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No, check out http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html.

While Libav left with the server, bug tracker, etc., the FFmpeg project was restoring itself, with the help of some VideoLAN people (the FFmpeg sources are now hosted on git.videolan.org). Michael also started to merge the Libav changes back into FFmpeg every 1-2 day, with a lot of forgotten, previously rejected, sometimes controversial features, or in stand-by such as ffmpeg-mt.

The main point here is that the fork stimulated the competition, and FFmpeg became a way better (IMHO) and more complete project. Also, I must say the leader's attitude completely changed, in a very good way. This is certainly one of the most positive thing that came out of that war.
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But the main worry that unhappy people have is lack of money, so it's not at all parallel or equivalent.
Whenever I meet someone who asks for donations in the name of sick kids I politely refuse. I am always skeptical as to where that money actually goes. But when I read this report I am willing to donate more money to this organization.

The story is not just heartwarming it has served number of purposes. I got to know more about the disease, the organizations involved and most importantly it has motivated me to give money from my pocket to beat the real nemesis of that young batkid.
I think Nicholas Gallagher made the case against this best:

"The experience of many skilled developers, over many years, has led to a shift in how large-scale website and applications are developed. Despite this, for individuals weaned on an ideology where “semantic HTML” means using content-derived class names (and even then, only as a last resort), it usually requires you to work on a large application before you can become acutely aware of the impractical nature of that approach. You have to be prepared to disgard old ideas, look at alternatives, and even revisit ways that you may have previously dismissed.

Once you start writing non-trivial websites and applications that you and others must not only maintain but actively iterate upon, you quickly realise that despite your best efforts, your code starts to get harder and harder to maintain. It’s well worth taking the time to explore the work of some people who have proposed their own approaches to tackling these problems: Nicole’s blog and Object Oriented CSS project, Jonathan Snook’s Scalable Modular Architecture CSS, and the Block Element Modifier method that Yandex have developed.

When you choose to author HTML and CSS in a way that seeks to reduce the amount of time you spend writing and editing CSS, it involves accepting that you must instead spend more time changing HTML classes on elements if you want to change their styles. This turns out to be fairly practical, both for front-end and back-end developers – anyone can rearrange pre-built “lego blocks”; it turns out that no one can perform CSS-alchemy."

from "About HTML semantics and front-end architecture"
http://nicolasgallagher.com/about-html-semantics-front-end-a...
Is it wrong when the NSA reads your email under certain conditions but who cares when it's released to everybody?
I dunno about the legality of this or not, but banks absolutely will refuse to give you over a certain amount in cash at any given time unless you notify them ahead of time of your withdrawal. They don't actually keep that much cash on hand. If you go to your local bank and try to take out $20k chances are they'll tell you here's $10k, come back in two days for the rest and call us ahead of time next time.
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please dont post meta threads, they don't really help anything except a stir up more flame wars.
Previous discussion: 2 days ago, 37 comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6727836
What's up in Greenland? It has such a small population that I doubt it's a hub of crime. Maybe Greenlanders live in poverty?
oh wow, that is pretty damn amazing.
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Has anyone noticed that one of the most populous countries is near the bottom?

Ranked 216 !!
Good point. We don't know the context of these emails. Are they being serious? Are they joking? Are we to assume every email in the 500k is to be taken seriously?

I'm sure many HNers have sent joking emails concerning their work to fellow coworkers. It happens in almost every office. I'm not saying that's the case here, but you never know.
Maybe people who swoop in on this meta thread including poster should be hellbanned?

Ah, right, righteousness only applies to others.
That's nothing: break open many brands of low-quality leather shoe and you'll find a 3-5 inch sharp metal blade [1].

I know this because my shoe fell apart a couple of months ago and one came out: I'd been through multiple airports with this on my feet and I think it's highly likely that a majority of people are incidentally carrying sharp metal blades because of this.

[1] http://distilleryimage4.ak.instagram.com/a31902082b7911e3b58...
First, the vitriol here can be incredibly helpful here. If HN commentors hate a business idea or a company that is going public or talks about how there is a bubble in something, it is a great tell that the concept or trend will work.

What I want is a "no politics" button. Those that want to discuss politics, social issues, wikileaks, SOPA, Stratfor should have these discussions, but I don't want to hear them.

Also maybe an overlay script similar to Reddit Enhancement Suite where you can block specific users and those with brand new accounts.

