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> I don't see how Firefox OS is necessarily any more open than Android is. Firefox OS still has a very centralized, limited-access organization behind it. This organization basically completely controls the development of Firefox OS. In practice, the wider community doesn't really have any say over the functionality that's supported, or the direction that's taken.

You couldn't be more wrong. Firefox OS is developed in the open, on GitHub. You can submit pull requests. Others have. They've been accepted. FFOS is implementing a very cool text selection concept that came from the community, for example.

Android is developed behind close doors. Only release versions are opened sourced. Android does not accept patches from non-Google employees.

> Android gives us the option of using Java, or using C and C++ via the NDK, for example. That's far more choice than we have under Firefox OS.

On FF you have the option of using any language that compiles to JavaScript, which has all of the same API capabilities as JS. This is not true on Android, where every attempt to port a JVM language to Davlik has failed (thus far).
My objection applies to all of the things that you mentioned, particularly IRC and "raiding". In fact almost all "raiding" that is associated with 4chan is actually planed/organized/orchestrated on IRC.
Super neat! And the downloads are in easily editable file format...You are awesome!

But seriously, thank you. This is going to make experience teaching the kids I'm mentoring so much better.
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The 'tags' icon looks like an on/off switch.
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I did the very same thing with my account, and also noticed everything that I deleted still showing up in the timeline. Pissed me off.

Need I remind everyone that Zuckerberg himself said people were "dumb fucks" for trusting him with their data?
Didn't he go to Hong Kong first, then leak the information? You can argue that he would have been picked up in the US had he stayed, and you're probably right, but if you depart in advance you can't properly be said to be fleeing, plus it's pretty understanable that a government would look askance at a person who a) leaked to a foreign media outlet, and only to a foreign media outlet and b) did so from the territory of a strategic rival (as opposed to some neutral place like Iceland, or Sweden, which have generous criteria for political asylum.
This is unacceptable!
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I think this is far more likely due to incompetence on the part of Facebook than malice.
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I think he's philosophical about it because, let's face it, her parents would have found out sooner or later -- certainly, by the time they got married!

But I agree with you about Facebook. I closed my account three years ago. (Heh -- three weeks later they tried to recruit me. I turned them down.)
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How many teachers in the past were men?

I went to primary school in the 80ies (Austria) and had only female teachers.

Which completely sucks as those women do. not. understand. young boys. Any natural behavior by young girls is good, any natural behavior by boys is distracting. You can't do that ad nauseum.

My step-son, 10years, had a male teacher for 3 years. What an amazing difference that makes. It's a mixture of laissez faire (I don't give a shit if they are beating each other with sticks) to quick and decisive aggressiveness (immediate consequence, not hour long conversations, nagging, etc.). The girls could not cope with this style so well.
In that case one could create an extension that creates a PGP keypair _for the recipient_, attaches encrypted crap to the e-mail, and deletes the private key. Is that what you mean?

The idea is to add by default an encrypted message to all e-mails that contain nothing useful, to make it indistinguishable from e-mails that do contain useful encrypted stuff. Is that possible? Does it make any sense?
I find rants like this quite interesting, especially when they end with lines like this:

> That is why I may delete my Facebook account. And that is why you should too.

"May". In spite of this pretty egregious behavior/bug, it's still a "may delete my Facebook account". That alone says something about the longevity of the business.
The only reason I am on Facebook and also not use AdBlock on Google Search is, I am in the internet business. And if you are in the internet-business, you do have to be a part of the system: all in.

I do not want to mull over a social media monetizing idea and wonder if Facebook has already figured it out. I just need to be there and know it myself.

Sad reason, but that's the way it is.
well said. a lot of these guys would rather eliminate the right as much as possible.
The $1.6 million a month estimate is completely made up. They just used some web service that tries to estimate, based on pageviews. Not based on any actual knowledge. (That said, they probably did well - but not that well.)

