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Perhaps it's because there's a major difference than tapping into private communication lines, and recording what your eyes are already seeing?

If you don't want to be filmed by private individuals in public, then don't go out in public. Why is that no reasonable? There's already laws to protect privacy when you're not in public, or when the recorder is harassing you.

The issue, if any, isn't "some geezer walking round with a camera", it's that if all these videos get uploaded to a central system, anyone with access gets a lot of power.

That's the same issue people have with state or large-org level recording. In mass, the recordings pose a major privacy issue. On an individual level, there's no real issue at all. Imagine everyone wore life recorders. A single person is unlikely to have privacy compromised by any one or two set of records. But everyone is likely to be completely compromised by all the records.
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It is available in the form of cross platform libraries like GLFW.
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Python includes Tkinter for GUI programming. That said, Tkinter is pretty crappy compared to PyQt.
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Probably something like "Not yet, we're trying to keep this easy. You really don't want to spend the night in jail, have to post bail tomorrow and ruin your plans. But hey, that's an option if that's what you want."
Lol yeah Jeremy Irons was the first person I heard to figure this out, Stephen Colbert did some HILARIOUS bits on this past year
You're making the situation far simpler than it is.

Extra batteries imply a greater codebase that has to be maintained, must support all modern architectures and compilers, and must evolve in a graceful way while maintaining backwards compatibility.

In general, backwards compatibility is a pain in the neck and results in libraries not evolving once they reach the standard library.

Python has tons of examples: urllib, urllib2 (both of them superceded by Requests, an external library that manages to incorporate a sane API), multiple subprocessing libraries, several refactorings of the OS exception hierarchy, etc.

Oh, and nobody actually uses the included GUI library for anything except the smallest of trivial examples.

This is something that can be tolerable in some high-level languages where performance is not a concern, but systems programming languages should tend to more conservative defaults and things that can be used in production to a certain degree of satisfaction.

Nobody is going to be happy with the default GUI lib in at least one of the many platforms; the existence of dozens of UI toolkits with different idioms, different looks, and different levels of integration are proof of that. And contrary to some more basic use cases, UI libraries tend to be, by necessity, absolutely enormous.

If the end result is going to be another poorly-designed library like many of the STLs modules, I'd much rather developers use the proper UI toolkit for the situation.
Downvoted you for asking people to explain their downvotes, which I consider a dark pattern.
Wikileaks's founder falls under the huge ego/back-stabbing friends, socially unacceptable behaviors category too.
True, but it's a lot better than fiddling with a cable when you're trying to concentrate on something else.
Does anyone know what happened to magneto-resonance? That sounded like the way wireless charging was going to go a few years ago.
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Their point wasn't that asking for legal counsel caused folks to be killed, it was that they think cops are hotheads who will kill you if you don't do as they say. They're saying that someone being questioned by police doesn't have any power so best not to piss the cops off lest one be killed or jailed without trial.

They said "for less" in their statement and you acknowledge that it happens, so it doesn't attack their argument to ask for that, it just attacks how they worded it.

"citation needed" is just about the most useless thing to contribute to a discussion and based on the other comment I'm not the only one that feels this way. This isn't reddit.
Human beings can't even always tell what is faked or paid shilling, should we really expect Google to do better than human beings?

Gaming the system seems to be a constant in nature. Species all over the animal kingdom develop mimicry, camouflage, and other techniques to fool predators, prey, and mates. Black hat SEOs are just the digital equivalent of the mimic octopus (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-LTWFnGmeg)

The Web is an ecosystem. You can expect Google to evolve overtime to respond to cheaters, but you can also expect the cheaters to constantly involve new ways to game the system. There's no foolproof algorithm.
The anti-google glass argument bears a striking resemblance to the anti-camera phone argument back in the 90's. The complaints were pretty much the same, "cameraphones" started to be banned in certain places, and there were even the local news stories to the effect of "Bathrooms will never be safe again - that phone could be a camera!" People got used to it, acceptable norms were established, and they became very much ubiquitous, and uncontroversial.
Yeah, but you can actually understand what is going on in Java pretty quickly and get the weird corners cases on Stack Overflow.

By contrast, C++ requires that the user understand most of the minutiae, details, corner cases, and weird things that the language describes just to get a rather low level of competence.

The length of a language spec has little to do with its usability.
Hiking/Cycling: GPS, Map, Internet for weather updates, photos, videos, ...

