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I'm not saying that your view is wrong, but I should point out that it neuters almost every kind of political action.

Almost every undertaking is carried out by a large group of people. Most of them are innocent. All of them are probably nice. But bad things are often done by nice people -- sometimes because they don't realize that they're bad. Sometimes because they don't care enough. There are no bond-villains in real life. People who do evil don't think that that's what they're doing.

A possibly controversial example relevant to this forum is Google. I'm personally convinced that Google is one of the most sinister and "evil" (to use their own parlance) corporations that has ever existed, and I can support that claim (though I won't be doing that now). Yet, I know that not only are most Google employees really nice and innocent, even their top management has the best of intentions. Still, Google is evil.

Once you understand that good intentions often lead to evil actions, you get a different understanding of political action. Precisely because many people have participated in the making of this film, it is important to boycott it (if you agree with the boycotter's arguments). Otherwise, people will always have the defense of "but I'm just an actor", or "I didn't know". Everything we do is a political statement, and ignoring that fact is a political statement in itself, which says "I don't care about the message my work sends, I only care about my career".

Maybe if you boycott the film, those innocent actors will learn that next time they should make it their business to learn who they're working for.
Does anyone have an instance where a carousel has worked well (with A/B testing or something else scientific to back it up)?
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I use it extensively when travelling outside my home country, i.e., where data roaming charges are insanely high. I also use it when travelling in my home country when far from major urban centres (hey, Canada is huge, man, even Ontario is huge - get too far north of the Windsor-Quebec corridor and forget about coverage).

To me, offline maps were a huge win for Google Maps, and "OK Maps" or some other weirdness is a usability nightmare.

-1, Google, -1.
Your praise made me happy. Thank you.
It wouldn't get through any home firewalls either. Adoption would take decades...
Just as a counter point, I'm both a Linode and Hetzner user and am happy with both. My Hetzner server has had solid service for about 18 months now (with a couple of brief restarts in there) and certainly no prolonged outages.

I am not particularly keen to move entirely to them, however, as I just have a gut feeling I'd prefer to have the service of someone like Linode in a true emergency. As a high powered server for experiments, side projects or things that don't demand 100% uptime (e.g. my company's collaboration software), however, Hetzner has proven superb so far.
I'm not, in any way, suggesting that the pricing structure isn't 100% transparent. I'm pointing out that there's an upfront component (say $1614 for a m3.2xlarge) to the reserved instance pricing - which is likely of interest to startups. Amazon calls this an "upfront payment"...I don't think "upfront cost" is a misrepresentation.

This cost tends to be better than buying hardware, but it's much higher than what you pay for dedicated (often $0 upfront...or $25-$200).
I use it all the time due to not having a data plan (I don't need it often enough to make the expense worth it).

Without offline maps maps is pretty useless to me.
They really seem to mean it:

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And this mkv file is, as far as I know, not an exploit. See http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jul/73
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I've been keeping my eyes peeled for one and.. there are actually several. http://netdepot.com/ is the one I've come closest to ordering from so far but I haven't yet done so. I like that they do "buy downs" where you can pay for extra hardware up front though. It's not quite as cheap as Hetzner but it's not miles away.

Others on my radar are https://hivelocity.net and http://www.100tb.com/ - at the VPS level, http://buyvm.net/ and http://prgmr.com/xen/ are both cheap for the quality you appear to get (but I can't yet vouch for this directly).
I had to install MySQL-python, but now I'm stuck on a foreign key conflict when importing the initial data.json file.

IntegrityError: (1452, 'Cannot add or update a child row: a foreign key constraint fails (`treeiodb`.`core_user`, CONSTRAINT `user_id_refs_id_4bf8d20` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `auth_user` (`id`))')
It seems like a terrible thing to do to the hundreds of gay people.

People will boycott this because of their convictions regarding right and wrong.

...it'll help the lives of a number of young gays...

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Yes, I think his views are terrible, but that's not going to stop me enjoying his work.

Hypocrisy disguised as equanimity or what?

Bigotry is still bigotry if it spews from a person who saves countless lives, leave alone writing sci-fi.
I called for a boycott the last time a post about Enders Game was up, the guy is a total ass without the decency to admit he's being an ass. Even I do that.
Offered reading:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/vladimir-putin/907...
Yes, same here. But there's probably useful alternatives.
> your incentive to actually act on what they're doing will be diminished.

Because you already have acted on it, they attempted to violate your privacy and you solved the problem, there's no point wasting time with useless political solutions that are largely ignored. That is the route which could more fairly be described as "not actually acting on what they're doing"
you are almost correct, I disagree with calling those ppl nice. it was their choice to support him, and as such it was their own decision to accept responsibility for it.

being stupid enough to not realize it is same excuse as nazis "only following orders".
Secunia does seem selectively clueless (I think of it more as fear-mongering, what with the Twitter posturing and stealth edits of their reports), but AFAIK their vulnerability index exists to be linked from their "software inspector" products which scan binary Windows releases, which do tend to include bundled libraries.

