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Oi vey.

I love how the settings has a quit and help, somehow different from the ? and X in the upper right?

And they have a design team now? Has any of their work gone into that screenshot?

I don't mean to be so dismissive of OSS work, but at this point why even bother building such a non-competitive product stuck in time? If you can't do any better, just copy. There are so many talented graphic designers out there that even if the UX blows, at least it could look pretty.
Can anyone compare this to other solutions?
You are free to believe that the analogy is not sound, or that the comparison is weak, but it is silly to say that they did not set the comparison themselves. You should definitely take it up with them (which was part of the point of my post). Its not really clear to me how to prove this to you other than just quoting the post back to you:

"As we’ve written before, we believe in the power of impartial platforms. We’re building a platform ourselves, and we work hard to ensure that Stripe treats businesses of all size neutrally. Mr. Wheeler’s plan would push the internet in the opposite direction. It would give larger players a distinct advantage, hurt new companies, and dampen the rapid innovation that has thus far defined the internet economy."

Unless you believe mentioning themselves and how they stay neutral was one big typo, or some sort of strange and irrelevant digression, it seems pretty clear that they are comparing their neutral intentions with the importance of keeping net neutrality. Their argument basically goes:

1. We believe in impartial platforms as a general tenant.

2. For example, our platform, as a subset of "platforms", should remain neutral which we strive to do.

3. The internet, another platform, should also be neutral, if not these bad things will happen: blah blah blah.
See "Linux" in https://www.adobe.com/products/adobe-access/tech-specs.html .

The problem is that copyright holders can still stipulate policies that exclude Linux. For example, http://voddler.com/en/ greets Linux users with "Here you can rent and play movies. For even more movies and TV-series, visit us from your PC or Mac, where we have a even larger selection."
> I think placing the onus on google for this is the wrong precedent and I think it speaks to the public and the court's misunderstanding of what a search engine does.

I also think it's wrong that they didn't sanction the original publisher, which makes far more sense as a solution.

However, Google should be subject to the laws of Data Protection - a search engine is, in some sense, a data repository that may handle personal data. It is unlike TV Guide in this respect.
I hadn't looked at Sinon.JS before, but it does seem worth checking into...thanks!
Bit confused by the "burn" bit. Do you mean one of the cheapo vibration switches?
You might be scared to finish. When a project is incomplete, it still has potential to be world-changing. When it's released, you find out if it is or not.

When I catch myself doing this, what I do is set a deadline + cooloff period. For example, I must ship it by the end of the month, otherwise I must put it aside for six months. Sometimes that creates an urgency to finish, but sometimes it gives me the time off to think objectively about the project. Whereas continuing to poke at it for six months wouldn't get me anywhere.
The other way to figure it is that ~220 out of 75k teachers affected suggests a waste factor of 0.3%. (which agrees with your number if teacher salaries are about 1/3rd of the operating budget.) It's still substantial because in absolute terms $22M is a lot of money and it's all waste - the only sane policy would be to just fire these people or put them on unpaid suspension.

Nonetheless if we are to believe the official figures, they claim the number of rubber-roomers has declined from ~700 to ~200. Which isn't "dismantled" but is certainly "reduced"; it does seem like some progress is being made.
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Stanford tree!
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I hope that the comments engine supports tail-call optimization, or we gonna blow the stack!
This is a nice update. The syntax is how I would have expected it to be.
Look up the story of Mamdouh Habib. It's really sad, he was tortured physically and mentally, labeled a terrorist and was released without charges by the USG after 4 years in detention.
No, they want to charge YouTube and Netflix for not throttling them. That makes a big difference. How can the ISPs make that kind of deal without throttling everyone else? Otherwise there's no incentive for YouTube etc. to pay.
It is funny because it is true.
Cinnamon for me. It's a gtk3 desktop, but I can actually figure out how to do things in it.
Adguard does that. Been beta testing it. One adblock to rule them all kinda thing.
old news but still hilarious.
So are you saying that you lack the ability to discern AT&T's GigaPower ads from other ads, or are you saying that AT&T's ads are indiscernible from other ads?
The case was about google displaying search results of data that others had posted online. It was not about taking down data that google was hosting (eg DMCA).

This is a case of shooting the messenger and leaving the person sending the messages alone.
I don't think either minimum wage workers or investment bankers are the proper comparison. I think we should be talking about professionals like doctors, lawyers, engineers, and other businesspeople; those are the professions that teaching competes (largely unsuccessfully) with for talent.
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Easy downvote. I don't think any of your (inflammatory) assertions are supportable.
The same one that allows them to sue people for scraping their website.

