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Ads in paid Google Apps are subject to admin control to whether enable them or not. Also technically speaking "prostitution" is a human only trait.
You could try the highly moderated http://reddit.com/r/Games community. It was started in reaction to the horrible posts on /r/gaming.

They even post warnings on threads that real /r/all where people not subscribed to /r/Gaming will see it and come in to comment.

There is also /r/linux_gaming which will have better discussions on the Linux aspect of Valve's new developments.

But it's not perfect. Just one of the better options.
What is the engine behind it? Available somewhere?
Apple acquired Authentec for it, so it's going to be difficult for competitors to replicate it. I'm sure there are other vendors that provide fingerprint sensors, but their implementations of it and how the tech works probably isn't going to be the same.
It's python and django. We will probably release it as open source soon.
It struck me that the post on why we hate infographics vs. the product the company puts out (visualisations of various data sources) was a bit of a non sequitur but the product does seems interesting and I'll probably give it a go.

A bit more on the actual topic of infographics (vs just data visualisation) would be a company that also "hates" them, but is putting out a tool that helps people build "living infographics". They're like the normal infographics we see, but they aren't static and you can actually interact and manipulate the data which turns them into both a marketing tool (outbound) and a market research tool (inbound).

Check them out here: http://stipso.com/
Basically I'm trying to draw out the differences and similarities.

In meatspace private property is default-closed (with certain exceptions) but some ability to in good faith. For example I can walk on your land to walk up to your front door and knock. You could then tell me I need to leave or you'll call the police. This is how it's worked for a long time and thus we think it's normal. You have this right even without building a fence around your property. Again, default-closed.

On the 'net the same rules of private property don't apply because the default on the 'net tends to be default-open. What I mean by this is that the simplest configuration for any webserver tends to have no access controls. So it'll serve up whatever it can to whoever asks. Furthermore the default on the internet for a long time was everyone can access everything since it was originally designed for precisely that purpose: sharing knowledge. The internet defaults to a street.

If you want to make your internet site NOT like a street (which is what it defaults to) you have to take steps to make that happen because HTTP doesn't have the mechanisms built in to do so. You have to build your access control on top of HTTP. If you do not, I would argue that we are right to assume that you meant for it to be a street for two reasons. First is that's how HTTP works and we've got some 20 years of history backing this up. Second is that to argue otherwise would place an incredible burden on everyone to have to divine the intent of the person/organization that served up the page.

What I'm getting at is to argue that weev "should have known better" strikes me as really nuts. In meatspace it would be like secretly passing a new law that divvied up all the roads to the landowners that border them so that I own the street in between my lot-lines and up to the middle of the road. Nobody knows about this so everyone keeps driving and nobody's the wiser. Then a real douchebag drives down the road in front of a rich guy's house. He hates it so he calls the cops and because he's rich and influential the DA manages to dig up this secret law and prosecute the douchebag with it.

If that law were to become non-secret and enforceable it would turn the world upside down in the US as nobody would be able to drive anywhere, walk anywhere, or generally do anything without the express permission of all the millions of people who now own the streets, sidewalks, etc. Even if you live in a big city and you could take the subway (which perhaps is still public) you wouldn't be able to walk to it unless the entrance happened to be on your land.

I think this would clearly be insanity as it would turn however many hundreds or thousands of years of convention on it's head. And to me, this is what the prosecutors are trying to argue. I understand that they probably don't really understand the technical aspects of it but to me it's really clear and their arguments sound like nonsense. But that's because we're looking at it from completely different viewpoints.
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The writer's appearance has nothing to do with this conversation. Also, given the amount of writing this particular writer has done on the topic of sexism in the industry, I'm going to assume this is some straight up attempt at trolling/derailing. Next time you feel the urge to "just say" something like this, maybe don't bother.
Desperately needs an RSS feed.
Just yesterday, I was talking to my friend who works at Intel (on audio for Haswell tablets). He mentioned that Haswell isn't stable enough yet. I didn't get into the details though.
In fairness (insofar as all three totally deserve the ill will), Google & Microsoft have done the same things with Hangouts & Skype, respectively.
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Are things either completely transparent or opaque? Can I still call my motorbike's windscreen so, even though it only blocks a very small mount of wind? Should people below median height be allowed to say how "tall" they are?
If you ask lawyers (and I have done so) then they say that the reason judges rule on their own recusal is because otherwise every trial would get interrupted for a trip to appeals court to decide on whether a recusal is appropriate. The existing system allows an appeals court to decide AFTERWARD whether the recusal decision was appropriate (although the judge is given a great deal of latitude and only egregious cases would be overruled). They can then order a new trial.

