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As against planned economies in which lock-in by a single vendor is mandatory and essentially irreversible. The answer, as Adam Smith observed, is a well regulated market.

If you're going to make negative comments like that, it would be helpful if you were to offer some kind of alternative and why it's better.
Makes a ton of sense. This is peak Minecraft. Right time to cash out before it depreciates. I expect Microsoft to do some things. One: monopolize. Two: monetize. Within three to four months most Minecraft fans will be extremely pissed at Microsoft. They will be practically forced to either move on to some of the successors to Minecraft like Tug or Blockscape, or adopt an open source Minecraft clone that is designed from the outset for plugins.

Overall this is great for everyone. I wish Microsoft would burn in hell though.
... also worth mention: they're not too happy with the US Navy operating freely within the South China Sea, even if the rest of the world calls it "international waters". The red line in the map is what they'd rather keep a powerful non-China navy out of, for both defensive and offensive reasons.
I have a small game project that uses SFML, box2d and other small libraries.

I already managed to make my project work on both MSVC 2012 and Xcode5. All I have to do is to commit code, add source files I would have added in the other project, and I'm good to do.

It's pretty smooth except from weird stdafx differences, and the fact MSVC2012 doesn't support variadic templates yet.

I'm really wondering if I would really be able benefit from clion. I mean obviously I would have to recompile SFML as SFML does not provide binaries for clion ? That's a first problem I guess.

I also remember giving up on compiling Ogre3D on xcode, there were many dependencies, versions of the engine (repo or stable), it was very annoying and I'm not into tweaking Cmake.txt files. I guess jetbrains would not solve this.

I have not given a try to this IDE, but I'm skeptic. C++ is designed as a cross platform languages, but the fact build systems differ is a huge pain, and an IDE won't solve this unless library maintainer provide solid cmake scripts.
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You should start using a watch. I have had a watch stolen in public transport, was very young though :). Watches have always had this "problem" and watch users are tuned to managing that attention.
Your freedom of speech is not a right on private websites and a site like Reddit could easily have curbed this thread without any damage to anybody's feelings and a significant reduction in the potential harm to the victims of these hacks.

Imagine a HN thread about how and where you can download pirated copies of software you wrote or something similar. Do you feel that shutting that down would inhibit your freedom of speech somehow?
> and the difference in fare between Uber and the black cab was 8%

When not on surge pricing, UberX is generally 50-60% discount on the price of a black cab in my experience. Being able to get home for £7 after a night out is amazing.
My familiarity with notch is only superficial: we met in person 3 times, once before MC got big, once when it was starting to get big, and once after it was already big. Before that we used to hang out in the same game dev irc/forum circles and chatted on occasion there.

I won't pretend that makes me really know him as a person but I can say I've never got the impression he cares much about empire and/or massive ego building. I would venture a guess that by now he accepted the fact that MC was his one massive strike and that he likely won't have another one & would be content to live his life of luxury with that.
As a co-founder who got screwed on a large acquisition, it makes me happy to see that Snapchat finally settled. However, a settlement doesn't change the fact that Evan Spiegel really went out of his way to intentionally screw the guy that actually invented Snapchat's model - and seemed to enjoy doing it. He's definitely not someone I'd ever do business with.

http://www.businessinsider.com/snapchat-lawsuit-video-deposi...
Me too. It gives the first two letters of a pw that I have used in the past but as far as I'm aware, not on that account. This raises all kinds of questions...

Edit: it does the same on a much older account that I rarely use, too. Not the current password but the first two letters of what is likely a much older pw.
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> It's a beautifully quirky institution with a lot of character, whose intent and principle effect is to prevent people from entering into an honest trade to the advantage of their families and customers.

This test is only for people wishing to drive Black cabs. This test does not exist for drivers other regular taxis in London. Very many taxi companies exist and people are free to drive for those companies.

Uber wants to operate as a black cab without the protections to the fare paying passengers that black cabs offer. For example: all black cabs are wheelchair accessible. Almost no Uber cars are.

I'm not sure how Uber manages to generate so much hype around restrictive business regulation when there's nothing preventing them operating as licensed taxis in London. Nothing, that is, apart from their desire to use untested unregulated uncalibrated software to meter the rides.
Or maybe a few paragraphs of text aren't really enough - or even intended - to describe the full situation?
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Your comment has given me my first quantifiable measured sensation of feeling old. if you go out every Tuesday, you will learn the traffic patterns, and will naturally develop a series of contingency routes that you could take in the event of traffic. The watch is novelty more than useful. It will make you forget how you used to do things and in turn feel dependent on it, when in fact it is simply a novelty that distracted you so much that you forgot that what you were doing was fine.
> forced to register a credit card through iTunes

I'll never forget the day they held a gun to my head and made me buy my first iPod.