Tech laws are absurd.
And I can't imagine what it is like to deploy Java apps if you have no actual familiarity with the JVM ecosystem, either.
So - how long does it take to crawl the entire web yourself with a modern PC and broadband connection? Is it feasible to have your own uncensored search engine (even if it isn't frequently updated)?
Have you tried Cinnamon? It also uses gtk3 but it's a more traditional layout. Cinnamon desktop is my favorite out of the desktops I've tried.
Let's get you on that bike soon!

re: updating - Good question. Lanyrd did this really well with professional events and Yelp did it with restaurants. It's a unique combination of crowd-sourcing, manual work, and incentivizing the organizers of the events.
Because your original comment hints that you don't know how a search engine works.

"Mario Costeja Gonzalez" is a sequence of three words to Google, when you search for that.

It's not like Google found a unique human profile record corresponding to Mr. Gonzalez, and then showed you all of the web pages corresponding to that unique person.

No. It's just words to Google.

Now, "George Clooney" is much more likely to be a person with an actual record someplace inside Google...

But not "Mario Costeja Gonzalez".
Do you seriously believe that Google is somehow unbiased?
I intended my comment hyperbolically, consistent with my overall satirical tone.

To be clear, I don't believe this will kill the internet, and I don't think it is necessarily undermining European free speech protections. My concern is not as much with freedom of speech and the speaker's right to disseminate information about others; my concern is with the role of the government in curating the universe of "relevant" knowledge that we consume.

As I mentioned in a lengthier discussion of this issue yesterday (when I assumed a more serious tone), I am concerned that the EU's opinion is effectively denuding the internet of its power for disseminating knowledge quickly and cheaply, and thereby democratizing the processes of determining truth. The court has approved a pernicious form of content restrictions that will be based on the utterly toothless (not to mention absurdly subjective) standard of "relevance," and driven by individuals whose interests are contrary to the public interest in information.
The term refactoring dates back at least to the 80's well before TDD showed up and it was used as a shorthand for cleaning up code without the focus on tiny changes. More importantly bugs are often related to side effects such as how long a method takes as such using even one more or one less cycle any any code path prevents code from being 'pure' in your definition as it may add or remove a bug as would changing it's memory footprint etc.

Granted, that may seem pedantic but if you look closely you realise nobody uses your 'ideal' definition in practice.

PS: Feel free to use / introduce new terms such as 'Pure refactoring' but understand they don't change what refactoring actually means. As to popularity wikipedia's "does not modify its conformance to functional requirements" suggests that's the commonly understood definition.
It looks like the most they have to show at this point is a 3D rendering of a 3D printer. Anyone know if there is a actually working product behind this or are they just trying to gauge interest or drum up support before actually having anything to show?
First step, you'd need a big enough hard drive to store the results. Or Punch Cards.

http://what-if.xkcd.com/63/
Why are there customers getting an internet connection other than "YouTube and Netflix"? The reason they and other services are "bandwidth hogs" is because they are popular and people want them. Those bytes just don't show up at customer's computers without the request.
What's the use of an uncategorized bookmark? I always drag the url into a bookmark folder in the toolbar (which I always have open; apparently come people hate that.) For uncategorized stuff, well, I guess that's why I have 300+ tabs open right now...

And Tree Style Tabs. Cannot live anymore without TST. That really ought to be in the core. Especially since it's sometimes a little buggy, though that may be because FF is changing underneath it.

Oddly, I'm on Nightly, and the star button is to the right of my url bar. I don't remember moving it back there, and I don't know why I would, since I never use it.

Ok, it's gone now.
Everyone is already paying for the bandwidth they use, on both ends. ISP subscribers pay their monthly subscription fee to get however much bandwidth they're allowed. Content providers pay their (quite substantial) fees to CDN and transit providers for the bandwidth they use.

Nobody is getting a free ride here.
Yes, it still sounds "wrong" to me. Maybe the problem is in the way he's trying to explain it. He's clear about the espionage part and what the NSA should do, but not as clear about what the FBI/police should do. If it's going to do "surveillance" through warrants and such - then what's different about this model from what we have today?

How do you do mass surveillance with "probable cause"? The two just don't mix. Yes, I know NSA is trying to do that anyway with the so called "FISA warrants", but those also sound wrong and unconstitutional to me. A warrant isn't a warrant if they have surveillance power over everyone.
Google is not a public institution.
What license is this? It doesnt look like GPL ...
> No, they want to charge YouTube and Netflix for not throttling them. That makes a big difference. How can the ISPs make that kind of deal without throttling everyone else?

By selectively throttling YouTube and Netflix.
> I can't believe I'm saying this, but Unity 7 is the most polished looking Linux desktop.

And I can't believe I'm saying this on hacker news but there is a difference between "polished" and "subjectively ugly".

