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I prefer Chrome/Firefox's way of implementing proof of concepts before standardization; it's more pragmatic, less ivory-towery. It's the difference between agile development (what people used to call XP) and waterfall.

Rather than being developed in a closed room by a committee, features emerge in a sort of darwinian sense, in that usable features survive (they're played with, commented on, blogged about, critiqued), and bad ones tend to end up being ignored. And it works because good developers won't touch features that would break a site's cross-browser compatibility, but might sneak in stuff that can gracefully fall back. Thus the whole world becomes an "agile" test bed for a potential standard until everything slowly coalesces into a stable status quo.
Hmmm, not finding it now, only Name.com's blog posts opposing SOPA at the time. Maybe I'm hallucinating, or maybe their opposition to SOPA was only lukewarm and Namecheap's more aggressive stance got them all the credit. Not sure now, but they were my main registrar then and something about the SOPA was the last straw that got me to move my domains. Will try to remember what and post it if I do.
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>Also, I'm sure there are speculators running scripts to generate new wallets and pump the bubble further.

That sounds like pretty strong, objective evidence. /s

There are Bitcoin bulls and bears. Nothing wrong with being either. But, if you're going to make claims, at least have facts to back them up.
Files can be both sparsely and dynamically allocated.
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Speculative bitcoiners will not spend their hard-earned BTC on travel goods and services.

They will HODL and continue to buy their air and hotel with fiat cash which will be cheaper, faster, and easier.
You are severely mistaken. Read the paper.
Yes.

It bothered me when I first used iOS7, but now it simply makes sense. I still don't like the thinness of the icon, but at least it's sensible.
it blows my mind is how little of what he's put forth has led to others creating startups out of them.

...what blows my mind more though is he keeps giving talks and hasn't open sourced any of his software on github, like he said he would. i doubt he's working on some big product that puts all his software to use. it's all going to waste and could have helped propel the visions he's set forth. it makes zero sense.
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I think this one is easy. We take the RSS icon and use it for sharing instead. Such a waste to have such a good icon only be used for such a specific data stream.
That money would be better spent on any other purpose.
Those were nice keyswitches, but the modern Cherry MX is also excellent. I would be hard pressed to pick a favorite between the two of them. The Cherries have a lighter touch and a little "snap", both of which I like.
Agreed, people are unreliable sources of information. It's not because we're trying to fabricate a story or lie, it's because our memory is anything but perfect. I remember seeing some good YouTube videos that demonstrated this, but I can't find any at the moment. Below is a random eyewitness video I just stumbled across...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rSzPn9rsPcY

I think the best part of that video is how the professor mentioned the robber had an odd nose. Later, the student recalls seeing the robber firsthand with an odd shaped nose, but they don't recall hearing anything from the teacher. This is basically inception, the teacher planted a small seed of information, and now it turns into the memory of the student without them knowing.
Correction, an Astronaut believes in a global conspiracy to cover up human knowledge of UFOs and extra terrestrials. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell

unrelated: your bio sounds interesting, do you have any info on your roguelike mmo? :)
Why is no one discussing the downward pressure on price if more and more drivers get involved? That's part of why cities cap medallions after all right?
No, it's not wrong in general. Don't try to make the argument about some abstract principle reduced to absurd generality. It was "wrong" in this specific instance to limit the topic to one narrow topic which is related to speaker's gender without letting the speaker to speak on more broad issues in which she's actually more knowledgeable and interested. "Wrong" meaning that if I visited a conference I'd wish the organizers didn't do it. Of course, it's their conference and they can make all the speeches be on any narrow topic they want, regardless of how displeasing it to me - I just say it would be better if they did not limit their horizons this way.
Yep, for sure. Reminds me also of the Gorilla experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG698U2Mvo
Hmmm. You should be able to pull the same lines up/down or pause the clock the way the real hardware does it.
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Incidentally, early prerelease versions of Windows 8 used the "Open Share" icon: http://www.neowin.net/images/uploaded/195351i26jesbggjt18g0i... ; wonder why they changed it.
reading the paper is one thing... having a look at the code is another. And all I see is client code.
Words, why not use words?
This Loyal3 looks interesting because of the IPOs, credit card purchasing, and the no fees option.