Just so I get the terminology right though, when you register a card within itunes Apple is forcing you to do so, but when you register it with Google Play, Google is reluctantly allowing you to do it. Did I get that right?
Try ESC next time, it works on many of those.
Can't be. I've had some atrocious drivers in NYC including on two occasions having to use google maps on my phone to help them in Downtown Manhattan and one got completely lost in BK.
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Ah. Well, other languages also get new features, improved performance, and refined syntax after 1.0. Are you objecting to the implication that the pace of development here will be more rapid, or an assumption that they plan on making backwards-incompatible changes?
> Uber wants to operate as a black cab without the protections to the fare paying passengers that black cabs offer. For example: all black cabs are wheelchair accessible. Almost no Uber cars are.

Wouldn't that only be an issue if the customer was unaware that Uber cars aren't guaranteed to be accessible? That seems like a peculiar example to use, because for each customer the worst case scenario would be calling an Uber once, realizing it's not accessible, then always using the licensed black cabs from then on.
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For some reason it's controversial but you are correct.

Uber do not provide a fare in advance, as with all private mini cabs in the UK. They are doing a metered service which I understood to be illegal except for black cabs. It's pretty simple.

My main worry is the demise of cheap local cab firms. You can easily get a fare 40% less than Addison Lee or a black cab by going to your local cab firm.

Indeed many bars and clubs have a legal requirement to station a taxi attendant outside to make sure people can get home safe at 4am (black cabs will be impossible at that time for most areas).
The webpage will give you the first two letters of your password.
A summary about phishing:

1. Found you password with the same email address somewhere
and ask if you still use that email address on another site.
2. And get your IP, then login through proxy to bypass the security checking.
3. Still, to know which email address is in use.

If you just worry, change you password right now without using their service. :P It may be good that every a few months some guys remind you to change passwords.
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I tried to gauge the cpu usage (just looking at the percentage as listed
in xmobar) -- but both grep and ag are too fast on the ~400mb set of
files for that to work... As I have two cores on this machine, the
difference between ag and rgrep could indeed be ag's use of threads.

Many thanks for not just writing and sharing ag as free software, but
for the nice articles describing the design and optimizations!

At least this brief benchmarking run convinced me that I should probably
try to integrate ag in my work flow :-)
There are lots of interesting and insightful critics of capitalism from a left point of view that don't rely on postmodern garbage. Read Russell, Orwell, Chomsky, Said, hell, anything but postmodern theorists.
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Having run quite a number of marathons, half-marathons, 5k, 10k and all distances in between, I have noticed that there are still a good amount of runners out there (whether serious or not) who use their 4"/5" phones for tracking.
I've taken this approach for a long time now - not only does it mean less work overall, it means none of this "the API now supports feature X that the Web UI has supported for 4 months" - they are the same codebase and thus parity is a given.

-Edit
I don’t mean this specific implementation using XSLT, I mean serving html, xml, json, csv, etc data from the same url
-/Edit

The article makes mention of using XSLT (which basically means your "api" is only usable as XML) but it's so much simpler than that.

This type of thing is exactly what the HTTP Accepts header is for. The client says it accepts "application/json" you return a json encoded result. The client says it accepts "application/xml", you send an XML result. The client says it accepts text/html, you send an HTML result.
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Tbh, I found the Washington Post profile of the moderator of /r/TheFappening to be even more fascinating. johnmcjohn frequented asexuality and Asperger forums and voiced his frustration, and detailed his financial troubles and professional failures on LinkedIn and begged for money from strangers on Reddit and also moderated and advised users on /r/cocaine on how to obtain and use cocaine. "It's odd that a man with self-diagnosed asexuality created a forum as a trove of naked celebrity photos."

The degree of detail of personal information that we post online if someone resourceful enough like a reporter at WashPo can gather on ourselves, both our public or pseudo-anonymous personas truly reveal everything about our professional, psychological, financial and personal lives.