Current phones are fine for that (especially with reasonable usage of "navigation" and extra battery as you said). 2hr-lasting phone wouldn't.
Haha, that's the most insultingly unscientific article I've read in a long time.

The conclusions drawn are a rich work of imagination, when not patently false.
FWIW, google plus does this right I believe.
> As I understand it go does exactly what the Singularity OS does, pass over ownership instead of copy or raw pointer.

I may misunderstand what you're talking about, but as far as I know Go more or less passes a raw pointer (or a copy thereof) over pointer channels. It has no concept of ownership, and the pointer (and pointee) on the sender side remains valid: http://play.golang.org/p/E1bqrVFxZ6
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What about sugar ...

Your tu quoque fallacy doesn't make the negative consequences of addictive and life-threatening drug abuse any less severe. I was actually hoping to head off such a response with my observation that I'd include other harmful but legal substances among my list of those for which producers and merchants would be considered liable for consequences.

Naturally, I'd include other harmful substances, and there's ample evidence that sugar is one (diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and other consequences) among them. The jury's largely out on caffeine, but should it come in I'd add it. Though I'm not a gamer, I've actually got a bit of respect for the extent to which both gaming and CGI have advanced the state of information technology.

I've written before on the general problem of the dopamine-industrial complex:

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/8doc5ZPu...

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/TfoQaboP...

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/L6rNWuFo...

criminalize distribution

You are intentionally misrepresenting my explicit statement: "Criminalizing drug usage is the wrong way to go. Making sure the market is very, very, very highly regulated, including producer and retailer liabilities for consequences, is required". I appreciate honest representation of views, though sadly, it seems to be a persistently lacking trait in conversations I've had with Libertarians, as a simple observation of fact.

My own views of free will and responsibility are informed by considerable research and investigation on the matter. It's a complex phenomenon not particularly amenable to a priori assumptions "not subject to verification or falsification on the ground of experience and facts"

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Austrian_school#Even_they_admit...
The number of users of Tkinter in Python is so low that I would seriously question its utility in the standard library. IDLE is the only piece of software that I know of that targets it, and it's quite underwhelming.
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>> That's literally the situation in the comic.

No, the comic describes a situation with 15 competing standards. This is the first standard of it's kind.

>> The document itself points out 4 cross-platform libraries.

The document points out Qt, Cairo, GTK+, or SDL. Let's not count Cairo since this is basically Cairo. Qt is not GPU accelerated (nor is it a graphics library, Qt's graphics library is called Albert I believe) and GTK+ is not really a graphics library either and AFAIK, it itself relies on Cairo. So the only contender is maybe SDL (idk I don't know much about it, but it appears to be higher in the stack). And yeah, Google search does yield a lot of results. Similarly, if you Google for 'programming language', you will also get a lot of results. That does not mean that all of them are interchangeable or that all of them can be used for general purpose computing. If you are going to build a serious project, you will probably choose a platform with some support (such as a standard implemented by several vendors) behind it.

The only real contender that comes to mind is Skia (of the Chrome and Android fames).

>> They explicitly state that they want to serve rendering of any type, including games.

They're talking about 2D games.
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Yes a "fairer" evaluation of "chinese whispers" would first setup the whole thing, then start the test and send a message into the ring.
OK, in response to your questions:

Q: Since your logic is "X provides jobs so X shouldn't be taxed" then I shouldn't have to be taxed if I have any household staff, no?
A: Nope, that wasn't my logic.

Q: Do you think that corporations should exist without paying any fees to the state? If so, why should they get liability protection for free?
A: Government is for the people, so they pay the tax. Liability protection for shareholders would be covered by dividend tax.
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All these references to his atheism. As a European, it's hard to believe that that was/is so important.
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This post gave me the motivation to give it another try: https://medium.com/business-startup-development-and-more/e0937c7f0951

Previous years:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6661536
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271
I know it is irrelevant but still is interesting that one of the authors is Herb Sutter from Microsoft and that he chooses to propose an open source library from C instead of something coming from Microsoft.
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Mail chimp is really good for that.

Mailgun is pretty good too.
>Instead, you should be declaring them as properties, and then accessing them through message-passing or dot syntax.

