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I think it's more a perception problem with Oracle.

They've actually been fantastic for the Java platform and have been so for nearly a decade now i.e. even before the Sun acquisition. It's hard to dispute that the JVM is thriving right now with plenty of innovation amongst the various languages. And most of us were really happy to have their JRockit work (especially G1GC) embedded back into the core runtime when they could have continued to charge for it.

And people need to ask if things are really so bad with their OSS projects e.g. OpenOffice, MySQL, DTrace etc. Sure they have tightened control over copyrights but it's not like they have actively screwed their customers if anything the projects seem in a lot better shape.
This is the right to be misremembered.
I'm confused. Neutrino oscillation has already been confirmed in 1998 IIRC. What is the novelty in this specific result? Not that confirmation isn't important at all, it's just the wording suggests a new result rather than a confirmation of a known result.

Presumably it's that a known muon-neutrino flux produced a higher than expected e-neutrino detection.

Given the difficulty with detecting weakly interacting particles that flavour shift I'd have thought far more data would need gathering to demonstrate "subtle differences".
I think the "what are the chances" is the wrong way around for this case. Plenty of book review journals/ newspaper sections agree to review books of new authors before there are any sales figures, and it is not uncommon practice to send out review copies before the official publication date, because it is hard to get booksellers to stock books that either lack positive reviews or are "old" (i.e., well past official publication date).

So while it is hard for a new author to get reviewed by influential reviewers before there are sales figures, it is also the case that there are many such reviews.
Problem is: I can't login into Flickr because I don't have the credentials to the yahoo account that I need to sign in to Flickr.
Did it occur to you that perhaps he thinks it will negatively impact him?

If that is genuinely what you were not getting, then you have been anything but clear. My point is that you seem to be engaging in a sort of senseless anti-social comment sniping. I think that has been pretty clear, though I admit I could have done more to make my intentions plain.
Anecdotal, but, I know a bunch of good developers at Microsoft, and I've never heard any one of them complain about that before. They complain about a bunch of things, many of them related to upper management, but that "lost decade" article was the first I heard anyone complaining about stack ranking.
My name is entirely unique, I've never found a reference to anyone else but myself when I google my own name. Thankfully, the references are relatively good/professional, but it's still a bit disconcerting.
Even with their sales, its still more expensive than NameCheap[1]'s $85 or $91 domain validated wildcard certs.

http://www.namecheap.com/ssl-certificates/comodo.aspx
I use Netbeans for PHP and I love it.
All the Nest marketing rhetoric always compares it to a standard non-programmable thermostat. Obviously it will be better than that. What I really want to know it, how much better is it than my fully-programmable thermostat? I can program 4 times slots x 7 days per week: {"wake", "away", "home", "sleep"} x {M,T,W,T,F,S,S} on my current thermostat... and I take full advantage. Until Nest shows me a more meaningful benchmark I'm not sold.
right but the monthly payments, which is what they are advertising, is still $153 greater. Advertising the opportunity cost rather than just the cost is very misleading.
Why doesn't a ride like that have an alert for when a seat is not properly secured?

In addition, detecting if the passenger has too much 'wiggle' room is also not that trivial nowadays.

What kind of regulations and inspectios of rides are there in Texas?
As alien as this video is, I must say it's one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen as it directly represents the power of human knowledge. If I would fit into that camera's case, I would give anything to watch something like this in person.
BTW, you can set the secret to a much larger value than the default. This should make even brute forcing very unlikely.
After reading this, I really should donate to AdBlockPlus.
Abuse by F-bombing isn't just about professionalism, it's part of a posturing, adulation-seeking personality that aspiring devs and infosec hackers think they have to adopt. I admire Torvalds for all that he's accomplished. He doesn't have to behave like this, he chooses to. Not cool.
Greenwald: 'Explosive' NSA Spying Reports Are Imminent
MBNA is a horrid credit card company. They love mandatory
arbitration clauses; that always favored that shitty
company. I will be glad to eventually write them off
in BK court.
In 20 Years, We’re All Going To Realize This Apple Ad Is Nuts
Bootstrap.