However I am wondering what happens if the company (LOYAL3) folds since it allows fractional shares? Closest reference I found was this,

"LOYAL3 Securities, Inc., as a broker-dealer, has to comply with certain regulations regarding the requirement to have adequate net capital and asset protection. LOYAL3 segregates your securities holdings and cash in your account, meaning it keeps your assets separate from the firm’s own assets. In addition, LOYAL3 Securities, Inc., is a member of SIPC, which protects securities of the customers of its members up to $500,000 (including $250,000 for claims for cash). An explanatory brochure is available at www.sipc.org."
I scored a 12 on an uncalibrated laptop display (late 2010 MacBook Air) so I don't think that's too poor for my age range (29). Still, I would have liked to see some median scores.

My results: http://screencast.com/t/s5ohpINp

Also, by the end of the process I felt like I was going to be sick, not sure if it was the brightness (my eyes are extremely sensitive to light and I normally keep the brightness at 1 bar but I had it at full brightness for this).
I don't think it contradicts that. CloudFlare is indeed knowingly providing cover to them. The fact that they'll give you an abuse email to the actual host doesn't change them continuing to provide service to such sites, even when they acknowledge a site is a booter.
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I don't see how a protocol would help. This is very application specific.

One could exploit algorithmic complexity attacks, like a bad regexp, but that's usually specific to your own code.
That bus icon means exit. I've seen similar icons in apps that mean logout, i.e. leave the app.
I think it does make them more credible. Our early astronauts came from the test pilot programs, mostly, where careful observation of things (expected or not) out of the ordinary was a critical life skill, not to mention part of their job.

If Bob says he saw a UFO, I am likely to believe that he might have been drunk, or mistaken, or tricked by the light. If a test pilot (who is more familiar with light effects and weather balloons, etc) or astronaut tells me they saw something out of the ordinary, I lend that more credence.

Of course it's possible that they're mistaken in their testimony, but I think it's more likely for the astronaut to have noticed and correctly reported something than for the average Joe.
Even though it wouldn't come close to making California an island, I'd like to point out that it's by geological luck that the sea doesn't still extent all the way up the Coachella Valley to Palm Sprints & Indio. Most of that entire valley is at or below sea level. The reason that the sea does not extend that far up is that it is held back by a natural dam - a large sand-deposit where the Colorado River empties into the Sea of Cortez. To put it crudely, the Colorado River carved out the Grand Canyon, carried it away, and built a natural dam with several hundred miles downstream, which now protects the Coachella Valley from the ocean.
>"Isn't a completely free market likely to collapse onto one or two dominant suppliers who then prevent future competition by restrictive practices?"

I have never seen any evidence of this, though I would be interested in reading any material(s) you have supporting this position. The only successful long-term monopolies and oligopolies which keep prices high, or increase them, of which I can find examples are government-supported, either through regulation, subsidy, or protectionism.

Some companies manage to keep their position at the top of a market without government support, by constantly lowering their prices, or improving their product offerings (i.e. Amazon AWS, and Google search), but I would hesitate to call these monopolies, because a new entrant could disrupt them at any time, and these companies do not appear to be 'exploiting' a guaranteed market.
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Oh, been there, done that.

Thanks, and thanks for the link.
> I'll again state that this is why I feel so strongly that Google Analytics should be updated to be HTTPS by default

That's an incredible waste of bandwidth for no improvement in privacy whatsoever. If HTTPS pages were including GA over HTTP, then yes, this would be an issue, but you're already requesting the page over HTTP, if you're getting GA over HTTP. There's simply no advantage whatsoever -- for privacy, security, or anything else -- to using HTTPS for this script. It doesn't make any attack harder in any way, shape, or form -- it just makes pages slower and more expensive to load.
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It is not going to waste. Deep ideas are more durable than either code or startups, but they often take longer to have an impact.

As an example, "Inventing on Principle" has inspired many people and companies to think more deeply about development environments, and to try implementing more speculative ideas. A skeptic can point out that much of that consequent work is of mixed quality, but that's just Sturgeon's Law. What matters is that more people will think better thoughts about more important problems. And that's certainly occurring as a result of Victor's talks and essays.
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Also, the fact that you have the freedom to discuss and criticize CIA on a public forum.

A strong democracy's pros outweigh its cons by a large margin - almost always.
Every effect is linear if you constraint your domain enough.

But you are right - the real news is more that we've got a new way to manufacture some type of memory storage element (that's also conveniently fundamentally tiny).

It is definitely not the only way though: IBMs been working on magnetic racetrack memory for some time which would have many of the same advantages.
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Is your code for adding auth public? I would love to have the same setup
I think you've touched on one big source of this problem, which is that many of these icons have been trademarked and saddled with all manner of usage restrictions and licenses.

As an entrepreneur or designer, am I going to waste who knows how much time interpreting the usage guidelines from Share This, or devote valuable space on my site to giving the Open Share people an attribution?

