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I don't know how other similar languages deal with GUI. It's always sort of hairy, obscure code when you look at it closely. Mainstream languages (like Java) usually give you GUI building tools which generate all the boilerplate stuff, but if you look at that generated code, it doesn't look so appealing either imho.

If you know the GUI libraries inside out, then the code becomes much easier to grasp though. The lablgtk library (which provides gtk support) is quite well written, providing both a modular interface and objects, but indeed there's a learning curve.

Lastly, you might find it more palatable with a little bit of formatting:

let menu = GMenu.menu () in
let explain = GMenu.menu_item ~packing:menu#add ~label:"Explain this decision" () in
let callback () = show_explanation impl in
explain#connect#activate ~callback |> ignore;
menu#popup ~button:(B.button bev) ~time:(B.time bev)
Ah, cool. That's a little shorter than the solution that I came up with:

function window(){alert(1)}window()

To those of you going for the code golf record, you can save a character in STRML's solution by redefining window instead. Furthermore, the last two braces can be omitted and whitespace removed for a total of 27 characters.
Anarchism has a strong sense of morality based on communal rights. It's not strictly amoral (and in fact is very far from it).
In civilised countries, the police are the good guys, and having them nearby makes you feel safer. Encounters with the police should not be scary if you've done nothing wrong.

There was a place I've heard about where the police was scary, though I never lived there: that was communist Romania, where my parents grew up. And the US, too, it seems.
I've had that same discussion recently with my wife, when I think we were discussing Chomsky. In short, I agree, the 'libertarian' umbrella is a broad one, but I think it's as unfair to suggest that libertarianism seriously espouses lawlessness as it is to suggest that democrats espouse NSA spying. Sure, some democrats undoubtedly do, but it's by no means a core policy position.

As for the 'strong property rights' comment, you clearly haven't yet met a libertarian socialist[1]. ;-)

[1] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarian_socialism
I think if I were to give this a try it would have to be in a situation where we pool incomes and each get an allowance of "mad money". The money to pay each other for chores would come out of the mad money.
I don't mind assholes when they are smart and correct, but you're just being a dolt.
That doesn't answer my question. It's clear that essentially every society on Earth is organized by a government. I was asking if that has been a positive thing. Widespread does not imply positive.
Raw numbers are meaningless to people. Do I really have a good sense of the difference between 25 million views and 50 million?

Why not show us what percentage of internet users saw a banner that day? What percentage of those seeing a banner called their congressman?
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I completely agree.

But while people don't learn English (what takes years), they shouldn't just stop all their other learning.
> My point is more that it is the effect you'd get.

And my point is that I disagree. :)
Keep in mind, for many people, the scariest thing about this whole mass surveillance issue is the potential to blackmail elected officials. It takes courage for them to stand up to something like the NSA. We need to show our reps we have their backs. 89,000 calls is pretty impressive.
Yes that's great if everyone abides by your philosophy. But if we're doing that and expecting others to abide by it why is the statement not just "reject the use of force or fraud to compel others". The whole catch 22 is there is no central authority to enforce the philosophy unless you're expecting people to be angels but then you could say something similar about communism being a better system.
Apologies for a rather late response on this one. I think the "technical debt" view of this would more be that it makes sense to rely heavily on some third party libraries and frameworks to organize and execute your UI.

You are taking out a debt against their knowledge in getting your application off the ground. This directly so if it has to be licensed, but equally true for free frameworks.

My argument is that for many people this will never be a problem. Consider how many games farm out the heavy graphics coding to libraries.

For many software companies and content producers, the content that you are producing is the value they bring. Trying to morph the actual value of a company into a new way of doing this is risky.

Which brings me to a comment I made in another subthread. The one thing people need to remember is that when you take out technical debt by using a framework or library, you are basically entering a contract to do things their way. Take great care when you break this contract.
>The worst thing an officer of the was able to do was inconvenience you for a day.

The worst thing that officer could have done to that person for that day, rather. A different officer, different victim, different judge on a different day? Could have been a lot worse. It often takes a couple of days just to see a judge.

>encountered pretty much the worst scenario possible

No.
Or with Hacker News, apparently.
He's actually a good author, speaker, writer, and dev community member. On the other hand, he's also got a pretty acerbic personality and likes profanity a lot.

What he has to say about things outside the realm of development in particular probably isn't going to be considered high-quality and tactful by the likes of you and me. But that's okay, because that's not why I've read/watched him and why he has lots of upvotes.
That was not the worst thing she could have done.

The female officer could easily have beaten or killed this person and would never see justice. Don't even bother trying to convince me otherwise.
A summary of Schoolcraft's ordeal can be found in the Wikipedia article about him:[1]

"After voicing his concerns, Schoolcraft was reportedly harassed and reassigned to a desk job. After he left work early one day, a SWAT unit illegally entered his apartment, physically abducted him and forcibly admitted him to a psychiatric facility, where he was held against his will for six days."

