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My feature, progress bars for downloads in the OS X Dock, made Firefox 22! Hope you all like it, and be sure to report any bugs.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548763
My goal is to not let this issue die and get swept under the rug. I want to see a return to government adherence to the Constitution.

My reference to "the bastion of freedom" is supported by the facts that people have been clamoring for "the American Dream" for at least 150 years now, they continue to do so, and our current president is a prime example of that dream being realized.
If a former pot head can come from a broken family, gain education, enter politics, and make millions of dollars as an author before ascending to the office of the presidency, then it proves that the "American Dream" is still attainable. People are still arriving on our shores in hopes of having a share in that American Dream.
However, in light of these latest revelations regarding the willful abrogation of our Bill of Rights by non elected bureaucrats, that "American Dream" is truly threatened.

To insinuate that I am ignorant of American history, merely because I chose to omit portions of said history, is an insult. You forgot about the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy...
My grandson's great grandfather, on his mother's side, was one of the original (Nisei) 100th Battalion soldiers during WW2, and I also served in the same unit decades afterwards. I am aware of all the crimes you've mentioned above, yet I will stand by my words. The USA has traditionally been a beacon of hope for oppressed peoples all around the world, until recently, and we are still a lot more free than many other nations, but we have been trending towards fascism lately, and the domestic surveillance program is proof of that claim.

Just because we know of the FISC that doesn't mean that it's not a secret court. The proceedings of the FISC are secret. We don't get to know what goes on in that court, thus it is a "secret court."

Secret police equals any of the entities that take part in the domestic surveillance program. The situation is synonymous with the NKVD/KGB/Stasi.
Anyone can be targeted with "Extraordinary Rendition," held indefinitely, and subjected to "Enhanced Interrogation," without anyone knowing what happened.
If that's not "secret police" activity then I don't know shit from shinola.

I have been engaging in this dialog for years now, and if you want to call it "whining," you are free to do so, but no matter what you call it I'll continue to call a spade a spade. I'll continue to engage in these discussions, be it here, or with my elected representatives.

I swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America from all enemies, foreign, and domestic, and have petitioned my government for redress regarding these violations of the Bill of Rights, but my words carry little, if any, weight on their own, yet if we all make it known that we refuse to sit idly by while our government oversteps its mandate then maybe, just maybe, things will be corrected.
> “My worry is that flat design will lead to less information density”

That seems like a very silly worry, given that visually rich design is demonstrably worse for information density, whereas “flat” design is demonstrably better for it.

Your argument of “decreased emphasis on visual hierarchy” has the design principles entirely backwards, especially when you look at apps like Tweetbot vs. iOS 7’s visual aesthetic. Whatever density is reduced in iOS 7 has nothing to do with its flatness, but all to do with the designers’ conscious decision to give UI elements more breathing space. But I can point you to dozens of iOS 7 examples that are more information dense now than in iOS 6, and the main reason for this is the flatter, simpler aesthetic requiring less whitespace to make information identifiable.
I might support this thinking ... except that we would be the only country in the world doing it. Wouldn't we essentially be rolling back the entire industrial revolution? What happens to manufacturing, commerce and IT when everything is the size of a hamlet? Would there be no more national banks? Would be go back to having local banks print their own currency?
Given that his startup is named Figma, does this not conflict with the Japanese figma brand toy line?

link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figma
My father in law is 80, he lifts weights every day, and can quote Shakespeare to you all day long. I hope to be half that awesome at that age.
"The document does not guarantee Snowden asylum. Instead, it serves as a travel document that will allow him to travel to Quito, Ecuador's capital."
wooooooo go dylan!!!
we were trusting that such programs would not exist here

It's still not clear what programs you are talking about. Because google provides no access logs "someone could go into our account and take confidential information, and we would never know". What does that have to do with Echelon or Prism?
Nothing the RIAA has ever done was good for consumers or artists. Why on earth would it be now?

Worth repeating Lowery's claim: the major label system worked somewhat like the VC system: hit artists made huge amounts of money on royalties, but midlist artists didn't; on the other hand, midlist artists got advances calibrated to their expected sales that locked in a middle class lifestyle. It was, as Lowery explains it, possible for a midlist artist to make a decent living selling music under the label system.

According to Lowery, midlist artists are totally shafted today. They get no advances, they get a pittance from royalties, and, contrary to popular opinion, they don't make a decent living from 2/3rds sold out club concerts.
> If I just accepted myself as me

Mistake #1. You have to visualize yourself as temporarily overweight, then go about exercising/changing your diet (you know, more fiber, less carb's) to reach that new set-point.

Measure your caloric intake, and your weight every day. If your intake is less than your standard metabolic activity, you'll lose weight. It's that simple.

> I feel like, eventually, people just end up settling and stop fighting to better themselves.

