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Elections in the US are very poorly regulated - political appointees are Election Officers, gerrymandering of political districts is wholesales and your election turnouts are very low by international standards. The best funded candidate wins because your political parties are very weak. One of the core reasons behind this is that in 1948 you nationalised your political parties. In no other country in the world is the internal 'elections' of a political party - the way you select your candidates/primaries - run by the state. In only 8 of the states (I think!) are candidates selected by members of the parties only. Membership has no meaning - which means parties have no meaning - no collective existence. This lets private money rule the day in all your parties. When I was selected as an SNP parliamentary candidate in Scotland I was forbidden to spend ANY MONEY on my selection campaign. Only paid members of the party can select a candidate - and the only way to get selected is to be known the members personally and to do the work.
I'm curious as well: why did you take cabs constantly when visiting NYC? My take is that you enjoy the neighborhoods much more if you just walk, and when you just need to go from point A to point B fast, the subway works very well (with the exception of going from the museum mile to anywhere else).
I am staying on 7 as long as I can. I get the impression that 7 is the new XP.
Also, this:

http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/17584/is-the-cos...

Also, the conclusion after the introduction of the carbon tax was that GDP was 0.1% lower than if it hadn't been there. How you get from there to 80% is very funny maths. Hang on, not funny, pathetic.
I'm a huge fan of Daemon and Freedom(tm) by Daniel Suarez. I guess you can call it a 'technology thriller', with some amazing ideas and impressions of our society. His most recent book, Kill Decision, is along similar lines and also great.

I love reading actual sci-fi too, and was most impressed by the Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell. Can absolutely recommend those.

Note: I didn't come to these titles myself, they were recommended by Steve Gibson from the 'Security Now' podcast. I couldn't agree more with his taste.
Saying Clojure is a counter example kinda ignores the big reason companies don't want to use Lisp/Haskell/etc. When you're on the JVM, you get to use that gigantic collection of Java libraries and Java community for almost no downside. With Common Lisp/Scheme, so much time is spent reinventing wheels due to smaller communities that they're not worth using for larger projects, in my opinion. Also with Clojure, you always fairly easily port to Java if you decide things aren't going as planned a couple of years down the line, as CodeHaus did with Scala. Don't get me wrong, I think Clojure is by far the best Lisp to choose out there for a product, but that's mainly because it has its big "Java ogre" brother standing behind it.

edit: And also, you don't need to write Java in a factories on top of factories style just because some choose to do that. The same is even more true of xml configuration.
I think BlackBerry is more lenient with this kind of stuff, and I'd love to see this app for the Q10.
Not everyone is aware as you are of the limitations of poverty. I imagine in particular, this CEO's social circle isn't very aware, and if someone of their own social standing says "hey, I actually tried to eat properly on food stamps, and it can't be done", those people will give it more credence.
The problem is that they are actively removing excellent features from 7. Not sprucing them up or adapting them to their cloud strategy - just outright removing them.
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What has been removed from Windows 7?
I would assume that's the only viable business model for this kind of thing.
Vonnegut (Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse 5), Bukowski (Postman). Steinbeck (Tortilla flat). All their stuff is good, but those are my favorites :)
A decent backup system that rivaled Time Machine (replaced with "File History" nonsense).

Loads more listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_features_removed_in_Win...
You can't gvfs in iOS/Android/Windows/OS X

And FTP port is not as ubiquitous as 80/443

Your FTP server availability is always worse than Dropbox's EC2 cloud.

FTP has account/mask/chmod/filename encoding problems

You have to backup your data on server and resolve file name conflicts in some odd way.

The list goes on.
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This is one of the most amazing things I've watched in months.
Yet another example of how schools are more about incarceration and control than education. Right now with public schools in the US we're at the edge of spending less per student on teachers than on administrative staff and other expenses. So many forces keep telling us to increase spending on education. And we have. Whether at the K-12 level or at colleges and Universities total spending on education has more than doubled (per student, adjusted for inflation) since the 1970s, while education outcomes have generally been flat. What has increased at a pace with spending is non-teaching staff, which, not surprisingly, don't seem to accrue any benefit in learning to the students.

The only way to solve the problem is to wrest control of the system away from the powerful interests that dominate it today. Unfortunately, a lot of legitimate educators are part of the machine and don't see any other way to make things better other than to continue to feed the machine with the hope that maybe a little bit trickles down to them and the kids.
Except it doesn't actually sell your data to advertisers. It gives advertisers the ability to target people with certain types of data for a limited amount of time. They don't deliver your data to them.
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> But for many user input data, there is a point at which a longer value is complete nonsense.