However, their blog post makes no mention of that, and they don't seem to question the link between vulnerability PR and actual, verifiable vulnerabilities.
What you do in your house is your thing, but in my country it is not legal to record stuff in public without permission.

Also, yeah, humans like to share stuff, but not with enemies or whom they think is not worth sharing (like corrupted government, etc).
Yes

If you have high roaming charges (or don't have data connection)

This doesn't happen very frequently but it's at the times you most need a map
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I have talked to pop stars who say their handlers "don't let them" say anything political at all, for fear of exactly this sort of thing. It actually lowers the level of political discourse to punish people for expressing their views.

And anyway, come on.

Ender's game is one of the greatest science fiction books of all time. Lots of creative people hold and express unpopular views. Often those views change, over the course of their lives. What matters is whether their work moves you, inspires you, makes you think of new things.

You should judge an author (painter, musician) on her work, not on what she says outside of her work.
You /can/ zoom in, and turn off the UI to just see spaceships in space blowing each other up, and it is beautiful. However, the spreadsheet view with zoomed out camera is more efficient for actually getting things done, which is why all the serious players in serious battles do that.

(It would be really nice if some of the big alliances could spare one guy to be dedicated cameraman when landmark events happen, but I'm not aware of anyone doing that :P)
There's a good bit of (financial) theory that suggests proof-of-work systems have to be meaningless to work.

Successful practice could overturn that opinion, but it's well founded. Nick Szabo's yer man here.
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I already read it. There as here, your logic is bizarre and circular, your attitude defeatist, and your assumptions about other people arrogant and condescending.
That rant is so tired, so inconsistent, so laced with hate-speech, its become wearisome to respond to its ilk. Let me just say, lots of older couples, infertile couples, 'normal' couples get married never intending to have children, even in your own religion, that that fundamental argument is silly.

Why do you keep making it? You come off sounding desperate, defensive, selfish. You make sex sound mechanical, impersonal. I cannot imagine what kind of marriage you are describing, but it is not a marriage of joy and commitment.
Replying to myself:

I haven't read Ender's Game, and I don't even know what it's about, but reading the Wikipedia article I've found something ironic:

Radford's criticisms are echoed in John Kessel's essay "Creating the Innocent Killer: Ender's Game, Intention, and Morality." Kessel reasons that Card justifies Ender's righteous rage and violence: "Ender gets to strike out at his enemies and still remain morally clean. Nothing is his fault."

It looks like (according to this criticism) that the author embodies the very viewpoint I pointed at. Namely that as long as your intentions are pure -- or, more precisely, innocent -- you are not responsible for your actions.
It is impossible to check the ffmeg-issue, without PoC (that they refuse to share) because they are so many that actually exist.

Yet, they actually faked a report and lied about the Impact of the MKV issue...
OVH has very similar prices and you can peep at their http://status.ovh.com/ to see how they have been going with uptime.
All the known vulnerabilities have been fixed.
Which one are you referring to?
First rule of pricing: price to value, not to cost.

People are used to the prices of things going down as economies of scale kick in. That doesn't mean it actually _happened_ here, but if you were already a happy customer at $100/month, when next month comes around and it's $20, you're just more happy.
> I bet the number of people that actually used the offline feature was a small percentage anyway.

So do I, because it was impossibly difficult to find.

Otherwise, it was quite a useful feature. For Europeans, on holiday, where they'd otherwise have to pay insanely high roaming charges. Unfortunately Google tends to be rather US-centric, so I guess as far as they were concerned it was a useless feature. Oh well.
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Judging from the last two space operas i have read, the fashion is sending transhumans on single generation ships ( and playing with internal clocks to manage the subjective boredom).

And there are certainly a few people looking at interstellar travel. A great blog about this is

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/
> Videolan should fix the bug.

All the vulnerabilities have been fixed. Which one are you referring to?
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That is the one thing we do miss. Elastically scaling dedicated boxes that can often take 12 hours from order to go live means we end up with a few hot spares laying about just in case but overall it is still cheaper.
The UK is an interesting case study as for large chunks of its existence the publicly unacknowledged surveillance state, and legally unregulated surveillance state, policed itself on some very hard and fast rules.

MI5 (the internal security service) held very firmly to only gathering intelligence on political movements seeking to overthrow democracy rather than conforming to the wishes of the ruling party at the time. Successive left wing politicians on becoming Prime Minister feared there were large files on them or that the service wouldn't help. Instead they received briefings on the members of their party who were actually members of Militant Tendency, working for Russia or otherwise seeking to undermine democracy in the UK.