But Schoolcraft was expecting them to do something like that, and was able to make a recording of the entire incident.

It seems that the NYC police have adopted the Soviet practice of using the psychiatric system as a weapon against their enemies[2] (which happened both to Schoolcraft and the author of the posted article).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punitive_psychiatry_in_the_Sov...
I went to pipe 25 and there were no more pipes afterward. Great and job and great use of getImageData().
"Don't leave your house, ever!" and "Don't try to stop and help anyone with anything" would also have prevented this. That doesn't make either of them good advice.
Local libertarians (I am coming from Russia) are indeed mostly crazy to the point of advocating social Darwinism and Ayn-Randianism as a means to a perfect future of the humanity (??), I was quite puzzled to know the "original" libertarians are quite different from that :)

Just my two commie copeikas...
It's interesting how people compare Apple's sales of different categories to its competitors single category.
To me, those are two different market segments. Call me back when Apple sells more Macs than PCs.
"You would have much more control over a competitive market of groups." In other words gangs? Are you seriously suggesting that we devolve back to paying protection money to the most "competitive" mafia family? What happens when one family finally emerges as the winner? Whoops... you're back to a monopoly only this time you can't vote them out because they'll murder you.

Christ. Some days I love reading HN and other days I feel like I'm looking through a window to a childishly naive bizarro world.
Government is a parasite that protects its own interests. It defends itself against you, and to do that, must neutralize anyone who does not do exactly what it wants.

The solution is to overthrow government and replace it with organic power structures. Most people are afraid to do this however. It insults their sense of autonomy and uniqueness.

Thus for the sake of pretense, we continue with this idiocy.
It's the condescending way you write that makes you seem like an asshole... i.e saying "Hahahahah" all the time - I don't particularly disagree with your points but the insulting tone is unnecessary, don't you think?
Are you involved with the service? This seems like a very silly bug to completely drop Firefox support over.
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> If anyone knows of a serious effort to bring Python...to the forefront of web techs please let me know.

Pyjamas and Skulpt are two examples of this that immediately come to mind.

If you're a Microsoft fanboy / fangirl, IE supports vbscript; see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14044561/is-it-possible-t...
I think that must have been sarcasm; because NYPD treated Schoolcraft badly, and reacted badly to his reports. Also, how many links and sources do you need?
No, because it's funny and points out the stupidity of most objectivist arguments using their own words. It's the same thing when we all found out the original DPR clumsily ordered overpriced hits on people after spouting off that he wanted a world free of violence. The universal thing about most of these people is that if they believe that everyone should only think of themselves then they cannot be trusted, yet people continue to hand them money and fealty. Eventually, as they continue to implement their flawed beliefs and then scam everyone people will start to realize that a self-interested world view is immediately illogical and not to be trusted.

Then again, the ability of many humans to believe completely illogical bullshit is astounding.
Even more clarification: never talk to police. Give your name, ask for a lawyer.

I'm sure there's a few lawyers out there who think that even giving your name is too much of a risk.
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Would you mind to share what is your process?
Seeing the numbers like that does make me realize what a huge deal this was. I hope this will be the start of a movement truly bringing positive change.

I wish there was something meaningful for me to do, as a non-american, to help this campaign. It's only sane to assume that surveillance efforts similar to those of the US exist in most other countries, but it's hard to act when no concrete information is available.
Where are the security details published? I think that's what we all want to see...

On top of this....I think this is cool in theory but bad in practice.

The assumption that Root CA's are trustworthy is already hard enough to make, how do I know that Maria is actually Maria? How will you verify that ``Maria'' actually owns that twitter, github, gmail. Maybe it is possible to devise some type of scheme for those sites, but how about more obscure services?

One mistake in one single account causes the entire thing to fall apart...
They're comparing it because people are starting to use mobile devices as replacements for PCs. Apple wants you to buy an iPhone or iPad over a Mac because it has higher margins, but the point is that Microsoft has a steadily decreasing share of the "computing" market which could have been potential Windows/Windows Phone licenses sold.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BgTIjxNCUAA-Dw_.png
Written Portuguese has very little variance now. That's what last year orthographic change was all about. Most of the difference are on names, and on IT we use a completely different lingo anyway.
> "...Cops improving a situation? Never seen it."
I suspect that's really just an emotional lashing-out at a pervasive problem. But if it's not, I assure you - I have seen cops improve a situation, and I'm certain that others have too. I might be biased from watching cops running into the chaos of 9/11, while I was running away from it. Or from having my family protected from crazy, violent people while I was busy and oblivious at work. To be clear, I'm no police-state apologist, and I know there are vile sociopaths attracted to positions of power and authority - but I've also met some pretty OK cops who really mean to help people, and often do. I'm just saying.
But there was indications that DPR was murdering people who got in his way. Hardly an "ethical upcheck" here, and if he didn't steal from his users it was only because he didn't feel it necessary, not because he felt ethically bound for that.

