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Gnome3 is a major update of Gnome2. They've replaced many aging libraries with their new counterparts. It includes 3d graphics (tasteful in my opinion), have dynamic workspaces and I really like the function when you're pushing the super key (windows key). The most important function is that it hardly gets in my way and I had to install less things to get the functions I really like (super - start typing to start an application, transparency...). I had to install GnomeDo and configure Compiz Fusion to get this in Gnome2 (and I still couldn't use super alone for this function). With GNOME3 I hardly every click with the mouse to start an application. I can't say anything about web (their browser) - cause I'm still using Firefox.

I think it is always hard, but sometimes open source projects have to make a cut to take a step in the right direction (and yes - some of the configuration stuff is hidden in Gnome3 and this really sucks). There are rough edges - but I think it's bold and good that they've made this step.
Japanese society and education can be very demanding of young people.

I live in Japan and have never seen so much brainwashing on the topic of the unemployed or uneducated.

Besides the term hikikomori there is also NEET (Not Employed, Educated or in Training).

Another shocking thing is whenever an upstanding pillar of the community is shown on TV they go out of their way to mention he is a "正社員", a full time employee.

But when they discuss a criminal they always trot out that he's either "無職", unemployed or at least "派遣社員", a temporarily staffed person.

Even within companies the treatment temps get from the full timers can be cruel and uncalled for.

Until this society is taught to be less caste based I don't think the hikikomori problem will go away.
Hrm. There are shut-ins and hermits everywhere. It is not endemic everywhere like it is in Japan. I think, "I know an instance of X, therefore X is not a Y phenomenon," might be oversimplifying just a tad. If the rates of incidence are different, and everything I've read leads me to believe they are, that is interesting -- mainly because it adds entropy that might be useful in understanding the cause.
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Contractors most certainly can vest. A company can grant restricted stock subject to vesting to non-employees.

This is still a bad idea for a number of reasons. The most notable: the author clearly lacks all understanding of the implications of what he's asking for.

1. The author's client would need to prepare the legal documents for his equity compensation package, which could easily cost several thousand dollars. Depending on the structure of the compensation, the company might have to bear additional costs. For example, a 409A valuation can easily exceed $20,000. Please note that 409A can apply to a variety of deferred compensation structures, so your suggestion that the author seek deferred compensation is not necessarily a good one.

2. If the author wants stock options, he would only be eligible to receive non-qualified stock options. These lack the advantageous tax treatment of ISOs.

3. If the author receives stock outright with no vesting, the full value of the stock would produce immediate taxable income.

4. If stock the author receives is subject to vesting, he's going to want to look at an 83(b) election if he doesn't want to find himself in a world of hurt.

5. All of this is complicated by the fact that the author is a foreigner. The UK has a tax treaty with the United States, but he'll want/need the counsel of a competent accounting and legal professional in both countries. Additionally, in some scenarios, the author may not even be able to work with a US company. For example, he could not be a shareholder in an S-corporation, as foreign ownership of an S-corporation is forbidden.

If the author knew the burdens he was placing on his prospective clients, and more importantly himself, it's unlikely he would ever offer his services in this fashion. So as valuable as his skills and experience might be, I would argue he's doing himself a disservice by trying to sell his skills and experience in this fashion.
I understand this completely, having been through much the same during a darker period of my life. Seriously dark. Flat Black.

Sometimes I still can't believe I found the "doorknob", but I'm really glad I did.

Also, reading the term NEET here reminded me of Eden of the East, which is a cool Anime if anyone is into that.
Pathfinder was not all that expensive by space mission standards. The total budget was only about $200M or so, which was an order of magnitude less than typical prior missions.

Also, while I was not personally involved in Pathfinder, I was in the research program that led up to it. We were doing things that had never been done before, including the first use of an off-the-shelf commercial operating system on a space vehicle. We were under tremendous time and budget pressure, and so was Pathfinder. The idea that an intermittent system reset could be written off as a hardware problem is entirely plausible.
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From the BBC article: "For a time one company operating in Nagoya could be hired by parents to burst into their children's rooms, give them a big dressing down, and forcibly drag them away to a dormitory to learn the error of their ways."

