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Capitalism isn't a model that we try on, like we would try on a new set of pants. Capitalism is just trading stuff. Capitalism drove the accumulation of things easily tradeable, which then, by convention, we started calling money.

You can add all sorts of political systems on top of capitalism, but it never goes away. The only thing you end up doing is hurting people.

I liked this article because it's an example of fiction learning from reality, then scientists trying to learn from fiction. There's a wonderful feedback loop at work between fiction and science that's neat to watch.

But this post-scarcity nonsense is tripe. I trade with you, not only because I need to eat or have shelter, but because you have something I want. And I have something you want. It is our _desires_ that cause the trade, nothing else. And I don't want to live in a world where humans stop wanting stuff. Sounds horribly stagnant and/or medicated.

So I liked the writing style, loved the theme, and kudos to the author for having such a good grasp of Trek lore. But from a rational-thinking standpoint, this guy ain't hitting on much. The quality of analysis itself is what's missing.
I'm sorry, but have you been to a dispatch room? I spent a day with in a sherriffs department once and then had went on a ridealong - there's no 'loitering around', arranging a half an hour's break for dinner was difficult.
From networking with people to networking around ideas
Obligatory DK's Police Truck:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-hKw9TCEmI
This is not a secret. And it's the Remote Desktop (VNC) client, not the management application sold by Apple
WZOR: Expect a Windows 9 Beta in May this year
In the space where the source code would be it says "See rust/src/test/bench"
"I wish things were that ruthlessly efficient," President Barack Obama has said of Netflix's original series, House of Cards: "It's like Kevin Spacey, man, this guy's getting a lot of stuff done."
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...which wipes out access to my OS-level encrypted files, thank you very much dear admin
Can I nominate the Aliens franchise for your next post? The Weyland-Yutani logo looks similar to Eurostile, but the W is much broader.
I know it's a bit late, but happy valentines day
http://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1xcq1q/c_gcc_vs_rust_w...
Don't you?

No, not really. I mean, sure, I can think of things that could be cheaper or nicer, but that's almost anything. It'd be easier to make a list of everything that couldn't possibly be improved.
None of the attacks I thought of rely on an attacker to break https....
I can definitely imagine an incumbent company using SEO and astroturfing to prevent people from knowing a would-be Uber-sized company exists.
And this is true free to play Dungeon Keeper, not the EA abomination on mobile.
> I read it to say that the wrong decision has been made, but accepted

Sorry I don't read it your way, he seems to recognize that both systems would make an excellent choice:

"From my perspective the fact that good people were clearly split suggests that either option would work perfectly well."
How a Birthday wish can come true...
Ask HN: Where do you register your domains?
Ask HN: Where do you register your domains?
SEVGİLİLER GÜNÜNE ÖZEL. SEVMELİ, SEVMELİ ...
HTML5, CSS3, and the Bookmarklet that Shook the Web
I like Sqwiggle, in theory, but the CPU use and constant camera connection even while it's not in active-recording-mode was annoying... it murdered the battery life on my laptop. Some of my coworkers also found it a little privacy-invasioney.
He did all of that except for the part where once the emergency services arrive, get out of the way. Don't let someone bleed out in a cab just because you're too proud to go away once the cops tell you to; they might not have the right, but you can avoid the naked solitary.
IE taught me something valuable today – who would have thought?
And remember to use fun.prototype.apply if you're argument to $.fn.when is an array of deferreds or a function call that returns said array. E.g. $.when.apply(thisArg, array_of_deferreds).
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Please do write this post. There's not enough examples of working setups for publishing with org mode; your experience will be helpful to many (myself included).
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Being gracious in this sort of instance doesn't necessitate admitting you were wrong.
Er...

From my perspective the fact that good people were clearly split suggests that either option would work perfectly well. I trust the new stewards of pid 1 will take that responsibility as seriously as the Upstart team has done, and be as pleasant to work with. And… onward.

