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Signatures have been required on Central for years and there are tools to verify them, including repository managers.

We strongly do not believe that you should entrust your private key to anyone else for signing, which is what others have done to make it easy....yet less secure.
"Medical care is not free, however in every country that has socialised healthcare (i.e. every developed country except the us) it is free at the point of use."

It's also "free at the point of use" in a free-market system. I just present my medical aid membership card and I get whatever I need; hospital, pharmacy, ambulance, etc. Yes, that is a present-day thing, not some fairytale future.

Not only that, but these "free-market" companies give out stuff for free because it is profitable to keep their members healthy. Gasp, benefits for free. They sometimes send out free traffic "officers" to congested intersections / accidents to help traffic along to prevent accidents, for non-paying individuals. Just a small taste of what a free-market system could do if left to its own devices.

I find it seriously scary how many People on the internet are totally brainwashed into thinking the free market is some sort of personified evil boogey-man and socialism is the panacea for all the world's ills. Both have their flaws, and both have benefits. How about you let people choose what they prefer?
Swift is going to help iOS apps improve in quality and quantity - though some very bad quality Objective-C apps that would have been rejected into the store would be bad quality apps that are accepted into the store.

Your problem may be to do with using the App Store as the sales and advertising platform. If people find out about the app through the other means and purchase it in the app store, you don't have such a problem with your lack of visibility in the store.

I think there is a future for using apps as a mobile optimized interface for an online service, where there are other sales channels apart from the App Store.

When it comes to product discovery, people find out about products on the web at all sorts of times when they are not particularly browsing for an app. It helps if there is a decent web presence for them to see what the app does, and possibly use it in a web browser.
I have mine on a stand, plugged to a large screen, with an external trackpad and a Microsoft Natural keyboard. The next step is to upgrade the display to 4k.
> Patents are another issue. And trademarks. But you'd even be allowed to "reverse-engineer" eg: a cup (that is, measure it), and print a copy.

I'm not sure that's correct. Patents restrict rights by granting exclusivity on making, using, or selling, so reverse engineering a patented cup and printing it is still in violation of the patent.
I see you've left out the implicit anti-tamper device that explodes and kills you. Obviously we'd just put that in.
Updated the title to reflect that, thanks. Really makes you wonder though; why hasn't HTML5 Drag and Drop been simplified yet? I personally have no idea what to do, besides adding JQuery.
VCs are, to a significant extent, the gatekeepers who decide who gets a chance to succeed in tech. Their policies may not dictate tech policies in general, but they certainly have a real influence on them.
An interesting recent article about publishing on Steam: http://gamasutra.com/blogs/BurakTezateser/20140717/220624/Dy...

Generally, you still have to do your own marketing. There's no great meritocratic system out there for discovering games (and pretty unlikely one can arise IMO - it's impossible to objectively class a game as good or bad).
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Since "corporations are people my friend" expect congress and the supremes to extend copyright to the life of a corporation instead of original author. Impossible but greedy 200-300 year copyrights will be common by the end of the century.
So technically is it illegal to sing happy birthday at a family gathering? That's amazing. Almost seems like censorship?
Try going into the folders and manually restoring. You can select more than one file at a time.... I was able to restore for more than 30 days... Worth a shot.
I use Dropbox for sharing pictures, but would never even dream to use a cloud based service for backup purposes.

Granted, Jan's case is a bit more complex and I'm really sorry for his loss.

Stories like that should really be a lesson to everybody never to completely trust a cloud based service as your main backup.

On a side note: I agree that archiving of digital files is a hard problem. The smartest librarians of the world are thinking about how to achieve this for, literally, decades and I'm not sure they even have a good solution to the problem.

My personal strategy is redundancy: I buy new hard disks every couple of years and copy all important files, twice. One hard disk is kept off site.

It's not perfect, but it's the best I can come up with. Reading horror stories, like Jan's, indicates that it's the better solution. Despite the messiness.
Sorry... typo, 4mg obviously. I know is "slightly" overdose (1mg/day is the recommendation here in the EU), but as I said I take it every now and then, because of stress and jetlag.
Somewhat similar to xmlstarlet (http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/docs.php) for xml documents.
That's not really relevant to this. That is for selecting hyper-parameters for statistical models.
It's interesting to read Wikipedia's entry on this matter (claiming it was caused by a huge firebombing raid):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_an...

