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Yes. They are successful and I acknowledged it. Now, compare any one of these to the success level of Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, etc.
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I "know" that aliens are kept at Area 51. Should I prepare for the invasion?

Nothing was "known" until these leaks. It was the conspiracy theory of nut jobs. Now and only now is it "known".
That is intriguing. I wonder how smaller particles (electrons etc) work with this speculation.

There has been some speculation that we're really living in a 2D universe projected onto a 3D surface, or similar.
I was a bit struck by this:
> I see credit cards as being the saving grace which prevented another great depression during the recent economic collapse.

Partly because the economic collapse was driven by banks allowing high-risk credit on mortgages, loans and credit cards, and thinking they staved off a true great depression is a very weird way to approach it.
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Every one of those companies defines the word 'successful'. I'd suggest your title should read "Why are there not more insanely successful, multi-billion dollar startups in Europe?"
> A dog is a living creature, just like a child is.

Ok, mosquitoes are too.

I'm really worried for those people equating their prefered pets with human beings.

I remember those technokids playing the beggars in front of a somethingmarket in France, they had four enormous dogs and wanted money supposedly for their pets' food.

Bullshit. If you like dogs, you do not chain them allday long to some grocery entrance, and then bring them back in some small stinky appartment. You either live with them in the countryside and go hunting rabbits with them in the morning, or you just don't breed them.
Given that Leffe and Budweiser are owned by the same company (OK if you want to be technical, Leffe is owned by a company that's owned by a company that also owns the company that owns Budweiser), I imagine that that global distribution shouldn't be a problem.
HTML 5 game it is. It asks to download and install some exe on my machine, though.
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It made me enter a captcha too.
Not necessarily. I have tons of github repos where nobody contributes to. I don't see why it wouldn't be the same for a company. It depends if your project is useful to others and if you're able to market it properly.
That closing remark was obviously tongue-in-cheek! :)
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The real news appears to an approx 30% speed-up between Mountain Lion and Mavericks. That's pretty impressive!
Source code can be found here (care of scotch.io) https://github.com/scotch-io/Star-Wars-Attack-of-the-DOM
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This is one of the reasons Mari's finally able to be ported to OS X, as was shown at WWDC.
Instead of SBCL, I recommend Clozure CL. Apparently, SBCL does not operate smoothly on all the platforms it supports.
Not seeing it on 29.0.1541.0 dev-m.

There has been a chrome://flags/ flag called "Google Now - Enable Google Now notifications support" for a few months now but it doesn't seem to do anything. Could it be related to that?
I live in a village of 40 people in the mountains a large part of the year for my dogs. Programming from home. Living in a city and working in an office I thought was horrible for animals so we changed our lives 6 years ago radically to not go to 'the office' (office at home now) and live on a large (30000 m^2) plot of land where dogs can be outside without us worrying about cars.

I don't have the karma thing; I just moved because I thought dogs should be able to run around all day instead of sit in a small apartment (the apartment costing actually 4x as much as the villa + large plot of land making it really insane to me now that people actually choose and like living on 80m^2 vs 200m^2+30000m^2 for 4x as much money, but he, I loved it in the city; I'm not sure if that feeling grew or was always there). We would never move back to our previous life; there is no stress anymore and money is simply worth a lot more in the countryside.
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> Human access should not be allowed

Yes, of course, but this is not enforceable. You have to trust the company that they will not allow it. You can't ensure it.
'Some stuff?' I can see your house has never been burglarized. It's not simply 'oh someone stole my MacBook and other stuff, now I get a new one from my insurance'.
It's someone (or several people) rampaging through all your possessions. Ripping open every closet, tearing everything out, going through all your personal stuff, stealing your expensive suit (you know, the one you got married in), stealing your credit and insurance cards, your passport, your letters from the bank with the security codes. Taking your grandfather's watch, the silver thing your grandmothers gave you. Going through every closet, stealing the spare keys of your car, your bike, your house... You can't sleep the next few nights as they now have keys of everything. You need new keys and what to do about your car, your bike? They also took your backup USB disks. Those contain your documents, your projects, your logins and passwords... It will take you months and thousands of dollars to get everything like it was. You won't feel save again for quite some time...
You are correct. On the other hand, spending at least 9 hours on the web daily for the past 10 years, there are some in your list I've never heard about. It is a fact that Europe produces less ubiquitous successful ventures than the US.
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45W sounds like overkill for an RPi - I live in Scotland (55.95N) and I have a 50W panel charging a 110Ah battery in my garden shed. The battery is used to power a 1kW Invertek 250V inverter (150A fuses are impressive BTW) which I use to run a lawnmower, power tools, soldering station and lights (not all at once!).