Looks pretty gracious to me.

I'd guess that, given Canonical/Ubuntu has struck out on its own in various other respects (and the level of controversy that generates on forums like this one), there is a need to make clear to the broader community that they aren't doing that on this particular issue.

(Speaking as a naive desktop ubuntu user who wouldn't know systemd from upstart until they blow up in my face. Which, AFAICT, neither ever has.)
I switched back to Firefox because Chrome started feeling slow, and Firefox feels now as fast as Chrome used to. Plus in Firefox I get to use extensions (I know there are some for Chrome, but I could never find ones as good as the ones I've always used on Firefox, for example, It's All Text or pentadactyl,). I bet at some point in the future Chrome might get faster than Firefox again, if so, maybe I'll switch back. If you tried Firefox recently and think Chrome is faster, then keep using it, but if you have an old impression of Firefox, give it a shot again.
ChromeOS is a browser based OS, so I would guess you could use JavaScript to do a lot of things you would do in C# or Pyhton on your old PCs.

Also, ChromeOS has a developer mode and you can always install a chroot Linux along side ChromeOS. In essence you can do pretty much everything if you are a programmer and you spend a few minutes searching online.

For the average user (read non programmer), less options is always better.
Servo is not using Quark, and is not formally verified. I assume the link on the Servo page is along the lines of pointing out another cool project in a similar space of writing safer browsers.

Formal verification is cool, but speaking as somebody who worked out it for about 7 years, it is not really ready to be used in large software. Most people care much more about performance and features for their browser. Hopefully by writing a browser in Rust instead of C++, the result will be much more secure, but not have to make many compromises.
Bernie Madoff, Worldcom, Enron, Lehman Brothers, etc, etc.
runas.exe: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb490994.aspx
But if I have customers, and either don't want to or can't use the Play store, then I have to ask them to do that too, and most of them won't, so I am effectively walled off from any sales.

(disclaimer: I don't have any customers and I don't produce any Chrome extensions - just engaging in speculation)
Works with the open command from a shell too: open vnc://my_remote_mac
Servo is focusing on the layout engine. Think of it as an alternative to Gecko or Webkit, not Firefox or Chrome
This is a fun game. Good job.
Flightplan – a Node.js library for streamlining deployments and sysadmin tasks
The Insecurity of Secret IT Systems
So, let me rephrase: do you have trustable statistics showing that police brutality is not systemic?

I agree with the implicit assumption in your question. When trying to evaluate whether there is a serious problem, in any area, we should rely on data. These stories, heartbreaking as they are, are just anecdotes. Thus, lacking proper data, I can't tell whether there is a systemic problem with police brutality in the US: I can't answer your question. I'm sure such statistics do exist, but since I'm not from the US, it's not exactly something I tend to pick up on.

However, I am somewhat familiar with the dynamics involved with issues like this. There are usually some few exceptions that stand out enough to be picked up in the media, but most don't. I'd guess that there are an order of magnitude more cases that are either not severe enough to be reported on, or too common to be interesting, but are still beyond what a society would consider ideal, were they to come to light.
It wasn't as if Troy Hunt hadn't warned them:

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/07/lessons-in-website-security-...

http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/08/why-xss-is-serious-business-...

http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2012/07/pain-text-password-storage-...

http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/tesco-website-sql-injec...
The effect discussed is only present if you can see the other person get the unequal reward. And it is not tolerated well at all, I've seen highly paid engineers quit when they find out other engineers are paid slightly more.
and the iOS app is not even that great...
My phrasing was poor. I should have said "companies with predictable growth", not "predicable growth industries." I've edited my post.
A couple of things:

1) This isn't the same as Apple's Remote Desktop product, which can be used for a host of other things related to remote system management like installing software and automation. See the product page for details:

http://www.apple.com/remotedesktop/

2) You don't need to dig around in Library/CoreServices to use this, which is why Apple didn't put it in utilities. Vis a vis iOS, you start from the opposite end that you normally would on a desktop OS. Just like in iOS how you navigate to your photos in order to send a photo, you navigate to the computer you want to control in order to initiate a remote session.