The reason I still prefer arbitrary length fields is that I otherwise have to determine the limit myself. And finding reasonable limits isn't always that easy. For example, quite a few sites have about 20 chars as maximum password lengths. Using xkcd's correct-battery-horse-staple method (or formerly most commonly known as diceware) this assumption already fails. Also, what is the correct maximum length for a surname? (See Janice Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele.) And then there are these ridiculously short text fields for complaints or questions on sites like UPS that only allow like 400 characters (how these are encoded into bytes raises other questions about how reasonable that limit is). I'd argue it's more work to find out the right limits than to implement arbitrary length fields.

In the case of PBKDF2 I would say it's the primitive's (PBKDF2's) fault for allowing a DOS on long passwords. I do not blame the designers though. I have read its definition several times and have never though about DOS attacks, too. Like with padding oracle or length extension attacks this should go on the check list for future designs and PBKDF2 should be phased out.
Slide 9, "Demotivator: Hierarchical titles," is absolutely true. Yet the 1st slide shows the author having a title of SVP, Engineering.
Me too, and I never thought I'd be one of those people.
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The code is wrong because there is an assumption that the distribution is 50% for 10$ and 50% for 20$. There no basis for this (how do you know you won't got 40$ if you see 20$ ?).
See my other posts, I think this point is very well worth thinking about.
This is great stuff, and I want more! Any other good blog posts about it? Or overviews? How are people reacting?
As a teacher (of older students than secondary) my first thought was this. And how they will develop work rounds and restricted language codes &c
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Absolutely. It's an enormous market in parts of the world. Worldwide, I suspect more people are pirating things on physical media than downloading direct from the Internet.

I think common sense applies in drawing the line. A kid who burns the occasional DVD and sells it in the school playground to cover his costs, probably not worth pursuing. An organized group importing counterfeit DVDs by the container-load and distributing them through an established distribution network, probably worth pursuing.
The point being made is that those features have been removed from 8 and not from 7.

> The problem is that they are actively removing excellent features from 7.

... is a little ambiguous in reply to a comment saying they will stay on 7.
>College is without a doubt a worthwhile investment that pays off over time in increased earnings and a better quality of life. If anything, a college degree may be getting even more valuable.

"Without a doubt", eh? I have doubts. Are we that sure the causality arrow goes that direction? If I had to bet money I'd say it goes the other way - college is more likely to attract people who will have higher earnings and a better quality of life.
i am new to the feature about y combinator but i think you should correct something.
what is that?
when you log out and you click the arrow on the left side point left you log in again. that shows if you log out you have not yet log out completely.
At gmail when you log out no matter what arrow you use you will not log in till you decide to follow log in process such as your username and password.
There are plenty of iterator/generator libraries on CPAN. My personal favourite is Coro::Generator - https://metacpan.org/module/Coro::Generator

Re: Underscore... there is a Perl port - http://vti.github.io/underscore-perl/
I wonder why they chose to support iOS and Windows Phone first and not Android.
> For a few decades now, consumers have gradually become more ethical in their consumption choices

Look at the history behind that. It came out of the 60s. Massive popular organization against the system. A gigantic non-market force that effected greater awareness of environmental destruction, the conditions of production and so forth.

Consumers didn't just wake up one day with new preferences. They rioted against the market system.

P.S. You forgot about OSHA federal electrical safety regulations.
Too bad i really like the idea but I guess this would be a gift to scammers.
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The real question is, why Windows Phone?
No, nor should we uninstall the default deadbolt that comes with the house and replace it with a simple gate-style lock (you know, the kind you can reach over and unhook).

We should use the default standard method of locking our doors. And our Wi-Fi access points.
I have to admit I'm ignorant as to what Java libraries I'm missing out on by not using a JVM language. I hear about this advantage a lot though! What are some examples of good Java libraries that aren't as good in other common languages?
Windows 7 will be the last good "desktop OS" from Microsoft. They're going to completely kill the desktop mode in future versions, slowly but surely. They will turn it into DOS, where the desktop is but a fading "app", and will bury it deep inside the Metro mode. I'm almost certain they will do this.

There are rumors that with Windows 10 and beyond they will also try to turn Windows's license model into a subscription model, which will completely kill Windows for just about any "regular consumer", and will turn it into a mostly enterprise OS, because only the enterprise customers will (probably) agree to that kind of model.

