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> The question is, what do we do then? Do we let a company that took 50 years to build up fail? It is so easy to destroy something, and such a pain in the ass to build it.

What's the alternative? Tax people and give their money to the aristocracy (because you just created one)?
Or an axe to grind.

Perhaps he has something against GoDaddy (many do) and/or PayPal (again, many do) so took the opportunity to make them look bad by making sure that their effective complicity in the hack is well known.
This should be followed by a speech from a US official bragging about internet freedom and equal access to knowledge.

Seriously, instead of starting projects like Google Proxy (to help people in these countries bypass their government blocking), it would be better to start a project that actually helps changing those ridiculous US laws.

Maybe offer some educational courses to those officials behind these laws.
Are you even serious? "US regime" not allowing somebody to access a website? Talk about a first world problem. I don't see you complaining about Cuban, Iranian, etc regimes who forced these sanctions in the first place.
Most HN visitors are programmers. Some may have projects hosted on Google Code, thus inaccessible to parts of the world without them even knowing. In the past, whenever I encountered a project hosted on Google Code which I needed, I contacted the developers and explained the situation. When I saw this discussion here on HN, I decided to use the opportunity to ask everyone who has a project hosted there to move it to a more international-friendly alternative like Github or Bitbucket.

I don't think it is probable that Oracle, Xilinx or Google change their policies. Yet it is in the developer's power to decide where to host a project.

I like to ask everyone who has a project hosted on Google Code or is thinking about using it for future projects to use another service if possible.
The poorly-redacted document is there: http://cryptome.org/2014/01/nsa-smartphones-analysis.pdf
You are way off with your analogy and I'm pretty sure you know it too.
>Postdocs and graduate students often work a great deal harder for a lot less.

Graduate student here. Yes, we're working for something other than purely to gain money, but that doesn't mean we don't actually want a balanced, reasonable lifestyle.
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This is good. I hope you manage to do the same for Iran, Cuba and so forth. Education is just too important, and there is a net gain for the US from giving out these opportunities. Somebody learning on a US-centric english-language site is likely to be an Americophile.

Should you get nowhere regarding Cuba and Iran, it might not even be too bad to forward a link to this discussion to sympathetic people at the State Department. I think we have a nice tech-community oppiniometer and some interesting talking points here.
That is a sentiment I've often expressed in the phrase "I want to die before someone else has to wipe my arse."
Perhaps because it does some extra effort to detect VPNs and accurately block people accessing it from blocked regions?
I'd imagine he's frustration is that Google isn't just reluctantly putting a dumb block to obey some external injunction, but seems to put some effort in it.
Good thing we already have a compiler that does a pretty good job. :) (But yes, it is a pretty complicated beast in places.)

But at the time, the Apple Dylan IDE was pretty slow and buggy. It is amazing what a few years make much more feasible!
He's probably building a team.
I don't operate on the assumption that the US government wants to be friends with the aforementioned countries. I see it more as a political game. If they wanted for friendly relationships, they would do as you described. It's obvious, and a reason why I think the US goals are not in line with being friendly with those countries.
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I'm far from an expert. In a lot of cases, what you say seems true. The Nationalization angle is BS for sure. But, there are some differences that are important. Foreign depositors did not get bailed out, not by Iceland. That in itself is a big deal. That's a clearer definition at least of what a bailout is. The banks went bust and deposits were lost. Then foreign central banks returned some despots to their own citizens. Iceland paid out its own citizens and some depositors were not guaranteed by anyone.

It's clear for instance that UK public money went to UK depositors. The UK is entitled (though maybe unwise) to do this and it sets up a framework for explicit guarantees. In Ireland's case, god knows who really got bailed out. The EU loaned Ireland money to loan to their banks to pay back depositors who were other banks..etc. There was pressure from Germany as both the source of much of the financing and the destination of much of it (Irish banks owed money to German banks). No one went bankrupt, for a normal definition of the term.

It amounts (in my limited understanding) to a few important difference that leave the system far more robust. (1) there is some transparency. It is knowable who is getting bailed out and where the money is coming from. (2) Some long tail risk is put onto depositors, especially foreign/large depositors so it can be priced in. A Hayekian sort of systemic risk reduction. (3) It appears to have reduced the flow of money from poorer future people to current rich people. (4) It clearly defines depositor bailouts as depositor bailouts. Money goes from the public purse to Ms Gunnarsdotter's. In other bailouts (Ireland) the public was driven to fear that banks would collapse and their savings wiped out unless some unknown quantity of money was put into an unknown funnel from where it would flow (among other places) back into their deposit accounts.