HOW TO: Remote control a Mac on your network without digging around in CoreServices

First - Make sure "Remote Management" is enabled on the target machine.

1. Launch 'System Preferences'.

2. Click 'Sharing'.

3. In the service list on the left, check the box next to 'Remote Management'.

Second - Initiate remote control from your computer.

Note: You must have "Show Toolbar" enabled to follow these steps.

1. Launch a new finder window.

2. In the left pane of the Finder window, scroll down to 'SHARED'.

3. Click the name of the computer you wish to control.

4. A gray bar should appear at the top; click 'Share Screen...'.

Viola! Screen Sharing should launch automatically and connect.

If you're an old school Mac user, you might have disabled 'Show Toolbar' in the finder. You can get it back in one of two ways. With a Finder window active:

1. Press Cmd+Opt+t.

2. In the menu bar, click 'View', 'Show Toolbar'.

There are, of course, other ways of getting to the 'Network' portion of the Finder browser, but the 'SHARED' bar on the left is pretty easy and always accessible.
awesome job on the dsl :-D
Nah, it doesn't actually annoy me - forgive my hyperbole. It would be more exciting to have lovely clean flacs than to have dirty mp3s, though. :)
I don't really understand the righteous indignation. The only way you can presently install a Chrome extension outside of the web store is by going to chrome://extensions in your browser, then dragging and dropping a crx file (packaged extension) onto this page. Chrome will stop allowing this. Why is that a big deal?

If this makes you mad, vote with your feet. Firefox is a great browser.
Which, again, is another reason not to use windows...
There is no such rule.

When someone contributes a Rust pi-digits program that uses GMP it will be shown (as long as it uses the same algorithm).

We get to see both programs that use GMP and programs that don't.
Venezuela: Several shot dead in anti-government street protests
Ask HN: What is the avg. age of a silicon valley engineer.
Would love to get the community's thoughts on aging in the valley as a hands on software engineer. My impression of people in the valley - think startups - is bunch of 20 year olds with no direct responsibilities of supporting anybody other then themselves. Coding all day long in the shell is what most of them love. However, inevitably as everybody ages, how does that progression look like in the valley. Do they continue being engineers developing software when they are 35-45-55 or do their roles change.

I would like to see if there is any data indicating the age and roles of people in silicon valley. Would be a very interesting graph/chart. if somebody has the data and are willing to share, I can happily put a visualization together.
Tennis Music
I agree that the article went downhill, as he implied communism requires a centrally planned anything. It just proves the author has not read enough to understand the basic tenant of a communist-like economic system.
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One example comes to mind, Instagram. Succeeded very much solely on iPhone platform.
Here's a radical concept: some people appreciate knowing when something contains spoilers, and now they know.

Your entire comment can be boiled down to "suspense is an unnecessary prop", and I couldn't disagree more.
It is for sysadmins. And those are probably Canonical's biggest source of income.
Ugh, GIMPShop. The websites that Google gives you links you to the "source" for the latest version for Linux. That would be fine, I'm not adverse to compiling user space apps, but it actually just links you to GIMPs source!

Apart from that, I've been trying to replace the Adobe suite with FOSS tools for web design. Where I struggle, is I have been trying to learn it I'm the same way I learnt photoshop: specific tutorials to what I'm trying to so. Unfortunately, GIMP and Inkscape sort of lack those :(

However, I am learning regardless, and I think soon I'll be ready to switch entirely, so there's that! Only issue I have is working with other designers (I'm a developer mostly) -- I get a complex pdf, and can't open it without CS. Any ideas how to get around that?