According to the same site, HN makes $1.4 million a year.
Is it not even present in the "Activity Log" screen?
Google can pinpoint your location very accurately, and they are usually quite agressive in promoting local results (including for tech queries, which is a pretty bad idea), yet they ask people in Poland: "In which US city are you ?".

I find that quite funny, to be honest.
It's still a short-sighted move by Microsoft. People who train using this software will find it really annoying to reload every 180 days.

If a college grad wants to learn new skills, will he/she: 1) reload the whole stack (Server, SQL, etc) every few months or 2) not be bothered with stupid notices and just learn Linux, OSS.

Technet was great program for learning. I am not willing to spend $6k on a MSDN subscription for learning to use Microsoft products. Instead, I will use this opportunity to learn more OSS software. Thanks Microsoft!
I would contest that anyone claiming America has equality of opportunity must necessarily show a correlation between recognizable Life Choices and the divergence of outcomes, and a lack of a correlation between personal background and the divergence of outcomes. Or in other words, equality of opportunity is measurable as social mobility (How many people wind up somewhere different from where they started?) and sociological significance of achievements (How are outcomes different between people who did X and people who did Y instead?).
On the contrary I think that his view is far more realist than yours. Her girlfrind gave her private picture to a third source. If you want to keep information secret you never give it away, not on internet not on the real life. Is not like facebook went to her homea amd took the pictures from her camera.
I don't think that facebook did a good job here of course. But it's more that it acted like a catalizer in a situation that was heading on tha direction any way.
I strongly doubt the average internet user knows what 4chan is.
> This is an incredibly high profile case and the Justice Dept doesn't want to win this one by cheating. They take pride in their work as investigators and prosecutors, they will want this case to be nice and fair.

nice joke. Manning would laugh at it if he had any mental or body energy left.
This is just piece of Putin's propaganda:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_democracy

Core idea is that because population is monolithic then there is no need for fair elections because result is known and constant.
I'm pretty sure it's all of them: http://www.typography.com/cloud/the-fonts/
blame the add ons. I had a vicious memory problem in FireFox and it turned out to be the ad blocker not handling cycletrader.com correctly, I could watch memory just climb and climb. Turn off the add on and all was fine.

FWIW, firefox still took more than twice the memory to show that site than IE did.
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You were arguing semantics, so was I.

We do now know nearly enough about the brain to understand what "identity" is for us to speculate on whether a brain transplant would mean losing part of it, let alone actually perform a successful brain transplant in a human.
The author is writing with heteronormative patriarchal assumptions in his ("Steven's") language, which is unfortunate. There are people doing good work to challenge this when it is institutional.

Most of this advice applies to any relationship, though.
This is pretty cool. How many people have both though?
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Right, but there are still some sticky issues surrounding nullification.

"This so-called right of jury nullification is put forward in the name of liberty and democracy, but its explicit avowal risks the ultimate logic of anarchy."

See:
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/juryseminar/US...
http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1382192.html

Essentially, while jury nullification does exist and should be upheld it is critical that jurors are aware of it beforehand or may be otherwise informed.
What would really make me wet my pants would be full page takeover-ads.

I'd pay serious money to do a full page targeted troll-ad on any number of boards.

I can't even imagine the scale of the butthurt that would ensue if someone bought a full page ad for something like my little pony figures and targeted one of the more masochistic boards like /v/.
One thing that has gotten lost in the noise of Xbox One's marketing mishap and the targeting of Mattrick is perhaps his history as a true entrepreneur.

While it hasn't shown so lately, Don does come from a grassroots background in gaming as a former 17 year old co-founder and programmer of Distinctive Software in 1982. His company was acquired by EA which likely put him on the path to executive level success. A kind of exit that some founders dream about.

It's easy to make a judgement and discredit or target him but I do believe he has genuine passion for gaming and hopefully he can infuse some of that in a place like Zynga.
We have that. It's called about:config.
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I agree that more context is needed to really know what this number means, and I agree that mindcrime is overstating the case by claiming that it is sufficient to let us conclude absolutely that the FISA court is not doing its job.