IMO we need to come to a long term setup that is simple enough for a first year economics student to understand and first year finance student to price. A guarantee is fine, if we can set it to an affordable level (say, deposits up to €25k) payable directly from the government to qualifying depositors with potential recovery by a bankruptcy court.
As opposed to getting off the hook totally free and having all the other kids in school, who were smart enough not to invest, put in their own lunch money to pay for everyone who was dumb (greedy?) enough to invest.

Edit: How is that fair to the kids who weren't involved and now have less money for lunch?
If the blocklist is manually curated then the probability of a website being blocked will depend on its popularity. I wouldn't just be interested in "X% of sites blocked," I'd look at "Sites seeing Y% of web traffic blocked" etc.
Please read again my post.

Also, you don't have to be mad.
The site doesn't seem to say a thing about what they actually did to make money (the AngelList description does, though).
Not using something much is not the same as not using it at all, nor is it the same as not planning to use it in future.

It doesn't appear that he is trying to sell it, which is the usual behaviour of an account/name squatter.

I have several domains that I plan to use for little projects over the coming year (though given my lack of free time right now that may not happen like it didn't last year...). Am I a squatter for having paid for something I intend to use but have not got around to doing anything with yet? A couple of them are password/credentials related, for an example of a squatter talk to the person who owns password.net and sends me unsolicited email regularly trying to get me to offer to buy it as it will "help my brand" (the names I've got are the intended "brand", the generic short name is worth no more to me than standard registration fees - who slaps short names into their address bar instead of using a search engine these days?).
If you think the way that Cuba is run is the same as the way that the US is run, there is no evidence that will ever change your mind
> no sane client would ever use them

Unfortunately, that's not the case. From RFC 5246:

Note: some server implementations are known to implement version
negotiation incorrectly. For example, there are buggy TLS 1.0
servers that simply close the connection when the client offers a
version newer than TLS 1.0. Also, it is known that some servers will
refuse the connection if any TLS extensions are included in
ClientHello. Interoperability with such buggy servers is a complex
topic beyond the scope of this document, and may require multiple
connection attempts by the client.

An attacker that can insert themselves between client and server can cause a negotiation failure - causing the client or server to negotiate a weaker protocol/cipher combination - so its still important to disable weak cipher suites on the server, especially with browsers as old as IE 6 or 7 still kicking around.
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There are key differences. Ireland, Spain and Greece are members of both the EU and the Eurozone. Iceland is a member of neither.

IANAL but I understand that what Iceland did would not have been permissible under EU law. That is part of the reason why Ireland, for example, took the path it did, in relation to the bank bail-outs.
ImageMagick.

AMD has actually donated some nice amount of engineer-hours to enable ImageMagick to use OpenCL. And the difference is massive.

So if you have a webservice that allows users to upload images and then subsequently processes the images it's cost efficient to purchase few AMD APU's instead of massive Intel Xeon server.

There are a lot of other things to do, but Imagemagick is something that has support for it right now.
You are right that smartphones have drive demand for higher performance and hence more expensive / higher margin ARM CPUs.

But overall ARM volume has been far higher than x86 volume for a long time even excluding all smartphones and tablets.

Most of our x86 servers at work have more ARM CPU's on them than they have x86 cores (most of the harddrives have controllers with ARM CPU's - some of them multi-core etc.). You'll also find it all over the place from washing machines to set-top boxes to microwaves. You find ARM cores in some sd-cards even.

I believe the projected number of cores for ARM last year was around 3 billion. I doubt x86 passed 500 million, which also means that both MIPS and PPC is competing with x86 for second place in number of cores for 32bit+ CPU's. (On the 16 bit or below end you also have surprises like 6502 derivatives shipping in ludicrous volumes)

So x86 has been "hot" for the market for main CPU's in devices consumers recognise as computers, and has been by far the most profitable architecture for a long time. Outside of that, though, it's at best at second place in total volume, and in most non-computer markets it's more likely to place in 3rd to 5th place in volume.
It's the same with me. I can usually do it for about 3-4 months...and then the mis-management, ridiculous decisions, and the blame game (IE: I get blamed for a poor planning decision) gets to me and I want leave.

Now, I only work part-time for someone while my company is growing. It makes enough now to pay me and the other 2 founders a comfortable salary..but I can juggle both until my company gets too busy.
There is a saying in Tennessee, well its a saying in Texas, I'm sure its in Tennessee too. "If can't spot the sucker after your first half hour at the table you are the sucker."

But really... If bailing out all the foreign investors with the Icelandic public's money (who by and large didn't court the foreign investors in the first place) is the other option... It seems sort of obvious what a country that cares about, or pretends to care about, it's public at large (rather than just its banking elite and financial industry in general) would do.