I was just thinking of starting up something like this in Australia, but just realised the bikies (e.g., Hell's Angels, Nomad, Rebels etc) already do something very similar.
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Or this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ
> Without getting too specific into their backend (because I dont know what theirs is) I'd assume they must have prepared for Google Reader's deadline

Assuming ESL; legitimately trying to be helpful :)
Anecdotally, the phenomenon is exacerbated by many people with varying degrees of untreated depression. (A disease which Japan addresses shockingly poorly, even by the standards of Japanese mental health care, which is shockingly poor even considering that mental health care lags treatment of other illnesses virtually everywhere.)
No startup should prefer deferred compensation. It can be a nightmare, particularly in the context of a non-employee relationship. Just a taste of the possible implications: http://www.pillsburylaw.com/siteFiles/Publications/F26CF354F...
There's a good anime/manga about the subject, called "Welcome to NHK" (NHK = Nihon Hikkikomori, not the TV station with the same name). It captures the situation pretty well.
I think the simplest explanation is the one always ignored. Japan is a tough place to live and raise a family. It's super expensive, the economy has been in a funk for a long time, the work hours are widely known to be brutally long, people don't know anything but work and sleep over there. When one is confronted by this harsh reality, one wonders, what's the point? So they either commit suicide, which Japan ranks amongst the highest in the world, or they just withdraw from society.

And look at Japan's demographic trends. It's like all of the young people just said to hell with it and are not procreating anymore. I don't blame them either. If all I had to look forward to in life is a meaningless existence of an 80 hr work week to support a small family, I would probably not even go there.
What's the license on this? ToS? Is there somewhere we can get the source code?
> It is difficult to comprehensively track the movement of prices on Amazon, so the evidence is anecdotal and fragmentary.

I guess this is the difference between award winning journalism and essentially an editorial.

David Streitfeld of the NY Times should be inspired by the work of the Sally Kestin and John Maines of the Florida Sun Sentinel, who won the 2013 Pulitzer for Public Service for their "investigation of off-duty police officers who recklessly speed and endanger the lives of citizens, leading to disciplinary action and other steps to curtail a deadly hazard." The Sun manage to acquire and then data mine the timing data from on and off-duty police officers' toll transponders to reverse engineer their average speed, and in the process blew the lid off some seriously reckless driving by the officers.

By comparison, the data that Streitfeld and the NY Times was looking for to turn their cute anecdotes into hard hitting journalism were only an API call away. I'd love to see journalists collaborating more with hackers and the open source community, or perhaps even big data competition sites like Kaggle to collect and parse this data into a real expose. Like what we saw with Strongbox (http://www.newyorker.com/strongbox/) - the New Yorker's platform for protecting anonymous sources - or Barret Brown's ProjectPM (http://trueslant.com/barrettbrown/2010/03/24/project-pm/) - but targeting specific topics and data sets. Note to reader, you might want to visit those links via Tor...

Nothing like hard evidence to shine a bright light on anti-competitive behavior of a wanna-be monopolist. On the other hand, maybe Amazon is just intelligently pricing their products using their sophisticated proprietary models based on tried and true supply and demand. Based on this article, who can say what's closer to the truth?
Going way out on some limbs here.

A primate/primitive ungulate don't need to produce a hybrid or fertile offspring since obviously aliens mixed chimpanzee and pig DNA to create us, a race of slaves to mine gold for them.

They also removed our ability to synthesize vitamin C in the process as a method of control.
I could forgive confusing application form with an interview but this part "Reattach your resume so we have all your data all in one location" is unforgivable.
That sounds very similar to what my dad would have done. If you have time to be depressed in your room, then you have time to clean the garage. Not saying that this was a great solution and I certainly hated it at the time, but that's how I was raised. I pretty much learned that you do not want to be ever caught moping around the house, lest you be put to work!
If you're right the warning may be deserved, and I definitely wouldn't pay for any of his books, but calling someone like him "dangerous" means you've never dealt with really dangerous people :)

Actually, I took attention to this mainly because I'm researching the whole "personal branding" thing, but boy he's doing it wrong.
This is the version of "sift through" that I was referring to: http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/sift+through

>to examine all parts of something

They weren't just reading the address and sending the domestic mail on it's way, as everyone expects they do.
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> Maybe everyone should pool resources into an entity to take up defence of anyone.

That is called a nonprofit patent lawfirm...I dont know if it exists though.
I think you ignore the fact that parents accept the phenomenon and don't do anything about it. They let their children become apathetic and do not take action. I see that numerous times in Japan (I live here) where there is a clear detachment between family members and an agreement that they should not influence each other's lives.
Verbosity is never valued in prose

Perhaps you don't value verbosity, but fans of Flaubert, Balzac, Henry James, Joyce, Poe, Dostoyevsky and Dickens would disagree with you. Your absolute statement is false when looking at most of the valued literature over the last few hundred years.

The more verbose code is, the more prone to error and less maintainable it is.

I think this is true, but only to a certain point. Past that point the code becomes more difficult to understand and less difficult to maintain (for example all variables with one-letter names, few new lines). So there's a continuum there between terse impenetrable languages, and verbose impenetrable languages on either extreme, and you disagree with the OP about where on that continuum Go falls. It's all a matter of opinion and frankly is more subjective than objective and depends on things like the standard library and culture of the language far more than the syntax.

