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> Never has there been a user facing operating system in the possession of 100s of millions of people, for which you can readily download and study the large majority of code running the system on these devices.

This is going to be completely off-topic, but most Android installations don't really qualify as "free" as they lack essential freedom to tinker with the code and put it back on the device. Vast majority of Android-based phones are purportedly severely tivoized, and many vendors actively fight any attempts to work around those limitations. That is, having an ability to read the source code doesn't make the software free.

So, on the contrary Android family of OSes (with the exception of AOSP and Replicant) is one of the mostly tightly locked-down computing platforms that has one of the core practices of not letting users accessing anything more than device vendor had allowed. Unsurprisingly, this is frowned upon from many zealots.
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i think if we found any talking thing/being other than ourselves we'd be all over it. poo included
And they care about as much about the authors and their rights as Amazon does.
"Time registration that doesn't suck" - is an oxymoron.
I think you have illustrated the point of the story by assuming these alien beings would react exactly how human's would. We don't know anything but human nature but it's not hard to imagine that non-human's or, rather, non-meat wouldn't have a non-human, non-meat nature.
Part of the “make the change easy” was making sure that I had work lined up before leaving my job. So by the time I was ready to quit, I was already jumping into projects (these projects were with people that I had worked with in my last job and started their own companies or knew very well in the local startup scene).

It is difficult to get work without a showcase of some kind, especially a designer. That’s why I relied on contacts I would consider good friends as my first clients. As mentioned earlier, they either worked with me in some way or I’ve talked to them before about the cool stuff I was working on, but was ready to start something of my own. They didn’t need to see my work, because they either seen me work or have heard me talk about this stuff at local meetups (helps that the community is small here). Though I consider myself extremely lucky to not have had done any outbound sales for my first gigs, so YMMV.

As for reading material, these are the books I went through last month specifically for consulting/freelancing + the one I’m currently reading. If you’re not a designer I’d just recommend reading the last three.

- The Designer’s Guide to Freelancing (http://nathanpowell.me/guide-to-freelancing/)

- Design Is a Job (http://www.abookapart.com/products/design-is-a-job)

- Double Your Freelancing Rate (http://doubleyourfreelancing.com/)

- Million Dollar Consulting (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MPQ230/)
Sci-Fi stories with a final twist at the end are plentiful, some of my favorites:

The Hunters - Walt Sheldon

Impostor - Philip K. Dick
I also agree that HTML classes and ids should describe the content and CSS mixins should be used to connect the right style to each HTML id.

At first it seemed to me that Responsive did not use mixings, but this is not completely true. The utilities are all mixings but the partials are fixed instantiation of mixins (`.row { @extend .clearfix; }`).

In my perfect world it `.row` would be `.row { @extend row; }`, so I can be able to avoid using the "row" class altogether and do things like `#definitions > p { @extend row }`.
Huh, a bunch of us at Canonical use Atom with Unity, I think you might be missing the .desktop file if you're pulling it from github? Make sure you have one for atom in /usr/share/applications. I took a quick scan of the github repo and didn't see one, so you might want to just grab the .desktop and icon from the PPA package.
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It was awesome, they really went out of their way and teamed me up with someone every other day:

Monday: Desktop publishing with Ventura and LASER printers. Yes: laserprinters.
Tuesday: Hit the road to install network at a client site with Coaxial cables.
Wednesday & Thursday: Let me sit in with the dev guys: TurboPascal.
Friday: Assembling PCs.

Still wondering if they pulled a trick on me with the mystery customer showing up.

Fond memories & have been in IT all my life.
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What're you talking about here? How is software development going to 'contribute to the evil that is destroying our country'? Snapchat and Instagram are stupid apps, sure, but they're far from destroying america. And a lot of new technology which is built: smartphones, medical devices, robotics, all those things are going to save lives and be a tremendous boost to the economy.
needs a humble store or bundle release =)
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that kind of makes sense

still, you'd expect any kind of intelligent being to be interested in accumulating more knowledge

I know I know, I'm projecting
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Well, keep in mind - in the story, sentient beings are fairly common - they run into them all the time (the Galaxy being pretty big, that's not surprising, particularly if you can move through C space (whatever that is)).

So, in this scenario, pretend we've just run into Sentient Race 36,000. But, this time, instead of being the usual flora and fauna and machine intelligence, it's just... poo.