As an aside, I would pay good money (literally) for a FOSS (you read that right) cross platform Fireworks replacement. Still my favourite web design app by far!
Keep telling yourself that, just like those old-fashioned newspaper people. I'm sure it will work out.
Agreed. We should stop calling everything a "startup". This shit is getting old. Business is business. People do things to solve problems, and by doing so, they generate income.
I don't mean to be nasty - but that first image is a prime example of why skill will never be surpassed by access to tools.
Just because it failed once, doesn't mean it's pointless. The more it happens ("Gee, the last 7 mayors elected promising police reform were raided, none of the others were...") the more obvious it gets, and the harder it will be for police officers to look their friends and family in the eye while not standing up to such blatant corruption. That's not to say it's the only thing we should be doing, but it's something we should be doing.
I thought that the concept was interesting, but their implementation was really boring and lackluster. It's been a while since I read it, but I felt that they didn't explore the implications of everyone's incorporated or how we got to that state as much as they probably should have.

I couldn't even finish the second book because it didn't even have the interesting bits about people being incorporated, it was just a poorly written sci-fi war novel.
It seems like a clone of fashiolista.com (disclaimer: I work there)
The latest in a string of things people who don't handle change well are saying is killing the game industry.
Remember, it's -- how many [programs] fall into the "2 to 3 times slower than [the] C [programs]" category.
Gandi.net - good prices, good customer service - been with them for a few years and have never had any problems.
TogetherJS – by Mozilla adds collaboration features to your website
> Graciously?

Question mark much without explaining anything?

You were too lazy to post more information or what exactly you thought was not gracious about it.
Well we used to be in the same boat and then... A new developer wrote a few new bit pieces of code that were supposed to work together. He overly unit tested each piece discretely, but they didn't work together. So when we pushed it out to staging and I manually tried to look at things, the entire design was wrong and would never work.

From then on, the next task said individual worked on was setting up selenium and write integration tests. Now we are in a pretty sweet place.

We have unit tests, which verify each discrete thing works as it is expected to and make refactoring large swaths of code a breeze. Then we have integration tests, which run on IE (in a windows vm that is on our build server), firefox, and chrome via xvfb. It even helps us catch those obnoxious conditions where javascript runs fine in "real browsers" and fails on IE's lameness. Give it a try :)
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A Forth HTML Generator
I liked the overarching idea, however the author proves himself ignorant of the basic economic ideas and concepts. The main keys of communism-socialism are the redistribution of the surplus value and the control of the means of production. Even private ownership of the land is not a requirement, even more so in a highly developed society, where land is no longer a resource highly sought to produce.

I'd suggest the writer reads his Marx and Engels, and even some Adam Smith before venturing into writing on topics like this.
Also Namecheap.
Awesome... That's why I love hacker news. You always have the perfect comments here. Bravo.
ReportLab 3.0 has been released
My Startup Was Failing Because I Was Solving a Problem That No One Would Pay For
She is no hell customer.

A hell customer would call them up, yell, demand answers, and refuse to hang up until the situation was "fixed" to her liking, threaten to sue and call CNN, etc.

Most support agents are probably ok with seeing a staunchly unsatisfied customer simply leave and allow them to help people who want to be helped.
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How about his duties first? I may very well to be mistaken, but to me the story sounded like he was ok with paying a fine and then doing the same again.
Alas, for whatever the reason there is indeed hollier-than-thou vibe among cyclists.
As other comment mentioned police can hold you if you broke the law and have no id.
Online advertising with crypto currencies.
The Joule is basically the currency of the Federation. While most of the time in the Federation people don't use currency and get what they need/want, in Voyager because there suddenly was scarcity again they implemented replicator rationing.
Excellent news for Bitcoin
This was a reply, but devolved into a dump of my current thoughts on economics. As I'm no economist it is likely muddled, naive, nonsense.