I am not sure I agree with this: it seems to me that a quick ruling could be made on recusal and that it would arise quite rarely. But I'm not familiar with the system, and the lawyers I have heard from are. I suppose if judges are nearly always making good choices about when to recuse themselves the system should work fairly well.
yes it does, we're going to add it tommorow!
I found /r/Games last year sometime, and you're right it's actually quite good so far...
Sorry for that. It seems that it ended up at some social networks today and I'm having much more concurrent visits than often. My hosting provider thought that I was being hacked and closed access for some minutes but now it's up again. I just talked to them and they increased the connection limit, so things should get better shortly. Sorry again, I hope you can enjoy the article and subscribe to the RSS feed if interested (http://ignaciomellado.es/blog/feed). You can also reach me on Twitter @uavster.
This isn't true for devices with the A5, A6 or A5 processor. The iPad 2, 3, 4, mini, 4S, 5, 5C and 5S are safe.
The Apple server cannot read your messages because it is encrypted client-side. https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/04/apples_imessa...
>I thought

See, it is one of the problems caused when authorities lie to people.

>the main idea was to prevent phones from constantly jumping between towers.

Cell tower interference is the only reason that's ever been offered that even passes the giggle test, but even the FCC now is telling the FAA to ease up on the silly rules.
That logic is silly. How about tennis and football coaches? Were they stars themselves? And the gazillion motivational book authors?

As they say, people who can't do, teach. And there's nothing wrong in teaching.
You seem to be confused.

The NSA has already sold your CC on the black market. Its just that the buyer hasnt used it, because they cant use it without getting penalties. Penalties which this Chinese vendor would succumb to as well.

Now are you going to say you trust Israel more than the Chinese, they wont misuse your CC, and if they did, its still better than trusting a Russian vendor?
Okay, we went back to plain helvetica for now, I agree myself I wasn't very happy with the way it rendered.
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>> Lots of Nazis were working boring jobs as part of the system that exterminated millions of people. But as a society we generally do not hold these people accountable for such actions.

So what?
Perhaps if they had held themselves more accountable when they were enabling the regime then some of the horrific acts committed by the Nazis could have been stopped! Sure, as a society we don't hold them criminally responsible, but we hold them morally responsible to some extent. And we absolutely should. Just being one cog in a giant evil machine is not a good thing, the existence of millions of such cogs enables incredible evils to occur.

There is no absolute here. You can't say as an absolute "if it offends your morality then whistleblow" and neither can you say "always trust the chain of command". Neither leads to a good outcome. But people damn well need to take a look at all the small things they do and evaluate if they contribute to something they cannot morally defend. And where it's massive abuses of the people by the government, hell yes, blow that whistle hard.
You're kidding right? It's trivial to turn off iMessage; it's one toggle switch in the settings.

On top of that I've had friends switch away from iPhone to Android; iOS switched to using SMS not but a day later (and I know at least some of them didn't turn it off manually because their iPhone was broken).
Taking the time to explain things that should be common sense shows to me that they somehow really care about people's health. Less empathic people would just let natural selection thin out the CAM user population.
I've used msftguy's SSH ramdisk tool plus the iphone-dataprotection tools on Google Code. Takes about 20 minutes maximum to bruteforce the 4 digit PIN.

What the poster doesn't mention that this only works on devices with iBoot bootloader exploits, which is currently the A4/iPhone 4 and lower. The 4S, 5, 5S, 5C etc are all safe from this.
The word "hacked" is missed used a lot here.
Honestly: I would love to do something like that, I just don't have the time and energy to tackle that kind of thing.
"Nvidia's already working to ensure their proprietary drivers work as well on Linux as Windows and probably considers maintaining one codebase to be far less of a headache."

LOL!

Try getting Optimus working on laptop under Linux. I have a Nvidia video card in my Dell that's basically a paperweight, unless I run Windows.
Well, assuming there is a "correct" view. I can't see what it would be. Nothing will be perfect. My primary point is that the merits of each approach should be acknowledged. Anyone who claims that all of the merits are at one extreme is deliberately lying or blinded by their extremism.
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I think there's something to this - there's a plethora of websites sprouting up using the 'Hacker News for ___'. The semi-casual-professional platform makes sense for most industries.
I work in arts/film, and although it probably wouldn't work for us, I'd love to see it done.
Tried Firefox 25 beta and 26 aurora from the site on Linux, with same bad rendering. Perhaps it renders things differently on the Mac, or uses different versions of libraries there.

I have used 'Help->Submit feedback' to report it, is this the preferred way to report website issues, or are bugzilla entries better?
https://input.mozilla.org/en-US/dashboard/response/3983188
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reading this took me down memory lane, I ended rediscovering windows midi songs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtoHxMWw354
Edit: Actually, I've decided I'd rather not share random details about myself with someone I don't know on the internet, but needless to say about 50% of your assumptions are incorrect.