Don't do that! Yes the majority of people do that, but that doesn't mean you have to as well. I have too many old healthy people in my family to fall into that trap.
Something TO HACK and to DEVELOP YOUR minds WITH

I do not feel the shame of self-promotion, thank you for not annoying me with downvotes, much like Reddit.

Goodbye, Hacker-News, It's been a blast with you. I am not going to post anything else here, expect only comments. Sometimes, when you care for something or someplace, I think, it is normal to react with EMOTION. Emotion is the key feeling of Desire (or Lust), and is the driving force behind "attraction" and "dis-traction" of everything, therefore, My emotions here (if you can detect any) are dry, and it's time to move on, for me.... Ki..

Something to ponder WHICH exactly COVERS your idea of hacking:

Himuretsu (The Speach of the String, {for remembering passwords, and other shit for instance):

http://imgur.com/a/avNvd = http...-tsu-ki'o'co'mo ai-sla-tsuki-ai-vai-Ni-tsu-vai-do-ka

Goodbuy.
Not as simple as that.

Though federal benefits cannot be denied to married same-sex couples, state benefits can be if same-sex marriage isn't recognised in the state.

This still presents some headaches for some people and even the most well-meaning of employers.

For instance, imagine if you have a same-sex couple living in a state that doesn't recognise SSM (say, Wyoming) but who married in a state that does (Washington State). One of the two is working for a company just across the border in Washington State, but the other doesn't. Now imagine that the state provides health coverage while a person is unemployed, but it doesn't cover people whose partner's employer provides healthcare. Is the employed partner's health insurance liable for treating his unemployed partner or is the state liable to provide coverage?

What about when a couple is travelling? Is a gay partner covered by their partner's health insurance when visiting a state that doesn't recognise SSM? What about states that have civil unions rather than full SSM?

In Britain, it has been discussed a fair bit this week that even though since 2004 we've had civil partnerships which are supposedly "marriage in all but name", gay people in civil partnerships are still not getting fair treatment regarding pensions. As an openly gay man who might as some point want to get married, I've followed the news and discussions around the legislation on same-sex marriage in Britain fairly closely and I still don't know what the situation with pensions is, but apparently it's still broken.

I think things will be in a bureaucratic mess for a while. It'd probably be easier if it could be legalised across the whole country in one fell swoop... but that might just be wishful thinking on my part.
All these functions -with better docs- already exist in NPM.
My impression -- and its no more than that -- is that the current court splits 5-4 against marriage equality as a right.
I believe it was Sean Parker who is credited with helping Mark Zuckerburg maintain control.

He supposedly was the one who got mark 3 of the 5 board seats from the initial round of financing:
http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/10/sean-park...
The Entrepreneur & the Athlete
The people who accomplish the most are never satisfied with how much they have accomplished. Series of accomplishments require continuous accomplishing, which requires motivation. These high-achievers continue to accomplish so much because they constantly motivate themselves with thoughts of inadequacy. I assume most people only follow others who they see as more accomplished than themselves in some way. By definition you must follow someone in order to compare yourself to them. Thus, you must only compare yourself to people more accomplished than you. By doing do, you promote in yourself the same feelings of inadequacy that drive thr most acccomplished people.

tl;dr Compare your accomplishments to greater accomplishments by other people. Feelings of inadequacy will motivate you to accomplish more.
Hands On With Windows 8.1
With Us or Against Us
This isn't a game engine or a game; It's just the SDK for modders.
Microsoft throws a party and Hacker News doesn't care
Microsoft's BUILD conference is in SF this year. Venturebeat and Techcrunch are covering it but HN barely notices. Are they just irrelevant to most readers?
Using Xcode is a shit experience, it crashes numerous times each day, creates zombie processes when testing in the simulator, and has something like 1000 tiny problems that are irritating. LLDB is powerful, but not a proper REPL.

> using Xcode is a far superior experience to RubyMotion and any editor

Yesterday I had to convert a list of constants into mathematical operations. Took ten seconds to make the macro in vim, and then I ran it twenty times in a second. Compare with the five to ten minutes it would have taken doing option+arrow around the numbers to add characters before and after.

I've turned off all of Xcode's text editing functionality (except for esc to code complete) because it was interfering with typing instead of helping. I've tried to turn off all the "jump to error" stuff in the settings, but it still insists on jumping to the disassembly for main() when it hits an error.
I meant _look_ into this, of course...
Are there credible stats that can corroborate this (especially the 2/3rds bit), or is it just Lowery's word?
Fair point; there are some activities that it is simple not feasible to terminate at a moment's notice. But this wasn't one of them: standing between the woman and the end of a claustrophobia-induced panic attack wasn't the laws of nature but two goons scared of the legal consequences of their actions. Helluva difference.