There are also many other factors in being maintainable and error prone - verbosity is only one of them. So saying that Go is more verbose than language X doesn't really tell us much about how prone to error or maintainable Go is compared to language X on its own. For what it's worth, I find it comparable to languages like C, Ruby or Python in terms of verbosity, which feels about the right place to stop being terse to me. YMMV.
The problem is really that doing crypto "right" has a lot of very subtle very complicated corner cases that are very easy to get wrong if you don't fully understand the internals. I'm not an expert on crypto, but I know enough to know I wouldn't ever dream of rolling my own. Your best bet is to get one of the well established (and well regarded) crypto libraries, pick a suitably large key length (if in doubt, go larger), and follow the documentation exactly.

Even using a good crypto library won't save you if you don't follow the docs or try to get creative with the API. For instance, using multiple passes of different encryption algorithms won't necessarily improve the strength of the encryption. Due to subtle mathematical interactions it can often lead to exploits that wouldn't have existed in the individual algorithms, but do exist in the combined algorithm. Similarly doing encryption quickly might seem like an important goal, but often consistency is more important lest you inadvertently create a potential timing attack.

TL;DR; Use a good crypto library, a large key size, a good source of entropy, and follow the documentation exactly, don't try to get creative with it.
Then why do we have Private Bills?
Agree. Never had a single problem that wasn't immediately resolved in over 300 orders.

Prior to using amazon my options were basically phone up then trek to Foyles in London or go to my local book shop and try and work out how to get them to order something that wasn't top 100 dross.

If you buy used books from them as well, they are actually cheaper than a lot of the charity shops now as well and you get a better hit rate.

And that's just the books side of things. Lenovo parts from China, phone parts from Canada, phones, computer parts, memory cards, camera, laptops. Just the best experience so far.

And you can talk to a human pretty much instantly from experience.
They are quite amazing: http://www.picturesw.com/2012/08/the-natural-root-bridges-of...
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And more broadly, must we refer to sex as 'gender'?
I don't know that I wish ill on the woman. I was confused by the article as to how she picked up on what he said, but if she saw "I'm going to shoot up a school" and was genuinely alarmed--and even if she's a total moron to miss the sarcasm--I think it's a net Good Thing that she alerted the authorities.

The onus lies with the authorities to distinguish between real leads and moronic, no-threat-at-all leads, and to not trample on the rights of innocent people while doing so. Unless the lady that reported him knew for sure that the authorities would grossly misbehave like this, I'd say she's fine. She's likely just a moron; blaming her lets the police and the DA off too easily.
To be honest, Borders was like a library with built in coffee shop in the UK. People just went in there, checked out the book and bought it on amazon whilst sitting in the shop eating blueberry cheesecake and drinking a nice cappuccino...
Ask HN: Which CAs can you trust?
I'm in the market for a couple of SSL certificates. With all this NSA news my natural paranoia is being amplified. I'd prefer to spend my money on a CA that's trustworthy on the one hand, and technically competent on the other.

Who would you recommend, and who should be avoided like the plague?
I'm not sure it really matters that we agree upon some "point" where it all goes to shit. Like the web, I think it's pretty clear that this sort of thing happens organically over time, and it's hard to pinpoint some particular cornerstone, but easy to highlight contributing factors.
Try this:

1. Step One Goes Here
2. Step Two Goes Here
3. Step Three Goes Here

vs

Step One Goes Here|Step Two Goes Here|Step Three Goes Here
A hardware problem is still a problem, though... Why would it be "written off"?
"I was very well mentally, but my parents pushed me the way I didn't want to go," he says. "My father is an artist and he runs his own business - he wanted me to do the same." But Matsu wanted to become a computer programmer in a large firm - one of corporate Japan's army of "salarymen. But my father said: 'In the future there won't be a society like that.' He said: 'Don't become a salaryman.'"

Starting your own SaaS/app/startup isn't that common for Japanese people, but it is starting to pick up more steam over the past few years. Sounds like his father would be happy to know what he can do with his computer skills if he expands out to becoming an entrepreneur.

