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Sorry, but it completely escapes me why on earth I should spend good money on a 27 inch screen when it will be populated with the most basic looking UI elements.

Is there a reason everyone currently thinks an icon does not have to look great anymore? Just make it as flat and non-special looking as possible and you're set.

Is there a reason why it seems like the brightness setting was cranked up to eleven on every icon? The screens are backlid. You can actually see the icons in the dark. They do not need to burn through the screen on their own with the brightest colors known to man.

What would be the next step? The rounded corners on the icons are "too dated looking" Let's just use 90 degree corners everywhere? Microsoft celebrates win after win with that decision, right?

In all seriousness, if you want a simpler look on mobile devices, that's fine.
But we just have to look as far as Microsoft to know that a tablet UI on a desktop is a very very bad idea. Not just function wise but definitely user experience wise. If people are hell bend on making their desktop OS that "cute and bright" they should use candybar or maybe Apple should incorporate themes to a point where one could choose to use whatever setting they like best instead of being forced to use the subjectively child like UI of iOS7 compared to the iOS6 one. I don't think one can deny that compared to iOS6, iOS7 with it's candy colors everywhere is looking more juvenile and is clearly targeted to younger people. I don't think a regular grown up or business man using his iPhone daily rejoiced when they saw these bright colored icons everywhere.
And the command line inotifywait - which I've used from Python to monitor changes to directories. There is even a Windows port:

https://github.com/thekid/inotify-win
(I work at Google on webmaster issues)
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The service is not continually running, I use this method to make incremental backups with archives stored on AWS Glacier and meta-data stored on S3 (the index is stored on S3, and I can't access files on Glacier to compute deltas).
Never finished it. Looked really cool, but it was buggy, and I lost interest after I reached that big city.

Also, didn't it have that overdone "chosen one" plot?

But maybe I should give it another chance.
>> I always wonder what they're actually looking for

Potential political prisoners - what else? They're only ever interested in anything that could constitute a threat to their power, however mild. It's also about conditioning us into apathy / obedience / accepting serfdom.

The original article mentioned the guy had been to a conference on surveillance, right? They know he's an unharmonious little tax slave, a potential troublemaker! That's why his devices were confiscated, not any suspicion of "terrorism" or whatever.
Yes, the end goal and final judgement of success is to have your fix/change implemented in the best way for the price you are willing to pay for it... of course.

I'm just saying that in my experience good work actually looks and feels like work, in terms of commits and deliverables. If it looks like nothing is happening, it probably isn't.

Overtime as it was mentioned in the article, on the other hand, is a very untrustworthy indicator of quality work. Managers too easily think that it's a sign of aggressiveness, commitment, perfect capacity estimates (cost savings), etc. But it can just as easily be a sign of bad planning, resource issues, inept management, internal politics, etc.

Managers have to answer the question: is my development team being used most effectively? They need some indicators. Looking at the commits and deliverables isn't perfect, but it's much better than looking at the number of hours someone is sitting in their chair, or ensuring they are adequately stressed out.
pyinotify is also pretty simple to use: https://github.com/seb-m/pyinotify
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I'm still waiting for datatypes, and ubiquitous scripting ports that actually get used, and a bunch of other things. These days I tinker with AROS hoping it will eventually get to the point where I can spend part of my day using it properly...

One of the things I love is that I can "boot" the Linux hosted version of AROS straight into a text editor and on my laptop AROS will run through a full boot and start the editor faster than Emacs will start...
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Not really. You give them a license to use your image by using their service. That's not a violation if you voluntarily license the image to them per the terms of service. If you're not happy with this, go elsewhere with your images and your products.
Can it take in custom vim rc files?
I'm not sure what you mean by continually running, but inotifywait is basically just waiting on an event. As long as the process sticks around it doesn't have to do anything until it gets an inotify.
Time to do something about validate & validates (in ActiveModel)?
Thanks for the feedback!

I haven't thought about the filesize/hash to reduce collision, but I chose to stick with the last-modified time in the article, because it can takes hours computing hashes for a big directory tree.

Tools like rsync relies on last-modified time by default, and since I want to use this to track my own files, I won't fake it, so I think it's not a big deal?
Yeah, better not download them while their servers are getting hammered like this. But it's nice to know you can always get them later.
But some problems can be solved in a day, others require an immense amount of work. Not everybody can tell the difference.
Not all, I believe whoever uploads it can turn it on and off...