Compared to the FBI during the same period they were paragons of virtue. MI5 wasn't, and isn't perfect, but replacing a system of internal morality with outside laws and placement can easily corrupt.
When I first read the title, I thought they wanted me to boycott the movie because it wouldn't honour the book. Turns out it's because Orson Scott Card is an influential asshole who doesn't like gay people? I'm not sorry, and this is just petty poop-flinging. Hollywood as a whole is full of assholes and I don't see what makes this one special.
I found this analysis interesting: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~tenshi/Killer_000.htm. They make the point that the "survival" choice is always presented as the only option and that Ender's morality is never questioned due to his intentions (intentions that we only see from Ender, not any of the other characters, due to the perspective of the narrative).
Yeah, I've been very tempted, but I've unfortunately seen some horror stories about them that have given me pause. Have you given them a try? If so, would you run a business on them?
Voting with your dollars is where it all begins. Don't underestimate the power of a single cent.
No need to feed the troll.
I honestly found the presentation somewhat compelling.
I had a Hetzner server and was very very satisfied both by the performance and the price. Does anyone know a comparable offering in the US, for people who want servers there? I think I heard OVH?
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I thought about having a small flag on a really sharp antenna-style post sticking on the left side of the bike. About a foot or two, laying parallel to the ground should do. That would encourage drivers to give a bit more room, as they are probably more afraid of getting their car scratched up then they are of hitting someone.
I spent a while getting mad that arrow keys didn't work and that the timers were too short to read the text.

Then I got it.
I use it all the time, it's wonderful. I cached the entire city I live in and it's much faster.

Also, I went on holiday recently and cached the entire country I went to, so I only paid for roaming data on directions, which was quite cheap.
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Some background facts, there is only 3 of those ships in-game so far (iirc). That one belonged to the best mercenary alliance in-game, Pandemic Legion (PL for short), which are very notorious for having the best and largest spying network in-game (EVE metagaming is pretty unique), some of the best players and are not only one of the richest alliances, but one that has many of the largest ships in-game.

That guy, with a few other corporation mates, were trying to hunt some enemies who were in expensive ships (not a 9k dollars ship though), while there was an entire fleet from Black Legion, another alliance, trying to hunt that guy.

There are two fun facts to all of this... Pandemic Legion has 12 spies in Black Legion, and many of the people online during that time in PL knew that Black Legion were trying to hunt something (they just didn't know what). That guy lost his very expensive ship because he didn't make use of the spy network PL has, by not asking people if there was anyone trying to hunt him. The second fun fact is that the commander of the fleet that guy in the expensive ship was in, was actually a spy for Black Legion! He commanded the fleet right into a death trap. EVE metagaming is pretty unique.
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I don't know why this has been down voted. It's what I'm experiencing, I'd record it if I had a screen recorder on my work PC.
After moving to Europe, I started using that functionality all of the time. I'll be rather crushed to see it go.
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2.3 and above, according to Unity's hardware stats at http://stats.unity3d.com/mobile/index.html
I often find myself having to display a wildly unpredictable number of images on a page. The image size ratio is about 3 height x 1 width and I can have anywhere from 1-40 images.

Carousel's do suck, but what other options do I have?
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A new Google Maps app for smartphones and tablets
Thanks for the links. Not sure if any of them fit the bill for me, sadly - I need at least one box with large RAIDed SSDs for a database. Hetzner seems to offer this.
webstorm ftw
Could we also stop using silly scrolling hacks like here http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/, please? Thanks!
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how is it different from http://www.websequencediagrams.com/ ?
The UK media is a Murdoch monopoly, that legally doesn't appear to be a monopoly according to the powers that be and apparently only lefties believe that to be the case [5].

I personally feel that his media interests are a cancer in British society. The Leveson inquiry demonstrated just how poisonous his corporate interests are [1].

As I see it, potential prime ministers go visit Murdoch on his private yacht [3]. They apparently don't discuss anything that interesting, but the Murdoch media do seem to then back that horse in the next general election. Murdoch wanted the BSkyB deal done. Whether that was the deal, nobody will ever know publicly.

The BSkyB deal got canned after the phone hacking scandal and the 'powers behind the throne' took the gloves off on the Murdoch empire. The current Prime Minister David Cameron was forced to give up on his society friend, the former NoW editor Rebekah Brooks and also his former press secretary, Andy Coulson [2], who are both currently facing serious charges (and trying desperately to weasel their way out of it [4]).

They tried to 'influence' the old 'establishment' (i.e. old money and power). They did so for years. Maybe even through the use of information obtained illegally [2]. In the end, they played the game, lost and the establishment is now going to keep kicking them while they are down, until they don't get up again.

