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Nice pith, but how about adding some meat to that rebuttal.

> "Sorry mom, I intended to write you a longer message but gmail encourages me to keep it short."

The topic at hand is power emailing. Not people who write a message to their family once a week as the majority of their email.

> Folks at Microsoft are nodding their heads and furiously tweeting this sentence.

I don't even know where you get this. Having a minimal interface with the most used features present and others grouped under menus of some sort is an age-old proven UI convention. This is the exact opposite of what I think of when I think of Microsoft software or other bloated programs with toolbars and ribbons bursting at the seams. Citing Microsoft is just a way for you to justify your emotional reaction to my comment without adding any substance.
Not in reply it wasn't.
The worst part is I think most of the privacy destroying tech stuff makes for some fascinating problems (as the comments around speculation on the NSA tapping fibre a while back demonstrated).

People just can't help looking at problems like that even when the consequences just aren't good from a civil liberties perspective. I think that's what makes it great HN material.

(Also I wish I could upvote this more for "disrupt democracy" :)
google is good at that. See the latest iteration of google maps for android. Ugh.
Doesn't matter in the US. As Kitkat sold in the US is made by Hershey. http://www.hersheys.com/kitkat.aspx
Pretty nice. But I think it needs better generality in values – more references to other variables, and color functions. If I make my primary brand color the light yellow #faf332 and the link color a very dark yellow, there are a lot of places on the page that still have unreadable white text on a yellow background, such as @btn-primary-color (which I set to #111) and @pagination-active-color (which I set to @link-color). Those values should use some function of @link-color or another variable as their default value. And colors should use appropriate functions to choose a light or dark color that maximizes contrast against their background.
The ACLU is probably more appropriate, since it's not really in the EFF's purview, is it?

If I'm wrong, I'd be happy: I love the EFF. Maybe they've expanded.
> You seem to be assuming that we can somehow overcome all of the imperfections of past policies but do not offer a clear, strong novel mechanism by which that can happen.

Actually I think what I propose has nil chance of becoming reality in my lifetime and maybe for centuries in the future, if only because the masses wouldn't support it. That doesn't stop me from supporting the best possible solution to hard drug addiction.

I support ending the current war on drugs almost wholesale, because it's so inefficient and even unconstitutional as you note. But I'd concurrently want to see some movement toward the ideal. I definitely don't buy an argument that nothing better can be done now than ending the war on drugs in its current form. I believe there's always room for improvement even within the confines our current misguided society. Maybe I'm an optimistic pessimist?
WebGL relies on javascript to run. Looking at http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/js/hellorun.min.js and searching for "png" you get images like http://hellorun.helloenjoy.com/assets/station/lightmap1024.j... which looks like a pre-lightning computed texture. Looking at the vertex data (in format x,y,z(,w)) there seem to be only 2048 defined vertices, which is a tiny amount for a 3d game.
Amazing. Less punishing than Bit.Trip Runner, and a whole lot of fun.
How long have you been working on this?
The most frustrating is to get correct centering at high speeds, since you're moving the mouse with jerks, you overshoot often. It would be nice to see the right click, or some key on the keyboard, act as a "move-to-center" button.
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Before making bold claims, you should really state what happened and what they tried (or didn't try) to do.
So... why would it be a bad idea to short the stock now? Somebody talk me out of it before I make an expensive mistake.
There's a huge segment of "serious drug addicts" in our population that show exactly what crack and meth users would be like if their drugs of choice were legalized: it's called Alcoholics Anonymous. Are you equally concerned about being robbed and beaten by an alcoholic? Their drug of choice has been legal for quite some time.
Will something like this run OpenELEC? There is a Raspberry Pi build for ARM, but the download page [1] says it's specific to the RP. I saw things like the Xtreamer Ultra but it's way out of my budget. Up to a couple hundred dollars is acceptable, but I don't need a full mini-PC. Low power and quiet is far more important to me than say a core i5 CPU.

[1] http://www.openelec.tv/index.php/get-openelec/download
The company I work for tries to get things done in Mexico and Brazil, as far as possible, because they were bleeding money to unionized labor here. I wonder how the Moto X gets around this. Was it designed with an eye on increased automation of assembly?
More like Kitkat bought the next android name.. nice move.
Good gosh. Kudos to Nestle and Android, but I cannot stand that website design.
Had to look that up :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astroturfing
Just a heads-up: the 'Try it' button on the home page does nothing for me apart from reloading.
> But otherwise I don't have a problem with a war on meth or crack or other drugs that increase the odds that I'll be a victim of violent crime or robbery.

