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Yeah, a cursory Google of "Monsanto buys Blackwater" suggests that there's really nothing beyond speculation that this has occurred.

Also, while I'm not familiar with the listing rules in the US, it strikes me as difficult for a company like Monsanto to acquire a company like Blackwater without disclosing it to the market (but IANA(US Securities)L).
It seems an error of translation, from spanish (La Jornada) to english (Pravda).

http://redgreenandblue.org/2010/10/16/too-much-of-a-bad-thin...
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Why on earth would Monsanto buy Blackwater? The article provides little, to no evidence. It is pure fear mongering and speculation.

This awful article has been shared on FB over 33,000 times. Seriously? I know people love to hate on both Monsanto and Blackwater but at least have some real evidence... Not baseless speculations.
Yes, many people would. I for one.
I've cancelled my pre-order. I feel that as a "pre-order" customer I've been let down. After a year of waiting, other non pre-order customers will get their LeapMotion before I do. Why did I pre-order a product when there is no "pre"?

Additionally, developer feedback on the product is not that positive.
Definitely a very valid point that is worth reiterating! Especially true for consumer products which are older than 3 months (by then they should have learned that this is best practice) and which have lots of similar competitors (which, at least in my case, lowers the threshold of "screw it, I wanted to try this other product anyways" if something doesn't work).
Bullshit. Blackwater (now called Academi) is a shadow of its former self. At its high point Blackwater had a fixed-wing airforce and a navy. Now it provides training services to US law enforcement and the military. There is nothing nefarious about them now.

Erik Prince is long gone. Now he runs a mercenary group with no name whose purpose it to protect Middle Eastern royalty (historically rulers that did not have the support of the locals employed mercenaries). Price and his family live in a secret fortified location and can't and won't return to the USA unless he is given a blanket presidential pardon to ensure he will not be prosecuted for anything that he did or didn't do in the past.
There's even a diff file of the proposed changes to the law, although I'm not sure if this version is official or current anymore. Google translation of the file, originally in Finnish, in the link:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fi&tl=en&js=n&prev=...
I wonder if this finds it way into the internet
http://www.economist.com/node/21552271
So, a glide to an emergency landing means that the flight is not over?

Similarly just because a rebuild fails doesn't mean that the data is lost. Just pop in the drives individually and fetch whatever you can from all of them, it is seldom the case that the exact same parts of them become irretrievable at the same time or that the drives stop function completely. It's just some more work than a regular rebuild.
Yes, very few consumer products nowadays are that essential that people will struggle with hurdles like that
Patents are like nukes. The only "defense" they grant is mutually assured destruction. With trolls, there is no other "company" to destroy, as they make nothing but lawsuits. Add this to the fact that the patent office is so screwed up that they're granting patents on the same "technology" over and over again to different applicants and you get:

tl;dr : There's no such thing as a "defensive" patent. Patents don't make peace. They don't even make war. They just make destruction.
A notable case thereof, involving a Boeing 767: http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
> suffers from the same problem as FF OS - no native apps, just web apps

In my opinion, this is one of the main features of FirefoxOS: Every app has to build on open (web) standards. No vendor lock-in, no trying to impose proprietary native APIs on the app developers.

The market would be a lot more efficient of all smartphone OS were forced to push their great features by improving and extending open standards instead of locking all interesting stuff into their proprietary so-called "native" [1] APIs.

[1] For instance, is WebGL any less "native" than other 3D APIs just because it is accessible from the JavaScript VM instead of say, some Java VM?
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Changing terms at the last minute would be an excellent way to lose a deal and no VC that is in it for the long haul will pull a stunt like that unprompted.

When it does happen, more often than not (at least, in most cases I'm familiar with) it was to compensate for things disclosed just prior to doing a deal. If such a disclosure does not scuttle the deal entirely the least you should count on is an adjustment. That's why you make sure there is a high level of transparency by the time a terms sheet is signed, you're in for a rough ride if you have not been up-front about any lingering issues.
made my own FAT32-- doesn't support short tilde names. Got spec from Microsoft.

Got original ATA usage from Linux--just the magic numbers to make ATA work. Linux got the numbers from ATA specs. Now, I have ATA specs.

Do you really want to fight God in court? He will kill you.

God says...
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ered very distinct
from each other, take the rank of species.

The truth of the principle that the greatest amount of life can be
supported by great diversification of structure, is seen under many natural
circumstances. In an extremely small area, especially if freely open to
immigration, and where the contest between individual and individual must
be very severe, we always find great diversity in its inhabitants. For
instance, I found that a piece of turf, three feet by four in size, which
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My vicarious televisual office stapler antics have so far extended only to hiding them in jelly and throwing them out of windows.
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I think the fees from all the mentioned providers are way too much. Usually the bank pos fees are 1,8-1,9%. So the only solution that I see is actually processing payments myself. That's why I'm looking for more information on how that's done.
Reports suggest the app is currently making around USD$3.8 million a day or around USD$54 million per month.