"The delay at the rendezvous had resulted in clouds and drifting smoke from fires started by a major firebombing raid by 224 B-29s on nearby Yahata the previous day covering 70% of the area over Kokura, obscuring the aiming point."
Doesn't seem to work right now, but reminds me of how app.io started. They basically created websites for your apps automatically but then I think found the demand wasn't that great and pivoted to the realtime demo idea.
Well, sorry to say this, but if all of your photos were stored only online...
If you are using Dropbox as a sole backup of your files, think again.

Simplify to If you only have a sole backup, think again. Points 4 and 5 should be you always have more than one backup of important material and at least one backup should be on physical media that you own.
As a representative of Sonatype.

The reality of cross build injection has been discussed for many years, I even linked to an XBI talk in my blog post announcing the availability of SSL.

The reality is that prior to moving to a CDN, it was going to be pretty intensive to offer SSL on the scale of traffic we were seeing. The priority at that time was ensuring higher availability and providing multiple data centers with worldwide loadbalancing.

On our first CDN provider, they could not perform SSL certificate validation and thus were themselves susceptible to a MITM attack. So the decision at that point was to run SSL off of the origin server. We wanted to make it essentially free but wanted to ensure that the bandwidth was available for those that cared to use it, hence the small donation.

The situation is different today with our new CDN, they can validate the certificates all the way through and that's how we intend to deploy it.

We won't be able to enable full https redirections for all traffic since this would cause havok in organizations that are firewall locked and for tools that don't follow redirects. Each tool would need to adopt the new url. I've already suggested this change occur in Maven once we launch.
That would indeed not be a gender problem. A VC outright saying "I don't invest in women 'cause they have stupid brains" is pretty indisputably a gender problem, though.
Screen estate on the go (specifically the 15inch). And like what seanmcdirmid said, the retina display looks good.

I'm impressed with the the 15inch retina starting specification. All the 15inch models come with 16GB of RAM for a starting price of £1,600. I always tell everybody if your doing graphical work or video production, get a desktop setup. The Intel isis pro GPU is more than enough for the work I do. extra £300 an average discrete mobile GPU on a laptop is not worth it.
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I am guessing here but I believe the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were also weapons tests. And you want a clear field of vision to perform a precise test.
By distinguishing between "nation" and "country" or "state".

"A nation refers to a large group of people who share a common language, culture, ethnicity, descent, or history"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation
Who/what says minimum wages are a good thing? Take Europe. Half the countries have minimum wage laws and half do not. Those that do (Belgium, Netherlands, Britain, Ireland, France, Spain, Portugal, Greece, Luxembourg) have much higher unemployment rates than those that don't (Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Austria, Germany, Italy, Switzerland). As for the U.S., minimum wage laws aren't typically used to increase the standard of living... they're used to curry favor with constituents and, therefore, their vote. Targeting the 1% by implementing a pay "ceiling" and rewarding the 99% by raising the pay "floor" would lead to nothing more than our society being put in a sort of "economic solitary confinement" (of stagnation, inefficiency, etc.). See USSR.
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> If you are using Dropbox as a sole backup of your files, think again.

Good advice.

> Without making a mistake, you might lose your files.

If Dropbox, or any other single service or method, constitutes your entire backup strategy, then the mistake is already made.
how is the order of malta "semi recognized like a country" ?
You can return it and get a new model.
For systems as complex and interrelated as airplanes they sometimes do build a direct copy. That reveals for them the failures in their own techniques and materials. Also, it serves as a general prototype for the next iteration.
The state of Poland didn't exist but Poles as a people, as a group with a distinct culture, language, and idea of themselves as a group did. So when they were able to, the Polish people re-constituted a state in which to live. That doesn't mean that the state of Poland existed in those years.

Agreed that governments in exile are a better example.
> they go up almost monthly

Not even close really. Ten launches in four years, constant delays, ...
Illegal, in the sense of a criminal offence? No. Breaching copyright is not a crime, except in a few circumstances (which vary from place to place, but often include e.g. commercial exploitation). It's generally a civil wrong.

And it's probably not even a civil wrong. The acts restricted by copyright are limited and enumerated. E.g. you generally need a copyright licence to perform a work in public, to communicate it to the public, to lend it to the public, and of course to copy it (among others). In most places, you wouldn't need a licence to sing it at a private family gathering. Though IANAL.
This would be a civil issue where you owe the copyright owner a fee. It is up to the owner to enforce use. It is literally nothing like censorship.
Yes, but that doesn't mean some editors aren't more interesting or functional than others.
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If they did have to return the money - who would they return it to?
"“If you have everything but land – if you have a population that is displaced – whether that allows you to be a state is a novel question,”"

Jews would have disagreed that this is a novel question -- for them the question has been about for around 2000 years if not more.
> It sounds fake because I've never experienced a professional interaction of such a condescending manner.