I can see some jaded explorers being willing to give them a pass, and, well, leave the poo alone.
Amazon knocking $20 or more off Chromebooks in back-to-school promotion
Vulnerable people who were addicted to gambling.
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I don't think anyone has confidence in CACert anymore. IIRC they bombed their internal audit...
Obviously. But you don't tend to hear them talking so blandly about it.
the problem I had with the story is, exactly what type of existence do these aliens have? Why would they refer to other races as meat if they were not similar, biological lifeforms?

Meat is a term used to denote food, not a life form type.
A pause due to network congestion isn't nearly on the same level as a pause in updating your head orientation in VR.
I wish some really rich person would just buy this island and pay some construction company a lot of money to excavate the whole thing. It can't be that hard to build a sufficiently large hole with modern technology.
Should your driverless car kill you to save a child?
Money is obviously an imperfect proxy for how much someone contributes to society but it's the only fair way to ration housing or any other limited resource. "My parents lived in this city and I grew up here" does not and should not trump "I moved here to work and be productive".
The singularity has already happened
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Pretty slick. Can’t wait to see the nuts & bolts of it if you decide to release it.

Two problems I noticed so far:

1) Images are getting cut off from the header in the individual blog posts (I’m using Chrome 36 on OS X)

2) Back button functionality is broken, would be nice to have that working
This story doesn't work for me, because the emphasis given to main word (which is the whole point I guess)

I imagine "Meat" to be a very human concept, strictly related to food, and to our nature as carnivores.

I can´t picture non carbon-based lifeforms talking about humans as "meat".

The whole concept of "meat" would be completely, well, alien to them.
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Andrew Glassner has written about this a lot http://www.glassner.com/computer-graphics/graphics-research/...

(See his references section)
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So many corporate buzzwords on that page...
Disrupt Winner Vurb Raises $8M To Steal Mobile Search From Google
Well kind of. I bookmark sites and then bring them back up by focusing on the location bar (CTRL+L), then typing * (to search bookmarks), and typing a few characters to get me to sites that I visit frequently. Which is fine if you use the keyboard and know what you are looking for, and already know that shortcut.
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> anyone who opposes the party will be subject to indefinite detention (NDAA) or wiped out.

Then why are you and countless other people like you allowed to post your alarmist b.s all over every day? Try moving to north korea and posting against the government, if you want to know what being in a totalitarian state is really like.
Yes, any certificate sold by them would trigger this "boost".
>They're in business because they provide value to the authors and artists

Publishers provide value to themselves, not to authors or artists.

Argument from quality: nope. Most publishers won't touch quality writing, because they know the market for it is limited. Joyce would never be published today. Austen might, but Austen is a bit difficult, so probably not. Lessing was turned down by a major publisher when she tried submitting under a different name, just to see what happened. I have my doubts if Pynchon or Vonnegut would be taken on today. (Has anyone of equivalent ability been signed in the last twenty five years?)

There's a huge market for ghost-written celebrity blather nonsense, landfill SF and Fantasy, and two-glasses-of-wine-and-a-billionaire chicklit, and a much smaller market for self-absorbed litfic. But quality literature?

Argument from services provided: nope again. Editors aren't quite two a penny, but good ones are available for hire. Likewise cover designers. Because you're paying them direct, you'll find that an editing process that takes publishers 18 months can be completed in a few weeks.

Argument from marketing: Publishers literally won't lift a finger to help any author who isn't already selling in the millions.

Argument from financial support: A couple of $k up front if you're very lucky, in return for losing 85% of future income. And you'll probably be offered a crappy work for hire contract.

So - what is this 'value' that publishers provide?
Not sure how appropriate or relevant this is, but both me and a friend read this and were reminded slightly of the stuff "written" by Matthew Holness' "Garth Marenghi" character. Sharing a couple of choice excerpts in case anyone is curious, but the real gold is in "Garth Marenghi's Darkplace" - a series set in 1980s hospital in Romford.

Dead Centre - http://www.garthmarenghi.com/books/deadcentre.htm - "This near-legendary collection of short stories includes 'The Streaming Face' (about a boy whose face is turned into a river by a magical elk because he spat on a gnome)"

Juggers - http://www.garthmarenghi.com/books/juggers.htm -
"I wanted to write a book about the triumph of the female spirit over a gigantic lorry. Of course, looking back, I realise the truck actually represents AIDS.'"
What do you think of "Glasskan".

I made it up by watching the most used brand names, that have become a generic term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized...
Keep in mind they'd probably not be using English either.
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I am pretty sure the aliens are not actually speaking in English, and if they are really non-human, does their communication even resemble our languages?