Not saying it's 'right' or 'wrong' really, but when people invested large amounts of money overseas (into Iceland from wherever) they were gambling and hoping for a gain they couldn't get at home. Sometimes you get burned when you take risks. Sometimes you don't.
If this were python, people would be arguing that IE8 does nothing new and maybe we should fork IE7 and continue using that forever
Java applets: Time to ditch them
Sure they can. The usually use Google as a browser.
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What they did different was actually send some people to jail , unlike the isa who sent no one to jail.
No, there are not. Please provide link to courses that are accessible only with a fee.
Agreed, but where do "different" begin and where it's still "just JavaScript"? Almost all patterns supported by LiveScript syntax are already present in JS and CS as a libraries. For example the cascade syntax in LS is almost the same as what raganwald's KaTy.js provides semantically. Similarly, function composition is supported by more than one library (Underscore.js has "compose", for example) and currying is also easily implemented in both JS and CS (see raganwald's writings, for example http://raganwald.com/2013/03/07/currying-and-partial-applica...), so once again the only thing LiveScript provides is a bit of syntactic sugar. Is it really that different from Coffee or JS?

In my opinion LiveScript is as similar to JS as Coffee is, just where CS adds syntactic support for more imperatively and OOP oriented constructs LS focuses on functional and declarative ones. Which are all expressible in JS.

Actually "different" would be ClojureScript, Amber or Objective-J. Or any number of compile-X-to-js projects.
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Land is a bit different; there is a fixed supply, and you are not sovereign over it (unless you're the prince of a principality). Depending on the legal system of the country you're in, your ownership isn't really ownership to do with as you see fit - you normally can't pollute on it, can't build without permission, often don't own it all the way to the core of the earth, almost never own all the space above it, etc.
I don't think both countries are run in the same way, I know they are not.

What I don't know is how you inferred I did think in that way from my comment.
There are a few alternatives to PayPal now: Paymill and Sellfy are European companies, for example.
sure... it can be more broadly stated "you have a design problem and/or you're testing the wrong things"
My wife's grandad left her some cash as an inheritance. It was only something around 20k. But he saved diligently for his grandkids for years and year even before they were born. I wonder if at the time it was a decent savings but just destroyed by inflation.
Well, of course destroying half of Europe to rebuild it SHOULD create jobs.
Not sure it is the right solution though.
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Don't just disagree, provide information if you have it.

I think you were talking about Coursera's "specialisations," which are essentially a grouping of "signature track" courses with a project or exam at the end. All of the courses can be taken for free if you don't care about the special certificates, but the project is just for paying customers.

Udacity is running some "pay only" courses with Georgia Tech for its online masters program, too. Not sure about their other offerings, or about edX.
Cigarette companies do - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agree...

"the original participating manufacturers (OPM) agreed to pay a minimum of $206 billion over the first twenty-five years of the agreement" - 4 companies, 25 years, works out at $2.1bn a year each. 10x more than the article thinks Google will pay out...
The guiding goal has been to create a portable, easy-to-use layer on top of a browser

I can't help thinking they're looking at this the wrong way round.
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My guess is either.

Super conservative IT department. Lots of users only need a handful of websites to do their job, as long as those work why bother changing anything?

Some 3rd party application which might work on IE8 but only "supports" IE7

People who turned off automatic updates years ago because they slowed their computer down.
It means you don't surrender your conscience to your government.

So for example if your superiors, some official from some agency, or the President, asks you to torture suspects, or to monitor the private conversations of every citizen, or to keep so-called "National Security Letters" secret, and they say you have to do it "because it's the law", you can either hide behind authority or try and think for yourself.

It doesn't mean you have to break every law; when thinking for yourself you may arrive at the same conclusion as the legislator, that torturing suspects is indispensable to get the information you need, for example, and that, in your opinion, there is no better option.

But it does mean you lose the excuse of doing something morally objectionable just because someone told you to do it; from that moment on, you do it because you want to.

The reason you don't go around shooting people should be because you find killing human beings repellent, not because you fear getting caught.
> how do you know that you have not made a mistake

I guess I just don't understand the purpose of asking this.

Because my operating system choice hasn't let me down or hindered me in any significant way?

I gave the "I don't care" response because I don't know how else to answer your question. "a mistake" is so nebulously defined that in this context it has nearly no meaning to me. Can you give an example of what you mean when you say "a mistake"?
Actually no, you are completely wrong. It might be a popular opinion but it's wrong.

Some facts:

1. Firstly, there are a couple of COM APIs that were broken with IE8 which mean that some horrible "intranet applications" that use ActiveX won't work with IE8 properly. They worked fine with IE6 and IE7. These are now no longer supported by the vendors with no upgrade path so people are stuck with IE7 whilst applications are rewritten or disposed of. This can take years. In fact I know a company that has taken 4 years to rewrite an ERP system away from this model. The compatibility flag deals with some rendering issues but it doesn't change the script engine or the ActiveX hosting situation.

