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> It particular implementation, much less so the implementation of the particular software that implementation is written in, is only incidental.

Not at all. In computer programming, examples abound in which the gap between the formal algorithm and its practical embodiment led to catastrophe. One can scarcely count the number of times in which the specific manner by which a simply stated algorithm was implemented needed to be examined more closely:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5

"Ariane 5's first test flight (Ariane 5 Flight 501) on 4 June 1996 failed, with the rocket self-destructing 37 seconds after launch because of a malfunction in the control software.[20] A data conversion from 64-bit floating point value to 16-bit signed integer value to be stored in a variable representing horizontal bias caused a processor trap (operand error) ..."

> When you're giving a driving test, you don't need to know how a fuel-injection system works.

No, but someone does. If the software is inaccessible, then no one can check it except its owners, who have an incentive not to check it thoroughly, or to conceal what they have discovered.
Well, how do you bring about change in a democratic republic without publicity? Bribery?
Only a few months ago I was looking specifically for the European safety regulations for children tables and - to my surprise - they were nowhere to be found or were hidden behind some pay wall.
That was a really informative comparison, kudos to the Ember author for injecting minimal bias.

I've been on the fence about switching from jQuery + Coffeescript to Angular/Ember/etc.

Still am, bit of a server-side luddite here, AJAX, client-side form validation, some jQuery effects for dropdown menus, show/hide layers, etc. is as far as I go.
The morality of the situation is very clear: Those standards are de facto law because they are treated by common practices as if they were the law. Hence they need to be in the public domain.

I agree that if those standards are indeed de facto law, they should be treated like law. But that is not the case the article makes. The articles makes a case around being surprised about getting sued for publishing copyrighted material without the owner's consent. Which is not suprising at all.
In about 5 minutes I found 5 companies in Dayton who use open source tech for web development[1]. I also found a web developer meetup group that's been going for 6 years, has more than 350 members, and has a meeting in a couple of weeks[2]. And a dynamic languages (e.g. Ruby) group with 46 members meeting the week after that[3].

And I'm thousands of miles away in the UK.

There are people out there who can help. Get in touch with them. Don't try to do it all yourself. Many, many people will volunteer time.

[1] http://boldmove.co, http://www.volotechnologies.com, http://atomicinteractive.com, http://www.designchemistry.com, http://www.bitstormweb.com

[2] http://www.meetup.com/dayton-web-developers/

[3] http://www.meetup.com/Dayton-Dynamic-Languages-User-Group/
One of the features Foundation 5 is advertising is support for libsass, which is the C implementation by the original author of Sass, so you should be good without having to install Ruby.
Another important argument for tests is that as people like your self join the company they will have 10x a harder time doing any change to the source as they will not now how this might impact the whole project.
It might break somewhere that you do not know it will. (first level experience on this).
A good test base, will make your live a lot easier as you go along.
The native runtime environment for apps in ChromeOS is HTML/JS/CSS. The term "native" is not always used to refer to on-the-metal environments.
vg.no quoted him as saying this.
"vendor lock-in" and "open source" are incompatible. Google won't stop anyone that wants to add support for other browsers. In fact, anyone could fork Spark.

If you want an example, see OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice.
That's quite a rant :)

1. My experience: I have not experienced Firefox being significantly slower than Chrome. I personally do not notice anything. Firefox on Android works amazingly (better than Chrome significantly). I have not seen Firefox crash yet.

2. Your experience: It is just a rant. You are not contributing anything good to this world and the only good thing about your rant is understanding that people might have your problem. Like Mozilla doesn't know this problem and has not done anything towards that. You could have written the same rant more positively, maybe with some metrics and ideally with analysis what must be improved. Firefox is open source browser.
This isn't the Clark GC, but if you're writing a lisp compiler and want to just use a GC (and not Boehm), give http://www.ravenbrook.com/project/mps a look. It is pretty nice.
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We do get comments from employees at big companies. You can also find many by searching for 'disclosure' in comments.

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=microsoft&st...

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=adobe&start=...

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=ibm&start=0

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=apple&start=...

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=google&start...

https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/users&q=facebook&sta...
The article actually admits in the first sentence that the title is false: "... Python is probably the programming language of choice (besides R) ..."
yes, but they also don't want blogspam, which they can easily classify you as if you don't add anything new to the story (i guess adding your opinion would help, not just quote the original page you're linking to)
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The UK (where these TVs are being sold), much like the rest of the EU, does have legal mechanisms to forbid such practices and punish infringers, under the Data Protection Act 1998 [1]. The fact that LG still sold these TVs in the UK shows that legal mechanisms are not sufficient.