When a forum becomes succesful, the signal/noise degrades. The "how to fix it" post gets floated here once every quarter, so I don't know how much improvement can be had.
Angela Merkel needs to be put on trial for violating the verfassungsschutz! As an American living here, life just got a whole lot more difficult!
Profiting from the deaths of others is morally wrong, and it should be illegal.

The media makes a lot of money from bad news, especially death. Perhaps only the state should run news organizations?
For a Windows analogy, the Movie Maker of 3D Printing?
I am a third worlder currently living in Cairo - if you think a bit of poverty here and there in the US is bad, here in this city we are surrounded by it.

Being poor is not a moral flaw and I see people everyday go out of their bed and try to win most of their days. Still people manage to find happiness within the most dire constraints.

You cannot do everything and nobody expects to. Take comfort in that. We are all doing out bits to repair the world (There's a wonderful Hebrew phrase for this: Tikkun olam).

But when you have the means, go travel. Meet the others who occupy this world, who have different perspective of living, who struggles with different things that you do. They will be happy to meet you.
3D printed sex toys already exist.

I suppose an advantage of them is there's no embarassment in purchasing them, you can tailor them to your body, you can choose colours, etc.
A large number of bitcoin businesses are exchanges of some sort - ones where people are looking to exchange dollars to/from BTC. Going BTC all the way down is going to take a long time.
Agree with both comments in here. Some good insight.

For some pure market research Q
This is a bit biased if one is to interpret the incarceration rate as a form of the amount of crime.

Less developed countries look as if they have very little crime. The issue is the justice system cannot cope with the amount of crime or the crime is simply ignored due to corruption, bribery, etc.
You managed to make that awful idea actually sound pretty good. Well done!
why do you think there would be a sharp rise in burglaries?
From a European perspective some of these things might not even being custodial. European countries don't suffer higher crime rates because of their more lenient punishments.

I think the problem is that on a manifesto a three strikes proposal looks very good especially for those concerned about law and order, the reality is these horrible injustices..
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Yep. PHP 5.1 and 5.2 are still widely deployed :(
This is a wrong way to see things. These millions of code runs the world - it works.

We don't rip off the majestic buildings of Manhattans because they are more than 50 years old. We preserve the buildings that survive the test of time and demolish the ones that don't.

It's the same principle here. The COBOL system that is existing right now is the survivor of brutal business changes in the past 40 years. You don't kill a survivor - you maintain and enhance it.
Uhm, in 99% of the parties I go to the usual answer to "So who are you hoping to meet tonight?" would be 1. "my friends" or 2. "someone to sleep with". Not sure what kind of parties you go to where that is a normal thing to ask...
You say problem, I say fun filled activity for all the family.
Certainly looks like a biased list. Look at the bottom of the list and most of them are from Africa where you'd know the crime rates are high. May be, they are not 'punishable offenses' or they get let-off easily.
Interesting that Italy is only 139 th but we have prisons close to collapse due to overcrowding.
scott, thank you for a great advice. I won't make a decision based on suggestions posted here, but I will consider the pros and cons nevertheless
You know the NSA are part of the US gov't, right?
Maybe their justice system doesn't work very well.
It's quite worrying that a country seems to do some sort of precog on these people; i'm sure there are cases where stealing a wallet goes on to assault, rape or murder. I don't think locking people up because that could happen is a brilliant plan. Why not lock up a lot more people? I mean little boys who torture (and kill) animals turn into killers? It's pretty vague and weird to think like that.

This guy obviously has issues and they need to be looked at; locking him up has no use whatsoever besides 'making the public feel safe'. While it makes things less safe; if I know I'll go to jail the rest of my life, i'll make sure to kill the people in the room so I have a chance of escaping; what have I to lose? This guy didn't think like that, but with this kind of strangely harsh punishment, why would I hold back on any crime I commit?
The other thing you are not considering is that incarceration is a business. The company that runs lots of private prisons and detention centers is a major contributor to both political parties.
Countries like Sweden and Norway have much better results than the USA regards reforming prisoners, you think?
I'm from France; when I lived there, I used a network of cheap state-subsidized subway and trains to get around the country and see friends and family; I attended a good university for a mere few hundred euros a year; I would buy fresh food at the local market every week; my friends from poorer families got free meals at the university, housing stipends, and so on; my healthcare was covered; and many other things that escape me right now.

I also lived in Louisiana; besides New Orleans, what I've seen are old decrepit roads that haven't been restored in decades, public transportation only used by the very poor and mentally ill (very often correlated), neighborhoods next to the university campus that I've been told to never cross for risk of getting shot, almost half of the people being dramatically ill (overweight), lifeless minuscule downtowns. And heck, even New Orleans is still a shitshow.