2. No they can't install another browser side by side and just keep that for legacy. Chrome has a poor privacy and configuration support. The GPO side of it really is crappy. Firefox ESR is impossible to configure using GPO. Not only that users don't want to browser-juggle. Most of them don't actually give a shit about any of this as long as it works.

3. Also, IE7 was released in 2006. I personally maintain software that was written in 1988. People are very quick to hang software, particularly the non-engineering background trendy startup pushing culture. IE7 isn't going away until April 11, 2017.

To be fair, I'm recommending people away from the web and the cloud for business critical applications these days. The churn, culture and attitude (as your post outlines so readily) is very negative and a realistic 10 year cycle isn't possible any more. People need stuff to work undisturbed for years for their investment to be recouped.
So if I have a unique object that I don't use or look at or whatever one does with unique objects (say, a piece of art or something), I'm a squatter and its perfectly ok for someone to take it away from me?
Yes, I think they got millions for doing nothing is one of the problems. Probably, you should only have right to defend your patent if you're actually using it. Like that's part of your business. And if you don't use it for couple of years, patent goes to public domain.
Thank you! Exactly the answer I was afraid of.
Read the IMAP specs. If you still don't want to replace it, I can't help you. When I read it the first time, I wanted to hit people in the face.
You add Ads on top of a fundamental function of a phone???

Sorry, but it is correct that google kick you out.

And i cant believe that app users understand what they installed in background. I think many users complained about the ads and thats why google react.
When reading about Dylan, it seems one of it's main selling points is "everything is an object." But nowadays, that's true in many other dynamic languages like Python, Ruby and Clojure. Macros are everywhere and you can even add them to Python if you want to using third party modules. Though I've never felt the need because Python's syntax is excellent as it is.

For me it is very hard to see what Dylan brings to the table. It's nieche is already filled by more popular languages.
It is a combination of manual and automatic blocking. Facebook censorship is manual. Dick Cheney Wikipedia page being blocked is because they have added Dick to their automatic blacklist, so it gets censored regardless of the context.
Reminds me of this Seinfeld episode where Jerry calls a car thief :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG-_tz5YuZE
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"We recently received information" might be a nice way of saying "The US Attorney's Office told us they'd sue if we didn't comply." Even if that isn't the case, others have pointed out that they're covering their arse by doing this.

More generously, it could also be construed as a proactive manoeuvre to get the law changed by upholding it to the letter. They did say they were working with the State department.
What the hell is wrong with some people? This is the 21st century; not the 12th.

Also, his 'apology' is anything but. He blames alcohol and depression instead of making no excuses and taking the heat that he deserves.

The only thing he's sorry about is that his behavior blew up in his face.
I would love a simply math blog. You know, even the most silly things to higher levels. And with real life applications or software. Sometimes, the easy and plain language works better than complex formula
Honestly, living in China where blogspot/wordpress.com was blocked without a VPN was particularly annoying, I fully support the Iranian guy who says its a pain. USA should realise that people don't give a damn who's at the other end. Speaking of which, look at the freedom USA gives trade and tourists: No Cuba, no iran, no N.Korea, etc.
Come off it, most passports are not half as restricting its almost as if your government is as restricting as N. Korea and you call USA a land of freedom?
One question: what keyboard do you use?

Since I'm using a mechanical Keyboard my pain went off and I don't feel any stress.
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Microsoft open sources its Internet servers
"A method for taking existing existing techniques and patenting their usage on the internet."

I call it "the meta patent troll".
This is not Open Source in the traditional sense of OSS, but it is rather open source platforms (hardware, specifications, technologies and software) through the [open compute](http://www.opencompute.org/) initiative.

The article is very scarce on detail, but let's take Zuckerberg's word for it that they saved 1 Billion. I am curious if that is simply the energy saved or also less tangible benefits like better cooperation and integration.

Also, how do you arrive at a comparison? It is not as if there wouldn't be progress without the Open Compute initiative. Let's hope they bring out the numbers in more detail
That's awesome.

I lost that poor little machine when I moved across the country; not sure where it could have ended up. Now my only "system to screw around with" is my RasPi.
Shadow IT: Boon or burden?
Sure, I think the guy is extremely talented. No doubt about it whatsoever. He uses his talent, though, on a format that is much simple and the results aren't very long-lasting, I guess because of the simplicity/lack of depth. In 50 years, who will still listen to the classical pieces you were learning? And who will still listen to the pop pieces?
Yes, bad english. Sorry.