What's wrong with the "cartoon icons"? They look like Windows 7 icons. You know Windows 7, right? A lot of people called it "Microsoft's most polished desktop ever".
Don't know why this isn't higher up, it shows a consistent position on these matters, and displays a pretty mature context to the original post that set up the comparison. The question was an honest one, and as someone mentioned earlier such legislation might actually be super favorable for Stripe.
I'm not commenting on the study, I'm commenting on the reaction to the study. The reaction would be much more tame and reserved if it were on a subject that people didn't love to hate. The authors of the study and the study itself are not addressed in my comment.
Do you think search engines should be proactively or reactively responsible for not displaying personal information?

I mean, this stuff is literally in news articles about the guy, there's really no way to proactively not index articles which "affect someone's honor or dignity".
Can you share with us your One Weird Trick To Make Angular Documentation Useful?!

I heard that stay-at-home moms are using backbone to make up to $427 a day!
Your argument about this being a precedent goes counter to what the article itself says. I honestly have no idea whether you are correct in your judgement about whether this is a precedent but it seems like this is a complaint about the article more than the post you replied to.

"According to The Guardian, the case will be used as a precedent in more than 200 cases pending in Spain's court system; in many of them, plaintiffs are asking for links to be deleted."
I get where you're coming from, but I will still claim that maintaining other admin's python is preferable to maintaining their perl (or even bash) scripts. So I wouldn't say it doesn't bring anything but change.
Oh, I was just talking about how much contempt drips from the voice of a coastal city resident when they talk about those backward states in the midwest, but then we see Montana, North & South Dakota, Minnesota, and Wisconsin all in the top 10. Wyoming and Kansas doing pretty good, etc.

It wasn't supposed to be really truly about Democrats or Republicans, I mean shit look at the South, I was mostly mocking the kind of attitudes you'll find out here in CA regarding those who live in say North Dakota.
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To answer your question, yes I should have the right to post a statement that you don't like. I should be able to express myself, make an observation, re-iterate a fact, without censure.
I would say this ruling is Orwellian but even Big Brother had the common sense to actually change the primary sources.
Nice looking site! Just some things I noticed:

-when I search, it's not automatically filtered by date

-when I search "woodlands" I get 0 results but when I search "the woodlands" I get 85, none of which are http://www.ironman.com/triathlon/events/americas/ironman/tex...

-I have no idea what SPR, OLY, and CUS are and when I mouse over them it doesn't tell me anything

But, I'll definitely show this to my more active friends; nicely done!
This one was hilarious.
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Well, it fits my personal narrative that I should move out of California... :)
Google is just a search algorithm in the same way that a gun is just a convenient way to move pieces of lead around.
They should really have a working prototype or at least more than a vague rendered image before announcing something like this.

Can someone explain how the ship in the 3D printer concept rendering is suppose to be have been built and how it's staying in place?

http://inthefold.autodesk.com/.a/6a017c3334c51a970b01a3fd089...

In my opinion they should focus on making larger and stronger 3D objects and ways to make it easy and affordable rather than delicate looking model ships. If I could quickly print something like a 2 inch custom pipe joint (that was fairly strong) in a short amount of time then this thing would be very valuable.
What about it?

Go in the settings and change it to vermillion-fuchsia with a hint of magenta if you so please. I'd like to know what's wrong with a blue shadow that indicates an active window.
These guys clearly don't have a clue what this issue is all about... They want to keep the "bright spot" in the economy by making sure the ISPs aren't regulated? HA!
The EME standard is explicitly designed to support hardware encryption systems that provide end-to-end encryption - think a proprietary decryption black box in your devices that takes an encrypted, compressed video screen and overlays it directly onto the screen output without it ever touching RAM anywhere where software can access it. Good luck breaking that, short of inconvenient hacks involving HDCP decryption and recompression (and those may not be long for this world either - newer video outputs are AES-encrypted).
Its funny seeing people that have just copied phrases from that thread in this 4chan thread.
Really cool. I'm training for my first triathlon now (NYC Tri with Team in Training), and I'm hoping to do many more Olympic-distance Tris thereafter.

Honestly, I've been wanting better training apps (and a good online training community) more than anything. Garmin Connect, for example, has great potential but isn't social enough / doesn't help you discover much beyond your own stats. Obviously that's a harder nut to crack for a relatively small market.

Maybe someday I'll be ready to find more races, though. Nice job!
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Those 23 broadcasters are all on different channels. We're talking about devices that could potentially be on the same channel as an exiting TV station. This is not a trivial problem to solve, because you need very sensitive detectors on the "smart" device to ensure that it correctly detects when there is an active station on a given channel: http://www.sharedspectrum.com/wp-content/uploads/2008-10_SSC....