Present all the economic arguments that you want, as someone who has lived in both places, a lot of the south of the US feels like a terribly dreary place to me. And I've lived in plenty of places, and have found things to like in all of them- this is not just me being close minded, I just found the south of the US to be in a terrible state for being a part of the world's leading superpower.

I've been living in California for many years now, which is orders of magnitude more pleasant and which I love in many ways (although rife with flaws as well; notably the shameful income gap in Silicon Valley).
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But why even try to get on a plane or through "security" to plague people with mass terrorism?

Huge crowds are already caused by homeland security theater.

Are they still taking water bottles from people and throwing these "dangerous materials" right into the trash next to everyone?
50 years of imprisonment at a guesstimated cost of $30000/year: $1.5mil. Cost of two wallets: $100.
The money that went into this endeavor was nothing compared to the compassion and outreach completely fed by the people of this city. All of the media and news you see is a result of grass roots movements, social media, and general kindness. Not some corporate sponsor.

My point is, this is hands down an act of kindness by an entire city. There isn't an evil plot behind it.

This makes me very happy, and it should make you happy too.
I am not from Australia, but looking at Australia as a customer base. I came across this study recently and found it quite interesting. You may find this useful.

http://google-au.blogspot.in/2013/04/the-startup-economy-roa...
I'm not sure but it's also has the highest suicide rate of any country in the world[]. It seems like quite a grim, desolate place to live, perhaps the isolation and constant daytime messes with peoples heads?

[] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...
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This really hits the nail on the head for me. I discovered meteor when I was just beginning to seriously code web applications, and regardless of the downsides it has, it was truly, truly fun. The ability to rapidly go from idea to implementation is extremely fast, ridiculously simple to pick up, and it's all in a simple to learn language, even for an absolute beginner.

Would i build my production app in meteor right now? For a prototype, yes. Would I transition from an established web application with a large userbase to meteor? Almost definitely no, at the current stage. But what we glorify here in this startup culture is to get an idea out and see if it works, and Meteor is absolutely amazing for exactly that. The simple deployment, the ease of use, and the freedom to build the structure as you choose (for better or for worse) truly opens many, many more doors than it closes at the early stage.

I'm no fanboy but I'm very excited to see where Meteor heads in the future and am extremely glad that it continues to gain traction and attention, be it positive or negative.
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No it should not; then most sentences would be torture and/or murder at which point the system stops working. If someone breaks into my house and steals something while making a mess/destroying stuff etc I want to break his/her legs. A lot of people would want to shoot him (on the spot) and even do so. I'm happy though that's not the actual punishment they get as there is a lot more behind the story than this and most criminals can be rehabilitated. There are exceptions with (some sex crimes), but even there are different methods (like chemical castration which doesn't hurt) than these over the top measures that come from 'imagine you're the victim'.
U.S. violent crime rates have plummeted in part because of higher incarceration. A lot of people on this list don't remember when cities like New York and Washington, DC were very dangerous places and all native born inhabitants were leaving.
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Is there any more public information available on this? I know the PS3 used a highly custom API that was nontheless based on OpenGL ES (and added stuff that was missing like shaders), it seems like with more standard hardware and the more mature OpenGL ES standards available today, they'd stick with something more standards-compatible.
Completely. The Nazis were obviously Fascist, apologies for the poor wording.
Let's stick with drug possession. Up until 2007, first time conviction on possession of 5 grams of crack cocaine, a drug supposedly used predominantly by blacks (supposedly, but not really), would result in a mandatory sentencing of 5 years [1]. If you were lucky and got caught with powder cocaine instead, you would have to have 500 grams in your possession to suffer a similar fate. This was the 100 to 1 sentencing disparity that was reduced to 18:1 in 2010 [2].

That's not all. Roughly 80% of those convicted for possession of crack cocaine are black, only 10% are white [3][4]. Yet crack cocaine usage within both races is about the same [5].

If you analyse conviction rates vs use for different classes (rich vs poor), I bet you'll find similarly outrageous numbers.

1. http://famm.org/Repository/Files/FS%20Brief%20History%20of%2...
2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Sentencing_Act
3. http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2010/08/03/data-show-rac...
4. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/17/racial-disparity-dr...
5. http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/quicktables/quickconfig.do?34481-...
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That Noah movie looks absolutely "epic".
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It's not about crime, it's specifically about incarceration. The US locks people up for a very long time for very minor crimes (particularly if they're black). There's an industry that requires a steady stream of inmates, and they bribe politicians and judges to provide those inmates.