David Cameron has to watch it, knowing damn well that he had to feed them to the wolves or join them. It doesn't appear to be bothering him that much.

- [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveson_Inquiry
- [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phone_hacking_scandal
- [3] http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2008/oct/24/david-cameron...
- [4] http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jun/28/rebekah-brooks-andy...
- [5] http://www.thecommentator.com/article/310/rupert_murdoch_doe...
Popular = profitable. This equation governs the gaming industry.

In the case of Dota 2, the game is bringing in millions via the in-game store. The game has 200k active players at any given time, and they're well on the way to 1mil active players in a few years. A significant portion of those players are buying tournament tickets. Most of them are buying custom equipment like couriers, announcer packs, etc.

Dota 2 will be the most lucrative Valve project since Steam. To call it insignificant is to be short-sighted.

If you still think the MOBA genre is insignificant, then perhaps this infographic will offer some perspective: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2012/10/12/league...

Source: I worked in the MOBA genre.
One more for the 'yes' chorus. Whenever I'm going somewhere I'm not familiar with, I'll download a map of the city in advance, to avoid data charges.
"The offline maps feature for Android is also no longer available. Instead we’ve created a new way for you to access maps offline by simply entering “OK Maps” into the search box when viewing the area you want for later."

In what way does Google think this is an advance? It's hardly an intuitive user experience. Not sure quite what they're thinking.
SCTP is more modern and still under active development. RUDP only has a draft RFC and hasn't been updated since 1999.
No I don't particularly want to read a 3kB JSON file without tools - but the point is: in a pinch I _CAN_.

With a binary protocol you're entirely dependent on tools (except you want to trawl through it with a hex editor)
C++ const is defective because it's a shallow const. You can modify an object through a const pointer.

The D language "fixes" this by making const transitive (and also adding an immutable annotation, which means the object is truely read-only, as in "read-only memory").
SIP is inspired by HTTP and has defined compact headers like this for over a decade [0]. It is hardly indecipherable.

Why do you find HTTP impractical? There seems to be a lot of evidence to the contrary.

[0] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt
EVE I can see myself playing enough to destroy my life, money or no money. It scares me. Poker is a different kind of money game.

Poker seems fascinating, but the problem is the money.

If poker wasn't about money, the ideal players to play with are a bit better than me. Since it is about money, the ideal players to play with are overconfident drunks/halfwits with money. Just not fun.
Oh, I come today and I see my tiny comment got so much hate. Why is that? If you want more details, you can ask for it.

Why would be good to have tax money go where no private investor would? How sustainable is this in the long term? I thought this was obvious enough, apparently not.
We have nearly 100 servers in the Montreal BHS datacentre. Been very happy so far. The web GUI is fairly buggy and they have no automatic billing so you have to manually renew each server but they tell me this will be fixed soon.
> VLC threatens to sue Secunia over full disclosure

Not full disclosure at all, just security claims that no one can back up.
I'd say it's a paradigm. For whatever that's worth ;)
Pathetic that these kinds of accounts are showing up even on HN.
Could it be that the bombs, as their purpose was to be very destructive, required little in the way of safety evaluation other than accidental triggering (not insignificant :) and that they were purportedly very simple devices?

FMEA and safety related strands are a major component of modern day similarly sized projects. Even to the point of preventing them from ever being completed.

An apt metaphor might be the automobile. If it were invented, afresh, today would it be even remotely similar? And what is the ratio of the cost of developing the first viable automobiles compared to the cost of today's relatively minor iterations, per functional unit delivered? Miniscule I imagine.
To admit something, you have to believe in some way that it is true. He probably does not and so he doesn't own up to it.
My ISPs modem has a built in NAT that can't be disabled, but it still passes all IPv4 packets through in DMZ mode, so there's hope.
The "ok" prefix is the one that Glass uses. I wonder if there's some implied integration there. That the feature is hidden from the UI makes me think this was supposed to not be in use until Glass is out, until someone internally kicked off and said "WHAT DO YOU MEAN OFFLINE MAPS WON'T BE AVAILABLE UNTIL GLASS IS OUT?!"
Personally I don't see any difference between this and paying for a train ticket and being unable to sit during the journey. So yeah, I think it's fair. Whoever comes first gets the seat, and keeps the sit if they want to. It's not like you are renting the seat per x minutes or something.

When you are in park do you bitch about people sitting on benches for too long?
i host a few sites with moderate traffic on an ex10 server. I can't remember of any network issues. Current uptime:

12:13:14 up 183 days, 21:23, 2 users, load average: 0.51, 0.55, 0.49

The problem is unreliability of hardware. When one of the hard disks broke in the previous server, it was faster to setup a new server to transfer everything rather than waiting for the repair.
Yes, do something illegal with it. That puts you on the HIGH MORAL ground. /s