Oh, this is about something else. Very well.
I had the exact opposite experience when my unit shorted out.

My support experience was well designed from the beginning when I did not need any human interaction where I just used the website. To the automatic support ticket generation that brought in human involvement and I had to replace of the unit.

At each support stage I found clear instructions for what to do as well as a smooth and clear path to the next step. Granted I am used to opening up my walls, moving around electrical outlets to suite my own tastes, but installing any thermostat is pretty easy.

From the tweet I can't tell if he could not get it installed or had issues getting it set up or issues diagnosing problems. Either way, my experience with the Nest product has been very different.
http://tflig.ht/14CbISw
We have had good success with our Nest at home. We have seen that it has lower energy costs 30% consistently over the year for our sunny home in Florida. The UI on unit leaves much to be desired, but I rarely use it as I can just log in to the website or use the iPad app.
It's certainly an option, but you must use a client like Thunderbird to do it, loosing the ubiquity of the web interface. Maybe when window.crypto will be standardized and with a good browser extension we will have security and easy of use.
Not just Detroit: Actuarial delusion creates phantom retirement funds
http://www.readability.com/articles/tarx8pwz
If I understand badclient correctly, the (alleged) attitude of M. Nissan towards Arabs and Israël comes from his problems with M. Ghosn. I'm just saying that if it's the case, it make no sens.
Hmm, I guess I'm looking at the wrong time frame. Do you know what sales were like from launch until they subsidized it? I remember tracking its progress from announcement through launch and until a couple years ago, and as I recall it only really took of after the subsidies. Am on a phone, so can't find a cite to back that up at the moment though.

Edit: my memory is not to be trusted, but articles like this were the ones where I first heard of iPhones being subsidized by AT&T... In 2008:
http://www.maclife.com/article/at_t_to_subsidize_iphone_2_0

http://m.cnet.com/news/at&ts-iphone-3g-subsidy-will-cost-em/...

I can't recall the original iPhone being subsidized until then.
Usually those racket mechanisms are pretty low tech. It is possible it simply failed, presumably partially before she got in (the article is not clear on if it only "clicked" once because she was too large for it to click more, or if it only clicked once when pushed down the normal way. The first is probably easy to alarm on, the second less so).

The second should have also been caught during some sort of inspection....
Oh, in that case you're agreeing with the other commenter who said the single large monitor should be curved, and I agree with that.
Always have a to-do list
Is a version of this footage available directly from NASA, in the public domain and without the commentary/etc.? I've searched around the NASA video archives a bit and haven't found a version on their site. Or did this company, Spacecraft Films, do the transfer from the 16mm film themselves?
I think another way to put this is, we've got many years of experience using various forms of evidence to make trees of life (originally character states such as morphogenic properties but now also including gene data and other molecular details).

And even though we've been able to build a great story and a great tree structure, those of us who have studied deep biology know that the tree structure is really muddied by some inconvenient phenomena; for example, using some tiny subset of genes to compute phylogeny generates a very different result from using all genes, or combining all the gene data with all the morphogenic data. Understanding the underlying phenomena which help explain the oddballs that don't fit into the Dogma is almost always useful, because it helps us go back and refine the Dogma.

It's really more of a graph of life when you include horizontal gene trasnfer; whether that graph is very much non-tree like is still an open question.
The Kickstarter page [1] doesn't lean heavily on the anti-PRISM angle, so I think the title is misleading.

In this case "Anti-Prism" means (not cloud but) USB attached HDD storage!

[1] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cloud-guys/plug-the-brai...
How can a garbage collector "know" that a variable isn't referenced anymore?
A common love/hate relationship I think; don't beat yourself up too much.

