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I'm not sure I entirely sign off on this complete lack of separation between art and artist. I understand that context is important, but does the artist really need to be a good person for his or her work to make you think, or feel an emotion, or be entertained?

I don't think it's entirely fair to assume an inherent bias or hidden agenda in the work based solely off beliefs the creator is believed to hold. What if Card felt this way, but just kept those feelings to himself? I understand that people don't want to support or empower those like Card, so I'm personally conflicted now as to whether I will see this film.

As an interesting personal side note, I went to high school in Massachusetts in the early 2000s, when the state was at the forefront of progress for same-sex marriage, and Ender's Game was required reader for every English class during the summer before sophomore year. I suspect it still is, and it's probably required at other schools. We spent weeks discussing the book, and it still comes up in conversation every now and then, since we all had to read it, and this is the first I've heard about Card's homophobic beliefs.
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His work is surely uneven but he wrote some awesome things and that makes him great for me. I don't expect people I admire to consistently produce masterpieces. I'm greatful even if they managed to produced only one.

I also liked his A Planet Called Treason
gee, we've removed your favorite features- latitude, off-line searches... hurry up and download us fast!

Anyone know of a good alternative to google stalker? I really like having fast always on map location sharing with my wife.

I don't understand why google(+) is pushing for the real names integration so hard, they have the data already on the back end. I am unwilling to give up my public anonymity. This is just pushing me out of their ecosystem faster.
I guess it wasn't exactly clear from the way I phrased it, but I'm not just refusing the tests, I'm refusing to contribute my labor to the betterment of companies that impose them on their employees.

If I were to encounter an employer willing to make an exception to their policy for me, I would have to consider the greater implications. I might accept such a job as long as I remained free to tell anyone and everyone that an exception had been made so as to undermine the policy going forwards. Maybe. Hasn't happened yet.
I think it's perfect. You're on the promotions page looking for a deal, right? Isn't that what most of these promotions are, ads? These things are what makes a lot of our industry thrive, the more meaningful the utilization of ads, the more we should praise (and learn from) it. [repost of my comment from the blog's disqus.]
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From the FAQ

"If you use Location Reporting and have Location History enabled, your location data will continue to be recorded to your Location History. You can view and manage Location History data on the Location History dashboard."

So you still should be good
Judge rules Apple conspired to raise eBook prices
Integrating Ubuntu Landscape with Opsview IT monitoring
Great, thanks for the suggestion. I'll set us up on it tonight and see how it works.
As NSA Worries Cloud Dropbox, Tonido Offers its “Personal Cloud”
You're missing a couple steps in your timeline, specifically that the bug was fixed before Secunia's public disclosure, then Secunia ignored said fix, then claimed it wasn't fixed but provided no proof, then ignored VLC for months while claiming them to be uncooperative. Only then do they stir up this drama in a final attempt to get Secunia to either back up their claims or acknowledge their mistakes.

Thus far Secunia has done neither.
A woman I know of, in her early 50s, with an MBA, was asked about her undergraduate GPA, and if I recall correctly her SATs when applying for a job a couple of years ago. This made me wonder about the common sense of the employer; her too, maybe, for she is not working for them.
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Although I'm not extremely happy about Google under many lamps, it has been made clear that they've just been following lawful orders via FISA. It's time to blame the game, not the players.
> Whether you use iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, or any of the other competitors, you've likely experienced an app you'd love to install but it doesn't exist for your platform. Linux users are used to struggling with a developer to try to get a port when programs were made for Windows only.

Try being a Linux user on a PowerPC box.

I hope developers, most of which have become mobile developers by now, have now understood that open protocols are much more important than application availability.
Yes I was pleasantly surprised as well.

To me the big NO meme is the epitome of the hipster dismissal—that is the soulless critique of someone who does not create but rather defines themselves by their impeccable taste cultivated with a constant barrage of acerbic criticism punctuated by eye-rolling and justified by a pervasive nihilistic sense of irony.
I watched the first 5 or 6 videos and couldn't help but notice how unrefined they all were. Is that normal? While I liked a couple of the ideas, it just seemed like some of these were submitted after only a couple takes.
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But what if I want it automated? :)
Our company website's "who we are" page has a carousel. The centre person is large and smaller ones off to the side, and you can scroll through them. You get a little bio with the highlighted person (which is not necessarily related to the things you wrote down for your bio...). The carousel works in that context, but that's well off the home/production pages.
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Doesn't it always?
I guess it depends. I found Google Maps much better than OSM while on vacation in Turkey.
I use it on an iPhone 4S and also buggy and some lag.
I doubt these matter much to people outside the tech world. Everybody more or less now knows that Chrome is crazy fast. Also, I'm pretty sure the day Google decided to launch an entire OS based on this browser, everybody should have assumed that they wouldn't be that dogmatic about standards anymore.
That's true if you invest your dollars in supporting political action. A personal boycott is going to have no impact on anything.
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Fear Versus Risk, Like Putting Together A Puzzle
also check out Oruxmaps. not free software but free of cost and very feature heavy and fast.
> Then do so. And if you really feel the VLC project needs to respond to Secunia in any way, have someone else do it. You're not very good at it.