Recently, two events happened to me where I was confronted with IRL with what I said online which I thought was anonymous. I felt really uncomfortable initially because I felt simultaneously really rude to the people who have read my comments because it was my pure unadulterated thoughts without any real life filter; and exposed because there are honest thoughts of mine like stream-of-conscious thoughts that I'd never express in public to communicate to someone else, kind of like Jimmy Carter who answered "Yes, in my thoughts" to the question of "Have you ever cheated on your wife."

Going back to the main topic of discussion, if I was exposed to the core by WashPo, I'd be no better johnmcjohn. But like johnmcjohn who made his profile public again on Twitter because "there is nothing to hide," I feel honesty in all shapes of forms, even if it exposes you as a 33-year old guy with a questionable personal/professional background who shares celeb nudies is the way to go.

I post a lot of provocative comments on this forum; the first few times, it was because I felt arrogant or wanted to attack some of the people-types whom I disliked in real life online. But after someone replied to one of my comment and gave a good counter-perspective and made me learn new things and new perspective. It made me not afraid to be downvoted and keep being honest. I hope that more confrontations and humiliations come my way, so that I can learn from them.
Making mistakes with blender won't kill you but the modes are enough to drive anybody nuts.

Another instance of a very poor choice that led to people being killed in aviation was the one where 'take-off power' was interpreted as 'take power off'.

I can't find a reference to that accident but the essence was that during a go-around instead of full throttle the pilot reduced power causing the aircraft to stall and crash.
serious question: Does this watch anything do what my phone in my pocket doesn't?

I can't see a benefit of using a smartwatch.
Well, sometimes digital payment comes with a nice discount. That's where CASH can't compete.
The webpage gave the correct first two letters of my password...but that was changed more than a year and half ago, so this leak must be VERY old. I have been using last pass for the past time and when I got it I immediately changed my google password. This is the reason why I'm saying is that old.
Maybe I'm blind to evidence but why should they be different?
Well, people are not algorithms but neither they are animals. Conceptions should be better planned or otherwise punished. Nothing worse then raising other guy's child unknowingly (I know article was not about that).
Awesome.

I wish it were an IntelliJ plugin instead, or at least would give IntelliJ the ability to syntax-highlight C++. IntelliJ can syntax-highlight a gazillian exotic languages, but not C/C++... Having two separate programs is annoying if you have projects with many different programming languages.
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This leak is more likely a result of phishing attacks. So, if you have been (and still are) careful enough, your email should not be on that list.
"untested unregulated uncalibrated software" like any other GPS system that millions of people and truck drivers rely on everyday without issue?
A few things you may not know if you've never lived in London:

1) London taxis are permitted to use most bus lanes, with or without passengers. Regular cars or minivans are not, even if they are carrying 5 or 7 passengers. This doesn't encourage efficient use of road space.

2) London taxis are meant to take you wherever you want to go but when I lived there they would often flout this rule. A friend of mine would deliberately wait on the Northbound side of the street, so that passing taxi drivers wouldn't pass him by because they didn't want to go to South London. Only after he was seated would he tell them his destination, which is when the 25-foot turning circle came in handy.

3) London taxis are exempt from the congestion charge (a large toll zone within London, with a fixed daily fee of over 18USD). Regular cars must pay, even though they would typically spend a much smaller proportion of their time on the road, thereby causing less congestion than taxis which are driving around all day.
On some you can load AGPS data onto it for the next few days, but the bigger issue is that Garmin no longer uses SiRF chipsets, which are vastly superior when compared gen-for-gen vs. the generic stuff Garmin's using now.

It's a shame, but the most accurate Forerunners are the older ones–same for Foretrex, etc.–which are often the ones with the shortest battery life.
Will it work in India ?
Valid concern, tbh - but I guess (at least in London), you've got three/four tiers of cabs now - Black Cabs, Uber, Kabbee/TaxiCabit registered minicabs, and tiny local firms that aren't on those systems - I suspect it might be the last ones that either get squashed out or forced onto the new tech.

(Also - try getting a blac cab to take you back to Peckham from the centre of London basically any time after 6pm, nightmare. /sarfovdarivva)
What competition?!? Until either of them support their languages on their respective OSs there isn't any competition.
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I can't understand why anyone would want to post their startup in an early stage, when their codebase is probably quite small and easily clonable . Unless, of course, they want the professional feedback and brainstorming that this forum provides .
Did any of you who posted your startup here gain a decent amount of real users (clients) ?
> thoughts that I'd never express in public to communicate to someone else

But you did!