Sure, one can argue that this particular mechanism is not sufficient, while others would be, but we often don't know that until the deed is done.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Protection_Act_1998
Assuming you appreciate some constructive criticism - the sample 'business card' you provided doesn't match your promise of being elegant...

The flow of the text around the round image makes it hard to read. There's a mishmash of font sizes. 'Show all' displays so little new text, you might as well not hide it under the link. The summary is cut off mid-sentence and there's no way of expanding it. The picture is cropped too closely and there's a pixelated border.

The font that 'CIVILIZED AGE' is written in hardly looks elegant, and doesn't match the cursive font.

Just my opinion...
No, actually, you don't have the burden of proof, that's the point. If that was the case, following a US standard, say, should probably be as good a defence as following an EU standard. Instead, one particular proprietary standard is exempted from you having to prove anything, except for the fact that you do follow the standard. That special treatment is what is being criticized here.

Also, laws don't cease to be laws because they are not consumer oriented. Your argument applied analogously essentially would mean that it would be perfectly fine for all laws concerning the taxation of corporations to be secret because those are highly technical and not consumer oriented. These dumps are not meant for consumers, but for people who are required to follow the rules set by those standards.
Recently, I decided to follow-up one of the many emails I receive from a company I've never heard of, implying I have an account with them. I usually assume they are spam, but this looked like a genuine case of someone accidentally using my email address and the service not verifying it. Long story short: via their password recovery, I now have the user's plaintext password, and several personal details including address, age, phone number, and mother's maiden name.

I emailed the company (a US mobile phone company I haven't heard of; I'm based in the UK) and their response was along the lines of "call us (at your expense) and tell us your phone number and we'll sort it out". In the end, out of sheer frustration, I reset the account's email address to that of the company's WHOIS technical contact; that was the safest way I could think of getting my email address off the account.

Google, of course, handle this kind of thing properly. But for every google, there are thousands of companies who will give your personal data away without a care in the world.
Maybe, maybe not...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aflatoxin

http://www.foodproductiondaily.com/Processing/Extrusion-cook...

The real issue with advice on foods is that it requires a great deal of judgement. Definitive statements that are actionable are relatively rare, and even then with a few years more research the advice can be turned completely on it's head, low-fat diets being the canonical example.
Socio-economic status was not used as a covariate in this study. They report that this issue is smaller than in other studies because only health-professionals were in the study. Well at least for the economic part, there are pretty huge disparities within healthcare.

And then my other remark. In the appendix. Table S4: most of the confidence intervals overlap all the way from the 'no nuts'-group to the 'daily nuts'-group. I know you shouldn't focus overly on those intervals. But those splines don't look that convincing to me.

So considering you have a measured effect that is not that clear, where you really expect the "true" effect to be orders smaller than the reported 20% reduction in mortality, without proper controls in the studies for one of the largest effects (higher income >> longer life) and with lots of overlapping confidence intervals, I wouldn't bet my nuts on this study.
FWIW, all of these are in Dan Pollocks ad blocking hosts list:

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

On my network, I use the following script to convert the hosts file he provides into an unbound config file which I include from my main unbound config, using this script:

https://github.com/jodrell/unbound-block-hosts

This provides ad blocking for my entire network, including my smart tv.
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I think is they write in any comment that they're from one of these companies, the flamewar begins.
I must be missing something...I see the Python options having a lot more volume than R. What am I supposed to be seeing in this graph that means Python isn't a (if not the) leading language in this space?
Hey, didn't you post in the Hackers@Berkeley Facebook group earlier today,
Comparing statistical packages by: Kaggle.com usage, Job posts, Activity on blogs, mailing lists, Stack overflow, Google Scholar and a few more..

http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/

We have a winner?
'I made an assertion and now it's my "job to support it"?! ' - Yep - that's how it goes.
> If so, why is it called Safari Push Notifications? Safari doesn't have to be running for them to work.

Because as far as the user can see, Safari is the interface to these notifications: that's where you get the prompt to subscribe to the notification, and you can configure or remove notifications from its settings.
It's a common feature nowadays. The venerable Squid has had that feature for a long time.

http://wiki.squid-cache.org/Features/DynamicSslCert
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We do see such comments, but those who post them are understandably reluctant to reveal their affiliations. Also, such disclosures would be made only if they were germane to the point being made.

