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> I think it's good for a moral compass to be partly dictated by the state. One should not assume that they know the reasoning behind every law and disobey it simply because they disagree.

I find that sentiment deeply troubling. I think there is value to disobeying rules you disagree with, and even going out of your way to do so, assuming you're aware of the obvious risks.

> There is value in just obeying the law unless you have a very good reason to do otherwise.

Well, sure, but the reason is self-interest, not morality.

> cases where the state also considers itself above the rule of law

To me, that's a nonsensical phrase. The state creates, interprets, and enforces laws, so it is by definition above the rule of law (or perhaps one could say that the state is the rule of law).
If you replace those words, then your analogy falls apart.

http://falkvinge.net/2012/09/07/three-reasons-child-porn-mus...
Sweet, thanks. I think I had found this a while ago but lost it, looks great!

...holy smokes, John Resig just replied to me. Thanks so much for jQuery, it has changed my life and is what made me become a programmer. (I now do client work for 20<20Thiel Fellows, and my startup has been in WSJ - none of which would have been the case if I hadn't started programming with jQuery!)
This is very true. It's a truly dysfunctional environment where someone gets fired for not willing to work un-negotiated overtime.

In either way though, there is a huge advantage to having choice - and being able to walk away from a job if push comes to shove. It affects the way you carry yourself, and it dramatically alters the dynamic between you and your employer.

The knowledge that, if things really got bad, if your boss turned out to be a giant asshole, you could walk away and be at another job in a week's time, is a tremendous psychological aid when it comes to pushing back and negotiating.
Toward new quantum possibilities: Seeing a photon without absorbing it
I strongly disagree with this whole notion, I think in fact that the opposite is true.

With Git you can make sure that you merge when your story is actually done, with Subversion you need to worry about other's changes if you commit all the time.

With feature branches you only have to worry about integration into the mainline once, when your task is complete, which makes continuous integration far easier than with the SVN model.

If we would need to call a VCS anti-agile, I think that would actually be SVN, which makes continuos delivery a lot harder.
> What Zulily is doing is not a disruptive technology, it is (potentially a disruptive business practice).

You can say the same for Uber, but they get the standard tech coverage, unlike Zulily.
For the one quarter right before new editions of the iPad came out. Would take it with a grain of salt.
Upvoted for truth, but TFA goes a long way towards minimizing the difficulty of creating and maintaining a semantic solution. I've been turned away from semantic css by simple pragmatic efficiency, but this solution might be worth trying out.
Ecommerce is not tech, it's retail. So ya, boring.

Amazon is a huge retailer who just happens to have very innovative tech offerings. They also compete directly with big tech companies. That's the difference.
"New" paradigms? Care to elaborate?
Look, in cases like this, we have to stick up for the scoundrels, because that's when the common behavior of the system is borne out. It's easy to make exceptions for a pretty face, but if you want real change you have to look at how it affects the worst people.
You __hope__ to get one. If there's no plea bargain on the table, you're likely screwed.

I'd say it's probably accurate to say that you're almost-completely screwed if you are even in a scenario where you have to consider a plea bargain, of course.
Reaction to Zulily’s IPO filing and Flash Sales explained
the image quality leaves a bit to be desired... decoding raw images from sensor components is not a trivial thing. Hopefully the funding from indiegogo will go partly towards improving that.
There should be a law that manufacturers have to take back their cheap tablets and phones for recycling so they don't end up a toxic pile in a landfill.
You'd consider releasing credit card numbers of all subscribers to an organization you don't like to be "civil disobedience"? Even if you accept the (deeply flawed IMHO) premise that Stratfor was an evil shadowy organization, it's clients are a step removed and clearly not all of them had bad intentions (I know because I was a subscriber). Next time your employer or a company you are a client of does something bad, I assume you won't mind if I leak your personal information under the guise of civil disobedience.
I personally had never heard of zulily (not that it means anything) but i just decided to view their website and Horrors!! .They have this pop-up that wants my email before it will let me view the site. No sir, you cannot kill that pop-up (at least as a everyday non-tech user) WTF. seriously ? Rant aside though, I would consider zulily for my kid because we are always shopping for kids as parents.
"but science is bound by the burden of proof"

... to prove what exactly? That humanity will inevitably overcome the issues which overpopulation begets? That our population will plateau before we reach 250 billion if we close the gender gap? I feel like your comment was really vague, and you answered jrs99's question somewhat obliquely. So I don't know what you're arguing. But if your Amazon link is anything to go by, I assume you predict a decrease in the world's population.

Also, I don't think we can continue to extrapolate history as you imply. I used to think that our age was no different than any other age. I used to think "Humans have always had the same needs, right? Technology simply gives us more effective ways to satisfy them. Technology changes, but Humanity's needs have stayed relatively consistent."