And remember, even if the woman knew in advance she was at least somewhat claustrophobic, the exact nature of the physical and legal risks were unknown: maybe the woman would have been fine if they had been climbing up ladders onto an abandoned rooftop instead of down ladders into an abandoned subway.
Reminder: 72 hours left to export feed list OPML from Google Reader
On 1 July, Google Reader will shut down.

It is unknown if you will be able to export your OPML feed list after this date.

Save your feed subscriptions now.
You don't have to think of it as a motivator or something that makes you feel minuscule.

Given the time people are spending on the internet these days, exposed to things no other generation was, much of this happens subconsciously.
ITunes is by far the most inclusive music service.

Apple offers iTunes Music in 118 countries. Microsoft offers Xbox Music in 22 countries. Amazon offers Amazon MP3 in 7 countries. Google offers Google Music in 1 country.[1] Then there are the streaming services: Pandora serves 3 countries, while you can become a Spotify member in 31 countries.

[1] http://www.macstories.net/news/mapping-the-entertainment-eco...
Xcode has command line tools. You don't have to use the GUI exclusively. Also I know at least one developer that uses vim for editing but uses Xcode for building. It's probably in your best interest to use some combination (e.g. Xcode for configuring your build settings)
If you look at some of the most successful people, most of them are driven by other motivators besides success. Many are driven to make a difference in the world (Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, etc), others were super super curious (Richard Feynmann, Neil Degrasse Tyson, Warren Buffett) and pursued / stuck with their passions, and others were at the right place at the right time (and of course people are often some combo of all 3). The thing is, very few people just are addicted to success for the SAKE of success, and some of those people have an unhealthy addiction for money. Success is what you make of it. There are many people in the energy sector driven to eradicate global warming and get off our fossil fuel addiction. Many of them will be never known to the world / famous in any way, but they are always looking to make more and more of an impact daily and be successful over time (even if many of them won't ever be rich or famous).
java js python
rust and scala are the best practical and powerful language that I have ever known.
Possibly due to Summertime, I am constantly checking http://showhnapp.herokuapp.com/ it shows every post that contains the words "Show HN". That's how I found this post!
I'm not talking about recording anything off your sound mix. It's significantly easier than that. As in right click and save easy.
Subversively inspirational.
EFF Sues FBI For Access to Facial-Recognition Records
NPAPI plugins, ActiveX controls, etc. are just native libraries that are loaded into the browser's process. So, they can do anything that any other native application can do.
You're just name calling. The parent made some claim extolling the nobility of homelessness and making some claims about being homeless in third world countries that I thought were little more than naked assertions and I called them as such. You're just parroting anti-Americanism. :(
Taken from the source you provided:

"It is likely, however, that drafts of the documents were written on paper made from hemp. In that period, most paper was made from hemp or flax and a mixture of recycled rags and cloth."

So, technically, the Declaration of Independence was written on hemp. It was then transferred to a more durable platform provided by the Netherlands.
Right krapp. I will absolutely take care of that from now on, and also, I will fix that code ASAP. :)
It also, lately, has exactly zilch to do with it being sensitive information. Pretty much everything is classified now, precisely because it prevents discourse from happening.
Actually, I think that if you want to live off of making music you should think like an artist and plan on making most of your money by actually playing music instead of hoping that you can make a living off of music you played decades ago. Intellectual property and royalties were only invented less than 200 years ago and there's no guarantee that people will be able to depend on that as a source of income in the future.
Apple Tries to Get USTR to Undo the ITC's Injunction Against It
Node.js VS Ruby on Rails When to Use What? (still same or not?)
Ask HN: What tech mantras/advice are the least true?
Obviously any axiom or piece of advice can be proven wrong given the right circumstances. But are there any oft-repeated nuggets of wisdom that, in your personal experience, have been proven egregiously wrong, or that you suspect are wrong for MOST people MOST of the time?

Please support with personal experience or careful observation of others' experiences - this is not an invitation to just rant or take pot shots.
Related: There's a fellow named Bradley Garrett who did his PhD dissertation on "Place Hacking". GQ has an awesome article of the crazy places he has explored and his run-ins with law enforcement when "hacking" certain restricted locations.

http://www.gq.com/news-politics/newsmakers/201303/urban-expl...
I found HN is very interesting... especially the feather of link is lispy.
What suspicious "political and cultural symbolism" lies behind the rainbow pride flag? Pride, tolerance, and acceptance of other people's sexualities and lives.

Oh my. What ghastly values. What terrible "appropriation".

Words change meaning over time. People create logos and symbols to represent their ideas and points of view. When corporations do it to sell things, it's called branding. When we do it to try and get treated like equals by society, it's called "appropriation". Sigh.
Sorry, I am getting confused by all the jargon being used here and in the article.