Imagine a post in a philosophy forum about the existential human condition. imagine that the poster begins by saying, "Full disclosure: I'm a human."

> If it doesn't violate the company principles (though I cannot see why it would) ...

It's easy to see how this would violate company policy as well as being a risky practice in general. Someone's personal view might end up seeming like an official corporate policy position.
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My intention was not to sound like rant but if I did then it's my bad. I notice the issues with ubuntu a lot and I was big fan of it as mentioned above but not anymore as you know the reason. I get paid for developing application which work on browsers and not make browsers work fast. The point is big number of devs won't be able to give their time to make browsers better but that does not mean they can't say bad is bad.
Yes, and no. DIN basically takes European and international norms and translates them so that they conform to the German law and can thus be used in Germany. This is not just a matter of simple translation but of adaptation since all documents issued by the European Union are published in all languages of the member states anyway. Companies could of course just take the European norms and implement them by themselves, but since adapting these norms to German law is complicated they choose to buy a certified DIN report which provides them legal security. Now you can of course argue if this service should be provided for free or not. On their website, DIN points out a few reasons why they charge money for their reports:

http://www.din.de/cmd?cmsrubid=197041&menurubricid=197041&le...

So basically it's not Germany that "threatens" the guy which published these norms, but a company suing an individual for publishing copyrighted work.
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> What else? 4) Bi sex

If it's two bisexual men

> 5) Threesome sex

If it's three men.

> 6) Lesbian with strapon sex?

No, because that wouldn't involve any penises.

The parent was arguing that it's more common for men to be making decisions about condom usage than women. Why would lesbians use a condom?
What is the 'whoopsie' process and how can I remove it?
Maybe some do, but their articles don't get popular on Hacker News and other aggregators, for some reason :-P
It would be awesome if I could upload (or just post) my Gemfile to your site and be able to search only the gems I am using.
>As an aside: don't forget the largest major anti-condom propagandists is not African at all (ie, the Catholic church).

That would be the curch that also goes on about abstinence before marriage and monogamy afterwards? Never understood why the church gets beaten up for that (not a fan of the stance on condom use but this implies people "religously" follow one of their rules while blatantly ignoring others).
Not even close to Adele's performance.
How do game companies share massive files?
The only possible way to fix this in some way, is having Open alternatives.

Will love that when you buy a tv, you buy just the monitor. Without the tunning hardware or the crappy ooss. Like when you do with projectors.

Then you buy any chromecast, raspberrypi, or something that you can hack.

I can see for 2014/15 having a lot of startups creating small devices to connect to monitors only that tune internet in the same way they tune digital-tv.

Once you have competition in that market, you can start thinking in security.
And at least this time it's not domain name seizure. The server 194.71.107.27 is down.
"we cannot settle on Javascript as the forever language."

We cannot, but thanks to the chicken-and-egg problem, we probably will anyway.
No, you are wrong, the whole reason the GP is so long is because EU law is much more complicated than the average nerds' vision of what law should be like (i.e., a rule-based decision tree). It is no 'loop hole', it is a fundamental feature of EU law to not be a federal system where the Commission sets the law in a uniform way across the territory.
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Just out of curiosity, what's the problem with YAML?
That was never the point! :)
it is possible to do it.

without performance problems.

markdown has several such solutions, online and off.
the offline apps are typically mac, the leaders being
"marked" (marked2.com) which works with any text-editor,
and "multimarkdown composer" (multimarkdown.com), which
wraps a dedicated-editor around the conversion-routine.

i will soon be introducing my own light-markup system
-- z.m.l. (zen markup language) -- and will offer apps
which are cross-platform offline, as well as web-apps,
including one with an a.p.i. that can be used by anyone.
send it a light-markup .zml file; it sends back .html.

for a similar online solution for markdown, see here:
http://markdownrules.com

and this is where stallman's request has gone awry...

namely, you don't need to wrap the conversion-routines
into the app, or change the interface of the app at all.

instead, simply route your light-markup plain-text file
to a converter, and show the output in a preview window.
and yes, it should be side-by-side with your editor and
show the changes in real-time as you make (or save) them.

my light-markup system differs from markdown in that it:
1) is targeted at long-form documents, such as books,
2) avoids the problems which plague markdown, 3) focuses
on lightness as an asset that _eases_editing_, rather than
as something that _fosters_readability_of_the_raw_format_
(as there's no reason to read the file in that raw format).

speaking of readability, as well as my focus on long-form,
.html is not the only output format supported by my system;
we also need .epub, .mobi, .pdf, and still-to-come formats.

the other important thing about z.m.l. is that its focus
on _books_ shines a different focus on needed functionality,
compared to that provided by generation of a mere web-page.

all this and even more, coming before thanksgiving day...