I'm so glad that you volunteered... Seriously, do you have any idea how few we are?
People are in many senses products of their time. It is a recent phenomenon that people are so acutely aware of discrimination (of all kinds) and the harm it does to society.

If someone was born in a time or place where that kind of awareness wasn't widely established, I'm willing to cut them a lot more slack. See also HP Lovecraft for another famous author whose writings have awkward racist and misogynistic undertones when read from today's perspective.
Make an Android app that periodically makes HTTP requests whose body contains the word 'bomb' and the GPS coordinates of a particular street intersection near your phone. Bonus points for including Arabic lorem ipsum.
Google is doing what corporations do; they're re-thinking products, whether they need it or not. They're integrating products, to make it better for them. This is why overlooking companies doing questionable stuff is bad. "Oh, its Google; we love them." Ten years later, they've integrated everything into one massive system, you're required to use your real name, real phone number, and have location on all the time. ("Oh, no, you don't need that turned on, but most featured won't work without it.") And because they under-price everyone else, or use their market position to run them off, there is a desert of alternatives.

P. S. I'm not picking on merely Google; this is reality of Corporate America.
AFAICT, many coworking spaces have similar models: you pay for your chair and free coffee is available. But something calling itself a coffee shop is probably set up much differently than something modeled around an office...
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They should call it City Maps or something. Get a few miles from a major highway and you don't have maps anymore. It was only marginally functional anyway since you have to know the cellular coverage in the area you plan to drive, and save the map tiles yourself, which is time consuming. You often can't save enough map tiles for a long trip in advance, so you have to fiddle with it along the way, as you find coverage. It would have been so much better if this could be done in advance of a trip.
Yes OVH should give you the same sort of things, and they now have an american datacenter (you can chose which datacenter you want your servers to be in when ordering)
Don't make the mistake of believing current monarchs are powerless...

The Queen of the commonwealth for example and shut down the parliament if she wants to (there is a complex process to do it, but it can be legally done), or buy and sell state stuff freely. Of course, in information age, she knows that if she abuses these powers, people will get upset and overthrow her.

Also in Japan, the monarch legally has no power, but the people obey him anyway, this happened many times in Japan history, and seemly the population like it that way because the monarch become a "failsafe" of sorts, every time some non-monarch leader do major shit, the population can rally behind the emperor again and return his absolute powers (and usually subsequent emperors fix the issues, until someone pull a WWII...)
It feels like they've buried it rather than disabling it. In a year's time they can point to really low usage figures of that feature and...?

(I'm not part of the Reader/Wave/Notepad hate machine and I'm generally a fan of Google - I just can't think of any other reason for this manifestly weird change.)
Targeted ads? What other pages have you been visiting?
These wrong expectations have been carefully cultivated for over a decade in students who get to good colleges. For over a decade, they've been getting good scores and they've been made to feel that a good score is the inevitable and deserved outcome of "trying". (The kids for whom this is not true mostly don't end up at good colleges.) "If students expect 90-100% scores are possible, and then they start a subject where all of a sudden that's not true, then they're not going to deal with that well." And they're evaluating you, the professor.

As the professor, you've either got tenure and you don't need to care toooo much about those evaluations, or you are pre-tenure at a research U and you've got to keep 'em reasonable while you crank out papers, or you're pre-tenure at a teaching college and you've got to keep them GOOD. Those evaluations have got to stay above a certain level, though, especially in this job climate. Why go to the trouble of resetting students' expectations by broaching those subjects students will struggle with? So keep things easy.

But then you're to a point in math or physics at which you can't continue avoiding the topics that are taxing intellectually. So you go into it and your students are sophomores with 13 years of straight As behind them and your star student starts to have a slightly tough time with multivariable Taylor series and she gets a 78% on the second midterm. She's totally mortified and gets her grade back up to an A- or B+, but at the end of the semester visits you in your office to apologize and tell you she's changing her major to sociology. She realizes that a B+ tells her that she just can't succeed in mathematics even though she likes it.