Randell Munroe's project "Time" changed my opinion. To roughly paraphrase, "Whatever civilization comes next won't have fossil fuels to jump-start another industrial revolution." And I began thinking "Huh... I guess that makes sense. Fossil Fuels make us pretty unique, doesn't it? There's a pretty low probability that we'll find an energy source more dense and convenient than Fossil Fuel. Things like solar and fission are certainly nice. But if they packed the punch that Fossil Fuels did, they'd have dominated our economy already! So does Fossil Fuel represent a limiting reagent (chemistry term) on what Humanity can achieve?"

I think you and the astrophysicist can agree that something has to give. And perhaps closing the gender gap will plateau the population before we reach 250 bil. But given this fails and the population reaches 250 bil and we live in dystopia anyways (like jrs99 originally asked), do you still believe that eugenics are inherently immoral?

[I'll take up that offer and start reading up on the famine.]
Interested in New VCS?
Is anybody, other than myself, interested in a VCS that did the following?

- Integrated the issue system into the VCS (like fossil)
- Could tell you (if used correctly) which files belonged to which features
- Could tell you which areas of the codebase created the most churn and problems
- DAG based and distributed liked Git

If you are interested, is anybody interested in working on such a thing with me?
Is groupon a tech company? They seemed to have a "tech ipo".
Have you heard of elivecd?

This has nothing to do with helpdesk software (it's a distribution of Debian+E17), but this was the first open source project that I ever saw that successfully got me to pull out my (paypal) wallet and fork over, similar to what you're describing.

The distribution comes in the form of a livecd which you can install "only with the help of the installer module" which I have not seen in any repository, but everything else is certainly open source. Historically the dev images have always come with free installer modules.

Of course being a livecd, you are free to use it without installing as long as you don't mind losing everything you've done each time you reboot. It may have also been the first livecd to enable a copy-on-write union filesystem (ram or on a USB stick) so that you could write into your home directory or really anywhere at all on the filesystem (apt-get install) without modifying the system image.

Thanatermesis only charged for the installer modules for stable releases, which to my knowledge started at 2.0 (debian lenny) and was supposed to get a new release for wheezy. But again, to my knowledge, no installer modules have been distributed for the new beta; they have spent more cycles on the new version of the website (which is finally looking mighty good today!)

http://www.elivecd.org
What does this even mean? Most Android tablets are cheap video players sold in China.

It's great that Android is enabling these devices to be built, but comparing the revenue of low end video players with iPads is nonsensical.

Android is a free OS that can be used to make any kind of embedded appliance. iOS is the operating system used in Apple's mobile computers.

How is it surprising or informative that Apple's share of consumer electronics revenue in general is lower than 50%?
"I hate Illinois Nazis."

In all seriousness, would you have a link to that story? Hadn't heard of that.
> No, I didn't take storage or IOPs into account but you do get more memory and the flexibility if the Heroku options don't fit you.

No doubt about that. To date, Heroku's product model has preference for fewer, but common choices rather than more flexibility. Heroku's staff sees fit to give in sometimes, but coarsely speaking, that's pretty much how it goes.
Don't make the mistake of thinking toolbar PR has much to do with the actual PR of a page
> I wonder at what seems like a tone of surprise about the outcome

Where are you seeing a tone of surprise? The caption on the main image is his quote: 'I knew when I started out with Anonymous that being put in jail and having a lengthy sentence was a possibility,' and the article goes on to make it quite clear that he was aware of the likely consequences of his actions. He's disgusted, not surprised.
Why should repeat offenders be punished more harshly for any given crime than those who are first offenders?

Why shouldn't they? The purpose of imprisonment is not only restorative or rehabilitative, but also to keep the offender from doing further harm to society. If, by reoffending, someone shows beyond doubt that they can't learn from their mistakes, why should they receive the same punishment for their nth crime that someone else receives for their first? Failure to punish repeat offenders more harshly amounts to sanctioning sociopathy.

Anyone who has been injured by a four-time DUI offender would probably have a strong opinion on this. At some point, it is indeed necessary and appropriate to write offenders off as hopeless.
It is. Because he's just over analyzing a bunch of ads. And picking on Microsoft is bound to draw the usual startup hate crowd. The ads just showcase the fact that you can access your work files online anywhere, which was previously unheard of anywhere. Twisting that and putting on dystopian airs is just link baiting
If they send a https password reset/create link, then the password is never transmitted in the clear and nobody knows it. In the case of an email snooper getting access to the password-reset link and clicking it before me, I would immediately know that there's an attack because, well, the password was reset to something different from what I entered, and I'd receive a notification about that, too.

If they generate and send a plaintext password, then anyone who gets access to that email, even months in future, can silently access the account. So there is a difference.

