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In the link for the alternative icon, the icon designer has declined to enter any new discussions, as he felt "insulted" with the Dash developer's reactions on Twitter. He feels any more discussion is "a waste of time."

At any rate, I wish we non-Mac users had something like Dash.
Might want to put in a little thought towards a (N)SFW mode...
I'm not a tax expert but I think that would only apply if you're a citizen of the USA, which is the only country in the world that taxes you on your worldwide income.
This list is far from complete, because it only mentions web apps.

There are plenty of RSS readers that aren't web-based.

My personal favorite of those is Newsbeuter.[1]

[1] - http://www.newsbeuter.org/index.html
Have u done some market research? Would ppl use such a system? Try maybe to get a list of 200 ppl that would use it and after that build it, maybe more devs will be interested in joining once a base customer list is set.
Also take a look at the current state of the organic and non-GMO certification programs that exist.
I LOVE this idea, and it's totally fine if it becomes "a vast wasteland of garbage" as mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Technically, so is YouTube, but you probably don't look at all the garbage. You look at the good stuff that surfaces to the top. Occasionally, you stumble on a gem.

It may have some struggles getting off the ground. After all, if you just want to put something on the internet, there are now many many ways to do that.

But for many people, the first step beyond their Tumblr page is still a total mystery. I learned HTML and Javascript because when I was 14, I wanted a website for my comedy troupe (no longer active). I spent hours researching free web hosting and stumbled upon Geocities. That kicked off a life of programming and a love for the web that has never died.

There are still people out there who would love to learn HTML and have some more control over what they put online. Bravo to Kyle for making it possible. Make a donation - even if you don't think you'll personally use it. It's worth it if it inspires even one kid to start building something.
Wow look at that negativity.
Geocites had awesome content and taught me HTML. (Ok frontpage and the web taught me)

>The reason being that's what a platform like Geocities enables; garbage. It empowers people who are willing to put in basically no effort to make a static page with no scripting. That's not a recipe for amazing content, that's a recipe for bottom barrel content.

No that makes sites that focus on design, ads and lots of crap rather than content.

Today's "flat design" is just the web circa '96 all over again.
In some Communist states you didn't own your home or even your car.

To be fair, many Communists don't consider those states real communism. This is analogous to Libertarians rejecting state-run crony capitalism.
Games should really be trialed differently. Like only include a small number of the levels/characters but allow for unlimited (or much longer) time.
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No one suggested that.
I went to Google Takeout (https://www.google.com/takeout/#custom:reader), checked my feeds for private ones (didn't have any) and submitted my feeds
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The rules may seem absurd.

But consider this: You find documents marked "secret" on a laptop. What do you do? The documents happens to be possible to find online. Do you just shrug and move on? How do you know that this laptop was not used in the leak? What if you find thousands of different documents across your network. How do you verify whether or not they have leaked previously?

At the very least you end up spending more resources verifying that this was not caused by a security problem.

And the idea of spamming the military with classified documents would be hilarious to see in practice... I wonder what they'd do...
The formatting style is standardized by go (Enforced by gofmt) and they made the choice of tabs over spaces :)

http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#formatting
Fair point, although Google Reader is a web app so I think its safe to assume that a viable alternative to it should also be accessible via the browser on any platform.
Do you really believe that encrypting any data would have changed something? The government is making it up as they go along. I mean, his mother getting charged is a clear mafia-style message send.
Remaining anonymous is difficult to combine with making a living as a journalist.
Coming to the valet parking area of a Moscow Night Club near you.
Maybe a more objective search engine. It'd be better for researching ideas than popculture or really ordinary questions. But for people trying to answer more in depth questions it would be great if the search engine 1) didn't base results partially on your own preferences / likes etc. & 2) found a way to index ideas based on their referenes. Ie. if you're searching for articles on a topic bring up the ones that have been peer reviewed the most. Similarily if it's just a blog post post the ones that reference credible sources higher than the ones that don't cite credible sources or don't even cite anything.

Also, if you have access to them, look at systems like WestLaw & Lexis and how they index information in various ways. Incorporating some of these ideas could be very helpful if made to the public - ie. the key system for indexing topics, history systems to see where ideas/articles are drawing their precedence from & how they have been used after publication.
We've got a more complex application (Pathwright) running Django, and we're currently going much more heavy client side. Nothing about Django keeps you from doing this, and there are some excellent third party apps that actually make it very easy (django-rest-framework is awesome).

> Django have a bright future in a world that's moving heavily client side, or will it be relegated to a relatively bland corner of the web world?