That's sort of the whole point here. So if you do it because you think you are anonymous (as in your identity is divorced from what you say) but it is stuff that you'd never express in public then you have essentially crossed one of your own rules. You shouldn't say/do stuff anonymously that you would not say/do when you're identified.
my mom bought me a stuffed animal from Walmart, and I know more people who play it on the xbox in real life... and I know at least 150 pc gamers personally through heading up VTC's gaming club. I'm pretty sure the business angle here is marketing leverage to sell more xboxes.
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if this comes out would it prove that no government agency was behind the creation of bitcoin?
> By upgrading your image server to thumbor you would go from 12989.07kb to 16106.04kb for 22 images (using WebP images).

On my gallery page:

> By upgrading your image server to thumbor you would go from 16687.68kb to 29581.33kb for 19 images (using WebP images).

All of my images get filtered through convert through convert(1) -quality 90, could that be a reason?
Their live feed yesterday was only available on Safari. Isn't it obvious that they want their herd only inside of a barn?
This is indeed where I read it. When googling to find it again I found a similar story at:

https://pthree.org/2013/12/10/zfs-administration-appendix-c-...

Any good ideas on how one might fix this incorrect "common wisdom"?
It's also a really small sample size. You'd could have gotten a similar result by comparing two Uber drivers, or two taxi drivers.

Also, I wonder whether the taxi drove in a bus lane (which are off limits to Uber drivers and regular people), and whether that impacted the journey time.
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What's more frightening to me is how many VCs and other investors who went along with the charade and did not care that this criminal was a representative of them.
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A few counterpoints to having your phone used as a payment device :

- it breaks more easily and wears out quicker than a card

- you can't lend it to a friend to have him buy stuff for you ( i don't have a pass id iphone so maybe i'm wrong on this one)

- it gets stolen more often because it has intrisic value ( and a big one for the iphone)

- if it gets stolen, how are you going to call your bank to disable it ?

Plus, retrieving fingerprints from a stolen iphone was demonstrated last year and seems pretty easy. Now that iphones will be used to pay, you can expect criminals to get very familiar with the technic very fast.
If you're worried about giving Google your phone number, you should perhaps also be worried about them having access to all of your email messages.
Rudder has a central configuration (via etcd); Weave communicates network changes across all nodes by itself - as long as each new node knows how to contact at least one other node, it will learn of all other nodes and connect to as many as it can.

Also Rudder is Layer 3 and Weave is Layer 2 and Weave can encrypt traffic.
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And this is another perfect example to fill in random bits of information upon signup and keep that in your password manager along your real password.

Inclusive a fake birthday.
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This same example, along with many others, are covered in Don Norman's classic "The Design of Everyday Things".
More Airbus deadly UI:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_France_Flight_447

The two sticks can be pointed in different directions. The plane does not complain about this and averages the inputs. One pilot is pulling back, one is pushing forward, plane crashes. Clearly there are some human factors here, but from what I've read, on Boeing's aircraft pushing one stick causes the other to move, much more intuitive.
Thanks for sharing. I was going to suggest you make the relevant files available as lgpl -- but then I went and looked for getopt.c, and discovered that it's in the util-linux package and is also gplv2 (the version that I had installed, see more below). I'm normally a great fan of copyleft and the full gpl (rather than lgpl/bsd/mit etc) -- but it does strike me as a little strange to have something like this under the gpl -- it "feels" to me like more of a libc-thing (not really talking about your code in particular, as that is part of a different program anyway).

However, the getopt.h-file in the actual gnu libc-package (libc6-dev) is lgpl.

Interestingly, the getopt.c/.h in gnulib (gnu portability library) appear to both be gpl, not lgpl.
You mean like this guy? :)

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2006/07/29/the-credit-card...
Sorry, completely off topic, but does anyone know a name for this American style of headline writing "For [subject of the story], [story overview]"?

It's always stuck out to me so I'd like to put a name to it. You don't see headlines written like this in the UK.
Seems a bit comical that the article claims this to be the first disappearing photo app. I created and launched one myself a year before Snapchat started...

The normal way for start founders to receive equity, is only from one or more of these 3 things:

- For hours worked, based on the vesting and usually the hours must be beyond the cliff or you get nothing.

- If you built a crucial part of the IP that the company needs to buy from you with equity.

- Cash invested up front - less common.

He fulfilled none of those. Not even close to being a cofounder. Ideas aren't included among those.
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