I think it's okay and even important to insist on open-source for a system like Plug even if you're not interested in using FOSS for all your computing. For many of the proprietary software examples you cited the "loss of freedom" is kind of nebulous (apart from the price tag!). The odds of a backdoor appearing in a product like Photoshop are relatively slim I think.

By comparison Plug is a perfect target - it is hosting documents and other data belonging to users who have likely made a conscious decision not to store it on the cloud. I don't think it's hypocritical to own a Mac and say that closed-source is not the right model for this application.
FastMail's (one of) my backup accounts. I don't use it often, so I don't really give out the address, but log in once every few months to confirm it still works.

It's wall to wall spam every time I open it up, stuff I don't ever see in Gmail.

There are tradeoffs....
Show HN: json2xml - a light weight python module to convert json data to xml.
Technically all they did in the tabbed layout was swap the old ads which hovered over the Inbox message list with embedded ads in the Promotion tab.

So the choice is between "Ads in Inbox list + Ads in message view" VS "Ads in Promotions tab + Ads in message view". There's no real difference between tabbed inbox style and the classic inbox styles except presentation if you think about it.
adaption of ML style languages suffers from the unfamiliar syntax, the pretty steep learning curve for those trained in imperative dialects at 'java-school'.

at least when it comes to syntax mythryl might someday provide an option. its basically SML/NJ with a c-like syntax and multithreading support. still very much in development but looks promising: mythryl.org

that said Haskell certainly seems to be the winner of the current functional language trend.
I find it interesting Paul G fell victim to the pretty product, that's not all that innovative. I find Nest to be a horrid product if you're at all interested in advancing your living / working space as a correlated and complete environment. Where to start? The simple fact that the API is closed and one is forced to issue reverse engineered request to the cloud is enough to make anyone with any knowledge of what's out there for HA to run away screaming.

TL;DR
He should have known better.
The ad messages are under the promotions tab. Who clicks the promotions tab? You can even disable it.

Honestly, if they were interspersing ad messages with my regular mail it would be a big issue. But just like with search, where ads are separated off to the side, the ads here are clearly marked and separated. So I don't see a problem.
Not quite, there's a week or so to go, but it's not unusual for it to be that empty.

The bill is in second reading, which is the first opportunity to debate the subject. Those attending are therefore those with an interest in the bill and who want to speak in the debate (or are there for other business that day). There's no need for everyone to attend.

The Lords are a little different to their MP counterparts - firstly, there's a lot more of them (if all the eligible Lords actually turned up you'd have a very hard job fitting them in the chamber), and they also don't get paid a salary. Rather, they are paid an allowance for each day they actually attend.
Nobody remembers urls any more (if they ever did).

If I type the word nissan into the address bar on IE, firefox, chrome or opera I get a page full of links to the motor company.
Quite. Leads to a ridiculous micro-management frame!
best kickstarter project i have seen so far
Compare fonts on the Web using Tiff
Correction: Rowling was 'outed' by her lawyer's wife's friend.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/j...

If I was the law firm, I'd fire the lawyer.
I felt a better option for the author would be to quote a price reflecting the high value of his time.
Every large tech company wants a patent portfolio, as a defensive moat.

But the companies I mentioned don't actively engage in shakedowns, as far as I know; I left Microsoft off of that list because of its poorly disguised attempts to destroy Linux through patent trolling, and Apple because of the Samsung case, and Oracle because of the Java case, and Amazon because of one-click ...

In contrast, I don't see something like this necessarily being against the best interests or modus operandi of the companies I mentioned.

I can see it being unpractical, unlikely or unattainable for a variety of reasons, but those companies have de-facto monopolies, not state-granted monopolies (patents), and that they seem to prefer to operate in a world where you're allowed to innovate.
this guy should buzz off. he used the word crazy pretty loosely. says he sees it too but is really just lost on the wall
They'd appear above the inbox just like they always did. The new promotion tab ads are essentially a new presentation style of what was always there.
I think there is also some value to websites looking the same. Pick two native apps on the same platform, they will probably look the same, and users of that platform know how to use all of the standard controls and know the standard places to look for common actions. This is much less true of the web. So even if some design trend isn't really much of an improvement there may be some value to following it anyway rather than forcing people to learn a unique design on every website.
> So what?