This is one of those questions seeking controversy where there is none. Django seems to get out of the way even more when you shift to a heavier client.
The argument here isn't between people being able to make websites or not. The point is "Is Geocities as a platform worth anything?"

People can make websites themselves elsewhere.
The government employs millions of people (I haven't checked the figure). What if they told all those people they couldn't read the NYTimes or a whole range of publications?

Those employees are voters too and have a right (and possibly a democratic duty) to be informed. No employment contract should ever restrict your ability to remain properly informed.
I have a secret for all of you not using DoD networks... like any large organization, the military blocks websites all the time. Most for being completely unrelated to doing work or for being completely wasteful of scarce bandwidth in places like Afghanistan (e.g., HD video sites).

It also costs a lot of taxpayer dollars to scrub a machine of classified data when there ends up being spillage, better to avert that problem entirely.
Getting all your data out of Google Reader
Where did "unwilling human test subjects" come into play?
See, GCM is the PS3 graphics API. It replaced PSGL. Before the launch. So you saying "PSGL/libGCM" makes me doubt you have used either. And 360's API is a superset of dx9, no mopre dx9 than the dx11 runtime, which also includes dx9.

I have never made a mobile/web game, I've made coupe PC ports and had harder time due to the retarded APIs, insufficient tools and the complete lack of technical support.

> Also, if you were running a small studio which would you develop for considering the entry cost on console runs upwards of 50-100k just to get started?

It depends on genre. If I'd been making cowclickers - I'd target web, these don't sell really that well on consoles. If I'd been making The Last of Us - guess what?

> You admit it takes more time, well I have yet to see a console game take less than a year minimum and meanwhile the longest mobile timeline has been 3-4 months. If you have 3-4 years of development would you rather launch 2-3 console games if that or 10-15 mobile/web/desktop titles with same resources? The risk on console games/markets today is immense.

I admit it takes more time to port to PS3 from PC than to 360 from PC. Native development is faster, at least for me.
The other question makes little sense. Sounds exactly like "if you could write a book or a 100 tweets, what would you choose?" These are incomparable in my opinion.

Also I don't play games that ship in 3-4 months. I don't work on the stuff I don't play. They are probably easier to make than the AAA console titles. If I wanted easy I'd be an "architect", slacking at some big corp.

Finally I cannot even imagine how you draw change to x86 architecture from desktop development. Common memory pool is much easier, this is why everybody led on 360 in PS3/360 titles. Has nothing to do with mobile, Mark does not even mention mobile in that interview (or any other).
We're really looking forward to this. We'll still use pgbouncer, but we think we may see a slight boost.
Is that supposed to be read as "phone me" or "phoneme"?
Another option is to make offline support a paid feature.
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Thanks for the idea.

I built a flexible scraper for downloading and filtering the docs so you can except more sources to be added soon.

Toggling docs on and off is also on my todo list.
I couldn't agree more that most of the tools in this area could benefit from some better explanations and best practices. The development is happening at such a rapid pace that it becomes very difficult for a newcomer to figure out what's going on. I talked to someone at Opscode about it yesterday and he agreed, and said that it's something they are working on, so hopefully this will get better soon.
Precisely. I salivate for Sublime Text, but I restrain myself from even trying because of that. Vim is very powerful and will probably run on my contact lens in 10 years.

I've been married to Photoshop for almost 20 years (which already ties me to either OS X or Windows) and our relationship has recently gone sour financially. Open Source gives you a peace of mind that's very reassuring when it's your daily, almost irreplaceable tool.

Your suggestion is good, I think we haven't yet reached the sweet spot between user freedom and developer paycheck.
So, judging by the text of the article, the cost of the government's backing is a test drive in a shiny car.

Please tell me there's more to the story than that.
One of the most important parts of geocities functionality was allowing users to integrate their static HTML sites with the backend functionality provided by Yahoo.

Stuff like guestbooks,hit counters and even chatrooms. From what I remember you dumped some magic tag in there which was parsed by the server which added a chunk of HTML that was dynamically generated.

Does Neocities have something like this?

You could do all sorts of fun things with this, like javascript games which allow site owners to create lobbies for their website.

So something like:

<Game gametype="bomberman" lobby="mylobbyname">
This is making the access of certain
unclassified, public systems unlawful
according to UCMJ.

I think that's indisputable. If the public system has classified material on it, then it is unlawful for someone without the proper clearances to read it.

We are in a position to reject this notion
and speak out against it. The soldiers are
not.

Last I checked becoming a soldier was currently a voluntary act.
To what degree do spoken languages influence our programming languages?

If programming would have been developed in asia, what would be the paradigm for programming be?

Lines of code? Pictures? Left to right? Top to bottom? Objects and methods?