Also, the whole concept of having a cleartext password sent unencrypted anywhere at all clearly violates PCI DSS requirements - and it is Ayden's duty to comply and be knowledgeable about that.

There's not a question of good/bad service quality, it raises a question if they're meeting the bare minimum criteria to be allowed in payment business at all.
4. Don't answer the phone at 7pm when you see it's your boss.
Good for them. I was a bit surprised by the amounts though. Is it enough to motivate?

Also, I notice the BountySource site is blank without javascript on. I'm not one who demands that every site work w/o it. But, they should at least show their banner and message that it needs to be turned on. The noscript tag is twenty years old, no?
https://afreak.ca/share/jeremy.txt

edit: I can probably get the full logs for context if somebody really really wants them. This was a public channel, so probably a hundred people have these logs.
Quite interesting idea.

On this we could have a distributed web server that scales as new ppl load the (site??). I can see this hurting akamai. People now have 10Mbps-20Mpbs up on DSL and cable; even before widespread FTOH this could become potent. It would also simplify a Tor alternative implementation, would'nt it?
But buying basic clothing (t-shirts, simple pants etc) is cheap, even from a developing country perspective these days.

Clothing is cheap but it's often manufactured in highly unethical working conditions. Factories burn down or collapse, killing hundreds of workers and maiming many more. It's a really terrible situation and I'm sure many companies would love to have an affordable means of automating this problem away.
Yes, your applications do have queues for incoming/outgoing messages but there is no "message queue" A "message queue is an external thing that provides some kind of service but with ZeroMQ that external thing does not exist. If you sometimes need an external thing to provide delivery guarantess and persistence, then it is easy to connect RabbitMQ to accept/send ZeroMQ messages. Or just make your own shim process that translates to/from AMQP.
surface interpretation: they want them fixed

sneaky possible reason: recruitment strategy that's more likely to suss out the more "elite" devs

likely: my bet, a mix of both
I'd recommend using the bootstrap source at first, and pulling out the modules you don't need from the bootstrap.less file. Because they are separated semantically, you can probably guess which pieces you won't need, and then band-aid from there.
Oddly enough, the thing that prevents me from fully adopting Google Play Music as my one and only music source is its performance on the desktop.

Perhaps something's wrong with my computer(s), but playing Google Music from a browser window regularly skips when my browser has to do something intensive in another tab. It's also easy for me to accidentally close the tab. And it doesn't interface with my keyboard's media buttons.

Using Google Music via my phone (a Galaxy Nexus) is great, and Play's featureset (purchasing of music, local storage, radio, uploading, etc.) is the best of all the options.

But the desktop performance of Spotify (along with a decent featureset and a good mobile app) is what keeps me a paying customer. If Google Play Music can solve that problem (or if there's already a way to address it of which that I'm not aware), then I would switch.
The link to the court brief provided in the article contradicts the reporting. The reporter claims that Jones was sentenced to a "mandatory minimum sentence of life without the possibility of parole". The document says her sentence was life followed by a five year term of parole. "Life" usually means something like 16 years, but of course varies widely.
More like a few minutes. It's already the first hit, now, if you just search for Google Play.
Since Android phones have out-sold iPhones, it shouldn't be surprising that the same happens with Android tablets.

But what are the numbers when it comes to web traffic from those devices and app purchases etc?
So here it is. What will US tech companies do about this? What will buyers do to make sure they have not traded one devil for another? Has anyone got the balls to build systems that are secure from state-actor snooping?
Working link: http://www.amazon.com/Good-Boss-Bad-Learn-Worst/dp/044655608...
IMHO this is the most accessible and sensible ("makes most sense to me") answer so far. Thanks.
You cannot just take a system that works some place in the world and transplant it to another, completely devoid of any cultural context associated with it. What works for Norway would probably work really well if applied to most middle-class Americans. I seriously doubt we would see much success with a system like that applied across the board - there are too many other problems keeping our recidivism rate up, such as lack of support after jail, the lucrative nature of the drug trade, the way we structure our prisons to support gang mentalities, the lack of opportunities for convicted felons, etc etc.

Since we're being honest here, if someone murdered someone close to me and then got unsupervised weekend parole after 7 years, they'd be dead in an alley their first weekend out. Maybe Norweigans are very different, culturally. Maybe I'm just a vengeful asshole who should just deal with it - but I doubt I'm alone over here. But this could also just be a reaction to violent crime - I don't feel as though most non-violent crime deserves harsh sentences. Hell, I'd settle for large fines in most cases.
Surely that's a conflict of interest and the judge should be dismissed?
Right. If the people combing through GitHub profiles are not, themselves, technically proficient (i.e. recruiters) then we will find people being rewarded for quantity over quality. Taken to an extreme, this can lead to communities that become, in effect, echo chambers where developers are re-re-reinventing the wheel to pad out their GitHub profiles instead of endeavoring to create something interesting and new.
This is why I will not travel with friends who just want to party-vacation in whatever country they visit. Bars, clubs, and people are bars, clubs, and people no matter where you go. Not a world traveler by any means, but it didn't take me long to realize this.