A fine example of a thought-terminating cliché. You should add it to the list!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_cliché
FISA Court Renews Authority to Collect Telephony Metadata
This went back and forth four or five times until I then reminded him that I had made it very clear that I was not available, and that he was losing my time and his own by sending these constant emails.

The real problem is that you kept continuing the conversation, even though you said no. That probably gave the individual some sort of hope that they could convince you otherwise.

I let him know that I had set up a filter to route his email address to trash and that he would never hear about me again.

I personally would recommend against doing things like this. Don't tell them you're going to do it, just set and forget. ;)
I'd be interested in reading more about that if you have a link. Reddit says to "moderate based on quality, not opinion" whereas PG said explicitly to do the opposite. (I can't remember how to find the link atm, but it was a comment in some thread on HN that I've seen people refer to.)

http://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette

I also found this discussion, which says that in practice there will always be a middle ground between moderating based on quality and moderating based on opinion:

http://www.reddit.com/r/TheoryOfReddit/comments/1g14yo/is_th...

because our ego bias is to moderate based on opinion. However that's why a guideline to moderate based on quality pulls things towards the middle.
Bitcoin-qt-i2p: A Bitcoin wallet for the I2P network
I think Mr Snowden would much rather that we were discussing things like this than his plight. :)
thank you for the advice.I didn't think about it as spam.
Just to clarify, the is no synching. The file requests are on demand. Only the metadata (oh, there is that word again) would appear when listing a file/folder. Just like the rest of the net. It's not a synchronization service but a file access system. That the reason you can have 1TB space on a phone. It's a NAS device, or is it a SAN? Anyway, it just a Linux server that connects to the Internet so you can get your goods. I'd rather they open up the entire OS and software though. People need to know this is secure and not just trust someone, again.
what kind of project can get me some freelance work ?
The NASA video gallery is really heavier on current/recent videos, but you can give a quick search. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/videogallery

They really should come up with a more comprehensive central repository.

The other source would be Archive.org : http://archive.org/search.php?query=nasa%20apollo%2011%20AND...
Creating Xen block devices with Mirage
Ex-CIA chief Michael Hayden: What Edward Snowden did
Don't forget VirtualBox; IMO it beats out the competing commercial products
I guess all I'm saying is that not establishing contact is also a choice that we're making on their behalf.

Assimilating a culture is an irreversible action. Once it's assimilated, there is no going back. Once we assimilate everyone on the planet, there will be no enclaves. Nothing to learn or wonder about. Is it not scary? To be a complete monoculture?

If everyone on Earth could join advanced aliens any time, could Earth be considered an independent society?
You can disable that stuff. Once you turn learning off you can use it either as a normal thermostat or as a pre-programmed one.

I actually use our Nest as a normal thermostat that just looks great and can connect with my phone. It's awesome. I also like that it tells us our energy usage relative to everyone else.

I bought it because it's far and away the best looking thermostat out there and because it can connect with my phone. LOVE it for those reasons.
Value pricing is a great idea for many spaces, but the headling and intro rang "I'm being sold to" alarm bells. The copy is a little too SEO sorts of people for tastes around here.
Sebastian Thrun on high SJSU MOOC failure rate, Udacity 'retool'
You should be able to accomplish this with IFTTT using Hacker New's RSS feed. I found this recipe https://ifttt.com/recipes/5562 which would tweet all HN posts, but you can create your own recipe that will only trigger the action if the RSS entry contains keywords you specifiy (i.e. you could set it to trigger only when it detects your username).
Am I missing something? You only lose accounts which you are not using, correct? It is easy enough to avoid losing the account by logging into it once. If you have lost access to the account, you can go ahead and reclaim the same account back through this scheme, if I am not mistaken. Could someone please explain why people are getting so worked up about this issue?
The analysis of word length is interesting. English has a lot of long, multi-syllabic Latin based words, and also a lot of short Germanic based words. I wonder the extent to which a higher percentage of long words indicates a preference for the Latin and vice versa.
Is that really a website that uses a normally sized font and doesn't drown me with ads?