Any steampunk fantasies available reg. programming languages? How weird would those be?
Pillow is now the preferred image manipulation library to use with Django.

Nice!
If I get a travel visa to England, I can get free cancer treatment?
I was thinking the same. We'll see.
Exactly. The last time there was an open debate (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Awareness_Office) about mass surveillance, Congress realized it was a bad issue with the public. So what did they do? Government simply moved these programs into black budgets or granted retro-active immunity, or modified the FISA rules to make sure everything fit into a legal framework that is Congress Approved. They wrote the laws and fund the programs. They want these programs. Why would they care to have a public debate about them?
If 2.999 billion elements never make it into those analytic reports then it may very well be possible that of the remainder that manual systems like PRISM end up being the majority source. As you note, there are hundreds of SIGADs, of which PRISM is just one.

> And why did Page, Zuckerberg and Apple say they never heard of PRISM?

Because PRISM is the name for the NSA end of that service and associated data tools. The company end of that service would be whatever they called the system they use for FISA warrant/NSL compliance.
When you look at BB10 and WP8 in isolation they look great. They're pretty and have lots of attractive features and the launch events look very slick. You can see how other people might buy them.

But you'd never buy one yourself, because there's just nothing there you can't get on an iOS or Android device, at leats not enough to make any difference. So yes, maybe other people will but them, and maybe they'll get traction, so clearly they have a chance, but not me. I might think about it, but I'd never actually buy one. The problem is everyone thinks that way*.

Except for maybe 1% or 2%. But then you can always find 1% or 2% of people that'll do anything.
Think about all the potential car dealers you just put out of business...
Article headline reads "Ex-Pentagon general target of leak investigation, sources say", and article refers to General Cartwright as "the former second ranking officer of the US military" as "the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff".

HN headline of "Former second-in-command of US military accused of Stuxnet leak" is inaccurate, even as a portrayal of the article; the US military chain of command runs from the President through the Secretary of Defense and then diverges through, principally, the various combatant commands; the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs may be the second-highest-ranking uniformed officer, but is not the "second-in-command" of the US military (that's the Secretary of Defense.)
You are still missing the point, sorta. See the replies below this. This article is designed to cause division between your left and right so they bicker about whose fault it is and take their eyes off the overall issue.

American's have forgotten their own history. They generally believe their government is "good", thou their founding fathers believed all government was evil.. And attempted to create a government for the people, that could be overthrown by the people.

"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one"
- Thomas Pain, Common Sense

American's have forgotten their history, and have been fed that their government is "good", while others are "bad" or "oppresive". You've forgotten that "All crows are black".

You technically have the ability to "vote" for a change, but you don't. You vote for the talking puppet on the right hand, or the talking puppet on the left hand. Not realizing both hands belong to the same body.

You have the ability to do so much more, yet you do so little.
It's more that you use configuration management for the software, and then Vagrant does the hardware and hands control over to your configuration management for the software. Vagrant can also do the software itself, yes, but the way of doing so is running shell scripts, so it's far preferable to use a configuration management tool (the main benefit being idempotence).
Funny. I use gin to remove memories.
Great interview.

The last poll I saw on this was that over 75% want a committee to investigate, and roughly the same percentage cross party lines. "A new Church committee" is one of the demands from StopWatching.us and from EFF et. al.'s open letter to Congress.
What is going to prevent this platform from becoming a massive spam fest or a link farm to other sites?
> health coverage isn't a major concern for 20-something hackers who sit in front of computers all day.

I wouldn't be too sure about that.
I'm all for it. But hopefully the Congress people that will be part of the investigation team won't be the same people that butt-kissed the intelligence chiefs at the past 2 hearings.

Put Wyden and Udall in charge, or even better - some people from EFF/ACLU.
A lot of countries tax you if you're a resident still, even if physically non-present (Canada, etc.), and earn the income in a foreign country. You can do stuff to become officially non-resident first. that is the thing you can't do as a US citizen.
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You don't really use either of those keys on OS X.
That raised my eyebrow as well. The 65th anniversary of the Baby was just a week ago, so it was fresh in my mind. It was experimental, but the follow-on Mark-1 does seem to have beat the EDSAC by about about a month. I love reading about those old machines, so much happening so fast.
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Is there an easy way to tell which bugs have been fixed as a part of this release?
The web itself is a vast wasteland of garbage, you just manage not to visit most of it.