And maybe your end-of-semester evaluations for that class are overall pretty good, recovering from the mid-term evaluations that were so stressed out, and you've dealt with the seven requests to take the final late to accommodate vacation or extra study time. Pretty good means you can breathe a sigh of relief in that respect... but you keep thinking about that student who left math because she got one 78% on a midterm. You tell her you got a year of straight Cs in real analysis and still got into graduate school and maybe she wavers for a moment.

Only a moment. "But you're different. You're good at math."

Students conclude they "don't have a talent" for math/science. They don't understand that "talent" is bullshit. Stubbornness, on the other hand, means something.
Can't help but notice that the --disable-new-menu-style switch no longer works, which is terrible news if you hate Superfluous Google Whitespace as much as I do.
Android has its own webkit-based browser. The Nexus-branded devices (Nexus 4,7,10, possibly the Galaxy Nexus) come with Chrome and not the Android browser.
It's useful if you are underground (e.g., subway).
Yeah, I was about to reply this. The article actually recycles all the stuff we know, and insinuates on one theory that it might possibly be. I first took the 6 seat capsule thing as a given feature for Musk's design, but you need to read the article carefully to find out this is just a hypothesis based on another type of design, which Musk previously stated this is not a vac-tube.
Focus... Making fewer products better.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2012/07/05/google...

Google still has a lot more products than Apple but hopefully their focus will mean a much better Android and Google Docs, for example. Google Docs hasn't changed much in years.
Google+ is first and foremost meant to be a serious competitor to Facebook, but hasn't been able to overcome Facebooks gigantic lead in the network effects.

But Google really, really wants to break into that market.
Now what's happening is simply that they're sacrificing their less profitable services in order to force people to start using Google+, in an attempt to get over that network effect threshold.
I am paying $15 a month "pet rent" for my cat. I am under no illusions that when I move out they will use my cat as an excuse to keep the deposit.
That's a good opportunity to explore more secure (perhaps P2P-based) alternatives, now that we know where all this information ends up at.
<em>Science and math are fascinating subjects, and kids often have a natural interest in them, but that interest gets squashed by the punishingly boring way the subjects get taught.</em>

Yes, absolutely true, but not just of science and math. This applies to all subjects. In the spirit of hoping for a better life for my son than I had, I hope I can help him to hold off that interest-squashing better than I could.
Macs have a similar issue. Unexpected programs activate the dedicated GPU. Skype and twitter used to do this. Power users run special utilities to force the dedicated GPU off, but the normal user has no idea that his Mac battery won't last.

In my PC the programs raising the resolution are gtalk, chrome and skype. I run visual studio and sql server but they don't show up in powercfg.

quartz.dll is from DirectShow. A multimedia component is expected to requiere more resolution. The fault is in the program calling into DirectShow.
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Thank you for this. Just last week I thought of this, but didn't know there was a name for it, or that it had been used before.

I think people are turned off by the idea of some random "crazy" running things, but that's exactly what I think would provide checks and balances to a government (namely, that the "crazies" don't reach a consensus as easily as the corrupt).

And on another level, our laws would have to be understandable! What would that be like? Would I actually know why I am being arrested?
That's a crap argument, because MS always purposefully left the status of the IP up in the air, while Google tries to standardize, and releases open source code.
Reports: Egypt Orders Arrest Of Muslim Brotherhood Leader
This is an old debate. Is it better to focus early on a specialization or to provide a "well-rounded" person with a broader but less deep understanding? In either case, university education is not the end of learning, so which is most helpful for the future?

I remember in my 20s visiting the UK from the US and talking with other researchers there my age. I was surprised that I knew more about European history than actual Europeans. This is solely due to taking a European history course my last year of high school, while they specialized early in science.

I took a course in psychology, and college one in sociology. These have helped inform my understanding of group dynamics in software project teams.

If you believe that people can and even should change careers in their life, then a diverse education may make more sense. (In the US parlance, "reinventing yourself.") If you think people should stay in the same field, then focused, specialized training may make more sense.

Personally, I prefer a diversified education more than a focused one, but as someone raised in the US system, that's perhaps to be expected.

Finally, and only to highlight the humorousness, it's "A levels" instead of "A leves" and "you" instead of "your." A STEM course of course doesn't focus as much on writing as, say, a history or literature course. ;)
I know what you were saying. I'm claiming that it's irrelevant. After enough driving on the highway, I can forget that the speed limit is 55mph and stop signs still exist. That doesn't mean that you can excuse me blowing through a four way stop at 70mph and hitting another car just because I didn't have malicious intent.

My point is, guns are a bit more dangerous than knives, and the responsibility of the holder should reflect that.
Serious bummer.
In addition to the specific type of dance, also take ballet technique classes. While it's unlikely to reach a performance level of ballet in one year the core physical habits that are trained carry over to all types of dance. Check the resume of any of the pros or contestants on the various tv competitions and you'll see ballet training.

