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QML isn't XML-based.

Thanks for the correction, I was thinking of xib, XAML, Activities etc. haven't used QML, though I have used Qt, a while ago now. One thing I do think HTML got right is to separate content and code, so putting my UI markup into a js-like format which potentially mixes in code is even less appealing :)

Yes, you can jam everything into a HTML document somehow, but that doesn't mean it's always a pleasant way to go, or that HTML is the peak of UI technology.

While there's a lot wrong with HTML, and I agree there's much to be improved in its layout model, learning and keeping in our head a new layout model just to place some buttons and UI controls on a page every time we switch platforms is painful, and leads to fragmentation and lock-in where people choose a platform and stick with it, because they've had to invest so much time learning those platform specific tools. I think that's a shame and it's not a pain I look forward to when moving platforms. Depends on your focus I suppose - if you plan on using one platform exclusively or using Qt everywhere, it won't bother you.

From my perspective doing work for clients on content-heavy apps, often with web integration, there's an awful lot of content already in html, it provides good control over text styling (typically far better than native equivalents), and it means content is portable between the web and apps, so for those pragmatic reasons I find HTML more appealing for presenting content, even for many UI controls.

For example if I have an Android app, an iOS app, and an Ubuntu Phone app, I have 3 different platforms to manage, each with their idiosyncrasies, differing features, layout language, and blessed platform language, and then I have a load of content which I have to let users generate, manage and get into apps on each platform, using web tools to do so is significantly less painful.

It's not a huge deal as you can obviously use webviews and frame html content with native controls for each platform, but I wish Ubuntu had taken a step towards the web instead with the phones rather than focussing on desktop technologies. I see why they'd want to tie it in with what they're doing on the desktop though. Sorry for the thread hijack!
Obviously not, since a corporation has never actually bought a city like the proposed Google buyout of Detroit. I was making a glib remark about possible downsides to a Google city.

So in that spirit: Yes, in TV shows like Deadwood and Eureka.
big nit: facism is an absurdly fuzzy concept; the popular definition winds up being "people more authoritarian than I like". If you dig up Mussolini's comments, it's something more akin to making the civil religion the major ideology of the people.

Anyway. I don't know what would happen, but a corp-owned city is a classic dystopia scenario. I've lived enough of my life working for corporations; I don't really want their tentacles creeping into my entire life and making my body's entire existence about maximizing their profit, or being research subjects, etc.
I would downvote you if I could. I'm pretty tired of seeing snark like this and thinking how many people get discouraged of trying something new and bold for fear it would be met with an attitude like yours. Piss off.
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at least. And it is "one run only" phone.

This is for selling the whole production series.

It is only around 40 000 phones. Most phones sell at least in millions.
pamg is not memorable. I think a more brandable domain name would help immensely.
According to this, the tax lien is not related to the tax break for the Ann Arbor office:

http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/googles-31-million-m...
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It would cost considerably less than a billion dollars for Google to gain a commanding influence over Detroit! One billion is probably orders of magnitude more than what was spent on every election race there.
I wrote for a music ezine sometimes, and once I interviewed a artist and asked him to say hello to our readers on camera. Since the ezine had no YouTube channel back then, and we were in a hurry, I uploaded the video to my own channel.

YouTube must have thought that, since it was a short (~20sec) video with a person's face depicted prominently, the person had to be me and updated my profile image with a snapshot of this video that actually looked like an intentional profile image. Maybe it was just random, maybe they actually tried to select a fitting image.
> And imagine if Amazon had to shut down their whole site when they updated one product like the Apple Store Online.

Most of that is just hype machine on Apple's part. I doubt there is a technical reason to do so.
There is no bad weather, only bad clothing.
At least they are born in America, instead of some third world country. In the eyes of an immigrant like me, top 80% have no one else to blame but themselves.
Startup ecosystems are thriving everywhere in the world IMO, but Canada is doing especially well. Here are some world rankings from 2012 [1].

#8 - Toronto

#9 - Vancouver

#16 - Waterloo/Kitchener

Also worth a mention are Montreal, Ottawa, and Hamilton.

[1] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/startup-...
Your "wrong", but only b/c the container flip happened recently. They had the Android chroot thing to get going quickly, from what I can gather.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-July/037...