Here's a direct link:
https://soundcloud.com/theeconomist

Scroll down to "recent" and you'll see that many, but not all, of them have a download button.

Love the fact that they put it on soundcloud since I already use it
To use declining of consent as reason to flag you is unconstitutional, not to mention wrong. Of course there are few sanctions available in this case, which makes such power abuse so insidious.
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You are able to make the same point you are trying to make without over-generalizing.
Now google has the data, and they almost defaulted the option for everyone. That gives them a big boost in data receives which they could use for marketing "(hey guys you remember you got × amount of image loads, we made your images get loaded by × more users now if you want the data we got it right here for the right price.)"
I don't want to have a running process just for this, I want to be able to take a "snapshot"/"index", store some data on Glacier, and the index on S3, and later, given the index, be able to compute deltas without accessing the full archive store on Glacier.
I like HTML and being able to emphasize points in my email. I also like being able to like bullet-lists. Apart from that, I keep things clean.

And I've dropped gmail for fastmail since gmail stopped being good a few years back.

So yeah. You may be an outlier, but there are lots of outliers out there :)
> Bitcoin is already regulated by FinCEN...

Technically it's not. FinCEN regulates money services businesses and they have decided that people/companies who exchange virtual currencies for USD are in the money services business.

It might sound like nitpicking but it's an important distinction.
> The data that is not accurate is what you would expect: IP address, geo-location and user-agent string.

Also any cookies present in the user's local environment from other actions (images from the same ad network in other emails or from visiting web pages that use the same ad network) are not going to be sent, so tracking you between locations is going to be neutered somewhat.
If a piece of content is delivered to me via the mail, I should be able to open a cached version as many times as I want without any request to the remote server. And the cached version can be built for me by my mail system, which by ALWAYS fetching the resources protects me.

Agreed, and not even the server has to do that, any good e-mail client could (as it seems Gmail is now starting to do).
I'm not a technical person so forgive me if this is a silly question but would X-Forwarded-For help maintain tracking with this change?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For
"Absurdly wrong, ....,and Google has no way to know that all of those point to the same image."

I think the guys who implemented image search has better ways to figure this out.
There is also http://stackedit.io
I had the same reaction when trying on the Rift a few days ago for the first time. However, the guy that developed the app i was watching said you need to grow your 'VR-legs' and after a couple of hours the motion sickness will go away.
According to reports, the inverse question is now asked on the email header.
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They are unlikely to do that though: it would waste a lot of bandwidth requesting images that users are never doing to see because they'll delete the mail before opening it. Google may have bandwidth and server resources to cobble dogs with, but they are not going to waste it like that I assume. Also if they did you could easily perform a DoS attack (or just give someone a big bandwidth bill) by sending out a pile of email with an image tag pointing to a large object on a competitor's web servers.
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Thanks, I was after something that would work from Python on Linux and Windows and calling out to inotifywait seemed to work well for that - this is for my home grown RESTful Dropbox-lite application which is sitting at 95% complete...
Back then it was useful. E.g. I'd have my Workbench running at 640x256 so I could get 80 column text, and Deluxe Paint might be running in 320x256 at the same time. Often I'd pull down a screen to check on something else that was running.

Many graphics apps also used it explicitly to be able to present e.g. a palette or toolbar at one resolution regardless of the resolution/graphics mode of the image you were painting at the top of the screen.

But notice the full-screen applications are now "new" again, and the top menu bar has spread beyond the OS X holdout (e.g. Ubuntu now uses a global menu bar for the most part). And on Android there's the pull down notification screen, and lots of hacks to run two applications side by side. So much for "why would you want to do that?" - the use cases answers the question:

Because the work spaces we have are too small, and just like we sometimes will arrange papers on a desk so that some are partially obscured to optimise which part of the rest shows, so it is useful for desktops/screens.

But this is/was a problem for the Amiga in general: So much of the functionality becomes obvious but possibly hard to explain once you've used it for a while, but is not even apparent or in many cases not even well known to people who have not used it extensively.