A bit of a wasted opportunity there, that I wish someone could have explained the opportunities available to him instead of becoming hikikomori.
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If EVERYONE ON THE PLANET signed it, they would carry on doing it anyway.
Took quite a bit of Googling, but it looks like it's optimistic concurrency control.
It's because now more people search how to solve Gnome problems vs KDE problems. I'm not joking.
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It's all relative. The US spends some $75 billion: http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/07/news/economy/nsa-surveillanc... . I don't think Germany's budget will go a long way towards sweeping up global communications and analyzing them.
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Looks like some judge in Texas needs a lesson in First Amendment... And some guy needs a good lawyer that would destroy this crappy indictment.
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You mean family members actually respect each others' choices, even though they may seem dysfunctional? That sounds rather positive to me.
I know a few people in my generation who "opted out" of The Offer (+) who eventually found themselves doing web freelancing. There are social difficulties involved in doing it, but they're successful and MUCH happier with it than they were in their brief forays to salarymandom.

We'll be getting together for our college club annual reunion in September and once more trying to tell kids "Hey guys, if the salaryman thing doesn't pan out, we'll take you out to coffee and tell you about some other options." Many middle class Japanese kids have literally never heard that once in their entire lives.

+ Roughly 30% of Japanese society, mostly middle class and male, has this life plan in place from birth: You will study extraordinarily hard and test into a good high school. You will then study extraordinarily hard and test into a good university. You will be hired by a large Japanese megacorp along with 200 people from your university. You will then be a salaryman, owned body and soul by your company, and worked in conditions which resemble indentured servitude for roughly your first 20 to 25 years. In return, you will be promoted in lockstep with the rest of your entering class, you will never be fired, and you will be awarded social status and security with the guarantee of neither of them ever being imperiled by virtually anything.
3. The FBI did not consider these plans to be serious enough to lead to any actual action.

4. The FBI was watching whoever made these plans but since he did nothing it came to nothing.

etc. etc.
What's going on in Japan is a bit more severe than the western world's version. It came to a point where videos like these were made - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSq0XOHxJsQ
Note the top comment made 4 years ago. While depression definitely exists globally, I don't think I've heard of videos like these being made for any place other than Japan. If I'm wrong though, please correct me.
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There is Yacy for example. A p2p search project.

Interesting effect: Use Yacy as your web proxy and it indexes everything (non-SSL) you visit. Better history search than any browser offers you.

http://yacy.net
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>Trying to compensate a part-time contractor to get founder-level equity (eg. 10%) in proportion to "time put in" would be bloody insane!

I'm arguing the contractor should be compensated fairly. We're going through this entire exercise because the founders don't want to pay the contractor a market wage. So the service that is rendered should either be structured as a loan (convertible or otherwise), or the contractor is compensated with shares proportional to the amount of work under a fair valuation of the company. Don't like those options? Pay the man for the work he did. What's the alternative? Work for free?
Honestly, I don't know if I'd blame them.
Japanese society, particularly with regard to sociological structure has a lot to be desired.

Recruiting practice heavily centered to "new graduates" (which means if you don't get hired in the year you are graduating, you are screwed.)

Even if you do land on a job, then unpaid overtime being norm rather than exception.

Across the field, quality of output from any jobs in Japan are insanely high compared to many of countries; and basically workers end up paying the cost of that. (and many of them involving unpaid hours and over the top expectations) And I can certainly understand people exhausted to end up in the state of "Hikikomori."

It is a nice place to visit, but living there can be tough...
Maybe they don't really know how to act about it. After all (and I am just guessing here) tradition doesn't teach how to help this people.
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You've contributed some really useful information about the GPL and the LGPL, but the whole "please don't license it under the GPL" angle did nothing but initially reduce my receptiveness to that information as a reader.

The GPL is a perfectly good license, and a lot of very good things only exist because of it. That you would implore people not to use it at all seems an unwarranted use of hyperbole, and one that does not contribute anything to your actual point, which is that people should understand the full extent of the restrictions imposed by their choice of license.

For me, all this accomplished was to put my mind on the defensive as I read the rest of your comment. I had to go back and read it a second time in order to give my mind a chance to digest the real message.
No, it's "just right" for the human mind. It's not too verbose and not too concise.
Unless of course you actually did mention the Flying Spaghetti Monster,
because this would be an obvious attempt to demean another person's
religious beliefs.

Do you hear the hypocrisy, the conceit? Who gets to decide which fairy tales are blasphemous? Whose moral outrage is justified when others dare to disagree with their religious beliefs?
Hikikomori, momorikiki. Those are usual mental health problems such as depression (probably, around 98%), psychopathy, or mental retardation. Those guys just need to see the doctor, a psychotherapist.

Giving them tags and doing nothing about their problems is just uncivilized, such as in developing countries where most people are uneducated, the people with rare physical diseases who desperately need help get alienated or are made fun of.
Right. I believe the distinction is conscious thinking. Most of ones caloric consumption by the brain is from subconscious/passive processes, for maintaining the body, motor skills, alertness etc.
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So APL is the most maintainable and least error prone language?