But I still think the number probably indicates that there is a serious problem. Further investigation is certainly warranted.
Since lots of this data is sent through not encrypted HTTP, this means that NSA (and any other intelligence agency) can also get all this data...

Then people wonder the "nothing to hide" well, you might not, but will everyone you know be bothered you are sending their e-mails around to intelligence agencies?
>The brain has zero software it's 100% hardware.

Not really. Well, only true in the sense that a PC has zero software, it's 100% hardware, because, after all, a magnetic disk or a SSD is hardware too.
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At various times in history the ACLU has defended the KKK.

Yes, and? If you actually believe in free speech, calling someone a Horrible Person is not a disguised argument for shutting them down.

4chan is full of really horrible people. Sometimes I am one of them. This doesn't mean they should be shut down by the government or something. However, it also doesn't mean they're Glorious Heroes Fighting For Righteousness.
"This IP License ends when you delete your IP content or your account unless your content has been shared with others, and they have not deleted it."

It would be interesting to try to send Facebook a DMCA take-down notice if they undelete your content.
It's basically defunctionalization. It's hard to get access to function pointers on the GPU to do "real" higher order functions.
The Super Bowl ring story falls nicely in the category of a story that's far too good to bother to fact check.
Probably a lot, if Google buys Tesla.
It's not clear that Ecuador bowed to political/economic pressures as much as Mr Assange upset Ecuador by appearing to be the orchestrator (showboating)[1], [2].

[1]http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2013/06/ecuador-snow...
[2]http://www.elcomercio.com/politica/RafaelCorrea-Assange-Snow... Use google translate.
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>“Look! Keith! I drew a circle!”

And this was pretty much the extent of Andy Warhol's artistic ability.

It's a travesty that one of this man's photographs is one of the top ten most expensive pieces of art ever sold, when there's literally hundreds of thousands of artists who produce better work with less resources.

Good artists work hard. People like Warhol are just con men.
Yep. My guess is that when you deactivate, FB marks your posts as deleted to remove them from view, then when you reactivate, it unmarks them, but doesn't make a distinction between whether the user manually deleted them, or whether it was automatically done as part of the deactivation process.
I think you should ask some 29 year olds if they'd like that kind of fame. I think the vast majority would say: No Way.
What if you DO have something to hide? Company secrets can be very, very valuable for someone.
Personal story, but nevertheless humiliating and tied to facebook. I was never able to get an explanation or even contact FB's support about it.

Within a matter of hours, I lost over 150 facebook friends. Somehow, it was also tied into instagram and I unfollowed all my friends. Not sure how this happened. But you could imagine that it's embarrassing to have to re-friend people on facebook and explain that you didn't do it on purpose. I'm sure there are some people I forgot to refriend who think that I just de-friended them for personal reasons. This just ties into the fact that whatever happens to you on facebook will be broadcast to your entire social network.
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And people wonder why it was hard for 4chan to break even? (I'm not being sarcastic)
If you assume that the servers only retain data for one month, then the server costs are cut by a factor of 12 and you end with €168M/12=€14M (roughly $18M). And a total cost of $22M.

Additionally the posting assumes that all the data is stored, that is a lot of cat videos. With decent preprocessing you can probably cut the data rate by a rather large factor ( I would assume at least 100, since you do not need to store warez or the NYT homepage.) Then to do the opposite estimate, by assuming that the system is CPU bound, one needs hardware to process 120 GB/s. With roughly $10M you can then buy a few thousand machines, and your PRISM software needs to handle something like ~50 MB/s per machine. ( Which may or may not be a reasonable data rate, depending on the sophistication of the algorithms, and how much can be discarded very easily.)
The now-banned subreddit had an external forum (the name of the subreddit with a prepended 'r', if memory serves) which they used to coordinate raids with obvious malicious intent.

The whole point of free speech is that unpopular groups aren't shut down for having unpopular opinions.