Consumers already believe Windows is "free" with their laptop purchase, and that they don't have to pay anything else after that. A subscription model will be a huge turn off for consumers, not matter how little it costs (even $1 per month).

We can only hope that before Windows 7 gets too long in the tooth, Ubuntu or some other multi-OEM OS (Android? Chrome OS?) will become popular enough in the mainstream, and mature enough, to make it a viable alternative five years down the road (I think they will be).
> yet these features disappeared because the iPhone showed that most consumers don't value those features over a sleek integrated lifestyle product.

Actually, at the time when the shift to non-replaceable battery happened the alternatives had significantly worse software, which easily overtook any benefit from a replaceable battery, but also means that it means little in terms of estimated consumer expectations for a single hardware feature.

To get actual information we would need Apple to produce a device that's pretty much identical to the iPhone with the only differences being whatever's necessary to achieve battery replaceability.
Not sure why this is anything special. AAISP in the UK sell SIP phone numbers for £1.20 per month (http://www.aaisp.co.uk/telecoms-prices.html), they take about 10 seconds to set up, and I can use them trivially from my Android phone. Surely it's much the same in the US?

What's the point of the "App"?
And people today say kids should learn more practical skills in school. The world comes full circle, I tell ya.
I picked up a slightly used Thinkpad x220 on craigslist for $500 about 1.5 years ago. Running Arch Linux + Vim.

To be honest, I'm very tempted to switch to a Macbook Air/Pro for iOS development (I prefer to own just one laptop)
Interesting! Thanks for posting. I didn't even know this game existed.
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This article is idiotic: Cloud synchronisation is not backup. If you think that, you are a wally, despite the vendor's promises.

This is a new feature they have added that allows sync between devices. It doesn't stop any of the old ways of doing stuff from working other than windows backup which was a piece of shit that didn't work properly anyway.

Sync is always notoriously problematic at the best of times so YMMV always with that approach.

Realistically, most people just drag stuff to a USB stick periodically and that's good enough for backup. That's how it really works.
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unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis.

7:32 And they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment
in his speech; and they beseech him to put his hand upon him.

7:33 And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers
into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; 7:34 And looking
up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto him, Ephphatha, that is, Be
opened.

7:35 And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his
tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

7:36 And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he
charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it; 7:37
And were beyond measure astonished, saying, He hath done all things
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to eat, Jesus called his disciples unto him, and saith unto them, 8:2
I have compassion on the multitude, because they have now been with me
three days, and have nothing to eat: 8:3 And if I send them away
fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of
them came from far.
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I'm all for regulating money out of politics. But point of clarification (since we're being all parliamentary).. I was comparing the U.S. to countries with even weaker election controls.
If you're using another "common" language, you're probably not missing out on anything. The distinction he was making was between Java and a "not common" language, like Common Lisp, for example.
For those who've missed it: http://prism-break.org/ has a few alternative OSes.

Personally, I've been on Ubuntu for about 8 years. I have never regretted it. But the more time passes, the less I regret it, if you know what I mean.
How do they get away with including SkyDrive in the OS without having companies like Dropbox up in arms? Maybe that's why they're calling it backup, since backup is arguably part of an operating system and has existed (albeit in other forms) on previous versions of Windows.
> Why must it always be costly? It is a perfectly rational alternative policy to bring a smaller number of prosecutions, and to compensate defendants for their costs, wasted time and distress, if a prosecution fails.

I'm not well versed in the details, but I understand you can reclaim certain costs incurred in defending yourself in such cases.

It is, alas, completely impracticable to cover all costs, as many of the costs (compensation for the distress caused, time spent worrying about the case, etc.) are non-pecuniary.

Hence defending an accusation will always be costly. No one is ever going to come out of a court case, even when proven innocent, thinking the whole experience had a net positive impact on their life.

> You might like to look up some of the published data about the proportion of appeals that succeed against things like local-authority-issued parking tickets and ANPR-based congestion charges. It happens all the time, and erroneous charges aren't even close to the kind of isolated incidents you seem to believe they are.

That's what I was referring to in the subsequent qualification. People routinely get off the hook for such infractions on technicalities, but that doesn't render the initial accusation baseless.

Generally speaking, the person will have been at the location on the given date, doing something or other that gave the authority good reason to issue them with a fine.

If they were not, it is usually a reasonable misunderstanding (e.g. cloned plates, stolen car, taken without owner's consent, ANPR system mis-read a plate) and relatively straightforward to clear up.