Why do you think that the war being fought on those drugs isn't reducing the risk of you being a victim of violent crime or robbery? Or do you just assume that the existence of those drugs create a risk which justifies the war, even if the war makes that risk even greater?
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Saying the value of a biz model is inversely proportional to P/E is ridiculous.
On a related note, how about considering instead the means of small scale food production in the urban environment, eg. installation and/or maintenance of rooftop gardens, or indoor hydroponic gardens in less hospitable climates?
> If COPS is representative of real life

Its not. Its representative of what its producers think will appeal to its target market.
Chances for that are pretty slim, given Sony owns all rights to the game. So most likely you'll see a PlayStation Vita port of it, in addition to the PS3 release.
> Shift-clicking the 'search' button doesn't work on Google.com.

It does in pre-webkit Opera. One of the things I really miss in other browsers.
For what it's worth, KitKats in the US are made by Hersheys (admittedly which have their own moral issues, i.e. the 'intern' business).
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and the tinfoil was a handy way for heroin users to cook up as it was the cheapest way to buy a bit of tinfoil from a petrol station.
Mathematically, their price should go down exactly (due to this announcement) (1 - Old # of outstanding shares / New # of outstanding shares)%
Why? I like it.
Not on my up-to-date Firefox on 64-bit Linux; it works perfectly.
HN also uses tables.
Try it again today, when the servers are actually running smoothly. You'll find the experience different.
If it's a requisite for hiring, how do you test for it? Or do you only reject candidates that clearly don't have it?
Only US and UK at the moment, any chance to showing us devs down under in Australia some love?

Edit: Especially since there are now .au Rackspace data centres!
Mandarin's in there, keep at it!
I don't agree with your characterization that the judge endorsed lying. But good luck on your case. RCFP.org might be able to point you in the direction of a lawyer knowledgable in FOI law. I think you will need a good lawyer if you expect to prevail.
This is no small matter. Without accountability, there will be no justice.
No, things that benefit society at large should be funded by society at large. I support a war on drugs only when it's constitutional and benefits society, doing more good than harm including its cost.
Clicking the "Full-screen" button on the compose modal shows the following dialogue; perhaps the author just closed the tip?

Click here to exit full-screen.
(Shift + click to compose in a new window.)

You can set full-screen as your default using
the More menu next to Discard.

Likewise, the tooltip on the "Full-screen" button states Full-screen (Shift for Pop-out). And for someone that spends so much time in email, like a developer and his IDE, it might be time to improve one's efficiency with keyboard coords -- gmail shortcuts (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594) -- and use Shift+c (popup) or Shift+d (tab) composition.
Apple as in the fruit.
There's some DevOps and some marketing lessons in here for me. But, long story short, the server's back up and running smoothly today.

If it felt sluggish for you yesterday, please try the game again and enjoy it as it's meant to be played!
I've been in touch with good people from the ACLU, EFF, EPIC, etc., but they're busy fighting their own battles. Others may be more knowledgeable, but no one can fight for my interests more passionately than I can.

Incidentally, in a separate case already in the Court of Appeals, I have the last court battle left regarding the constitutionality of the TSA's body scanners. EPIC, a bunch of attorneys, and some Harvard Law recent grads are all out of the game. My brief for that petition will be filed in about 4 weeks. Details: http://tsaoutofourpants.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/new-petitio...
If you want to really move network packets in embedded computing environments, you need a processor oriented a little differently, the iMX6 is an embedded multimedia processor, and for my 2cents, it's architected to do that job pretty nicely. There's trade between power savings and a faster peripheral bus. The Gigabit ethernet running at those specs I'm guessing pushes streaming video nicely (I'm guessing sized for about enough bandwidth for a compressed 1080p 60fps stream with a little bit of margin).
You can customize wikis to make them into MMO games, but then they're not wikis any more. It would be useful to have a name, I think, for this specific thing, because then people who want this specific thing could download software that already provides this specific thing, with no customization involved.
I may visit 100s of websites daily and none of them have anything to do with what I usually buy on Amazon. I don't want someone to profit off the measuring cups I bought off Amazon or the alternator I got on eBay because I visited a blog about a guy with a standing desk.
I agree, I think LinkedIn's value for network participants is very low. For someone trying to find information it is even lower. The one useful thing I see from it now is that it helps confirm someone's claim that they worked somewhere; through checking of people in their network.

However, things like promoting of skills, constant 'do you know ...' emails, and other meaningless profile building tasks that results in engagement with the website, appears to be little more than an exercise in cheap self promotion.