Dot syntax is message passing. This type of confusion is one of the reasons I really hate dot syntax.
Read how much paper was spent on trivial and basic details, then imagine how much more and how much easier they'd be able to dig up using the electronic surveilance of today.
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Microsoft, Google, and others seem to be behind FIDO[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIDO_Alliance
I'm not qualified to judge who is or isn't "the best of the best", but I suspect there is a lot of difference between mission-control software for human-rated (crewed) space vehicles vs robotic vehicles. The former demands enormous effort to develop.

A readable article on the group that developed the Space Shuttle's software is "They Write the Right Stuff" by Charles Fishman [1]. It has some interesting insights into the group's development culture, as well as the type of people who do that job (tldr: they're not ninja rockstar js hackers).

[1] http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
I quite like the idea of presenting OTK (one time key) to end user in the form of QR code.

A simple example:

Suppose you're already a registered user of XYZ.com. You've just downloaded the XYZ.com mobile app and wanted to login. You then login to XYZ.com and go to the page My Account > My Login Code. I use the built in QR code scanner in XYZ.com mobile to scan the one use QR code on the page. Viola! Mobile app is now logged in and no need to type my 30 characters mix-of-alphabets-digits-symbols password on the phone's tiny little on screen keyboard.
The Windows devices in the last season of P&R was really jarring. I live in Europe and never actually seen a Windows Phone in person, haha.
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Playing Devil's advocate, the state just got there first; we can make suppositions, but it's now impossible to know if non-governmental entities could make such advances, since they're already made.
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So two questions:

* Have you read the journal article of which this report is a summary?

* Do you have evidence that what they say is wrong?
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Shipping non-open graphics drivers together with the linux kernel is a violation of the GPL. Providing non-open binaries separately from the linux kernel is not. The GPL only applies to distribution, if you're not distributing GPL code (for instance, only your non-open drivers) there's no problem.

The GPL puts no restrictions on use, i.e. once you've got both linux and your non-open drivers the GPL doesn't care whether you combine the two.

Additionally, as people point out the license can only be enforced by copyright holders, so if no linux copyright owners bother to sue people distributing non-open drivers, nothing will happen.

This is however rather shaky legal ground, as at any point you could get sued for violating the license. This also why linux doesn't ship ZFS, since the CDDL is incompatible with GPL any company distributing linux with ZFS would open itself to a potential lawsuit by any linux copyright holder. You can imagine most companies are not very happy taking this risk.

With regards to Richard Yao's comments, of course he's not worried. Copyright violation (which is what breaking the GPL is) only lets you sue for monetary damages or to stop the distribution. There's zero reason for people to sue most linux distros as they're non-profits that aren't charging for distribution. Since it's nearly impossible to show monetary loss by a linux copyright holder (it's being distributed for free!) The only thing to possibly do would be to sue the distros into ceasing distribution, which seems an undesirable outcome for most linux copyright holders, so that's unlikely to be enforced.

Since GPL doesn't restrict actual usage the users of these distros have nothing to worry about anyway.

In summary, you only have to worry about being sued if you are both violating the GPL and making some sort of money while doing it. But the fact that you probably won't get sued doesn't mean that what you are doing is not illegal.

- Well, in any country that's signed the Berne Convention, anyway.
Absolutely agree. OpenGL, SDL, Cairo, all are great and useful for their own purposes, with rather small overlap between then. A single uniform API for graphics is practically impossible, so why bother? To attract beginners?

Graphics has very limited usage without full GUI. I can think of only games and chart-rendering applications (or similar) that don't really need GUI. But games require some means for windows-handling (like GLUT in OpenGL). And "chart-rendering" require output routines to produce PDF/PS/SVG/PNG.. In any case, you need quite a lot of auxiliary IO functions to really do anything useful. So, how much of thes auxiliary stuff will be included in the standard library?

Also, if they plan to implement output with both DirectX and OpenGL, there is quite a lot of work to ensure that everything works on computers with GPU, without GPU, with ancient GPU, on Windows, Linux, OSX and actually looks roughly the same. This is not easy, if you want to do it efficiently.

For game development, beginners choose Flash game engines, or GameMaker, or something like that. I doubt that C++ can work better for them, even with Cairo built in.

The standard library will always have limitations, so you will need to use external libraries at some point anyway. And a transition to an external library can be difficult, if the standard library is already used extensively.

Yes, probably, humongous standard library is good for cross-platform development, but it must be implemented first. And again, external libraries are sometimes necessary anyway. Also some UI libraries are already cross-platform, like Qt, btw.
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I'm not sure I quite agree. Use it, yes, but if you're using Git as a black box then you're much more likely to be frustrated by it than if you understand what's going on under the hood. I tend to point people at "Git from the bottom up"[0] -- it gives people the understanding they need to work out the effect they require, from which they can work out which set of commands will get them there.