The true crime doesn't come from the inmates, it comes from the people locking them up.
I can't help but think this is mostly for the adults watching, just like setting up "santa".

I suspect the kid would have been just as happy running around a yard or his block with "batman" for a whole afternoon.

It seems like he didn't even have enough time to take in each event.

Still, I hope it gives him great memories instead of being ill and in the hospital.
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It's not biased. Those countries may have high crime, but they have low incarceration, which is what this page is about. The story here isn't the corruption in Africa that keeps criminals out of prison, it's the corruption in the US that puts innocents in prison.
Nice! We (Yearbook Machine) tried 3CH helicopters for this - primarily attempting to streamline the sweet delivery process. Ultimately the endeavour was a failure because the helicopters didn't have quite enough lift, and the heavy sweets caused quite an imbalance.

Now a Ballista on the other hand…
This is only my own opinion and theory, but:

http://www.studyineurope.eu/study-in-sweden/tuition-fees

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unemployment_benefits_in_Sweden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Sweden
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Why would the key metric be that of creating rather than spending?

The fact that I sit at Vim all day cranking out Ruby and Python (for work and for open source etc.) is irrelevant to whether I buy a smartphone. Apple getting £500 from my mother for a new iPhone is no different than them getting £500 from me. In sales, the key metric really IS spend rather than creativity/interest.
I'm using one of those Intel Atm £2.50 OVH dedicated servers for exactly this. It works pretty well, but I've had issues when syncing files that change often.

I've switched to using ownCloud for documents and other rapidly changing files, and BitTorrent Sync for large folder backups. It's working really really well. ownCloud is 100x better than it ever used to be and installation was a breeze.
That's not true. Take Sweden for example. Violent crime has plummeted there as well, and they are closing prisons because they are putting _less_ people in jail.
>> The primary way prisons reduce crime is by people who commit crimes.

You realize there's a virtually unlimited supply of people that could potentially qualify to be locked up because they are criminal for violating some more or less arbitrary law, right? Are you proposing locking up each and every one of them to get to a crime-less nirvana where all criminals are behind bars, and everyone outside is perfectly pure and honest?

The fact that there are people here defending the idea you should be sentenced to life for 3 offenses like stealing a wallet makes me sick. He who is without sins throw the first stone, some of you saying things like this would probably be in jail yourselves if this kind of 'justice' was the norm
When you take out the distortion in some of the small countries where population numbers are low (even below 100K), you're looking at a list of totalitarian countries or countries were civil rights have deteriorated most in the last years (i.e. sorted by that).

High incarceration rates most often indicate that governments are only in power by threatening their people or spreading fear. On top of that you see a (most likely) strong effect / high prisoner numbers created by the "commercialization" of putting people into prison - countries where prisons are run as a business.

Guaranteed prisoner numbers or occupancy levels agreed in such contracts (another demonstration that business ethics don't exist anymore) strongly contribute to high numbers and IMHO also express that governments in countries were such contracts / approaches are allowed have completely lost touch to their population.

In developed countries there are two diametrically opposite examples to where governments are trending towards in the moment:

The UK currently considering to play catch-up with the US by also privatizing prison "services" and guaranteeing inmate numbers / occupancy levels.

On the other side Sweden that just recently closed 4 prisons because they were not needed anymore.
In court in San Diego women are not permitted to where stiletto heels to court. This is due to an incident when one lawyer took her shoe off, ripped off the heal, revealing a sharpened metal spike, and proceeded to attack the opposing console with it. This was not premeditated, apparently many high heal shoes have metal spike in the heal for support. The spikes are sharpened to make it easier to insert the heal on during manufacturing. This happened in South Bay court, if memory serves.
The data is objective -- surely not 100% accurate, like most data -- but only interpretations of it can be biased. There is obviously another important variable: the countries' level of development. Very poor countries have low incarceration rates because they don't have functional police and judicial systems.

But you can compare the USA to the rest of the western world: Europe, UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. These countries share very similar societies, values, legal systems, forms of government and levels of economic development. With this simple filter the anomaly becomes clear and bias is harder to claim.
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"What consumers are not told is that the Dinars can be redeemed only in Iraq, as most of the established currency exchange houses and banking institutions cannot convert the Dinar to US dollars. Since no exchange exists for the Iraqi Dinar, dealers can charge whatever they want to sell and buy back the Dinars.
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So, it's not "a lot of scam", it's ALL scam.