In fact ensuring the ideal of SR paying out fairly would allow his business to grow and therefore his lack of theft could easily be entirely and completely pragmatic without needing a shred of ethics to support it.
When I read posts like this all but confirming MongoDB isn't the great product 10Gen make it out to be, I wonder how the heck MongoDB are still even relevant and then I remind myself of the fact that 10Gen have one of the best marketing and sales teams in the game at the moment.

While MongoDB has improved greatly over previous versions, I can't help but feel if 10Gen put as much effort into improving their product as they do selling it, Mongo would be a force to be reckoned with!

MongoDB is good at some things, but I think most people that try and fail with it fall into one of two camps: 10Gen sold them into it or they bought into the hype without assessing project requirements and ensuring MongoDB was a sensible choice.
The highest class in this country creates this reality. There is no police state if there is not economy to protect. There is not economy to protect if there's not huge multinational corporations. Legal violence is a tool used indirectly by the largest players in the economy.

Police and militaries preserve order which reduces risk to highly invested economic interests; it helps keep the growth curve slowly moving up and to the right.

As fucked up as that whole situation was, it's born out of a massive economic disparity and not a "deluded hacker" mentality.
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Advantage: it's distributed
> put them at risk of reprisal from drug dealers, helped people (potentially young people) commit major crimes, enabled future addicts

Oh Zed, even if anything else you were saying is right this just makes you sound like an idiot or an aggrandizing asshole. Then again, I remember my audience.
> The comments to this post were entertaining but not very valuable, especially since almost all of them made complaints about things that weren't actually said. So I've closed comments.

Yeah, might want to close the article for similar reasons.
Exactly this. I feel more in love with TypeScript than CoffeeScript at this point. I think that part of it is that ES6 is absorbing a lot of the need for CoffeeScript.
Multi sgi is exactly what The Marketplace has done, as well as not keeping BTC in an online wallet. It hasn't taken off, unfortunately.
Disadvantage: it doesn't have a memorable name like keybase.io
> There's some question as to whether he should've left the scene or not and I think there's some discussion to be had there

The question here is the same question we face with the TSA:

Separating actual threats from threats to someone's personal perception of their own authority.

The author wasn't a threat. The cop screwed up. Then again, you'll never get 100% good people, and so there are going to be some screwup cops. I wish I could say our office was 100% solid. But you always get a few.
Fair enough, but I'm not joking either -- it's true that many revolts happen in the context of abject conditions, but it's more common for (particularly successful) revolution to occur in the context of a less-than-impovershed class (e.g. a merchant class) experiencing a collective realization that they're being systemically oppressed by the ruling class appeasing them with what the ruling class sees as a pittance that will pacify them. The French Revolution is the classic example of this phenomenon.
The problem is that only a certain of percentage of Americans can legally vote, only a percentage of those (50%-60%) will actually vote, and a much smaller percentage of those will ever vote outside their party line (swing voters).

So the percentage of Americans is small, but the impact may be much larger. Or it might be much smaller. Who knows.
The default pre-kitkat Android browser supports text reflow. Opera Classic (presto), Opera Mobile, Dolphin do that as well.
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Would counting surface devices help?
you can install apps that don't rely on GMS.

i'd like to see ONE full time user of AOSP without GMS. I bet you got GMS, or non-android phone, or else its not your main phone.

and that's the fucking point.
Two reasons. First, they are both languages with useful type systems. There's not many languages in that group.

Second, ocaml is a multiparadigm language for real, and with a focus of functional first. Python, ruby, perl, etc are procedural/OO languages that have map and filter. It is a huge pain and tons of extra code to write a program in functional style in python, it is lacking basically everything. It is normal to write a program in a functional style in ocaml.

If you learn haskell first, ocaml will serve no purpose for you. But for someone coming from imperative land, learning ocaml can be a helpful half-way house on the way to haskell.
I agree the 2000 and 2003 releases' strange custom license terms sound lawyer-driven, but weren't the 1992 and 1995 releases' terms also driven by hopes of commercial exploitation? My impression was that during this period AT&T still hoped they'd be able to license Plan9 for $$$ to a vendor, like they had done with Unix, which meant they wouldn't want to release the code under a permissive license.
I'm not sure I understand how that gives you personally more control. It seems to give more control to whoever wants to hurt you as he is the one purchasing the services. So with one body of force, I only need to worry about them coming after me, but with multiple bodies, I have less control as any one of them can come after me (even worse, without my knowledge of their existence in the first place). What am I missing?
Yes, I think the main selling point of ML languages is the type inference mechanism. Haskell doesn't support exactly the same mechanism, but it has typeclasses, which is very cool too.
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Unlike the author here, Trayvon Martin was an actual bad actor.
Like any other NoSQL datastore, things like MongoDB aren't as general purpose as a RDBMS no matter how the marketing and sales teams make them out to be. Cassandra is no different.