You haven't experienced anti-female bigotry because you aren't female. I would venture to guess--and I could certainly be wrong--that you've also never experienced anti-black or anti-gay bigotry because you aren't either of those things, either. There's nothing wrong with that, of course. But you need to realize that the fact that it doesn't happen around you doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
The lawsuit is moving forward, with Warner's motion to dismiss being denied. You can read about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Birthday_to_You#2013_law... and the cited links.
A cool project in this "own your data" space is https://camlistore.org/ which IIUC could be the storage system of a personal cloud.

OT: I always take a closer look when a computer screen appears in a video - in this case I couldn't recognize what you're running there. My guess would be a a tiling window manager? But the other screen shows Windows so I'm curious.

The code on the right window looks like Haskell due to the one liners.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/19746944/kv.png

(Also, its kinda surprising/refresing that Sandstorm isn't written in Go or Node... )
> Melatonin by itself delayed the formation of tumors and significantly slowed their growth
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So this is my first attempt at an Android game. I'd love your feed back.

I studied some of the BF Skinner works (of Skinner Box fame) as well as Angry Birds and a few other "casual" games to understand what makes them compelling.
I've borrowed a lot from Angry Birds and used the same "design pattern" which you might find familiar, but I hope the game play is different enough not to raise any ire!

The privacy policy includes some details about tracking - I am using Google Analytics to track some anonymous game play stats like the average score, number of games, and the crash location. If I get enough users (perhaps 5000+) I'll use the stats to report back on the findings about the "average" player like how many games they played, average scores, and crash locations which I hope HN finds interesting!

Thanks!
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One of the worst misleading titles. It should definitely be changed and I flagged it in hopes that it will. I thought the case was decided and gave it an upvote before clicking through to read the article.

It's a disappointment.
As counterexample to the way Americans handle debt the way some european countries handle debt is really fucked. Spain is going through a deep recession (25% unemployment, even now) because you simply cannot declare bankruptcy.

According to a friend a lot of local and international banks were quite happy to make Spanish loans since no matter what happens the debtor has to pay. In the US, a bad debt leaves your credit report after 7 years, and personal bankruptcy after 10 years. Since there is no financial reset button in Spain all the bad shit that happened in 2009 is still making waves 5 years later. The worst affected, small business owners, committed suicide or self-immolation realizing they had no escape and no future.
It has been, lots of things have been added since 2009 to fix most of his problems.
And a corporation nearing the end of its life can sell its copyrights to other, younger corporations - if that's the case, the copyrights would last forever.
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Many thanks for your advice, this was the first thing I tried, unfortunately without any success...
All your points seem to focus on DNS. Nobody would argue that DNS is a decentralized system. And in fact neither is IP.

As far as I understand nothing in SMTP makes it inherently more centralized than any piece of software that relies on IP (and for that matter, the web itself). Isn't the internet the poster child of a decentralized system? Does bitcoin/bitpost not rely on IP?
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> All your points seem to focus on DNS.

Not at all. How did you get that impression?

DNS is just one of the many ways email is centralized (email relies in a centralized third party service to resolve domain names and find mail servers for them) but I just mention it near the end in a single sentence. Remove the sentence and my point still stands.

Please read again and understand my comment!

> And in fact neither is IP.

Actually IP is neither centralized nor decentralized. Our current largest scale implementation (which we call the Internet) is centralized, but it's a side-effect, not a requirement.

> As far as I understand nothing in SMTP makes it inherently more centralized than any piece of software that relies on IP

Re-read my comment.

Perhaps you don't know how Bitcoin works? In Bitcoin there are no servers... or rather, everyone is a server. The cool thing is I'm still receiving coins whether I am connected to the Bitcoin network or not. It just works, regardless of who is or isn't connected to the network!

In email, I'm still tied to a provider (even if I'm my own provider) which is a single point of failure.

I'll say it again: if your systems has clients relying on servers (which Bitcoin does not), it is not decentralized.

Come on, this is actually what makes Bitcoin so revolutionary!

> Does bitcoin/bitpost not rely on IP?

It does (remember IP is not inherently centralized), but it does not rely on the Internet.

Even if we're using IP (the protocol), Bitcoin is transport-agnostic. In fact it is a goal for the community to use other transports (such as radio or satellites) to avoid the problem of relying on the centralized Internet.