Ubuntu Touch is fully Ubuntu and can take advantage of all that goodness.
That and the fact that a lot of people want Linux to succeed as a desktop platform.
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In China, it seems to work well to the financial benefit of the company. There are companies owning entire "cities" with houses for the employees, farms to produce eggs, schools for the kids, etc.
Thank you so much. Docker and Rethink are holding up incredibly well through all of this, my clever implementation hacks are not. I'll provide a full write up after the traffic dies down!
I was referring to the fact that there aren't as many (or even a handful of significantly noteworthy) incubators in the GTA / Canada at large.
I think for $20 billion Google could just buy the manufacturing companies in Detroit, get the cars built, still help with jobs in the city, and save a ton of money. They should not have to pay for other people's bad decisions that have put the city in the mess it is in.
Like http://www.peertopatent.org/ but with the momentum of the SE platform/network. Good stuff.
> What would be appealing to Google would be the ability to produce city wide legislature that allowed them to use the entire city of Detroit as real life testing ground for all of their technologies without having to comply to city laws and regulations.

...and turn it into a dictatorship, too, apparently.

Someone's a bit confused.
I wonder how it'll handle high impact situations, then, like being dropped.

Given the novel shape, I imagine there won't be very many cases released for it...
Unless I'm reading the form incorrectly, it looks as if an eligibility requirement is 1 year of work experience in a very limited range of fields, given here:

http://www.workpermit.com/canada/employee_list.htm

Am I correct in thinking that if you don't have experience in one of these fields, you're not eligible to even apply?
That's the part that's particularly laughable. The auto industry operates largely, if not almost entirely, outside the city limits these days.

Further, why would Google even need their help, let alone pay $20bn to attempt to strong-arm them into some partnership?

Google, should they want to develop their own vehicles, wouldn't need more than one or two plants for years. And there's plenty to go around in SE Michigan. There's no need for legislative sway and they can be had for significantly less than billions of dollars.
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Here's what I'd do if I were you.

First, I'd ask myself how much I care about this. Do I care enough to pay legal fees to defend myself if Snapchat decides to come after me? If yes, consult an attorney and find out what you're looking at. Ignore any legal advice you get here. Unless it's from an actual attorney on your payroll (and attorneys you aren't paying won't give you much beyond an initial consultation)

If no, you've got an easy choice: take it down.
> What would be appealing to Google would be the ability to produce city wide legislature that allowed them to use the entire city of Detroit as real life testing ground for all of their technologies without having to comply to city laws and regulations.

Ah yes, democracy, ever holding back technology and progress.
Where's Google's leverage meant to be coming from in all this? What do they need you for after you've paid?
When you use a lot of FOSS, I think (at least for myself) I tend to pick my spots to get closed-source, for-cost software. If it'll run well on my platform, and I like the organization developing it, it feels more like... monetary collaboration, say, than simply buying another thing. If you're used to buying all your software, paying the minimum might look like just the (perfectly reasonable) cheapest way to get it?

Not to suggest that there actually IS any difference between the two groups when they pay - I just feel like more a good-deed-doing partner when I voluntarily pay more for something like humble bundle, that's all. It's silly and false, but it's definitely a feeling.
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DEA is a jobs program, just like the TSA. You will never, ever convince any politicians to do anything about this because they're part of the program themselves. Just pay your taxes, live with it, and stay out of the way.
Thanks Jeremy, we are thinking about it! We will definitely have to change it at some point.
What about the idea?
The issue with an article like this is that you can't really buy a city.

The article talks about how Detroit has $20B in debts and Google could afford to spend $20B. But that wouldn't be the cost of Detroit which would also include all of the assets that the city owns. Even then, what have they bought? Things like the roads and sewer system? But they wouldn't really control those things since the residents of Detroit would elect their government.

But let's say that Google could own a city and rule it as a dictatorship within America. "Google could convince the existing car manufacturers to start producing Google Cars and a premium rate. [sic]" Self-driving cars are still a while away. Ignoring that for a moment (and ignoring the fact that Ford and Chrysler moved out of Detroit), I understand the thought: "how great would it be for the Detroit automakers to have a higher-margin draw to their products?" That would be great in a certain sense, but wouldn't really work. If it were easy and cheap to do, others could easily follow. If it's hard and expensive, Google isn't going to just donate those profits to the GM/Ford/Chrysler shareholders and workers - they're going to want those profits for Google shareholders and Google workers. However, the whole thing ignores the fact that Google owning Detroit and such a partnership have nothing to do with each other.

"What would be appealing to Google would be the ability to produce city wide legislature. . . [sic]" Again, this goes back to the issue that Detroit would still be democratically governed. Sure, Google could use power and influence to shape legislation, but isn't that what, say, Comcast tries to do? The idea that Google wouldn't have to comply with laws and regulations is laughable (and would be terrifying if it weren't so ridiculous).