No. I'm going to spend 5 minutes designing something that won't cause future legal threats or trouble at acquisition time.

We need something with an MIT-like license on it.
This was not intended as an attack on you - you seem by all definitions to be a rational actor. I was I guess raising my hands to the sky and declaiming why our society (IRS included) is arranging the economics of your choices such that instead of getting an opportunity to make anti-cancer drugs one step closer to reality and available to the worlds poorest (presumably a benefit of the IP free nature) we get people who are rich enough to afford a night out, a smartphone, a cab and a home to be taken to.

So "we" (not you) have contrived a situation where we look after pissed marketing execs in the short term but block the potential chance of life saving, cheap pharma.

Like I said nothing against you or your choices, just that I see our society advancing only on scientific progress - a progress that is slow and uncertain, and all we really know about it is that the more scientists we have working away at the mines the more likely we are to trip over the lucky penicillin discovery.

So if we spend a considerable amount training you to be capable of the biochemistry and organisational skills needed for your charity and then fail to capitalise on that investment it shows something wrong in our accounting methods as a society.

Would love to hear more about the drugs / science involved
One might even say that Fortran is still winning!
>Assuming the experience being a woman in tech gives you particular expertise relating to the situation of women in tech is, pretty much, the same thing as assuming that because you knew one black person for many years, you are an expert on black people

no. It is, pretty much, the same thing as assuming that because you are a black person, you are an expert on black people - pretty reasonable assumption at least to some degree.
I ended up looking into this a little while back as an emergency kit type thing. Wikipedia is useful - and tells me how to do a lot of things. In a disaster, I probably don't have internet. So it would be a good idea to have local wikipedia.

Zim reader was the best I could do, and still is the best at the moment. But I would be totally fine with dedicating a few terabytes to keeping much more complete local archives on my file-server if the update process was reasonably automatic (something like bittorrent would be great).
> the new one is implicitly directed correctly for people who are trained to read left to right. It's abstract and consequently vague, but I don't think that's a big problem: I expect there to be a share functionality, and in that context the icon is easy enough to understand.

I disagree. I think you're just rationalizing your own knowledge of what this means. And I say that because, as someone who's never used Android, I have literally never seen that icon before. And if I had seen it in a context other than a blog post about share icons, I would have had no idea whatsoever what it meant.
Haha, I'm glad I'm not the only one who cringes at the sight of the iOS Safari share icon. My brain starts panicking a little while trying to decipher its meaning.
I respectfully disagree. You may feel like you can't help anymore than you have, but that doesn't give you the right to tell other people to be quiet.
Impressive effort for going viral for TV show publicity.
Data plans are not too expensive in India. One can get 1GB plan for 3G data in Rs.139-Rs.160 ($2.35-$2.7) depending on the service provider. A lot of people are not using data plans as they don't have good phones. Most of the cheap handsets in the market are very slow and lack features that needs data.
It seems your motivations are primarily religious so I'm bowing out of this conversation.
The larger question: All platforms seem to eventually converge on icons to some extent. What I see here is that the concept of sharing is new, and I don't think that's limited to computer uses. We live in a very competitive world where we consume, buy, compete. Sure we share things, but we discriminate in the physical world. I think the notion of sharing non discriminately with ALL our connections is fundamentally new and this is contributing to the lack of a standard symbol.
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Simply being a woman in technology doesn’t automatically make you qualified or interested in presenting about women in technology. It’s not some sort of ZOMG Uterus! club, and the assumption that it’s the only thing I’d be useful at talking about is a problem for me, regardless of how well-intentioned you are in wanting to bring this topic to the forefront at your conferences.

If you want women to feel less like outsiders in technology, try having a few of them speak at your conferences about gasp* technology.*

Those are excellent points to make. I happen to have a Certificate in GIS and I run a few websites and know a little html and css but I am kind of not really a "woman in tech." My forte is more social (I have had classes on things like Social Psychology and Negotiation and Conflict Management, etc) and I like writing about social things, including women's issues. Some of my writing on such topics has been discussed a little on HN. But, yes, she is absolutely right that being female and in tech does not, by itself, make "women in tech" her forte and she is also absolutely right that a much stronger position for promoting diversity is to hire her to talk about the thing she is an expert in, in spite of, gasp, her having female genitals.

I am glad to see this here. It fits nicely with some of my ideas and past comments, I think.
In the case if a full service firm, you can move those shares to another account at a different institution once the year settles. Should be the car at this company too, but I suspect that the process would be much more annoying since you can't just pester a person on the phone for info.
Yes it is interesting, the post states both Danese and many engineers, promoted GPL.