I don't get it. That's about 15 days per month. Unless I'm missing something?
TBH, it's probably good enough at this point in time. ext3 didn't really become 'stable' until Rusty stopped developing it and moved on to ext4 :)
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My bad. You made me recheck, and 45% is actually android <4.0, 3.x being neglictible.

My app is overly simple, and answers a very basic need. It is relevant for only one city in France (public transportation related app). I wanted most people to be able to use the app :).
> I make sure I write processes that don't fail.

Please name one major, non-trivial network system software that has gone for 5 years, 122 days without a fault in production anywhere.

Engineers in other disciplines make best efforts not to fuck up. And then they accept that they, or others, will fuck up anyhow and they plan for that.

So do we. And so we should. Betting it all on Red 19 is a strategy of roulette, not serious work.
Interesting but I think you're wrong on point 2: people don't justify drone strikes by saying "the end justifies the means" (at least they should not). This is precisely why people can logically approve of drone strikes and refuse torture. Torture is all about using awful means, while in the case of drone strikes, the killing of innocents is involuntary. It's not a means but an undesired side effect. I would argue that killing the targets is also an awful mean but that's another question... This is a classical problem in ethics[1]. Here's an online test to gauge your own consistency: http://www.philosophyexperiments.com/fatman

[1] http://www.salon.com/2012/12/26/when_is_it_ethical_to_kill_s...
It wasn't on Kickstarter. They did pre-order from the get go.
Recommendation for good VCs in Canada?
Could you recommend me good VCs in Canada. Also are the procedures for VCs in the US same as in Canada. Do they become shareholder, board members etc?
We don't bet on that, we aim for that.
Google PPC
After many years of advertising on PPC I can honestly say smoke and mirrors, we have stopped PPC after researching click fraud, using proxy servers on a world wide net work for fraudulent click's, Google has flat lined in the last 8 months, keeping this short and to the point.
Nice tool, but I prefer to have the data already encrypted (on an encrypted block device) instead of having to encrypt the data everytime the backup runs.

Here's an already usable proof of concept:

http://vog.github.io/shasplit/
Having worked at a gambling company I can assure you gambling problems are probably as common in Germany as in any other country (FWIW about one third of our support staff was german). Regulations can't really prevent you from playing online, no matter how innovative the restrictions are.
It's a bit different with a file system that still undergoes heavy development of basic features...

http://www.anchor.com.au/blog/2013/04/the-btrfs-backup-exper...

Just don't use btrfs where a failure is going to hurt.
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Worth reading the associated article: "Bufferbloat: Dark Buffers in the Internet" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2071893
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Some passwords I found on pastebin
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the ways of the tin foil is strong with the repo's maintainer.
This "article" sucks because it doesn't delve into any explanation or provide any insight. So what?

"You're submitting too fast."

You know what, HN? Fuck you. When we take time to submit content to YOUR Web site, you say "thank you." You don't tell us to sit there and twiddle our thumbs in hopes of someday having the PRIVILEGE of posting again. The fucking gall.

Piss off.
There were rumors at a large consumer products company that I used to work at of a salesman who went to law school full time during 3 years there. He was selling products that didn't really require selling.
Don't see what's new about this, i.e. why this has so many upvotes. Tons of mobile games have been following on the same model for a while. Is this being upvoted just because the number looks stunning?
The title makes it sound as though this has been accepted into the Linux kernel when in fact it has not been. It is designed to work with the Linux kernel but it is in no way associated with Linux. FUD much?
Sorry, no.

Besides, the councilors set the policy that council are supposed to follow. If the council is rubbish, its the fault of the councilors. That is supposed to be the point of electing them, or booting them.
Do you really think its worth saying this considering how much of the tinfoil conspiracy shit has become reality.....
Mostly the price of the typical 10 hour single player AAA game tends to be $60 + additional DLCs or special preorder things making up go up to the $80+ range.

That might not seem so troublesome on the surface, but there's generally little motivation to replay such games most of the time. Also, the knowledge that there have been many games with much more single player time as well as re-playability for a comparable or lesser price now or in the past. The more those 10 hour games become popular, the more it's considered acceptable and even normal for games in general.