One of the most complex aspects of doing this sort of thing is various permutations of the "hidden node" problem. Essentially, the problem is that a "smart" transmitter may not hear a dumb one, and use an in-use channel, interfering with a dumb receiver, which otherwise could hear the dumb transmitter. This tends to happen because geographic obstacles can cause individual nodes to have a different view of the spectrum environment.
Ignoring the edit because it's literally everything, the tabs I have open first thing in the morning is:

Facebook, reddit, gmail, and 4chan's /g. Sometimes /b.
But the goal is not to do everything that native applications do, but instead provide features to users. Here's an example: lets imagine it's 2005. You have a native application that stores 1 GiB of data to the disk for caching of media assets. Now you would like to reimplement that as a browser app, but there's no browser API for disk access. What's the solution? You could provide a browser API for direct arbitrary disk access, but that's clearly not secure enough. Instead, File API was created with a lot of restrictions compared to the api that the operating system has.

If you think it this way, you can go extremely far in replacing native applications. I guess the core problem is that OS APIs were not designed to execute unsafe code, but browser APIs are.

Ultimately, there's no application-level feature that couldn't be implemented with a well-designed browser API.

In addition, I like it that browsers are creating new APIs relatively slowly. The reason is simple: security is difficult, and there's time to actually think about security issues.
I'm going to post your comment over on reddit... For what it's worth...

Just realized you totally already did this. Nice work.
That was a misinterpretation of Jonathan's blog post.
The Spanish fellow had a problem with a government agency that would not remove his records. So instead of dealing with that government abuse he sues a private company that reports using government data. Then the government says the private company has to stop displaying the information. So the government creates the problem and then hides it. Worse, the main beneficiaries of this law will not be ordinary people, it'll be criminals, politicians and powerful people who now have a way to hide their wrongdoings.
> ISPs are not trying to extort the little guys (who have no money), they want to throttle YouTube and Netflix.

Right. They only want to impose tolls and kill competitors that have already spent the money to develop a market and show how to serve it, so that they can use the tolls to capture the profits, throttle the incumbent, and use the proceeds to deliver their own implementation.

So it won't necessary be bad for "little guys" directly, except insofar as it kills competition in any market with lots of money in it (including ones that the little guys may be customers of), limiting customer (consumer or business) choice, and limiting the ability of little guys to ever become big without themselves getting killed by tolls so that the dominant broadband providers can steal their market.
Sweet, thanks for the feedback. CTO is constantly tweaking the search so we can make it as "free form" as possible. We're trying to get away from "filter drop down" hell
There's 3 Pied Piper icons to chose from!
If something should be taken down, it should be taken down at the source.

In this case, the newspaper was allowed to leave the article online, but Google was forced to stop linking to the article.
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> If you're watching streamed video, the DRM is completely transparent. I don't see how that is a degradation in service.

It is crippling usability in several ways:

1. DRM is usually not portable (or not ported at least). I.e. most probably it's tied to certain devices / operating systems / applications and etc. For the end user it translates to "you can't watch it on the device / operating system / application of your choice".

2. DRM prevents backups. If the service goes bust or you lose connectivity - you have no access to your data.

3. DRM poses a security / privacy threat. Being transparent
doesn't make it any better - it only makes it worse (think of a hidden camera).

All those are clearly examples of degraded usability no matter how "transparent" some DRM is.
Thanks to everyone for the ideas.
All you libertarian ubermensch refuse to acknoledge the historically unprecedented levels of innovation that the regulated internet has produced based off of government funded research. And you provide no good reason to destroy this miracle besides 'free market!'.
Have you checked out Strava for the training stuff? They're getting more and more triathletes on there.
I think the major reason is that the marketshare has changed.
Chrome is now at about 2x the marketshare of Firefox.

Source:
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Sum...
2. a German computer magazine called "c't" - latest edition
The "bandwidth hogs" are more commonly called customers, and they pay for their internet service.
But to sell an autonomous car, you have to survive lawsuits. That's the paramount issue in front of manufacturers. The engineering issues are simple in comparison.

What's acceptable or not will be decided in a court, unfortunately. And like most other traffic-related issues, some default rule (driver in rear at fault etc) will be built over many cases over time.

Unfortunately its unlikely a reasonable rule will prevail. Instead some enforceable rule will win out. Regardless, early manufacturers of autonomous cars are likely to be sued to oblivion in the process.
replace 'usenet' with 'search engine' and .... your point makes no sense. Your friend should have the slanderous comments removed from Usenet's servers (and mirrors). Then, when Google Search crawls them again, they won't show up in _search_ results. If, on the other hand, you just stop search engines from showing the results _that are on Usenet_, you haven't fixed anything, you've just buried your head in the sand.
Indeed. Texas does better than California on average and _way_ better for less-advantaged students, while spending less money per student on its schools (though it's entirely possible that in COLA-adjusted terms Texas is spending more; it's hard to tell).
What a legend. I love reading about works of obsession and solo perseverance over time.
but it's not about Google only. It is about bing, yahoo and ddg too!