The lawnmower is the biggest drain (900W) and is really pushing the envelope - but in the summer I can cut 55 sq. metres of lawn once a week without any charge problems. In the winter the grass doesn't grow :) but I can run the other tools just fine. I was very surprised at just how well this system worked, but then I did splash out on a high end 50W Kyocera panel when I designed this. My only alternative would have been to bury an SWA cable across common ground and somehow run it to my consumer unit in a 1st floor flat, so I was prepared to spend £300 (as it was then) on the panel. They're a lot cheaper now.
Your browser probably doesn't support WebGL, so we have a fall-back plugin for that case.

Try it in the latest Chrome or Firefox and you shouldn't have a problem :)
Do we really need these [citation needed] comments? It's clearly that someone expresses his own opinion, and thus needs no citation.

Btw, you forgot the provide citation that in the transition phase 50% will not be able to find work at all.
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Perhaps the author knew he was on the wrong path subconsciously, but convinced himself it was okay if he was making the change for his dog? To turn his own words around, why would someone who lives a life of 75-80 years decide the course of their life-time for one that will only be around for 10?

P.S. I love my dog too but ...
They have been predicting automation will destroy jobs for centuries, and it hasn't happened. Looking at the unemployment statistics for the past century, the trend line seems very weak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_Unemployment_1890-2011....

The history of technological innovation is that new job categories are created faster than old ones are lost. There are many job categories which will be opened up as a result of automation. We will see a shift to creative / performance jobs instead of mechanistic / routine jobs. Demand will be artificially created for the products of these new categories, just like it has been for more than a century (without artificially created demand the economy would collapse, as we consume a multiple of what we need). The demand will be focused on "unique", on products tailored by a human for an audience of one, but produced using mass-production technologies. The more renowned the bespoke designer, the higher the price tag will be.

Still, if the singularity does happen and we end up in a true post-production society, I imagine it will look like the Culture (Iain M. Banks). Or at least, I hope it will.
I absolutely agree. I don't think a return to old forms is what's in order. But a return to art that the average Joe can look at and think "no way my 6-year-old could do that".

And that's the problem today, so much of current art is something a 6-year-old could envision. And the unfortunate reality is, if the art looks like it was made with a lack of sophistication, the message it's trying to convey must be unsophisticated as well (despite the insistent yearnings of the art establishment)...at least that's the reasoning most people will have when viewing it.
My thoughts exactly. This workflow is nothing more than hacking Git using post-commit hooks to do something it was never built for.

If you want to deploy using Git then the smart thing to do is to use one of the many continuous integration tools out there that were built specifically for this kind of workflow. I use TeamCity to run my tests and to build/deploy my website whenever I push to my default branch. This works really well for some of my sites, and although I'm looking for a way to refine this so I can also deploy database changes between local/staging/web servers I can't think of a better way of doing this.
for me as well ...
I'm eastern european, meaning I do have some inside knowledge on how Russia operates, especially since it's still trying to regain political power in the post-soviet countries 23 years after its fall. Everybody knows Russia wants its old empire back.

I do believe my perception of the american media is accurate as well. You're free to dispute that.
If we envision an eventual time with mostly-automation or full automation, there will be a transitioning period. Say that there are jobs for 50% and the rest have basic income: how will those two classes look? The people that are working will probably want to be compensated fairly well, since they are dedicating their time and sometimes taking on heavy responsibilities (like doctors). But how will the folks on basic income handle this new income-divide? Will they be content with their hobbies, non-profit work etc; or will they be jealous of the people with (I'm guessing) a substantially higher income and all their status symbols and trappings? Will this mean a much, much more competitive labour market, starting from early school and continuing into university and eventually a more demanding wokplace? Will the "jobless" be seen as a new low-class, being looked down on not simply for having low-skill jobs while at the same time working hard, but truly being people with no responsibilities (like I said, non-profit work and such might be a possibility)?

In short; will human nature be able to gracefully handle the transitioning period?
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The US have the "long game". They'll get him (sadly) eventually.
I don't know what the author used, but you should be able to build something similar with these products/kits from Adafruit:

- MintyBoost Kit http://www.adafruit.com/products/14

- USB / DC / Solar Lithium Ion/Polymer charger http://www.adafruit.com/products/390

- Li-Ion Batteries / Solar Panels http://www.adafruit.com/category/67
> It was the conspiracy theory of nut jobs.

no. you should have a very short memory, or you just consider the dossier made by "European Commission" about Echelon the work of nut jobs: http://cryptome.org/echelon-ep-fin.htm
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+1 Discourse is the best example app to look at, the guys have implemented a lot of things already, it'll save you tons of time working things out.
There is a serious issue with replacing benefits with basic income. It's like saying that there is no need for compulsory (3rd party) insurance for vehicles.