The problem compounds when a new generation plays such games and never realizes how games were in the past. I've already noticed it with PC gamers and that many use controllers now even for typically keyboard/mouse games like FPSs. Companies end up failing to user test for keyboard/mouse players and things like custom key bindings or keyboard/mouse UX get ignored. Probably the worst example I've seen recently was Sleeping Dogs on PC. No custom key bindings (except for keys you didn't care about changing). Things like exiting a vehicle were set to the right mouse button without a way to change. I ended up accidentally pressing it at least 40-50 times throughout the game and had to repeat at least a few missions.

Typically, these type of games are bought for the multiplayer aspect (which is why I assume the single player game is so short and limited). I'm not much for multiplayer gaming unless it's with friends and not random people. Co-op gaming can be especially fun if done right (Saints Row 3, Terraria, Borderlands, etc).

In the end though, it's all about preferences. You might like such games yourself (and many others), but not everyone does. I think such games fill a niche for those that like them, but I loathe seeing them become the majority of PC/Console games as they're not the type of game that usually interests me.
I think that's stretching his point somewhat. Renegotiating the terms of your relationship in general isn't what he's arguing against, it's more about intentionally pulling the rug out from a company and demanding equity immediately before a funding round.

That doesn't really imply good faith bargaining, and is really a lot closer to blackmail ("I'll make this deal tank and your company will go under unless I get 1% more")
The github issue is amazing reading:
https://github.com/rxrz/exfat-nofuse/issues/5

Normally you expect the copyright issues to be going in the other direction at gpl-violations, but kudos to them for noticing the problem and dealing with it quickly.
GPL, and probably other licenses, were constructed to work with copyright law. Such cavalier dismissal (by rxrz) is disrespecting those who created the licenses, the legal system, and the open source community, at large. We live in the real world, not "The Matrix".
In practice there's often not. Perhaps early on, but heavily VC funded start-ups are likely going to have a board that's somewhat hostile to slow, careful growth with a focus on profitability.
Old story, the only thing I'd like to know is if a solution has been found. I thought a RED-based algorithm was the way to go, but it has actually been implemented in modern network switches/routers?
I can sense we're about to have a circular argument based on where to draw the boundaries of responsibility.

My point is that betting entirely on one strategy for mitigating faults is unnecessarily risky. Especially when additional levels of mitigation are easily installed and configured. In your other post you even point out a series of things that you do.

I don't see why process management is of a different kind.

Edit: removed unnecessary grandstanding.
> No vendor lock-in, no trying to impose proprietary native APIs on the app developers.

I don't think that it's fair to characterize an OS built on Free Software as "vendor lock-in", or as the Ubuntu Touch API and implementation (which is Free Software) as a "proprietary native API".

I love the Linux Free Software ecosystem. There are multiple vendors (eg. Debian, Red Hat, Suse) and they all support multiple "proprietary native APIs" that happen to all be the same. My Qt application written on Ubuntu will run on Suse, as will my GTK one, as will my wxWidgets one. IMHO the breadth and quality available in distribution repositories far surpasses what is available in (say) Android's app store, or available in HTML5 "apps" today. Sure - there is plenty of bad software there, too. But there's good Free Software available for practically every task. Not so for the current phone app ecosystems.

Ubuntu may be the first to bring this ecosystem to the smartphone, but it doesn't necessarily have to be the only vendor for this ecosystem in the long run.

Ubuntu is bringing the Free Software ecosystem to the smartphone, and it's all under licensing that protects the FSF's four freedoms [edit: I suppose it's not all GPL, but what new code is being written is. That's as close as we can reasonably get, I think]. That's good enough for me. No proprietary APIs or lock-ins here. Even HTML5 apps don't compare, since they are typically not Affero GPL licenced.

Although binary-only proprietary apps will be permitted, AIUI, they are permitted in every other ecosystem as well. But I'll be cheering on the Free Software apps, and Ubuntu's smartphone seems to be the best way for them to become the norm (there are some great Free Software apps available on Android, but they are not the norm).
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Complete rubbish. Royals, and other celebs bring publicity. That bring money. Money solved problems. Take a silly frog charity. Money increases and more frogs are saved. Structure and infrastructure doesn't help frogs much. Sorry people feel good about that.

Honestly, I don't believe you investigated anything beyond reading some bias newspaper. I also think you confuse small local charities and massive charitable attempts to solve world wide poverty. Two very different things. But if you investigated, you would know that, right?
innovations trickle down to "the people". innovations requires a lot of sunk cost.

elon musk's vision is electric cars for everyone but decided to make the high end car first. Now he is slowing moving to mass market.
I am Turkish, and I am more of a nationalist than my friends. But I fail to see how josh2600's comment is racist. Are those not facts? Was it implying something that I missed?
I believe the grandparent was merely stating a piece of possibly interesting but not particularly useful knowledge that might normally be labelled a "fun fact", but didn't want to use the word "fun" when mentioning inventions that caused thousands of deaths.
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This is daft, stupid and racist. African Americans are Americans. Period.
> Don't attribute to malice [what can be attributed to] stupidity.