So having a problem with what an English term used in a story because it doesn't have quite the kind of meaning you think aliens would use seems rather inconsistent.
I never understood the significance of this. what's the big deal about it?

Someone made me read it when I was learning Linux for the first time 15 years ago. I'm not sure what I was supposed to get from it ...
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Jeremy Evans ain't nothing to fsck with.
You are in a country covered by the embargo. Downloading Java impossible
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This was really a rant piece, written as the author was leaving his post.
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I remember when "Under the Dome" was selling wholesale (Hardcover) for $13 and I ended up buying it from Walmart for $6.99 - because (A) it was $3.00 less than the eBook, and (B), well, I then could, in theory, resell the book.

It's odd watching two book sellers compete with each other to sell a book at loss.

But, your comment, "Amazon would let publishers rip them off in this way - paying more for something that costs less to produce." brings to mind Scalzi's comment,

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2014/07/30/amazons-latest-volley/

"(This is where many people decide to opine that the cost of eBooks should reflect the cost of production in some way that allows them to say that whatever price point they prefer is the naturally correct one. This is where I say: You know what, if you’ve ever paid more than twenty cents for a soda at a fast food restaurant, or have ever bought bottled water at a store, then I feel perfectly justified in considering your cost of production position vis a vis publishing as entirely hypocritical. Please stop making the cost of production argument for books and apparently nothing else in your daily consumer life. I think less of you when you do.)"

Think about the software that I purchase online that costs $0.001 to deliver and I pay $595 - it costs 1/10,000th what the old version with paper books, and CDs, and nice glossy boxes.

I agree with Scalzi - the argument about "it costs less to produce" is bogus. Something should be worth whatever value it has to the person buying it intersecting with whatever price the person willing to sell it wants, plain and simple. The cost of creation is not particularly interesting.
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I too am developing an automatic time tracking application (for the Linux desktop, but I think it might be made to work cross-platform): the idea is that, you just install it, you might then optionally choose apps or files to identify your project activities, and it will auto-detect time spent within those apps; it will come with a pre-populated database of known apps so that it can handle most common activities automatically.

It works by monitoring current processes, and checking the title of the currently focused window, applying a number of regexes to identify an activity, and saving results to a database. It should be able to handle screen savers, visited URLs, and automatically take snapshots of unidentified windows so that you can later map them to a known activity.

I envisioned this tool for personal use; however, it could be deployed to monitor employees in a centralized manner, though this might even be illegal in many countries.
At the risk of further karmaloss, I suspect the downvoting is because I contradict the HN echo chamber clique. There is a certain fanboi contingent that acts badly when it acts at all and that reacts badly indeed to any notion that perhaps, just perhaps, challenges closely held non-technical views.

Also, I'm an intellectual elitist and a bit of snob - but I always optimistically and naively hope that those with I engage are as well read, as critical, and as ignorant as I.

Rarely works out that way, but occasionally I learn something.
Have you already forgot how trigger-happy he was in the case of Iraq? Even to the point of ignoring anyone who spoke up against the doctored evidence of an Iraqi WMD programme.
It's amazon's choice to sell for less. The publishers didn't want to price e-books low. So they refused to sell at a $9.99 price. Which is their right.

Amazon believe a low priced e-book market would generate more profits overall. So they priced low anyway. That, in turn, was their right.

I don't see how the publishers are evil in that situation. What would you do if a reseller was convinced your product was priced too high, and they wanted you to slash prices? The standard advice on Hacker News is "raise your prices".

Amazon appears to have been right, but it was hardly obvious. And low pricing may not apply to all books. For instance, I don't release my books on kindle because of the low pricing structure for self published books.

(Amazon gives 70% royalties for kindle books priced $2.99-$9.99, but only 30% for pricing above and below that, IIRC. The optimal price for my books on my own site is above $9.99, so I don't want that deal)
You need to expose a hypercall interface for this. Can anyone explain how that would be implemented, and does it restrict the kinds of kernels you can write? e.g. can I create a unikernel or microkernel with this?
The biggest gotcha with a time-based measurement of the thunder is the variability of the speed of sound with temperature - about 0.6 m/s per degree Celsius. Given that thunderstorms tend to involve pretty significant temperature shifts, the temperature can vary significantly along the path length.
Search operators are super powerful and awesome to use in google - providing a way to use those from the browser itself can help provide a distraction free environment, but also opens up new possibilities:

bm:“tag" - show list of all bookmarks with that tag

Just a thought.
Yes, you do. If there is another Heartbleed, your certificate is worthless if someone has the chance to grab it.
The place on the web where comments don't suck
That's exactly how I imagine that era, feel free to drop by for a coffee if you're ever around (we're @ zuiderpark now)
Why is it so difficult to build a community on the web where people stay reasonable in their comment ?
That´s the point, we have to assume that "meat" is the English word that in their culture would be the best translation for the concept of "Biological, carbon-based lifeform".
Regarding reputation - the theory would be that you would be willing to accept transactions (that were on the blockchain, of course), from a particular wallet, after that person had some type of reputation (either because they had provided identification, or had a track record, or some other method of proving that transactions from this wallet don't always have to be confirmed three times, particularly for small amounts of BTC.

But I think your system would work as well - but it then needs more than just a bitcoin transaction from my wallet.

I'm just trying to think of how we can encourage Restaurants and Grocery stores to start accepting BTC, without getting scammed by double-spends.
One of the things I really liked about this adaptation is how the dialog between the two doesn't actually match their lips properly. The "incorrect" voices and the "obviously a disguise" fez always suggested to me that the English we hear was just for the benefit of the audience and that their actual communication was different.

Of course, as with most art, opinions and interpretations will vary.
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I don't totally get this. Google put a Now search bar on the Android home screen. I type in "ice cream" and it not only reminds me of several "ice cream" searches I've done recently on the desktop browser, but brings up all sorts of hits for local ice cream including a map, reviews, Wikipedia, etc.

It's not clear what more value or convenience someone can add to this. But, I guess the investors know something I don't.
What dirty associations can you make out of "proc" or even "procedure"?
To move a file in the Finder, Mac users just drag and drop.

You can nav to the destination folder by hovering the intermediate folders, they will open to reveal contents.

To copy instead of move, just hold Option while doing the above.

I know old habits die hard, but if you've decided to move to a new part of the world, it really is worth learning the local language.
Yeah. It would be really nice if stock android included the permissions editor thingy, where you can revoke permissions that applications claim to require. I know dumb users will use it to break stuff, but tuck it behind a secret code and four warning screens or something.
But there must be examples. I doubt they are just developing a framework without having any example demo apps where they test and use the framework. And hopefully, there is also at least one serious game using this framework, otherwise it's doubt-able whether this framework is useful in practice.
I know a lot of very religious people. I also know a lot of atheists. My personal religious beliefs put me squarely in neither camp - I'm not secular enough for the atheists, and I'm not religious enough for evangelicals.

I can say without question that overly evangelical religious people leave me alone about my non-religiousness FAR more than atheists leave me alone about my non-atheistness. Which, for the latter, is "almost never".

If you're an atheist, I don't care. Nor do I care if you're strictly religious. But it seems to me that atheists try so very hard to prove their superiority by nature of being atheist that they sound like they're more blindly following dogma than the most evangelical people out there.
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This is not neccessarily true, e. g. in Rust you have code without GC, but the compiler makes sure that everything is freed.
Well, I've read a few articles about that spat, and made up my mind. I suggest you read a few articles yourself, get ahold of the facts, and stop the way small kids argue ("monopschmopy").
Correlation does not even imply correlation
Ask HN: University courses run on equity model?
Universities, obvious startup incubators, could offer certain key courses for payment through an equity model, paid for from future company profits. Key courses being STEM courses, intially, the backbones of most countries' economies.

This would tune both the course leaders and students to think economically from day 1, agreeing to assist each other in terms of funding and real-life applications of course content.

Just a thought. The UK is edging ever closer to the US model of offering an expensive education (or the low, low price of free if you just risk your life!), moving away from the days where you could get a grant for a completely free education. Obviously that would only work in a country with a low student population (or an education budget that approaches the size of the military budget), as in Scandinavia/France/Netherlands etc.

Would it make any sense for universities to take this risk in certain areas of study?
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Lightning Source International also does print on demand. About half of amazon orders for POD books may use LSI rather than Createspace, amazon's printer.

Amazon had a dispute with LSI as well. It was less publicized, so we don't know the details. But LSI books started showing "Out of stock: ships in 1 to 6 weeks" if that book wasn't also available on Createspace.

That was false. LSI takes about a day to ship a book once it receives an order. Amazon was merely delaying LSI orders in an attempt to force authors to use Createspace in conjunction with LSI.