But the Sun management was not going to use GPLv2, despite it being available, and according Danese they management was hoping for GPLv3 to be released which would be GPLv2 incompatible (since Linux is GPLv2 ONLY) but it was taking too much time.

And in the very post you linked, he (Phipps) lists GPLv3, not GPLv2 as an alternative for licencing, gee.

This ties in with what he said in the Debconf video where Danese spoke about the deliberate GPLv2 incompability, he says later in the video (after Danese has spoken) that "I actually disagree with Danese to some degree", where he states that Sun's management wanted something copyleft, while stating that the engineers had a strong BSD preference (somewhat at odds with what he wrote in what you linked), and that waiting for GPLv3 to be finalized or be allowed by Sun legal to release under the unfinished GPLv3 licence would have taken years and probably involved mass resignations.

Again, GPLv2 was available at this point, along with a lot of other GPLv2 compatible licences, yet GPLv2 or any compatible licence was never on the table, instead the question was to either wait for GPLv3 (which would not be compatible with Linux GPLv2 ONLY) or draft a new licence, one which as it turns out was GPLv2 incompatible and thus Linux incompatible, go figure!

Now from a business standpoint I can't blame Sun for this choice, they were fighting an uphill battle against Linux as it was, and letting their crown-jewels such as ZFS, DTrace be incorporated in to the Linux kernel would hardly have made it easier for them to compete.

As for Phipps statements, at this time he was Sun's 'open source chief officer', a job which obviously included mending bridges with the FOSS community which had been burned by Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz who was attacking GPL as something which allowed the US to 'pillage developing countries of intellectual property' amongst other things.

Of course that was just desperation on his part as the attack was not actually leveraged at GPL itself but rather the GPL licenced Linux kernel against which Solaris was losing market, further illustrated by Sun later releasing Java under GPL.
After re-reading the comment I think you're right, the sentence can be parsed in a different way than I did.
Don't they usually do the viral marketing before the Shoe airs?
Current consensus estimates put the expected rise at 2100 to be more like ~1 meter (http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-...). That's enough to, for example, permanently flood 1/3 of the roads of the Gulf Coast, erase several island nations and 1/3 the world's airports from the face of the earth, and render large parts of New York and Miami unlivable due to storm surge. Gasp indeed.
Until there is open source and deterministic builds, this is just as functionally "secure" as Skype.
You've got to remember that the first anatomical specimen of a platypus sent from Australia to London was considered to be a hoax. That was the scientific establishment rejecting an actual specimen. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus

It's hardly surprising that mere sightings of a creature were treated with the same incredulity, particularly if it had originated as the stuff of sailors legends. Most people would associate it with Yeti sightings or similar.

But as a lost airliner proves, people are too willing to think that searchability and knowledge about continents extends equally to the deep ocean. When the truth is that we probably know a lot more about what's in the solar system than what is in the deep oceans.
So Symbolics' announcement of their vaporware C compiler didn't cost you all your sales?

Good to hear that.
$25 for a smartphone is a massive step forward in accessibility on $69 when you consider these guys might be earning $60 a month.
One factor is that it's easier for women to apply to med school or law school because there's no required major. Law, especially, was a default choice for liberal arts majors who didn't know what else to do. If you want to be a CS major, however, you need to commit freshman year.
Even SSL trafic leaks information about websites you are visiting, how much data you download (e.g. for email), how much time you spend, when do you do it, etc. More importantly, it doesn't protect you from the website (and any owner of any 3rd party plugin/widget/js/css/img on the website) from collecting data about your online behavior based on your browser signature or simple cookies.
no, he's not. this is his weakest presentation yet. he was on, but now he fell off. it's not making any sense that he's gone in this direction, and let last year's software ideas wither away on the vine. He should actually propel forward last year's ideas by at least releasing the stuff he said he'd open source on github. Instead, he hasn't done that, nor has he made his own commercial company (which would be a perfectly understandable route), but instead is giving lower quality talks that regurgitate material about observability that was way more profound when he shared it in relation to software, which by naturel, unlike hardware products, is unobservable.
What don't you buy about them being the fourth fundamental circuit type?

Its mathematically provable, proven in the 60's actually. Here watch this for a decent introduction. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKGhvKyjgLY
The real thing you should ask is, did "Bob" believe in UFOs before he/she became a pilot, or involved in the military? The military doesn't give people any more information than they need, there's no reason to think that a highly trained pilot has any more information than they need to fly a very fast deathplane :)
if you want privacy you can simply encrypt your gtalk chat with gpg, another unecessary overhyped feature.