You say you pay artists but then you imply that you pay associations / labels who then pay artists based on their contract with the association / label.

Doesn't that mean that you do not pay artists in the same manner as Pandora?

(also, if you have the time, I am not exactly sure what the performer, artist etc. separation is regarding payments, could you clarify?)
I found a niche at the intersection of art, music, engineering, and manufacturing. I basically said to myself in 2005, "What am I better at than anyone else?" and proceeded to build my niche into a viable business. At this one thing, I'm confident (not because of my own evaluation, but the judgment of my target market) that I've found something I'm very good at that's worth pursuing. Yes this is very general advice, but it worked for me.... hope it sheds some light.
It's generally possible to get Windows laptops of better quality than Apple's, but it's also possible to get worse. It's not a good idea to answer the question of "Windows vs. Mac" without looking at specific alternatives.
No he isn't being deceitful at all! He explicitly says that he is talking about the performance fee and not the song writer fee. He is very clear to distinguish them in his post.

Yes he blends them into the conversation about how much radio stations pay, and what a play is worth, because it is relevant to the discussion! Performers deserve to get paid for performing their songs as well as the writers.
you must have read something else
Technology focused? I'll remember that the next time I see a string of "how to run a startup" and "how to raise VC" posts.

Personally, I'm happy there's only one post on HN about it. Generally, discussions of social issues on HN tends to bring out the crazies in force.
I don't think you should be downvoted, that's childish. But, I will say I disagree. I am the last one to defend the hysteria over NSA's Prism, for the simple fact that this is such, in my view, low brow stuff that should not surprise any sophisticated person one bit. Nevertheless, many people that are not technologists do care. Now, I haven't done a poll and I imagine the "teeming masses" couldn't care less, nevertheless, intelligent people do care and are interested, if not up in arms. I suspect many may not be up in arms for the same reason I am. I mean really, is it that shocking that the phone companies and Google, Facebook (why would Facebook care about your privacy with respect to the government? They will share your data with anyone and everyone Zuckerberg has basically stated privacy is irrelevant in the past) would share information with the government?

Honestly, I don't see why it is is scarier to think Eric Holder might have access to your data or Eric Schmidt ... Anyway, I think people do care.
Technically, we don't know for sure, and technically, I said that the copy in the National Archives was not -- which is technically correct.

Technically, it doesn't really matter. I'm sure the founders meant that we should have "the right to experiment with your own consciousness", a sentiment which, FWIW, I wholeheartedly agree with.
Don't forget this download lasts a year, as it is a trial only. Read the fine print after your two hour set-up to see everything is useless after the set date. I ended up canceling my update.
The XVim plugin? That's hardly a complete implementation.
A time slider used to be present in Google Earth software an year back. Don't know about it now though.
You're making a strawman out of Stallman's position though. It is not lost on Stallman that some hotel clerk doesn't care about the source code running on his phone. This is sort of not relevant in a very real and fundamental way. Think of it this way, do you think the same hotel clerk cares about the congress following parliamentary procedures, or tort law, or anything like that? No. But, does our society depend on such things (at least in some capacity)? Yes.

Stallman doesn't care that you don't care about getting the source code; that's just not the point at all. Also, Stallman's issue about free software is not just about not being spied upon -- and also his ideology mostly deals with software. :)
Google employees frequently participate in Pride parades as a group:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Google_gay_pride.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WorldPride_2012_-_10...

Google have also had a 'Legalize Love' campaign started in 2012 - http://www.google.com/diversity/legalise-love.html

Google also produced a TV ad for Chrome based on 'It Gets Better', and invited Dan Savage to talk at Google about It Gets Better.

So, yeah, Google love the gays. I'd love 'em back but for Google Reader. ;)
Mobile malware report
Court Order told Yahoo that Prism does not require a warrant [pdf]
"Don't dream it, be it."
I've always been fascinated with Von Neumann. Inventing game theory, developing the quintessential computer architecture, putting quantum mechanics on an axiomatic basis, having almost as many theorems named after him as Gauss... Few of us can even hope to develop his depth of mastery in one field, much less in the breadth and variety of fields in which he achieved.
'Yonatan Zunger, the chief architect of Google+, wrote in a Google+ post today that: "I can tell you that the only way in which Google reveals information about users are when we receive lawful, specific orders about individuals -- things like search warrants."'

From the court order: "We add, moreover, that there is a high degree of probability that requiring a warrant wound hinder the government's ability to collect time-sensitive information and, thus, would impede the vital national security interests that are at stake." Cough
Facebook follows Google with super-tough encryption technique
Umm I could be wrong, but I don't think that is possible. If it is, how would you go about doing it?

I just spend about 30 seconds right clicking on random stuff while pandora was playing and never sound a save that would let me save the MP3.
"If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter; for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself."

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