No, there really are people acting with malice out there. Pretending it is all just the result of stupidity just runs cover for those people.
Unfortunately the implementation leaves something to be desired. My WiDi box is one of the better ones, a Netgear PVR3000 and it's still a laggy, low quality RTSP over Wifi trick (that seems to be all WiDi is).
Absolutely. Bad thing is, you can't be sure to find green pastures eslsewhere.
That cannot explain a negative interest rate.
I have a lot of python code from my PhD which will be released when I pass my viva (with full version history, of course) - I'm not looking forward to working out how to deal with pypi after reading this!

I have always tried to make self-contained packages with a simple "just run setup.py" install procedure for my smaller public projects on github, but my larger codebase uses lots of libraries, and specifying which ones people should install is going to be a nightmare...
Encryption is optional - you don't have to enable it if you are covered already.
When the code is out there, is it possible that a third-party will modify the existing exFAT projects based on this "leak", and get them to work properly and out of userspace?
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Two ideas for now : Questions and Answers site and simple CRM for contacts + notes on each contact . Anything else? :)
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This weighs against individuals too heavily. The UK for a time had a zero filing fee but they've gone back to a small fee again (to avoid getting so much chaff).

It's the renewal fees where you should be charging highly IMO; hyperbolic year-on-year increases would be an interesting option to model.
I know posting this here may be "preaching to the choir", but it was still interesting read.

Do you have hackers.txt on your website(s)?
Here's the technical background: ClickSend consists of an Android App and a Java server. Both register with a Google App Engine backend. If you send a file to the Android App, the Java server opens an HTTP server, generates a random URL for the file and sends this as a push notification (GCM) to your Android device, along with all IP adresses of the server. The client is triggered by the notification and tries to reach the server on all IP adresses and opens the URL. This allows for direct streaming of multimedia content (player App needed) or downloading. The data never passes through our servers, so it only works if server and client are connected to the same network.
We are currently preparing to launch this so all feedback is appreciated.
Ah, but these are new, and different. So they must be worse. Duh.
I don't think Friedman and Dowd should be mutually exclusive with him. It's multiple avenues towards the truth - see who gets their first. When he's correct, it's good for science and math.
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Sadly, this is a typical thing that goes on in the Android User development community. Lots of casual attitudes by hobbyists that modify the Linux Kernel and rattle off some sort of excuse for not posting their sources while distributing binary copies.

Others end up "relicensing" similar to the guy on github, thinking that because they changed a few lines of code, they can claim to own the license to the software now. I'd say that is probably much more prevalent since there's a general assumption by many that the license most Android based software uses, Apache 2.0 means "do whatever you want".

Even worse is the fact that many users in the community are also quick to defend them blindly because they know little of development and why following licenses matter (even after all the facts are laid out and explained).
Can only conjure on that. Hell, reading that comment brings up a lot of nice memories from back the day when I was young. You know, before I got promoted to, yes, a staff function. How do I miss these days. Unfortunately they won't come back..

So yes, try to work in environments with that attitude as long as you can!
It was testimony from the said taxpayer-funded university that killed the patent.

"While UC lawyers cooperated with the plaintiffs, two UC Berkeley-trained computer scientists were key witnesses in the effort to demolish the Eolas patents."
Friends and Family investments are like the reverse of a convertible note. If everything goes well, they remain an expensive, low-valuation share investment. If things go badly, they turn into a loan securitised by that most valuable of assets: your personal relationships.

That's all there is to it really. Hang it on your wall. Tape it to your monitor. I'm here to tell you. Don't. Do. It.
you know, it'd be interesting to see what the open source community could produce if we all took his approach to licences for a little while.
The amazing thing about this is how easily these f2p apps/games can monetize "content" while all kinds of web publications struggle with this. Is "serious" content simply to unattractive or is the fact that the payment process is handled by a centralized, trusted mechanism what makes the difference? If the latter, we should probably add payment options to browsers.
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I have a low end Android phone (Galaxy Ace) and it's painfully slow to use. It won't even keep up with me typing in the Messages app, let alone browsing the web or using any apps.

So much so that all I use my phone for (besides the occasional call) is to enable wireless tethering and use my iPod Touch as my primary device instead.
They didn't mention RAID, and they talk about using SSDs. The failure mode you describe (timeouts) is one typical for spinning rust drives, and not for SSDs.
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