Most people can't plan. If there is no health insurance and/or pension, but you give them a small, fixed amount each month, then when they get sick/have an accident/get old, then they'll be in serious trouble.
Indeed. Hopefully it can also, finally, be the stab in the back of DirectX. While DX is good and all that, I would much prefer to see an Open Standard prevail in this space.
> How? It looks like a full-time carer and a full-time layabout would be equally rewarded.

I don't think any basic-income scheme has anything to do with paying the people that work and the people that don't work the same. It's just about giving the unemployed a basic income, while those who actually work can have any income that people are willing to pay them (like now).
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> What I object to is you calling Ubuntu a hobbled experience.

I might be wrong, but I think he's talking about a future in which Canonical is forced to remove features from Ubuntu due to patents. Whereas Apple would just pay the licensing fees.

I don't see this happening because software patents don't exist in most of the world. The worst thing that could happen is they wouldn't be able to sell phones in the U.S. and other patent-crazy territories.
Nothing new here, although I am amazed that it is still considered a 'rumor'. Just fly to Breda, the Netherlands and look around in the EDM-scene. Many, if not most, of the upcoming DJs make and share with Tiesto. It's like a local business clique. Many of those guys even have full-time jobs next to producing, to pay for (lol) their hobbies.
Yes, the four million in Britain who have never had a job in their lives are immensely productive and make an outstanding contributon to cultural life. Five million would be even better.
I've got code that I wrote for the TI-99 4A when I was in high school. It's probably better than the code my boss wrote for a client two years ago that I get to refactor and convert to a new platform. (Yes, the alcohol bill on this project will be high...)
> I have never liked the concept that you 'have a job,' I prefer that you 'sell your labor' and someone else chooses to buy it. The phrase 'having a job' suggests it's some sort of privilege to work for someone else, rather than a simple economic transaction.

In my language, "employer" is an concatenation of "work" and "give": "workgiver". While "employee" is an concatenation of "work" and "take": "worktaker". :)
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There are two answers to this:

First of all, the idea of basic income is that it is universal: there won't be a divide between those who have basic income but not work, and those who have work but not basic income. Everybody will have basic income; the divide will merely be between those who have work and those who don't.

The solution this divide is to eliminate the minimum wage, which acts as a significant hurdle to creating employment. In a basic-income world, there is no more moral argument for minimum wage to exist, because basic sustenance no longer comes from labour. Everybody will have sufficient food and shelter whether they work or not, so the exploitation of labour is no longer possible, and the safeguard of minimum wage is no longer needed. In a basic income world, labour becomes a privilege for both the employee and the employer.

Eliminating minimum wages means that employment can become a much smoother continuum of activities, rather than the sustenance-or-nothing proposition that it is right now. This opens up a vast range of lower-wage job opportunities, which people could purse when they want to, not actually because they need to. Want to earn £2/hr working in a community theatre? No problem. Want to earn £50/week helping to organise a supper club or being an assistant at a hackerspace? Go for it. Under a minimum wage regime, it's not even legal to employ people in this capacity; under a basic income regime, the distinction between "hobby" and "job" will blur into irrelevance. This means that you will be able to create dramatically more work -- and higher-quality work, because it would only be things that people pursue out of choice rather than necessity -- with a basic income than you could ever have without one.

EDIT -- As to how to handle the transition period: phase in the Basic Income at the same rate that you phase out Minimum Wage and all other forms of income support. A good Basic Income should be roughly equivalent to a good minimum wage; in most countries this works out to be about 50% of the mean individual income. If the Basic Income payments are phased in at the same rate that the minimum wage and other benefits are phased out, then there will be virtually no "losers". High-earners will get a little bump from the Basic Income; low-earners will see their take-home pay unchanged, but they will be increasingly less reliant on their jobs for it. This will put them in a better bargaining position vis-a-vis undesirable jobs, while new types of low-wage desirable jobs will become possible as the minimum wage is reduced. Do this transition over a course of a decade and it should be relatively smooth.
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This Happens in the Netherlands too, we get cut down from 120/130 to 100, 80, 70 or even 50 kph.
Oh. That could be cause for an ackward situation, I guess.
you do realize that the constant evolution of smart computers would eventually remove the need of you as a researcher and leave absolutely everyone unemployed?

would you know what to do when all of your work would essentially be shallow and useless? can you entertain yourself 24h?
The story: Back when Google announced they were killing Reader, I built most of a feed reader. I never quite finished it, mostly because I realised I didn't want to support an entire system. I wanted something to show for the effort I spent, so I decided to plug the UI I had (which suited my style of using a feed reader better than the alternatives I've seen) into the NewsBlur API.