E.g. why in the world do I still have to install different archives and libraries for compression formats with different APIs? On the Amiga pretty much every bizarre compression format under the sun is supported by an XPK library, meaning every application that supports XPK can transparently support that format. Meaning, again, that if you want to, you can pick and choose any compression format you want to compress your files on disk, as there are filesystem handlers that supports XPK.
I work in an incubator/accelerator space in the UK, and there's a new team who are working on a FOSSier, more flexible e-commerce platform called Molt.in You should see if their solution fits with your desired philosophy. It's definitely hitting a pain point that a lot of developers feel when they are forced into "off-the-shelf" solutions like Shopify, that aren't quite flexible enough for their particular needs.
That's already in place. I personally use the Web Console as a read-only tool, but it's hard to keep a manager with past developer background away from poking around - policies are for the mere mortals! :)
Or they'll buy their own gun! :-)
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Among other reasons, x264 is GPL-encumbered, which would make it impossible to bundle with the sorts of projects that openh264 is going to be bundled with.
Yes. It was Visual C++. Most of it was piles of conditions and generating texts based on that. It was all specified in excruciating detail in the functional design, which I received as a word document.

I believe I had a word macro that selected what I needed and did some formatting or something, and then probably some regexp replaces to turn it into actual C++ code. It worked very well, and because the project had a number of iterations where we'd implement yet another kind of insurance based on the same kind of FD, I could reuse it quite a lot.

But my first project there was euro-proofing some code. I had to dig through the code and figure out which numbers could represent money amounts. Another programmer was doing this by hand, but I figured it should be possible to automate it (there was a lot of code). After unsuccessfully trying to figure out a regexp to match what I needed, I ended up writing my own not-quite-finite state engine to parse the code and insert comments near all the suspicious numbers.
Easily "Fooled by Randomness"
> PNaCl is poorly specified

Not sure that's fair: https://developers.google.com/native-client/dev/reference/pn...

But even if all of those things was true, that makes it ok to call it ActiveX? By that logic I can call Firefox IE because it implements extensions to JavaScript that have not (yet) been standardized. But that wouldn't be fair and neither is calling PNaCl ActiveX.
I've only used it with a TrueCrypt volume as a file, where it works flawlessly (unless you continue to add files to the public volume). See http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/hidden-volume
In the UK and much of europe subsidised feed in tariffs make micro-hydro quite economic. We're building a 10kW scheme which should pay for itself within a few years and receive guaranteed 20p/kWh (about 30c) for the next 20 years.

Even if the feed in tarriff was signficantly less there's an economic case for schemes of that sort of size. The payoff period would be longer, but it would eventually start making money.

I suppose it depends what you define as "micro" though. The fixed costs are fairly similar whether it's 3 kW or 15 kW, so pay back time varies significantly.
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The license is abundantly generous -- it essentially says, "do whatever you want, but don't hold Cisco responsible".

But this isn't the whole story. There are also patents involved, and these are not mentioned in the LICENSE file.

Cisco does explain the issue on a different website: "a team can choose to use the source code, in which case the team is responsible for paying all applicable license fees, or the team can use the binary module distributed by Cisco, in which case Cisco will cover the MPEG LA licensing fees [1]" (where MPEG LA, or MPEG Licensing Authority, is the organization that holds the patents and of which Cisco is a member)

I think that most of the audience here seems to know all this. But it wasn't clear to me, and I think it probably wouldn't be obvious to many other readers.

[1] http://www.openh264.org/faq.html
> Warning Label from NeverWet Spray

lol, this is low
Just got my devkit and this was the first thing I noticed, I started to wish my 3 year old MacBook Pro had a faster GPU. First time in a really long time that I actually had the urge to update my system, haven't felt something like that since the 486/Pentium days.
That will only tell you if the account exists. The request for an image tells you more: that that account is actually used.
"secure"

I weep for all the claims this makes about security.
A protein is a chain of amino acids. There are 21 different amino acids. The alphabet of proteins is made of 21 different letters.

DNA strings are sequence of Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA). There are only 4 of them named A, T, C, G. The alphabet of DNA is thus made of 4 letters.

One needs at least 3 DNA letters to encode one of the 21 amino acids. These 3 DNA letters are called codon. But with 3 DNA letters there exist 4^3 = 64 different codons.
This is similar to a Base64 encoding just by the number of letters in the codon alphabet.

Since 64 is much more than 21, many different codons encode the same amino acid. This provides a liberty degree which is apparently used to encode something else. As suggested by this research result, the secondary encoding would sort of encode the predicate specifying when and maybe how the DNA sequence encoding a protein should be decoded.
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In the words of Aaron Levie:

"The challenge with Bitcoin is the bubble came before the utility was proven, not the other way around."
That chart is misleading. Instead of saying "X days", it should actually say "X*24 hours" because there's a big difference between working on something for a day (e.g. 8-10 hours) and working on something for 24 hours.
// spec 12.3.4.5

would certainly help if you had a spec open.
The best developers I know have the experience to know when each is required. Getting the right balance between speed and quality is one of the things I find hugely valuable in a developer, usually more so than their maximum coding speed or maximum output quality.
That's actually a surprisingly large pond!