And even if they weren't, I'm not arguing with nor excusing anyone else's experiences, just providing a counterpoint that not all experiences with Heathrow have been bad.
where is your proof that the guy off the street in this case isn't the chinese government?
> Tell us

Oh, I apologise, I didn't realize you're royal.

> allowing disenfranchised people to vote

16 year olds aren't exactly disenfranchised, and to the extend they are, they're not more disenfranchised than higher rate tax payers who pay a disproportionate amount of the taxes that everybody benefits from, but are actually in a minority of voters.

For the record, my point is illustrating the arbitrariness of being "disenfranchised", not arguing for extra votes for the rich.
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What do you think about MomentumJS? I have that domain registered, too.
The only way it can be done in any way is is EU sanctioned it's members as well (don't recall it ever happening) otherwise merchandise would simply find another route to get to Spain or the US sanctions the entire EU (shooting itself in the foot).

Although i kinda wish they did. They EU is not some lightweight when it comes to economic power.
For mathematical writing I've been using Lyx which is a Latex WYSIWYG application. Once you know the shortcut keys it works rather well. Nowadays I often work directly in Lyx rather than on paper first and then type it into Lyx. It encourages you to work cleanly and correctly rather than quickly and sloppily, so in the end it saves me a lot of time. The big disadvantage is that it's hard to incorporate drawings.
On the same token, any reader interested in the topic should read `bad science' by Ben Goldacre.
I agree. Some people may say I am a little "left-wing", though these things have different specific meanings around the globe (and I'm not in US). But I am afraid of one trace commonly seen in left-wing people: the monopoly of goodness.

If you are a good, kind person, with respect for humans, then you are left-wing. And vice-versa. An obvisouly tautological argument, aimed at creating a "us versus them" confrontation that brings no benefit for the political debate.

If you can't imagine that a right-wing person can be kind, generous, good and wholeheartedly support human initiatives like this, then you have no idea what you are talking about when you talk about "right-wing", you are justing creating the enemy you want.
6 years is way too much for a non violent crime. There are rapists and murders and drug dealers who get by with less at times. It's amazing what the right kind of lobbying can do in this world.

On the other hand, I personally see this as part of a policy of appeasement and am now waiting for some huge 'donations/low interest loans' to come out to Spain from the USA/MPAA/RIAA/etc.

I'm not Spanish but I have seen the culture of copying and sharing and using pirated software that exists in Spain. A penalty like this may shut down a file locker or two, or may even take down a few torrent sites, but it will do nothing to deter file sharing in general - what's more ridiculous is that the proposal clearly states that it's in line with the people's culture to generally share software/music/movies/games/etc.

Given that it's such a half assed effort it could only be a response to pressure from the US, a response tuned to not raise too many eyebrows in Spain but at the same time unlock some bonuses/favors from the US govt.

Ultimately I think this has come as subsequent pressure and a fallout from the whole Rojadirecta debacle a few years ago.[1] (those guys basically sued the US government for seizing their domain... AND WON[2]!)

1 - http://torrentfreak.com/tag/rojadirecta/

2 - http://torrentfreak.com/u-s-returns-seized-domains-to-stream...
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4 figure each month, Breeze (http://breeze.pm), it's a project management app (Basecamp and Trello mashup).
> Civil law by contrast exists to right wrongs between private parties ie suing for compensation

Civil law exists for exactly this reason, and has for hundreds of years. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_law_(common_law)#Purpose>

Whether or not it is effective or fair is a different matter. As you point out, there are often financial & power imbalances between parties. One would have to make a very different kind of argument that this justifies the state prosecuting on the wronged party's behalf rather than say, making tort more equitable.
At first, when I read the post's title, I thought Apple had created iMessage for Android and put it up on the Play store. Now, that would be a really big deal because that would mean that Apple finally gets that communication is between people and not one family of computers. The current Apple attitude to communication and sharing (like PhotoStream) is akin to a telco saying you can only call other users on their network, or Google saying you can only send and receive emails from other gmail users. Apple finally getting communication would be a really big deal.

I saw, to my great disappointment, that the program was not Apple's.
Yes, but not because he consider himself one but because he thinks these values are good for his country.