But don't worry, the 10k hours rule is certainly in effect buy it really does not take a full year to get great results and have fun, just dance anywhere you can! Dance like no one is watching. Just Dance.
Apple guilty of ebook price fixing, says judge
Honest question - isn't the point of the splash page in iOS to present something to the user while the content is loading. i.e. can't the Splash be (one way or another) instantly loaded. In that regard, is it supposed to be used to reduce the perceived load time of the app?
You now know how gay hatitng Neil Patrick Harris fans must feel.
Well throw the Polio vaccine out then.
I use it to keep track of my own location and have been since the iPhone app was released way back when and I'm sad to see this go. It's been great to be able to relive my travels and is particularly useful when trying to geotag photos.

Are there any location-tracking alternatives (I don't care about sharing it with friends) for iOS that offer KML/GPX export and are battery-friendly?
As far as I knew VLC is an open-source project. It completely replaced any other media players I used as it worked great and was free. I believed they finally made a great open-source media player. Now they're threatening to sue some company. What the hell, where do they even get the resources? And why do they need to sue anyone anyway? I'm not sure I like VLC as much anymore...
"My Maps functionality is not supported in this release but will return to future versions of the app"

-> Deliberately regressing, so sorry, we'll add it back later.

Um what?
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To send / receive information about one particular user for a limited amount of time, Glympse is very good.
It should be noted that if you are not doing any of this, and you're opting out of all these tracking systems (just in case someone has that crazy idea), you're aiding the enemy.
The flip side of this is that the best price in emergency situations is to drop your price to $0. That sends a very strong signal that the service is for emergencies only; that anybody who takes advantage is an asshole. It also removes barriers: people in emergency situations often don't have their wallets on them, et cetera.

It also generates a huge amount of goodwill that cannot be bought in any other situation.
Honestly? I wouldn't. My first choice would be to use a service like https://www.mongohq.com to manage it for you.
No it will use a copy or move constructor to return the object by value, no problem there. Notice the value is being returned, not a pointer to the value.
This is a shame; my wife and I occasionally use this to figure out when the other one will be home. It's much safer when she's driving for me to look her up on Latitude than to call her all the time.
Judge rules Apple conspired to raise prices on e-books
More or less...

There is some math proof that you can always encrypt more than someone can decrypt, thus if everyone used crypto no government would be able to decrypt everything.
I'm glad to see all the top comments being of this nature. This is why I love HN. It is a very frustrating article to read, and I'm surprised to see this submission got so many upvotes on the front-page.
Nintendo President Says: No Layoffs at Nintendo
Hollywood as a whole is full of assholes and I don't see what makes this one special.

Agreed! Thankfully, there are many movies being produced out of Hollywood. Just from last year, I saw great films such as Amour (French-German-Austrian), Barbara (German) and Lore (Australian-German), which were better than anything I've seen from Hollywood in years.
How Linus Torvalds decided to write Git
Obviously, but hits take very helpful to look at HTTPS over something like wireshark. That was my point.
Google is moving all their products to google plus.

This is sad, I disklike too many things about google plus, and don't like the amalgamation, I might want to use one product at a given point, and another at another point, but not wanting to be force to use one when I want to use the other.
This was my main concern too, but it looks like you can still keep track of you location history. That functionality is getting folded into maps.
I've never had a mancrush or role-model on someone, but Elon Musk fits the bill. I would allow Elon to have sex with my girl if he would save the cuddling for me.
I'm not sure people are willing to totally skip privacy.

One interesting data point is a snapchat. It enables private picture sharing and it's pretty popular.

Another private messaging app talks about protecting the privacy and safety of your children, I can see the app becoming popular.

Maybe by building this kinds of networks we can offer more private channels. But not sure this can lead to anti government encryption because :

A. People are interested in protection from terrorism.

B. There are plenty of ways for government to subvert this kind of apps, especially since they are owned by commercial entities.

And maybe that's a good thing, in a world where terrorists will probably have increasing technological capabilities to cause damage.
One person's freedom to speak, another's freedom to censure them, both of which are covered under the first amendment. I don't understand the problem with this.
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A drop with a radius of 5.7 km...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=10MW+times+a+year+divid...
You are assuming the surveillance state has some value for your own security.
Wow, and I get a letter from the city telling my to remove the three trees I planted behind my property.
Coursera nabs $43M to bring online education to emerging markets
What if the tablet was as big as a desk? or I saw a demo of some microsoft tech where the monitor level was transparent and you could reach behind it and interact with 3d objects.
Judge rules that Apple conspired with publishers to raise the price of e-books