Don't visit the neocities domain, and your problem is still solved.
I'm a big Tesla fan, but is it really the job of the white house to tell states how to regulate commerce? I could be wrong but it doesn't seem like this is an interstate commerce issue if Tesla is trying to actually open shops in each state.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commerce_Clause#Role_of_the_po...
Neat. I had no idea that such a protocol existed let alone that it'd have such a ... colorful ... name that makes it hard to find :)

I wonder how hard this would be to get it implemented in some of the other readers.
Learning through a product
I'm not talking about those wars. I'm talking about the War On Terror which was the genesis for spying on Americans. We don't have a war on Al Qaeda, we have a war on Terror. It doesn't get anymore nebulous than that. Neither Bush nor Obama would stand before the American People and say that the authorization of force in Iraq justified a sweeping surveillance program that includes American citizens. But the War on Terror enables them to do exactly that because of its murkiness. I don't blame either Bush or Obama for taking advantage of the power vacuum left by Congress in the War on Terror. I just wish Congress would take some of that power back.
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Everyone laughs when you compare living in the US with living in China and yet... With stories like this of the US going after journalists and even bullying their families to make a point, I wonder how far are we really.
And they can easily make great websites at geocities.

I don't understand your objection to this service.
Best sentence about the attitude: "The shoes aren’t magic, you have to force yourself to dance."
I personally hope django (and rails) keep their focus on the "bland corner of the web." The vast majority of (useful) sites out there are dead dull from a technology perspective, and I'd like tools that help me develop & deploy those types of sites as quickly as possible.
Interesting, thanks for clarifying.

Perhaps I'm biased by my own ignorance, but the speed of sound in the solar wind (or the fact that terms like "speed of sound" still make sense in an ostensible vacuum) seems like the sort of thing a reasonable person might not know. If science writing is to be accessible to the layperson, an explanatory parenthetical (even just clarifying the approximate speed at which the subsonic wind was traveling) would have been helpful.

Thanks for the downvote, though.
Okay, but the Mercator projection is/was used very frequently in schools where there's isn't a choice in the matter. It's such a widespread misconception and most people aren't taught about how map projections work so it's a part of the general public consciousness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8zBC2dvERM
So it's like nearly everything Google is famous for then?
You can't prove a negative, and nor can I. As you say, there are lots of examples of people who tried to setup economic systems outside of capitalism and still failed to keep humans from acting like humans, so I'd wager to say that the totality of evidence has definitely bolstered that particular assertion.
I'm currently bootstrapping a startup in London [0].

The problem for technical people creating startups in Europe isn't just lack of capital. It's risk-adverseness and occasionally classism. Unless you're creating a pure internet startup you will need to work with other businesses and your first issue is in convincing them to take a risk on you; if you've not got an MBA from x University, some friends in the industry and a couple of entrepreneurship awards it's only harder to do this.

The other ways up are really silly. Incubators that want you to social proof yourself with a number of popular advisors, etc. Also known as "You have to be in to get in." Or the weird government schemes that will give you a nice loan to pay-off, or the very dodgy-looking startup schools which want you to pay a fee to have them parrot obvious advice at you "Be Lean! Be Agile! Fill Out This Canvas!" The only important things are the right connections and an opportunity to prove yourself and what's there is often about legitimising the institution above giving the player an opportunity to legitimise themselves.

But, as with all things, just because something's difficult doesn't mean you shouldn't try. Better to try, fail and learn than to continue as a bystander.

[0] http://getawayapp.co
This is because the market standard was and is $50. It's of no surprise that developers are reticent to pay inflated prices that aren't in line with comparable products.

If everyone else in town is selling coffee for $4 per cup, even the rich people won't patronize a store selling it for $5.
I wouldn't say all English speakers - someone saying "gonna" sounds distinctly American to me. Around here, something like "gonnae" (which sounds more different than the small difference in spelling would suggest), common usage:

"Gonnae no' dae that?"
We're living in the last decades/centuries of a doomed empire... The system they have created will not work. It will lean toward tyranny, and corruption, and there will be a long, boring, dull fizzle as it all grinds down.

This reminds me of Venkatesh Rao's idea of 'Hackstability'. Part of this concept describes how the antiquated and inefficient institutions of present could be maintained indefinitely through the continuous application of hacks and jury-rigging. This is proposed as an alternative to oft-entertained future trajectories like an apocalyptic cataclysm or technological singularity. Rao envisions our present system hobbling along for another century or so, growing incrementally more kludgey with each passing day, but persevering nonetheless.

Mr. Rao describes it far more lucidly than I, if you've never read his work you ought to check it out.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/04/18/hacking-the-non-disposa...
Switzerland is the closest thing I can think of, and even that country has some of the same surveillance/privacy issues that spawned most of the current discussions. I don't know if we qualify CCTV as a violation of a civil liberty period, or only if abused.