It's always interesting to think, "how would someone/some organization I respect run a government." However, there just isn't logic in this article. Democratic governance negates most of it, equal protection guarantees mean that Google couldn't be placed above the law, and any partnerships with other companies could be made regardless of "owning" Detroit.
It is all over the map, I know of at least one district in Texas that has an immersion program where 50% of your class time is in Spanish starting in kindergarten. I know of a (private) school where by 8th grade you have had 4 years Spanish and 4 years French. The public schools I went to had neither. The earliest you could take Spanish was sophomore year of high school, and at most you could take 2 years of it.
Most recent edition of Top Gear showed 'ghost towns' in Spain. These are complete towns, but empty of people. It'd be much cheaper for Google to buy one of those.
Hey guys, thanks for your patience. I'm sorry the ride hasn't been as smooth as I'd hoped for so far.

Over 600 of you have created and successfully used Rethink so far. With only a ~7GB RAM overhead (and barely any CPU usage.) That's really awesome.
I don't think it's really fair to label tobacco as "dangerous". It's definitely toxic and it will shorten your lifespan by a number of years but it's not "dangerous". Tobacco doesn't make people do stupid things like alcohol does.
>It's imperative vs declarative

Good point, I think the common tendency to refer to procedural programming as either procedural or imperative interchangeably got me doing the same thing with functional and declarative.
The report you linked to was produced by the Hoover Institution and the Witherspoon Institute. Do you have any reports that weren't produced by gay-hating Christianist organizations? Thanks.
One thing I'd like to note is this line from Snapchat's email:

> Please confirm that it has been removed by end of day Monday, July 22nd.

Essentially, they're giving the poster less than a full day to act on this. That strikes me as a high pressure tactic on Snapchat's part designed to get the poster into pulling that library before taking the time to consult with an attorney.

130 forks and counting.
They'd do better if they bought a corn field and built it up from scratch as a city.
Let's bring back the company town!¹ Where you shop at the company store using company scrip. If profits are down, your hours get cut but the rent at your company-owned house doesn't. And if you get fired, you have to move out with little notice.

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¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Buying Detroit's $20Bn debt would get Google a stack of papers, but not the sewer system or the roads. I think that's what you meant to say, but it wasn't clear to me.
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I can really appreciate this opinion of my comment. It is truly genuine and a great analysis! There is much more truth to your words than I would like to admit in other facets of my life.

Their priority is indeed far from mine. Many times, I find it hard to empathize and easier to just point the finger at the obvious choices they have made.

Yet, there is a community type punishment and resentment for people who fall into these traps of life. Prioritize reproduction over stability. OK! Community rules: 1) Don't come to 'us' for handouts. 2) Don't get on welfare/medicaid because you dug yourself into a hole. 3) Don't fall into the great apathy device of drugs to help you forget.

If you break the rules, you will be shamed and feel guilty.

The glorious church folk at the Southern Baptist Church in Oak Grove began the silent treatment on my family due to my great grandmother utilizing the meals on wheels services in the area.

Poorness is not acceptable, in some of the poorest communities of the US. It is absolutely glorious.

There is just so much more than I could hope to explain in a comment. The racism, classism, politics, and circular ideologies that are passed down in those areas is a novel on its own.

You are correct. I pity their choice, and often feel my choices are superior. Yet, more often than not, they also pity their choices, and envy my choices.
Yeah, "devoid of value" is a little harsh. I apologize for that. But it's not up to the blog author to ensure their post has enough value. In this context that's the job of HN.
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Chamberlain v. Skylink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chamberlain_Group,_Inc._v._....

actually went the other way, but Chamberlain's argument was an interesting one: the copyright-able "work" was the code that ran in the garage door opener that actually opened the door. That code was protected against running (access in 1201 a) by the remote's code system.

The judge got access to the code v. access to the customer's garage mixed up and ruled against Chamberlain because it seemed silly. The DMCA is that silly, though and extreme unintended effects cases like this are the way to get support to re-write digital-age copyright.

Here, there are two access controls (control over access to running (accessing) copyrighted code on Snapchat's server) in question: the API key and use of that key. Is supplying one part of a circumvention device (the library) without the other (the API key) still a 1201 a violation? Patent law has provisions against "independent" manufacturers supplying parts that together violate a patent, but alone do not. MGM v. Grokster already tried to bring some of that reasoning into copyright (case) law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inducement_rule

The less interesting, but more dangerous to the O.P. question is the T.O.S. violation. Pure reverse engineering is done without access to documentation about the thing reversed. Purest has two teams: one to analyze and write an expression-independent specification and another to implement that spec.
Way I look at it, there's fewer commercial games on the platform, so users are more grateful and focused on buying those games.

A single, idealistic phone like this will allow those users to focus and buy it - in much the same way as the games.
Initial reporting indicated otherwise:

http://www.annarbor.com/business-review/31-million-tax-lien-...

Basically stating that the office in charge of auditing companies who got the MEGA grants and making sure they qualified for them wasn't doing its job and on review it turned out Google didn't qualify and owed back taxes based on that.