I don't have enough flat space for that. I do have a large mountain, but there's no room for ponds on that - more's the pity, no streams nearby either.
Reducing the military risk to zero while the civilian risk persists (even if it may be lower) does not appear to be fair from the (surviving) civilian POV. I am not saying that US should have its kids been killed in battlefield, but should pay the proper price for accidentally killing civilians. That means $, excuses, explanations, not total blackout on the topic.
> If you think $200 buys you an iPhone, you're sadly deluded. "$200 with 2 year contract" means you haven't bought anything, you're still paying the mortgage with every phone bill. If you want to buy something and "do whatever you want with it", Apple, Google, and a host of others will sell you an unlocked phone. And it will cost a bit more than $200 (though the Nexus 5at $349 isn't too far off).

Assume that's true, for the moment.

That doesn't mean they get to use unrelated laws in weird ways to stop unlocking. Either they lobby to get a law introduced, or they improve their locking technology, or they stop selling phones like they are.

But abusing copy-right protection and anti-piracy laws is sub-optimal.
It's not that hard. Just visit some forums that cater to some particular niche. Then, start reading and understand what problems these people face.
Does the pond volume/kw vary if the height of the pond is higher?(so the water has more potential energy)
"ONLY you and your partners, who know the password, can access the secure messages"

Maybe I missed something, but how exactly is this "secure"? I'm assuming ccPing will still store these messages in a database which will be vulnerable to attack.

I mean, is this going through the TOR network or something?
Such phones typically do have a contract that requires you to pre-pay a balance from which all fees are collected (and typically has no monthly fee).

The point is that the carrier also subsidizes the cost of the phone and hopes to recoup it through the fees. But since there are no guaranteed payments, the subsidy amount is usually low and the phones accordingly cheap.
What is a "no contract plan"?
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Maher's book takes a very different approach. It focuses on presenting an outsider view on the technology and its impact on computing, rather than on the company and all the drama surrounding Commodore and its people.

There were times reading Maher's book that I was annoyed that he seemed to me to miss the point, though I'd say probably with the best of intentions (there were no issues that were so egrerious to me that I still remember the specifics), but it is relatively even-handed and worth a read, and presents a very interesting counter-point to Bagnall's book(s).
Discussed at great length on at least two previous occasions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759642 (399 days ago, 69 comments)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3096793 (794 days ago, 187 comments)

Comments there are, of course, closed, so if you have anything new or interesting to say then this is the place to do it. If you're interested in the thoughts of the HN community, there is already much to read.
That just sounds like they are miss-selling their product and they should face some kind of regulation to prevent it happening.

Caveat Emptor and everything, but routinely exploiting ignorant customers should not be a business plan.
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yeah, I thought the same ... does a text editor in the browser make sense?
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Your example is of a 'gross misrepresentation'.
I really do not think Assange did this.
Maybe you dislike his editing, but surely you are not arguing that it was like your example?
Try posting on eab.abime.net - English Amiga Board. Despite the name, it is "crawling" with Amiga people from all over, and it has a very active subset of people that are working hard to archive everything they can.

You can also try www.amiga.org and www.amigaworld.net - there's a lot of overlap but not entirely. Though EAB seems to be the English-speaking focus of preservation for the Amiga.

They'll almost certainly be able to tell you whether or not the cracktro has already been ripped and if it has, they'll almost certainly be able to get you an ADF to load on UAE.
Are we sure that is what this is saying? I was reading it as 'sold' || 'valued > 40 million', not 'sold > 40 million' || 'valued > 40 million'
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What type of encryption is this using?
Interesting, but without any technical details I'm not going to use it.

There isn't even any mention of it being encrypted.
The message will be encrypted on the client side (iphone , android or PC ) , so the message sent over the network are already encrypted using the password provided by the user. So only when the user type in the correct password then he can decrypted it. If he forgot the password , so sad, the message cannot be read anymore.
I believe there isn't any, the word encryption isn't even on the website.
>I read a lot, but I don’t always choose what’s on the bestseller list.

Wait. Is he saying that sometimes he does choose what's on the bestseller list?
Maybe you can elaborate more on this.
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