Perhaps I'm not the intended audience, but I find that marketing types tend to be the most active users on LinkedIn. What that says about the nature of the service, I'm not too sure at this point.
Slightly blurry, and can't be heated to very high temperatures.
Yeah, weighting based on speed would be a cool idea. Thanks!
Most Google services are blocked in China by Chinese government. Chinese companies, like Xiaomi and Baidu, want to build their own ecosystems to make profit. Their management said so publicly during talks that I attended in person.
I've especially been missing the ability to make directions with multiple stops (I used to use that feature about 50% of the time). Also, the interface is a lot slower - it's tolerable on my 1 year old computer, but it's close to unusable on my 5 year old laptop.
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> GCracks'a horrible drug, crack addicts are tedious & depressing to be around, but they're not all as dysfunctional as you suggest.

Have you researched this, as you suggested I do, or is it just what you believe?
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The court never ruled one way or the other on the substantive question of whether FPRA was violated by Broward's lie.

It suggests—in dicta—that it probably wasn't[1] but ultimately declines to definitively rule on the the issue[2].

[1] "The Court therefore has difficulty in concluding that Broward’s actions could be unlawful under the FPRA."

[2] "At any rate, assuming without finding that Broward did not comply with the FPRA when denying the existence of the requested footage, the Court finds that Plaintiff’s FPRA
claim ... is now moot". (Emphasis added)
Thanks for reporting it -- that's a bug.
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Yikes. I prefer to think that the government would not be that evil, but then again, that's just me choosing ignorance/optimism over thinking about how bad things could actually be.
You don't need a developer account for an Android app. Connect your phone to the pc, press "build" in Eclipse, select the phone and the app's there. You can even just transfer the apk over and install it.
- in Google plus, scroll down the steam, then decide you want to use j k to navigate, pof! you are back on top.

- in Google plus, you need to play maze to avoid the pop ups.

- contacts takes ages to load, when I usually use it only for a little tweak that should take 3 sec.
I really hate that thing as well. Although it isn't just supposed to be quick, it is supposed to allow referencing several other emails while you write. Which I don't do so it is terrible for me.
"...as if Weebly and Google Maps are taking jobs from developers, when really there would have been no need for a site or a mapping component in their absence."

There were once a great many programmers who did custom website development. That market doesn't exist anymore. It's not a "fallacy" if it actually happened.

What you're really trying to argue is that Weebly and Google Maps and the others expanded the market for professional software development -- that all of those people who did simple websites are now doing harder things. That's true so far, but there's no guarantee that it will continue to be true.

What's happening here is that you're arguing sound-bite economics, and we're arguing a point that's about five steps ahead of where you are: eventually, automation will reach a point where the average need of a customer will be satisfied without the assistance of a programmer. That we have not yet reached that point is not an effective counterargument. It has happened in nearly every other industry, and thus far, programming appears to be following the same curve.

It's the same reason that we no longer pay artisan woodworkers to make most of our furniture.
Android has never been a premium brand - it's a lowest common denominator product. This is perfectly appropriate.
Totally agree, I couldn't tell where the holes were. Made it very, very frustrating. Instead of making it a skills game, it made it more of a luck game. I'd rather play slots than this.
Because "massively parallel" machines, especially of the kind used for vision or ML processing at large scales, are often centralized.

Would that you had an Israeli branch I'd be sending my resume in, but I am not moving to Mountain View.
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Nobody is accountable though. Who do we yell at? We can't blame the line employees. They are just state machines with no free will [N]. Their managers aren't empowered do anything either except harass you even more.

Are there TSA "executives?" Politicians won't dare entertain the idea of defunding them.

There is literally no solution. There exists no recourse any person alive can do to stand up against the TSA.

[N]: Stop limiting liquid carry ons. Stop throwing them away in bulk containers that make no sense if you think they are potentially dangerous. I will give you $10,000 if you make my sunscreen or toothpaste explode more violently than the as-much-as-you-like-sir laptop batteries, phones, and iPads everybody carries.
BigCouch I guess. However, this release doesn't include that merge.
> I definitely don't buy an argument that nothing better can be done now than ending the war on drugs in its current form.

This isn't really quite what I'm saying, per se. I would rather say that I think that currently people tend to couple the idea of changing the status quo with the introduction of superior policy. I'm skeptical that significantly superior policy can be achieved, so I would prefer that the two problems be decoupled. We shouldn't be letting blood just because it's the only action that we've come up with to respond to an intractable disease. We should stop the blood letting (pursuit of harmful policies), and then work on actual cures to the difficult problems of addiction and substance abuse thereafter. The harmful policies only serve to give the illusion of addressing the problem, and so actually hamper the search for effective policies. And if we maintain the status quo for lack of a superior alternative, then I fear we'll never see the end of it.
That's like saying that the iOS App Store provides us with amazing games at a cheap price, so it hasn't been a net negative to the games industry on the whole.

It has. A handful of creators can make a living from that model, but most can't, because the glut of games drives down the prices substantially. It's a race to the bottom. And the App Store pays out 70% of the proceeds to creators. Amazon's Kindle publishing pays just 35% unless you agree to various conditions.