The UK newspapers regularly have articles about the increased use of food banks. I haven't looked into it at all so can't comment on details such as how much is genuine need versus playing the game, or the rate of increase, etc. Combined with wage deflation or stagnation, food inflation from devalued currency counteracts the expected low prices of low-scarcity. It seems that given how much people dick around with the systems, a low-scarcity economy is a theoretical concept, too simplistic to exist in a complex environment, buffeted by politicians, economists, bankers, etc. I have no economics education, so I'm likely talking rubbish, please correct.

On the matter of capitalism, I've come to the conclusion that it is fundamentally corrupt. The entire thing is a capital feedback loop. Not in the self-regulating sense ascribed to free markets. The more capital you have, the more capital you are able to accrue. And capital is power. The old saying, the rich get richer, is not just the superficial, flippant comment it might appear, flung around in the pub - it describes a core characteristic of capitalism. The amassing of capital does enable progress with big projects, but at the cost of having a system with a blatant foundational design flaw. People talk about bubbles as if they're a flaw in the system, but they're not - they're a characteristic of capitalism, which would be better named bubblism. I'm not commenting on whether capitalism is good or bad, or the pros and cons, rather I guess I'm surprised at all the discussion of the peripheral issues, but not of the foundational design, syntax instead of architecture. I'm not suggesting there's a better alternative, again, just surprised that it seems, from my layperson point of view, that there are so many people doing so much around the elephant in the room. It's standing there dumping over and over, and people clean the floor, spray the air freshener, but never touch the elephant. Yes, there are people in favour of other systems - they've come up with little. Distilling capitalism to this feedback clumping flaw, and I consider such exponential imbalance in a deliberate system to be a flaw, is it really so difficult to design a foundation that avoids that? Tax is a response to the flawed system, it doesn't address the design of the system.

Edit: I always read some comments before I read the article, to see if the article is worth reading, which is fine, but I should probably read the article before I start commenting!
Blog post from "14 FEB 2011"
Who is using Wayland right now?
I read the article on my iPhone and found the hovering "top" button in the lower right both unnecessary and very obtrusive.

iOS has a standard way to jump to the top (tap top of screen), there is no need to interfere with the content.
Same here, a bit pricier than other places but their "no bullshit" policy is worth it.
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OK, so I get downvoting a joke that someone doesn't think is helpful to the argument. No problem. But why would someone downvote a legitimate music industry opinion that they disagree with? As someone with over 35 albums to my credit, I just happen to think this isn't a good strategy.

Is the groupthink so strong on HN that someone can't express an opinion supporting the commercial value of professional artists and their work?
> You just have to follow the law -- it's a pretty simple concept

Is this sarcasm?
CSEC watchdog muzzled, defanged
Coding Cupboard: Connecting businesses with student coders
Looks like we killed it.
Coral cache and Google couldn't get it in time it seems.

EDIT: This seems to work:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
Netflix speeds are down. But don’t blame Verizon.
It's all about the ios
An Entrepreneur's Reflection on Turning 20
I graciously admit that is correct, but not my objection.

If you make a big deal about being gracious, that's the opposite of gracious.
How about hosting though?
FreeSpeechMe: The Anti-Censorship .bit Firefox Plugin
Hover - https://www.hover.com/
How to convince a restaurant owner to use a free product?
Yet another post from Poucher (http://poucherapp.com) but this time we really hope to get a feedback, instead of gaining a couple of visits to our site.

We offer a FREE service to restaurant owners to increase their number of customers. As in terms of the business side, we've tried every possible way (cold calling, cold emailing, reaching out to food blogs, checking restaurant owner networks and many more sources) but we haven't received any results that we can say "good".

Our question is, how can we convince restaurant owners to use our product completely FREE for the first month and let them decide to continue. We target restaurants in New York and sincerely we don't believe the calls are helping and don't want to spend a fortune on advertising.

We really would love to have any feedback from the smart people here on HN and if you want to see what I'm talking about please refer (http://poucherapp.com/restaurant)

Thanks!