would be something like 'all major work done via job queues distributed across cheap machines, all pages statically built and pushed to CMS', or 'a dozen bare-metal machines with serious hardware running one-machine sharded app/cache/db slices and hot backups of each shard', fun stuff like that. relatively technology agnostic.
I have one of my oldest code with me all the time:

10 PRINT "KEYFRAME"
20 GOTO 10

also, on c64 i always made sure to do this first, just to make sure it looks like a terminal to a big machine (for unknown reasons):

POKE 53280,0 : POKE 53281,0
In America, one can get many kinds of beer. One can get shitty American beer, beer that is crazy hopped up (as posted below), good American beer... and also the same exact beer you drink in Europe. We import too, you know.
What I like about the more 'underground' genres like in my case Drum & Bass is most artist are not doing it to make a commercial success, but because they love the music.
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Just wondering if the crackdown is "working"?
> Patent free is what I'm calling hopeless.

The ideology behind Ubuntu is the free software movement. I'm not sure that "Patent free" even is an ideology.

> Uh, no. Unless by "years" you mean "decades".

About 10? That's years, not decades. Even 5 years ago they were well under 5% weren't they?

I'm glad to hear that OSX suits you, that's fine. What I object to is you calling Ubuntu a hobbled experience. Personally I find that both Unity and OSX have DEs that really get in my way without a lot of tweaking, but both can be made to give a reasonable experience.

I wouldn't have said anything, and just chalked it up as someone making an opinionated comment that I disagree with if it weren't for the ridiculous line about Ubuntu's ideology being hopeless.
How nice that finally there is understanding, that web-based services are good for providers and third parties not users.

It's so obvious.
As a British person in Sweden I just had a chuckle out loud with my morning coffee reading your comment. Good stuff (I couldn't disagree more but good stuff nonetheless).
Double glazing is huge in the UK. I never actually heard about it in the US.
Interesting to see how popular languages really are outside the HN bubble. Scala has always been fairly niche (I believe Twitter was soley responsibly in bringing it the lime light) its also cool to see that Go which has been riding the hype train this month ranks below Dart, Coldfusion, and Visual FoxPro.

In the HN bubble one might ask "is Perl really important", which came in at #9.
Why are there not more successful startups in Europe?
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Most people aren't "visionaries" or aren't as good at "connecting the dots" as the NSA likes to say. They live their lives in the present - today. Does the NSA spying affect them today? If not, then they aren't concerned about it.

But that's a very wrong way to approach things. You have to connect the dots and see where this is going, before it's too late to do anything to stop it.

Plus, I bet most don't even realize that even if authorities don't come knocking at their door because through their spying they saw they downloaded that last Game of Thrones episode (how long until that happens, anyway?), they could still use the spying to influence judges, politicians, mayors, and so on - which will affect their day to day lives, depending on the decisions those people take through blackmail.

But as I said, most people can't connect the dots like that. Ignorance is a bliss, as they say.
Also true, and equally applicable even if a base income were provided.
I'd like to add a few points from my own experience:

Cars: In America/Golden Gate Park, people take their car into the park! They even park it right there, right next to where they have their picnic. Odd but understandable. In Europe cars are antithetical to nature and relaxation, something industrial you hide out of sight, while in the US they are (apparently) integral to it.

Hours. In the US/SF people 'like' to be in the office. It is practically their home when they are not commuting or sleeping. While on the weekends they go on trips to be away from home/the office (I could not imagine raising, rather than merely producing, a family in the US).

(all you say about the weather is true, unless you live in West SF. National parks are fabulous indeed!)

Poverty. Without being a Republican who believes the poor / racial minorities are to blame for their own d*mned fate, it is not possible to enjoy central San Francisco. Never seen so many homeless people in such horrible states of existence (and I am not a Republican but a social democrat, so I was not comfortable with US society...).

(the US is this odd mix between rich and modern and a 3rd world country... also with regard to infrastructure)

Traffic lights (and a lot of traffic) at almost every corner in the city. Perhaps nice if you are driving, but very annoying when you want to enjoy an uninterrupted walk.

Grid-pattern (mostly responsible for the former). Cities look like they were built on a chess-board. Nice if you want to go straight, but not good when you want to go diagonal (in Paris they solved this with diagonal avenues). And forget building diversity or atmosphere, especially in the suburbs (which are 97% of the city).

Houses are indeed quite flimsy. But in East SF there are at least some lovely pre-war houses that have atmosphere (I lived in a room in one, loved it...).

Business / startup opportunities; indeed, nothing beats California (never seen so many things bordering on the silly, fully funded...).

On balance, after a year in the US, I chose to go back to the old world when a great opportunity came up there. I'm a European again :)
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I strongly disagree.

In my mind, the only way to vote is to vote your conscience, not what happens to give me the greatest personal gain. "The God Delusion" by Dawkins includes a great (and somewhat Rawlsian) rule, 'Always devise your rules as if you didn't know whether you were going be at the top or the bottom of the pecking order.'

E.g., as a libertarian, I consider taxes to be unethical regardless of whether I gain a net profit from them or not.
in dance music the title "producer" has meant song writer / recording artist since the late 70s.

and George Martin wrote an awful lot of notes for the Beatles.

also there are many classic rock producers who don't actually touch the mixing desk or microphones. that's the engineer's job. Geoff Emerick did the mixing for the Beatles and he wasn't even allowed to move the microphones. he had to call in the studio mic engineers to do that. company policy.
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Edward Snowden due to quit Moscow in Ecuador asylum bid
Shouldn't you audit all commits in any case?