> Whether it was malicious on the part of the authorities or their enforcement people just got duped as in the cloning case you mentioned makes no difference at all to an innocent third party who gets slapped with a penalty notice they didn't deserve.

What else are you going to do? Stop issuing penalties for motoring offences full-stop because a tiny percentage of vehicles on the road are stolen, or taken without the owners' consent, or have cloned plates, and thus issuing a penalty to the owner will stress them out?
This is an extremely, extremely, extremely confused post.

I hope people give 8.1 a genuine shot. I run Linux every day, I have a history of whiny comments about Windows and the .NET community and I haven't ever been so excited about the MS ecosystem as i am now. I really hope people give the RTM/GA releases a real shot.

All of this makes perfect sense. SkyDrive is a sync tool, not a backup tool. This is obvious and it works like other tools in its field. I don't get the tone of this article.

The whole "I'll stay on 7" is just sad. It's pure ignorance. Win8 is 7 with a bunch of significant improvements and the addition of WinRT apps. Honestly, hand someone a Win8.1 machine, tell them it's Win7 and they will have no idea other than the Start menu is now full screen (or performance is greatly increased, or they have HyperV for free, or they have Storage Pools, etc. Boots straight to the desktop, has their apps pinned on the taskbar... with the start button and all.

I'm so tired of these attempts to make it look like Microsoft has "jumped the shark" in some silly sense. I'll join the mob on SecureBoot on ARM, but otherwise, it's really just sad. And I say that as someone who runs Arch on their desktop, Chromebook Pixel, and server.
Yes, download a new OS and Tor. That'll surely protect the network layer between X and Y!!!
The point is that the author agrees with you, except for the part where they disabled the old built-in backup functionality...
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The best Java libraries from my perspective are the ones for large scale projects. You can leverage proven techniques and technologies.

e.g. http://twitter.github.io or http://netflix.github.io
Do phone numbers really cost anything in the US? Or is there an upper limit to the length of a phone number? Otherwise, they can just allocate a million which would be enough to have a grace period of at least a year until phone numbers would be reused.
In agreement with "dis shit is complex", I think the statement that rich people can never understand is too narrow to be true, because it ignores the rich people who came up from humble beginnings and moved up a class or two. There are a lot of those people in the programming profession -- perhaps it's because 'at the back of their mind, they can count on their intellect getting them through it all eventually'. If one accepts that there's a correlation between intelligence and income, then many poor people probably don't even have the hope that they can learn how to do a professional trade and get out of their situation that way. I'd rather see more money pumped into brain enhancement than to pay bureaucrats to come up with 'new' ways to fix the problem that eventually just boil down to giving the poor more money.
Getting a minimum wage job would instantly up your budget from $31.50/week to $320/week ($282.75 take home after taxes), and even more if you're willing to work more than 40 hours.

If you are incapable of getting a minimum wage job, you are either lazy or disabled or mentally ill. Heck, I know disabled people working for much more than minimum wage.
Actually, when you think of it, a lot of comparisons being made actually quite hold if we take into account that there is no Google. It used to be much easier to look for a local plumber in the Yellow Pages than on the Web.

I don't think many of us are really aware of the difference that was made by Google's search engine.
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The problem is that the old backup solution was crappy anyway so I'm glad they removed it.

The basic options were:

1. System image backup. Backs up your fucked system with fucked files.

Oh that's it. Not very helpful.

As before, everyone just buys 3rd party backup software, sticks it on a USB stick or doesn't bother.
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They buried something. And now it's reaching out, calling us in. And you came. So when it comes right down to it,
why did you come here? I'll tell you why. Because it was there! Brilliant! Human beings. You are amazing!

The author notices that people use the internet to discover things they didn't know before, but fails to recognize how HUGE that is. People are suckers for information. One characteristic at the base of our existence and development is curiosity. Curiosity got us to 1996, when the internet was just starting up, but curiosity also got us to the fax machine and the phone.

Yes, there will also be business people. There will always be people trying to make money off it, because that's another thing that characterizes most of us. But at the core, all we want to ever do is be better in any way possible, we want to simply .. know more.
How do Apple get away with including iCloud in the OS without having companies like Dropbox up in arms? And they do call it "sync".
Glad to see new release of this incredible game. Freeciv is to me the perfect example of how a great game can continue to get always better when develpment never stops.

It's too bad to think of what could have become games like syndicate or starcraft if they were not developed on a "release and forget" scheme (even with a few extensions).