This is what I came up with. It requires a NewsBlur account to use, as this is "merely" an alternate front-end for the NewsBlur system.
Your work ethic is quite exemplary. How did you manage to stick to an 8 hour day whilst learning how to code - form home - with a dog?
That's CloudFlare responding to the influx of HN visitors. Site admin probably has their security setting too high.
It hasn't been a social network in a while; it's been - at least an attempt at - a platform for a while.

I guess we're used to thinking of it like that, because Twitter still hasn't branched out too much yet - although time will tell what comes of Vine and #music, if anything.
Besides a decline in overall literacy, which from personal impression is not a requirement for a English degree, I wonder if we can say this trend reflects an the accessibility of a college education.

Perhaps, 30 years ago Yale boys could afford to get an English degree because they were guaranteed cushy jobs at Goldman-Sachs where their dad and granddad were partners. Now some kid programming in what once was an Indonesian island took their job.
I would not call Hirst a hack, a hacker maybe, but not a hack. No one has managed to capture, understand and most importantly exploit the zeitgeist of the modern art movement like Hirst has. Hirst is the modern art scene personified. Looking at his works in isolation is rather missing the point. Everything from how his work is produced to how it is sold is integral to his art, the physical artifacts that come out of his factory are only a tiny part of it.
I checked it right now... it's not complete, but seems to be mostly fine

basically, unlike Java, it doesn't give you an encode() function that takes an arbitrary string... the only urlencode() function expects data representing a query

obviously, you still have to remember to handle the quoting of each part of the url separately... if you build your url (actually just resource+query+fragment) , and then you just quote() it at the end, you're no better than with java

e.g, if you have a path made by 2 segments "yadda/yadda" and "foo/bar"

quote("/".join(["yadda/yadda", "foo/bar"]))

yields 'yadda/yadda/foo/bar', which might not be correct, if what you want is actually

"/".join(quote(segment, safe="") for segment in ["yadda/yadda", "foo/bar"])

that yields 'yadda%2Fyadda/foo%2Fbar'

kinda error-prone, if you ask me

Also, python's urlparse seems to not handle correctly path parameters:

urlparse("http://example.com/egypt;p=0/nile;p2=1;p3=2")

only recognizes p2=1;p3=2 as path parameters

I think that part of the confusion is that we think of encoding as "The way in which symbols are mapped onto bytes", but if we use that meaning, it's not correct to talk about "url encoding", because each part of the url cannot be converted in ascii while ignoring the context (are the / meaningful?) and the place it appears into the url

it's more like a "url language", and if we would talk about "parsing" or "formatting" imho we could get less ambiguities and misunderstandings

PS: I realized just now that for the "http://example.com/egypt;p=0/nile;p2=1;p3=2" example, the doc suggests to use the urlsplit function instead (that will avoid to parse the path parameters altogether... kind of a non-solution imo, but at least it's known)
Sounds like classical art is like pop music then? Guess what would happen if people could choose between pop and "quality" (whatever that means) music? Oh right, just look at charts. Since when is the quality of art correlated with its popularity?

Plus there's probably a lot of selection bias going on here, i.e. the bad classical art has been forgotten (or lost!) whereas the same hasn't yet happened with modern art.
I just always drag to the dock Applications folder, I've never messed around opening a Finder window.
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Which is a perfectly reasonable business model and one which the vast majority of developers follow...

If the customer wants the source code, then by all means include it as part of your package, but along with that comes the complexities of copyright, support (do you still support code that your customer hired somebody else to mangle?), and other such concerns. These things come at a price.

Of course, how you do business is entirely up to you - but handing over the source code as part of the standard deal opens up a ton of questions which you should make sure you have covered.
Nice, and congrats to the wukix Team for their effort. However, will Apple accept those apps in it's store? There was this guy who wrote a game in Gambit Scheme (iirc) and was rejected back then. This seems to be the same process here (generate C code from Lisp and glue it toether with GUI code), just with CL.
i agree, the / between both terms is supposed to mean "or in my text.
OpenGL 4.1 means it's still 2 years behind where it should be, but it's progress, I suppose. It would be nice if Windows supported OpenGL by default, too.
Do you mean the title?

Because the first line of the main body "Do you know any hidden or little-known nice feature of Mac OS X?" certainly looks like a question to me.