-bowerbird
What Firefox version do you use? While I would expect from Ubuntu to update firefox regularly.
Evernote checks list of compromised Adobe accounts for own user's security
One clearance, I don't say people do not comment. Maybe I did not write this clear enough. So let me:

Employees do comment. That is not the problem. What I am saying is why do we not see threads where employees actually discuss a product/procedure, and opine on how they can better that product/procedure. These are personal opinions and given this is not a blog and our identities are not out in the open (at least not immediately accessible), everybody can, while staying under the veil of HN, state their honest opinions. Much like anonymous surveys, but more detailed. Nobody has to disclose sensitive information, but opinions of employees do make a difference. I would like to see that on HN.
I'm talking about simple passive air defenders that look like large headphones, have seal around the ear and padding. I think those are optimised for noises outside of speech range. After all you want to still be able to hear people while operating heavy machinery.
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I think it was when I read that eggs will both kill you and prolong your life in the same day in two different newspapers that I stopped reading any "food health" articles. You can find contradictory articles for each and every claim, often based upon the same study!
Same comment, I though I should also add this here:

One clearance, I don't say people do not comment. Maybe I did not write this clear enough. So let me:

Employees do comment. That is not the problem. What I am saying is why do we not see threads where employees actually discuss a product/procedure, and opine on how they can better that product/procedure. These are personal opinions and given this is not a blog and our identities are not out in the open (at least not immediately accessible), everybody can, while staying under the veil of HN, state their honest opinions. Much like anonymous surveys, but more detailed. Nobody has to disclose sensitive information, but opinions of employees do make a difference. I would like to see that on HN.
It would also be nice to use chrome's "tab to search" feature so I can just type: "omniref" [TAB] [query]
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People gotta group up and sue them
I guess there are better ways of comparing. I like the survey data and kaggle.com data from my other link.
Doesn't change your argument (I think), but please note that the standards in question are neither "US" nor "EU".

They are International Standards (ISO, IEC) that just get reprinted (and translated) with different front matter by ANSI, DIN, BS and whatnot.
You can already do all of that if you want. It's not a 2014/15 thing, it's a 2011 thing.

There are a variety of USB-powered android-on-a-stick-with-hdmi solutions out there. You can also buy separate tv tuner boxes pretty cheap. And many tvs run some form of FOSS and are hackable/flashable already.
even if it was free...... how about time?
I've wanted this since the beginning, so this is coming soon. ;-)
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Is the standard referencing the law, or the law referencing the standard?

The distinction between those two are quite important.
Thanks, I was hoping I wouldn't have to make changes to the js which makes upgrading a headache. I'm probably better off writing my own angular directive.
I don't understand your point. I am a realist and I think there is a value in using both open and closed source tools. It is like giving out Matlab for free and you think this is a bad thing? I am not saying don't use octave or numpy scipy, but honestly students and educators can careless about whether the tool they are using is open or closed. The number 1 thing about education is not about the tool being open or closed source, it's whether the tool is usable. Mathematica is a very well-known software and many Math teachers have used it before.

Seriously, they are not endorsing non-open-soruce. They are graceful that there is one additional tool available to educators. Your "debian repository" is a marketplace. I don't see why education has to be run with open source tools. Why? Do we all have to use Open Office instead of MS Office suite? I actually like MS suite better but I just don't want to purchase a license for my Mac so I keep Open Office. I like fusion over virtualbox. There is nothing wrong with anyone using closed source in education. Please stop thinking that because Raspberry Pi runs on open source operating system it has to include open source software from start to end. The end goal is to be able to afford cheap hardware and bundle a bunch of software for classroom use.
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FF 25.x.x and FF Nightly build 28.0a1 (2013-11-19). I do see some improvements in latest dev builds.
The de-facto standard packet logging and tracing UI is wireshark, so if you're going to go the surplus PC route then run wireshark on it. I have no idea if it's available for OpenBSD but it's certainly available for linux and windows.
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Although this study was done on US population, nuts are costly here in India so a large section of population cannot afford to eat it on a regular basis. Could it be remotely possible that poverty lead to diseases, improper or no treatments, more accidents etc. lower life expectancy rather than "not eating enough nuts".

Mr. Gates would surely start a Nuts for India campaign to increase life expectancy.