What keeps it fresh is the unique aspects of the country/state... language, culture/history, sightseeing, etc. I spent time in Japan recently and was far more influenced by experiencing the rural way of life than Tokyo. I like to take the best parts of a country and integrate those habits/attitudes into my own life.

Traveling around also makes you realize how (generally) blessed we are in the US, at least compared to all the complaining people do.
I noticed this too. But I wouldn't single them out. A lot of sites I visit has problems without js. It's even worse when the site isn't blank - _some_ things just doesn't work or show as they should...
I would imagine the legal issues would be more around using the Candy Crush Saga brand name for marketing purposes without a business relationship.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/security/advisory/2880823

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2013/11/12/security-a...
37signals valuation tops $100 billion after bold VC investment
The key to Uber though was technology, a smart phone app that replaced both the hailing of a cab and the paying of the cab. It wasn't "just another hire car service".

As an example; If Zulily was using a web cam to snap pictures of your kid and send the clothes back pre-fit? That would be a technology angle.
but you can get a customized 3d printed piece really quickly.
Is a Snowden effect stalking US telecom sales?
Looking back over the D forums, D implementers have been promising to support shared libraries since at least 2006, and as far as I can tell, none of the major D compilers support it yet. D is a very nice language, but without shared libary support in Linux or Windows, its use to me as a low-level alternative to Python or Lua is limited.

Go clearly is interested in static-only compilation, and they've said as much. Rust is still too alpha to use for serious projects, and to be frank I find it carries much of the complexity that turns me off from C++ (I really wanted to like Rust).

Meanwhile, I've found Nimrod can happily handle shared library support, meaning I can easily make nice extensions for Python and Lua. Nimrod is just as fast as D, and probably a bit faster than Go and Rust. Syntax is very nice for Pythonistas, and it has a very full standard library.

I've also noticed that Nimrod is getting some very good exposure here on HN, and people smarter than I am are starting to play around with it (in addition to the people smarter than I am who invented it and brought it to this level).

In the end, the only new low-level language without big company support may turn out to be the winner here.
Gherkin: a lisp interpreter written in bash4
Why not 3D, in fact, if it had accelerometers and gyroscopes? Just throw it at around 45 degrees of elevation, capture photos during flight at a few fps, and post-process the results for a 3D scene reconstruction. (You'd have to design it much more durable for that mode of operation, of course.)
All good points. People just don't want to recognize what you are saying is true because they want to believe the press is about truth and not about pageviews to make money. The time that this isn't the case is when there is enough advertising money that you can afford to do the stories that have "value" (subjective value anyway).

"What's the Hook?"

One hook that would get the tech press interested is the involvement of a "legacy" (borrowing from Animal House) which the tech community cares about and salivates over. Like Peter Thiel or Jeff Bezos or such and such angel or VC firm etc. Alternatively a celebrity getting behind it would be a hook. Like Ashton Kutcher, Madonna, or even Louis CK.
Thank you for your insights. I also subscribe to Motley Fool as well and benefited from it. I tried reading in the past, and you are absolutely correct, it just either became too consuming and the financial jargons just became less interesting.
I think/hope that is a temporary situation until Daala will be ready.
Neat! Did you play with using ffmpeg on audio at all? I saw you had mp4 and mpeg codecs - did you experiment with anything that would allow mp3 like libmp3lame? I have an audio processing tool that I'd love to move into the browser.
Doesn't a signed git tag rely on signing the 160-bit hash? So if SHA-1 was really weakened, you could reuse a signature by generating a repo that hashes to the same value as the signed one?
This video by Ramit Seth gives a good view on how to do salary negotiation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elbjLyz1SHI&list=PLD14FA0C81E...
This has nothing to do with exceptions for a pretty face. If you cede the high ground then you are worse than nothing in terms of helping your cause, as has been born out through history over and over.
If you're looking for a way to say "iOS is still winning", then yes, there's vastly more web traffic generated by iOS than by android. but that's beside the point. Android tablets are mainstream now. John Gruber's old article [1] "there is no tablet market, there's only an iPad market" is obviously no longer true.
Yet the ads are saying exactly the opposite. You don't have to be totally absent using 365 like you could before the product was available to you (which is a good thing when you are forced to work, vs not being there at all). People are just trying to find reasons to not like the product to fuel the MS hate in my opinion.
Jeremy Hammond: Prisons are for Dangerous People Not Hackers
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