Nah, I must be dreaming.
Unfortunately I just got hit by 2 projects in a row that passed 3x overage. I quoted 2 weeks to finish, but they both ended up taking over 6. I'm probably not even making minimum wage for the last couple of months.

Those are fixed-bid projects, not time & materials with time increments of days or weeks.

But the real reason I am commenting is to point out that your results - 3x overage - are exactly the rule of thumb that gets cited for fix-bid: Take your expected level of effort and triple it.
What do infosec hackers have to do with this? We're not all f-bomb droppers who go around insulting everyone.
Sounds like typical nepotism at work. The guy can haggle with you for 10 hours because he isn't actually responsible for anything. His name/association is his ticket

One interesting thing about hardcore hagglers, they tend to be dumb. They don't actually know what anything is worth, they just want to win. They're more concerned with how much they can claim to have saved than what they're actually paying.

Big companies take maximum advantage of this by setting a hugely inflated "list price" at 2-4x or more of a fair price. This enables them to provide large "discounts" which make the hagglers feel they've won while paying above fair price. This has the additional advantage of setting a discount watermark in the haggler's mind that everyone else will be expected to meet.
Wake me up when they create an app for remoting into my Android phone (with full functionality) from Chrome on my PC. Now that would be useful.
لعبة توقيف السيارات
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I like this line:

Publishers Little, Brown have since issued a reprint after
sales rose 415,000 per cent when the real author was unmasked.
Are you implying you actually investigate every piece of code you are running right now? I doubt it. And to do it properly you'd also have to review all hundreds of thousand of lines of code needed to build and run this source else you'll never know if there's a backdoor somewhere. Oh man, and what about your bios? God knows what lowleve packet sniffer is setup in there :]

Just kidding. Partly.
Almost certainly NSA'd, their SLA is along the same line as Google's (i.e. your compensation for critical email going down is an absolute pittance), not sure why I should be handling the backups.

Nice support, though. One thing that Rackspace is really, really good at.
Imho, the main problem with this is people gaining the accounts, then using them to reset account passwords for services that are not dormant. For example, I use a @msn.com password for my facebook - I haven't used that email address in years, and haven't checked it in months. If microsoft announced something similar tomorrow, I would be totally screwed unless I can access the msn.com address, as facebook doesn't allow you to change email addresses.

This isn't a huge problem for me, as I try to keep up with tech news, but imagine that I'm not subscribed to hacker news, and don't realise what's about to happen to my account, in that case there's no possible way for me to rescue my email in time, and every account I've used it for is compromised.
Maybe I'm late to realize it, but I'm kind of noticing the sheer number of opinions and interpretations in this thread, as opposed to the usual insightful "I just learned so much more about this topic" that HN provides

Edit: My comment wasn't directed to the commenters above me but what I noticed in this thread.
The warzone of SDCC 2013
shrug

How many of those people actually decided to buy a Toyota because the Nissan site didn't load on the first try? I think people overestimate how much a domain name matters.
Certainly an appropriate gesture, though "Pardon" could be taken the wrong way by some.
Infuriating, but did we really expect any differently? These programs are a bureaucrat's wet dream. A single congressional hearing is not going to make them go away. The continued leaking of the more incriminating documents - an inevitability at this point - is only thing that can put sufficient pressure on these people to change their course.
he thinks he's cool
Hacker News Folks Get Long Overdue Thanks