But regardless, if the tax lien is unrelated (which seems weird to me, especially since the figures involved fit perfectly with the MEGA credit), Google still hasn't held up its end of the agreement.
Yeah, but tobacco makes you smoke tobacco.
I have heard of one company town that worked: Rochester, New York and the Eastman Kodak company. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/17/nyregion/despite-long-slid... But it's the only one I've ever heard of.
Luckily for Google, the city's operating under the Emergency Management law. So they would have to buy significantly fewer politicians than one might expect.

Unluckily for Google, the cash-strapped state of the city is not indicative of any lack of monied influences who rather prefer things the way they are.
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This is somewhat correct and quite possible. Keep in mind the reason that this is possible is because to maintain Canadian PR status the residency obligation is 2 physical years in Canada out of a 5 year period[1]. So if you are outside of Canada for 3 years, you'd have to come back for the final 2.

There is ambiguity about whether it's a rolling 5 years or whether it's 5 year cycles based on the date you first receive your PR status. To be safe, it's usually best to assume modulo 5 from the start of your PR status.

In the example above, if you filed the citizenship application 3 years and 1 day later, the maximum you can stay in your Guatemalan hut is just shy of 2 years, or else you risk losing PR status and jeopardizing your Canadian citizenship application.

[1] http://www.cic.gc.ca/english/newcomers/about-pr.asp#keep_sta...
I believe he is referring to an event such as a javascript based event when a user clicks a button etc. I'm also interested in event tracking because my WebGL site uses it to track user interaction since users only visit the WebGL view and don't visit multiple pages.
I posted about this before, but we just officially released the app.

Would love to hear your thoughts!
In just 4 hours, it is at $703,945. Already the 9th most funded project on Indiegogo.

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects?filter_country=CTRY_US&fil...
oh, it's orthogonal. so it's got that going for it, which is nice.
I don't know, but they obviously have an interest in keeping the status quo. I wouldn't be surprised if they would be found actually supporting War-on-Drugs efforts.
Detroit might be bankrupt, but the statue of Robocop is going to be awesome: http://www.avclub.com/articles/detroits-robocop-statue-is-al...
"based on" could literally mean "some shit our lead developer cooked up that's like SHA but not really."

I would hope "based on" doesn't mean that but why use the phrasing at all? Either it's SHA-512 or it isn't and if it isn't, confidence is definitely not instilled.
While the point of this article is about using gdb to debug a running Ruby process, surely a useful tip, the exponential regex engine is a fairly major player too.

"Complexity Attacks" against web services aren't unknown, where you can bring a server to its knees with a well-chosen string. Search engines in blogs, wikis, and the like are a good target, since they are running user's regular expressions. But you should make sure your own regexes don't backtrack much either.

Or, use a linear matching engine, like re2. For more information about the complexity of matching a regex, Russ Cox's page is a classic: http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
Interestingly, according to http://im.kommersant.ru/ISSUES.PHOTO/CORP/2013/02/21/dsryu4...., the Baltics combined have the largest russian diaspora in the world, followed by USA, Germany and Israel. Probably due to the proximity and relative ease of emigration from Russia to the Baltic states.

If you read russian, here is a series of articles with advice on various emigration destinations. It's an interesting view into the current mindset there. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2132694
SHA512 is slower on most (all?) current GPUs, but there is plenty of hardware on which it is faster than SHA256.
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My local council are damned awful. Dont want a larger version of that.
Particularly cool to see hardware optimized for dealing with DDoS attacks, which is not one of the more common pain points I'm familiar with.
For hosting providers (or those nice people who share their servers with friends), you can have Piwik automatically installed by default when creating new sites.

This is impossible to do with GA, as GA require the creation of personal accounts and injection of code into the customers/users website.
I wonder if this trend will increase. Moving from Chrome to Firefox and Google to DuckDuckGo for me was first about a bad taste left by a brand. That led me to alternatives that are more user focused and actually listening to users. I think Google kind of lost its way. I doubt if a majority of users though even care or value the issues which cause some of us to jump ship. The identity service of G+ was the first straw for me. I'm sure others are accumulating their own straws. I guess it shows that any company can jump in and fill a niche offered by bigger players. DDG is getting well deserved publicity. It's also nice to see Mozilla in the news again. I'm quite happy making the product switches I have and will put up with any perceived reduction of features for products that are improving and really listening to their users.
I think you may be reacting to a mis-parse. The sentence is awkwardly phrased either way, but "clearly" could mean "it is clear that it takes a lot of technical means," or it could mean "to find a clear version (i.e. plaintext) of the password."
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RoboCop, but more explicitly in RoboCop 2.
If the hardware is open I expect you would be able to put the Firefox mobile OS on there as well.
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