People need to read the documentation (say what you will about mongo but 10Gen docs are pretty damn good) more thoroughly before blindly implementing stuff on NoSQL and complaining. (I've been guilty of this in the past.)
Quite a lot of banks will simply say "no, not with any amount of paperwork". It's over the AML threshold. Unless you're a business with a need for that quantity of cash.
Law enforcement is ultimately a license to use violence. Having multiple coalitions or companies selling violence as a product seems like a recipe for a truly nightmarish society.
Likewise disappointed at what passes for discussion on this topic, on Hacker News of all places.
me (9 times out of 10): replies saying "thanks, we can't offer a discount now but we'll ping you with another trial license if we ship feature X or Y in the future", drags your email to the folder marked "20%", forgets about it and returns to concentrating on the folder marked "80%" :D
Counting Android phones would.
> But these muggers are smart, they subscribe to the restaurant that do not do anything to muggers. What happens now?

That's a very common and intelligent question that immediately gets raised. I believe that such a restaurant would not exist, at least for very long. Assume that it does exist. Firstly, every customer of that restaurant is also vulnerable to being mugged without consequence, which many muggers might quickly realize is not ideal. Secondly, every other restaurant would probably use force to protect its customers from the muggers, like you ask here:

> Will my restaurant use force to protect me from them, infringing on the rights of the muggers?

I don't tend to use the concept of "rights" in my arguments, but if you please, then yes, the anti-mugger restaurants would infringe on the right of the mugger to mug people.

> The result of that would be that a mugger simply is an outcast as no restaurant would openly service muggers?

Restaurants would probably service people who have mugged, but not in the sense that they would enable the mugger to mug. Perhaps a serial and unrepentant mugger would eventually be completely outcast, but more likely, they would receive punishment for mugging and either stop mugging or suffer lots of punishment (e.g. forced reparation or imprisonment). That brings up the notion of prisons in a polycentric legal system, which is another big subtopic. But in short, I do think that prisons could and would exist in such a system.
That's weird, even in 2009 my market investments didn't randomly end up with an account balance of 0.00.

Seems that fiat is doing much better than "occasionally buggy". They even usually catch the bank robbers, let me know when Team Bitcoin tracks down the SR2 thief!
Ask HN: Which tech companies have a ping pong table in their office?
I'm searching for companies that have a ping pong table to see if there is any interest in a night of ping pong and hacking. If you know of any tech companies that have a ping pong table in their office, please post the name of the company here. :)
> This is a perfect example of the disconnect between "hackers"

The people here aren't hackers. Hackers do not trust the system. These people want to manipulate the system for profit.
Fair enough. But the entire point of the article is that "There will never be another RedHat".

It's the title, it's presumably the main point of the article - and it's ridiculously over-generalising.

RedHat as a company, works.

The market share is still largely with Microsoft, thus still available to be stolen away. Therefore, there is still room for a huge amount of competition in the OS vendor/support space. I can't see how anyone can argue against that.

I'll grant you that perhaps RedHat could be making more money by spreading out into different sectors like SaaS and PaaS, but that doesn't mean that there can't be another RedHat in the market.

I guess my main complaint is with how this point is argued. The charts are deeply misleading for the point that is trying to be made.
Yeah, it's our responsibility to fund the police to perform the beatings!
the point is that mbox only uses seccomp with -s and most of it (ie the rest) is what fakeroot does already.
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Not knowing how to read a language you don't know isn't a great readability metric
I'm still waiting to hear how they plan to scale Bitcoin to 50,000 transactions per second. To cover a part of the current financial system alone (but only in the U.S., not the rest of the world). 50,000 is a looong way from 7.
In that case they need to include Android phones and tablets, Windows phones and tablets and Blackberries.
I don't people are scared to buy online, for the most part. They'll give their cc to amazon.com, or target.com, or walmart.com, or whoever. They're scared to give their cc to a new and untrusted merchant online, and with good reason. This is why paypal has the success they do - I don't have to trust you anymore, I can trust them.

Guess what? There are online merchants that store credit card information in plain text, have no access control, and any employee could walk off with them. You have to convince customers you aren't one of the ones who does that.