[0] http://ftp.newartisans.com/pub/git.from.bottom.up.pdf
>Without a system like that drugs like Lyrica wouldn't exist.

You don't know that for sure. On the other other hand we do know things, like without the open source ethic Wikipedia wouldn't exist.
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> It's just pushing SEO into the actual name of the game.

I agree that that's likely the main idea, but there's real value in providing different themes. I like jewels more than I like candy art.
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Some of the attacks might actually be due to ISP misconfiguration or legal (court order) compliance. For instance, The Pirate Bay is blocked by several ISPs and exit nodes in their network would inadvertently be unable to route traffic to that site.
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>In fact, a lot of research is so risky that no entity short of the government will invest in it.

Government is actually incredibly bad at funding risky research because in the end it is accountable and needs to show some level of result. Even the moonshot had concrete goals and mileposts that needed to be met or else the whole thing was called off.

Meanwhile, there's this crazy guy who discovered something incredibly risky that many of his peers didn't believe was true and did it outside of the government:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_D._Mitchell
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Always mind that Tor relays can harm you [1].

[1] https://www.eff.org/pages/tor-and-https
I don't understand this argument. Windows XP has the NT security model. The file permissions are more granular than the Unix equivalent. If this is what is supposed to make the difference it should be the other way.
The tricky thing about content farms, is that it's sometimes hard for humans to tell the crap content from the real content. There is an entire industry of people who will, for $50, give you 500 words on pretty much any topic that you want, and make it sound reasonable - even sometimes without completely plagiarizing Wikipedia.
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I had no idea Dell had a blog with actual writers.
> Any modern language should have a "batteries included" set of libraries, even when targeted for systems programming.

I would argue the inverse: modern languages should have a lean standard library but a strong package ecosystem.
Yep totally agree with this - it's a shame... One day webrtc with save us...
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You seem to have confused non-ionizing radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing_radiation#Health_r...) (the type mentioned in the article) with ionizing radiation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionising_radiation#Biological_e...)

While some sources call into question the health effects of EM radiation, radios aren't causing vomiting and hair loss unless they're also made of radium.
Part of the fun and beauty of it though I think is that you can't stop - you are on a rolling train therefore under pressure to get it right in one take = it's kind of exciting that way ;-)
The people on the NIH/NSF/whatnot panels are as a rule very aware of their duty towards the taxpayer and do their best to allocate the scarce funds to whoever deserves them most.

Really? Am I really reading this?

Were the panels doing their duty when they awarded Felisa Wolfe-Simon her grant? Was the panel doing their duty when Leo Paquette, sitting on one, kaiboshed a young researcher's grant and stole the idea for himself? How about the panel that awarded a grant to Geoffrey Chang, in spite of having six retractions due to careless (and quite frankly stupid) crystallography? Is he really "someone who deserves it the most"? This is just the tip of the iceberg. I could list about 20 more off the top of my head.

I would go so far as to say as a rule they do not allocate scarce funds to whomever deserves them the most.
in this thread, a lot of rationalizing going on, trying to avoid the basic truth that IT/programming is for the most part well-paid wage slavery, and working at a desk/cubicle 40 hours a week, 50 weeks a year, year after year, decade after decade is an unnatural condition, akin to a form of torture.
True, but it's still a lot worse than having a battery that will comfortably last a day regardless of what usage you throw at it.
Play is one thing Vert.x is another.

You deploy Play apps inside an application container (like JBoss, Tomcat, Jetty, etc...)

Vert.x is based on Netty and thus it is not running on an application container.

I'd say that Vert.x or Netty based apps are more safer - from this point of view, but there may be some other kind of vulnerabilities for them..

Also, it's important to note that the owner of the VPS instance didn't took proper precautions: "I overlooked the deployment of the web console and HTTP Invoker and I paid for that". If you go by the book and do everything right JBoss and other application containers are safe to use.
If Badoo reads HN: it would be great if you had "The technology of filtering fake accounts". Simply running a Google Image search on uploaded pictures would rule out a lot of fake accounts.
No - we were lucky and just got featured - that's kind of why I know it's a chance I don't know if I'll get again and want advice to make the most of it.
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