Even then, IP (the protocol) will probably be used for addressing and such, but in a decentralized manner. It's not a requirement, but IP is a useful protocol and nobody wants to reinvent the wheel.
I collaborated on this project. The color scheme is completely configurable. there's a file in the app wrapper named theme.json that you can use to customize the fonts and colors.
So I was in language courses in Cairo for a while. I was the only language major; all the other students were students from my university in a specialized diplomacy and government service track. Unlike me, they had to pass language proficiency exams, in a language of their choosing, or they did not graduate until they did.

So, I had a great teacher. He did not care about grades at all. He would give bad grades, and when kids would complain give them good ones if they wanted to retest. He would play games with students regarding this. Now the students who wanted good marks to count towards proficiency were really pissed. He put it quite simply: "I'll give you all the A's you want; but when you go back you will still not speak the language. I do not really care and that is not the focus of my classes. I am here to teach and discuss the language and material with you. That is what interests me." I was one of the few that enjoyed that course, and I was admittedly the best student. I continued to be a strong student in all courses, even those I failed (like economics and computer science) because I was far more interested in material than grades.

In the end, I graduated with a high GPA. I see this as a cautionary tale. Now if only I could finally learn C and submit kernel patches like I promised myself in college. But such is life.
Not quite clear on this program. It it more of a biz spark type thing from google? Are they planning to fund some early stage startups?
Disclosure: I contributed (in a small way) to this project. I agree. I'm not sure who posted this link but the title should say something about Bitmessage in it.
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where does copyright law draw the line?

i ask because i have heard that specifically, it is illegal to recite happy birthday for commercial purposes. so, to use it on your YouTube video, for instance.

but as far as i'm aware, Lady Gaga is well under copyright but i'm not breaking any laws by singing along when it's on the radio. so i don't see why it would be unlawful to sing happy birthday in a private setting, copyright or not. is my logic or information flawed?
Collaborator here. Good point. Thanks.
It retained its sovereignty.

Quoting from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_Military_Order_of_Mal...

Although this state came to an end with the ejection of the Order from Malta by Napoleon Bonaparte, the Order as such survived. It retains its claims of sovereignty under international law and has been granted permanent observer status at the United Nations.
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I agree. I abhor political talk on HN, but this resonated true with me when hearing the comparison of US troop operations in Iraq to that of Vietnam in those instance. The idea of kill counts, popular in Vietnam, and targeted assasinations by militant leaders in Iraq (made famous by the playing card where people were ranked) and general metrics based on opposition death counts. I reflected on this and wondered how so many officers who survived Vietnam and saw who defining performance metrics the wrong way come back to let the same or even courage it later as officers in Iraq is this recurring horror story in large org management. It scares me that these mistakes are repeated, from war to situations with far less consequence like software development. I am sure there are good psych articles for more details on such issues, and I have always been interested in why such problems recur.
The intel integrated GPUs also support Opencl, though I'm not sure how useful that is.
From wikipedia:

>Production of melatonin by the pineal gland is inhibited by light to the retina and permitted by darkness. Its onset each evening is called the dim-light melatonin onset (DLMO).

It is principally blue light, around 460 to 480 nm, that suppresses melatonin, proportional to the light intensity and length of exposure. Until recent history, humans in temperate climates were exposed to few hours of (blue) daylight in the winter; their fires gave predominantly yellow light. The incandescent light bulb widely used in the twentieth century produced relatively little blue light. Wearing glasses that block blue light in the hours before bedtime may decrease melatonin loss. Kayumov et al. showed that light containing only wavelengths greater than 530 nm does not suppress melatonin in bright-light conditions. Use of blue-blocking goggles the last hours before bedtime has also been advised for people who need to adjust to an earlier bedtime, as melatonin promotes sleepiness.

When used several hours before sleep according to the phase response curve for melatonin in humans, small amounts (0.3 mg) of melatonin shift the circadian clock earlier, thus promoting earlier sleep onset and morning awakening.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melatonin#Light_dependence
I remember, back around 2000, hearing the various pundits explain how, any day now, TiVo would start giving away their hardware and subscriptions for free. After all, the company was collecting vast quantities of data on people's viewing habits, including which commercials they were watching instead of skipping, what parts of shows were their favourites, what episodes they liked and hated, and connected viewership graphs between shows. Getting more data from having more subscribers would more than offset the costs of passing out free DVRs.

As for how well that plan worked, I just visited their website to see if they were even still in business. That was for data that's far more valuable than atmospheric data. Despite all of our advances in data mining and machine learning, there doesn't seem to be that much actual value in data.