Aspiring authors aren't really the ones who are experiencing problems. If success is a bell curve, either end of the curve is fine, but the middle of the curve--those authors who are published but who have seen only moderate success--are getting cut by publishers in favor of a kind of VC model. Publishers bet on new talent, but only continue to invest in authors that achieve wide appeal.

This may seem fine, even optimal, to you, but there are lots of authors historically who did not achieve popularity until several books in, and many authors who were not successes in their own time but became successful after their deaths.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, for example, would not have made it today. He was an author whose first novel sold well but every novel thereafter sold poorly (including The Great Gatsby). Today, he would have been dropped long before he wrote Gatsby.

The publishing industry now is experiencing the same transformation that movies and games have already gone through. Sequels, for example, are favored over original stories. Heck, look at the author you cited. Sequel after sequel.
This is why: the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=The+market+can+stay+irrational+lon...
YC's biggest benefits - the network and the credibility with investors - is somewhere between hard and not possible to replicate everywhere under a franchise model. Lots of incubators all over the world based themselves on what YC pioneered mostly with lackluster results.

If there was a YC here in Costa Rica the startups would be heading to SV to raise money. Multiply that by dozens of other countries that can't provide the complete ecosystem and the name becomes worthless and the network no more beneficial than HN.
Interesting that someone took my code, nearly character-for-character, and "open sourced" it without permission.
On the second hand, as long as I'm in the Bay Area until the end of October, would you want to get together in Mountain View one evening and talk about what your company does? I can agree to nondisclosure, obviously, and have no noncompetes on my head.
My guess is this is a ~$10 million acquisition. Not too shabby for a 3 year old startup.
Doesn't gmail still offer imap? Use a real mail client, not a web page. Much more fulfilling in almost every way. I like emacs, because I like to be able to write emails using the same editor I use for everything else. But that's a preference. There are many good mail clients to choose from.
I'm glad that people found this concept as neat as I do. Great design is something to be treasured, and this game looks like just that: a treasure.
Shorting excellent companies that make lots of money is generally a bad idea.
I've been thinking of moving to London. I'm glad you're enjoying it!

Do you really get by on £24k? Surely your housing is something like 40% of your salary if you're in zone 1, 2 or 3 (I'm assuming shared accommodation)? Plus what, £135 for a monthly travel pass? After bare minimum expenses (housing, utilities, food) there can't be much left?

edit:
I suppose you could move to a different country and never return to the USA. I don't know if that qualifies as a "solution" though.
The network setup graphic here is misleading in that the actual delineation between the network resources on the guest and host is something that occurs through network namespaces, and has nothing to do with the IP addressing pictured.

The bridge layer here is dubious. The author routes from that elsewhere at layer3 using iptables, though in practice other people often join a real network interface to the same bridge as guests to grant external connectivity, resulting in a proxy-ARP type situation. In IMHO there's little point in using bridges in either case ... it's better to just do iptables from the guest veth interface directly. Why? Unexpected Layer2 interactions at the bridging device, either between host and guest or between multiple guests are avoided. In addition, uptime is instant versus sometimes delayed (depending upon spanning tree configuration and other such ancient ethernetty-cruft). Finally, by keeping in-container connectivity assumptions at layer 3 you ensure greater portability to alternative virtualization platforms and/or cloud-based providers.

In short, great to see more people experimenting with LXC, but consider not doing the connectivity this way.
well, at least for D: at the top there is 'import std.stdio;', which signifies importing one of the main modules in the language. Along with the C like syntax and writeln function, I was able to get it pretty quick. But, I've been doing all my personal projects in D for the past few weeks, so there's no surprise I got it.
This reminds me of http://commitlogsfromlastnight.com/
>> There's more value in educating and pumping enthusiasm into a 16 year
Why is there more value? What if the 50 year old is an accomplished artist, or a 50 year old doctor or other types of experience. BTW, thanks for validating the age discrimination.

What happens to these 16 year olds when they get to be 30, 40, 50. Do they think they are no longer able to start new things or they are less valuable? Because this is the message we are sending.
That still begs the question that gmail is meant for a specific cross section of corporate users, instead of it's apparent market of everyone.
The google maps link to Flint Center seems broken. I just get a zoomed out view of the Bay Area.
I read that as "Growth hacking your way to virility" so imagine my surprise.
Market share vs units sold. One is sliding down (market share) while units sold are still going up as the pie gets larger.
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Re: Harvard - what about the Harvard Extension School, specific overseas programs such as the Harvard Beijing Academy which are open to anyone(http://www.summer.harvard.edu/programs/study-abroad), and now online courses (http://www.extension.harvard.edu/distance-education) and finally EdX? That's like a textbook case of extending their brand to get more of the market.