Reddit's administration has made a point of this as much as they possible. But when you break the rules, you break the rules.
This is like slapping a very insecure solution on a problem that will eventually die (snail mail).
And? I would certainly say much of IRC is a "bad neighborhood" ethics-wise. It's half the fun of the internet that we can hang out in the worst neighborhoods of all, the very dens of crime and iniquity and blah blah blah, and yet stand no risk whatsoever of actually being mugged.
I wouldn't be so polite as to call it "unfortunate". It's lazy, and it's careless in the kind of way that leads to serious error.

As I pointed out, lots of entrepreneurs (including me) are in committed relationships when the urge to create a new business strikes, and face entirely different challenges. That goes beyond the heteronormative, patriarchal language failures and into a general failure to understand real people.
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When you send someone a letter, you might have a copy and they will have a copy, but the post shouldn't. If you burn your copy, you don't expect the post to send you a backup.
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Absolutely. Berkshire holds sizable positions in companies that spend significant amounts of money on marketing and website design.

What I find fascinating is the absolute simplicity. People do not buy shares in BRK for fancy design or cutting-edge tech solutions. They buy shares because Warren Buffett has return 586,000% gain over the life of the fund (i.e. 1964 to present).

Berkshire, with Warren Buffett at the helm, does one thing really well: make money. That is their product and that is all they focus on.
But when will have programming languages that can accommodate them? Haskell gives some hope, and Go, but we're no where near where we need to be for mainstream developers to take advantage of so many cores.

Any ideas?
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You get a lawyer and call up the TV news when you turn yourself in (without telling them who you are or why).
Bradley Manning is being tried by the U.S. military, not the Justice Department.
Maybe this is why Greewald tweeted this earlier:

"NOTE: Snowden's leak is basically done. It's newspapers - not Snowden - deciding what gets disclosed and in what sequence."

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/351730381478821888
This usually happens because the image is stored on a third party CDN, and their delete process probably just touches their local data. Of course they can delete stuff off the CDN, but I can see why this might have been missed. If you contact Twitter support, they can probably fix this.
In Italy there is not just a culture.
If you move of 50km you actually call stuff with differents names here in Italy.

As Example:

Ciaccino -> Siena

Schiacciata -> Firenze

Siena and Firenze actually are 1 hour away.

It is clear that every sub-italian-culture have different words and gesture.

I want to add that we use the same gesture in an extraordinary range of expression.
The same "Fk you" can be a joke or a serious one and we will use the same gesture.

Finally, only 20% of our communication is verbal, the rest is un-spoken communication.
I can guess that here in Italy the 30% is verbal+gesture communication, the rest is all about the tone of the voice (very important), the position of the body and other stuff.
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wow after reading this I went and closed account.
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500k is not that outlandish for a system like this. Cameron Purdy, who developed Tangosol (now Oracle) Coherence said that he regularly turned down $500k job offers. Bear in mind that their idea of "top notch" is not what gets bandied around here as "rock star". They're not programming Rails. They're talking people who have had their shit together since day one, have always been top of their class even after they got into the best universities, and have applied themselves their whole lives to the theory and practice of building big systems. I've built some biggish systems but I still spent a large amount of my university years and youth generally studying beer, skirts and house music. It makes a difference, I'm a long long way from what they're talking about.

Here's how I would think about it if I were building this. The total hardware costs are 168M, and the total personnel costs are 4M. Say I pay $500K instead of $200k and in doing so I get Jeffrey Dean instead of someone like me (I suspect I might have to pay more than $500k for Jeffrey Dean but bear with me). My costs have doubled but the efficiency of the system might be 5x or 10x better because I'm just quite good at my job and he's a total legend. That efficiency scales the total hardware cost, which dwarfs the personnel cost. I'd say $500k starts to look pretty cheap at that scale.
That reminds me of the time my History teacher called up my mom when I was in 9th grade.

Teacher: Yes, hi. Your son isn't taking notes in class, even though he is required to.

Mom: Well, what did he get on his midterm?

Teacher: 100

Mom: :| Goodbye.