Doesn't make him right either way.
I'm really sorry that makernews does not have a "lame" layout like hackernews. On hackernews I can scan for interesting articles really really fast, on makernews it's SLOW. Also the design elements while cute might not appeal to the more hardcore maker crowd.
And you're waking up this morning to go to your job curing cancer and inventing nuclear fusion, right?
Hasn't Android had pattern unlock forever?

http://www.topdollarmobile.us/blog/android_unlock_pattern
Er, am I missing something... doesn't this violate section 20 of their constitution which guarantees a right to freedom of expression?
Um, I can send both video and photos through MMS all through the same messages app as SMS. I don't think there is an inability at all.
The internet has spawned lots of little communities that can be highly valued by their users. To general outside scrutiny they seem extremely odd. Perhaps our allegiance is moving away from country and nation to small sub-cultures. The problem is that the gap in understanding between these groups can be huge. People can't tell the difference between a mosque or church, reddit, 4chan, and Wikileaks. In fact they are all just groups of people who could be dangerous, or could be a friend. You can't assume anything based merely on nationality or other traditional cultural determinants. But as groups they do have power.
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"........have stumbled across a huge security flaw"

for a behaviour which is careless at worst, and an actual option in the pass lock settings.

This may be a controversial viewpoint, but I definitely think the massive attention given to security problems is causing these people to hype up some feature they don't like as an important security flaw. This is ridiculous.

(Also a reason why rampant 'technology press' 'reporting' should typically be ignored, I'll bet this is already making the round on MacRumors and similar rags.)
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It's very complete and my post barely does it justice.
I realised after playing GTA 3 that I knew the streets of Liberty City - it was a real location in my head that I could visualise and navigate. I suspected that playing games in real world locations was going to be a big thing in the future.

So I blogged about it http://lifebeyondfife.com/81-real-games-html/ (I'm not a game developer and had other things to work on). Excited to see others are getting closer.
>>when the government has zero trust in us

Oh, please.

You know, I know and the governments know that somewhere between 0.1% and 1% of the population is a danger to the rest because of our fanatically held opinions.

(Considering my jokes regarding nuclear weapons etc, I'm probably in a few registers myself and continuously checked. I just hope I won't be sued for mental damage caused by being so boring. :-) )

The main problem is not that there is a lot of spying, the problem is that there is no one verifying and controlling the watchers.

It seems to be the only solution to have watchers and someone verifying what the watchers do. To e.g. avoid blackmail of politicians etc. (This has happened before in USA.)

Edit: True, drenei/conanite. You'd want the creativity used in complaining instead used in finding ways to make good controls of the watchers. How to select them democratically while still making certain they are silent/competent.

Edit 2: This seems to jump up/down with votes. :-) My point is not that internal spying is good, just that it is needed. The only solution is to make it work without risking a 1984 situation, since the internal spying is potentially as dangerous as terrorists.
it would be awesome if you could share some details about your screencast setup.
Given the vast amount of junky infographics, I generally agree with their philosophy. They do, however, seem to ignore some of the research on the value of chartjunk. Like this paper, which won a best paper award at CHI '10: http://hci.usask.ca/publications/view.php?id=173
Sorry, that might sound sharper than I intended.
No, but it bases it's primary service, and the first half of it's name on an open source project.

Admittedly, it does a lot more than that as well, and I love it for what it is, but it couldn't really exist in it's current form if it weren't for open source.

EDIT: In addition, almost all of the public code on Github is open source, and they have a bunch of open source repositories themselves. https://github.com/github
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Oh I used it where the host boots up and then it it runs solo on the local machine. So in your example it's similar.
would it be more accurate if i said their personal information is whored out to the highest bidder?
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I think it's hard to measure productivity differences, especially in terms of 'x' (times), but it's definitely not constant.

However when it comes to whether they exist or not, here's an anecdote:

I was working for a TV channel and a piece of software needed to be 'actualized' (made over). By the time the other programmers told me the specs, over the office space, and started debating how long many days it should take, I was done (so roughly 1h).

Another point they make is that a group of people can generate compounded productivity. I live the exact opposite.
Right now I'm sitting in an office with friendly people, and I roll my thumbs in boredom, but at night I work 1h for select clients and do more than in a week at my day job.

The only problem is loneliness. I hardly ever met anyone who enjoys multiple subjects (maths/physics/software/networks/biology/literature and capital management for me mostly), in fact I mostly receive jealousy disguised as mockery.
Heck, I learned not to talk about seemingly arcane languages (Racket, LUA and the like) otherwise I'm cataloged and have to fight ridiculous prejudices. I found the best solution is to appear dumb.

Discrepancy between expectation of programmer productivity and the reality of one programmer can be very deceiving.
You're stretching the word "hire".
What happens to the judge if the appeals court finds they should have recused? I'm betting the answer isn't "jail time".
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Not assessing cultural fit in that sense at all.
There is also http://www.reddit.com/r/truegaming/
I completely agree. One of the main things I like about HN's simplistic style, is that within a few seconds I can scan a dozen or so entries and filter out what I'm going to look through.
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