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High trees catch a lot of wind. I personally far prefer they target the big companies which can easily afford to defend themselves if they feel they are wrongly targeted than the little guys which could be wrecked by such a lawsuit.

So no, Google is not targeted because they are a cashcow, Google is targeted because they are large and ignore a bunch of law because they think they can get away with it because they are large. The simpler thing would be to simply comply with the law but they choose the confrontational road and rulings like these are the result.

Companies are still not larger than nation states. Maybe one day they will be but for now the nation states seem to have the upper hand when it comes to enforcement.
You are correct. The ethernet frames use CRC32 while the IP frames use 16-bit CRC. While the checksums need not be of cryptographic quality (and not all checksum algorithms in ZFS are), there are multiple trivial ways in which the wrong data can match a CRC32 checksum and that is inadequate for the purposes of data integrity. It does help, but it does not go far enough.

As for my assertion that btrfs uses 64-bit CRC on 64-bit processors, this was the result of a misunderstanding between myself and the btrfs developers in #btrfs on freenode last year. I double checked with them and it turns out that you are correct that btrfs uses 32-bit CRC even on 64-bit processors. That makes btrfs much worse in this area than I previously thought.

Thanks for clearing some of the confusion about btrfs send/receive on its snapshots. To be clear, does this mean that btrfs will refuse to send a "writeable snapshot"?
“It was you! You who appointed these people! You who gave them the power to make your decisions for you!

While I’ll admit that anyone can make a mistake once, to go on making the same lethal errors century after century seems to me nothing short of deliberate.

You have encouraged these malicious incompetents, who have made your working life a shambles.

You have accepted without question their senseless orders.

You have allowed them to fill your workspace with dangerous and unproven machines.

You could have stopped them.

All you had to say was “No.”

You have no spine. You have no pride.”

— V
Please coukd you expand what you mean when you say that "Americans provide us with phones"?
Ask HN: What is better for privacy, US or non-US based companies?
I have seen lots of advice given about hosting things like your email, documents, etc. with a non-US company to avoid the NSA from getting hands-on access to it. I have also read about the different protections offered to the US citizens vs non-citizens; namely, that according to the US law, it is legal for the spy agencies to collect data about any foreign citizens as long as the data is outside the country. At least in theory, when a US citizen is involved or the spying has to take place on the US soil, a warrant is required (which in the NSA's case is granted by the rubber-stamp FISA court). When I start thinking about how this affects, for example, non-US companies with offices in the US or vice versa, I get completely lost.

On a practical level, what is the best solution for a US citizen, living in the US to store personal data in the "cloud" with regard to government spying?

P.S.: Obviously, storing your data where you can physically control the storage medium is best, but not always practical. I am wondering about the next best thing.
Why shouldn't he stream? notch is a famous and well-known developer that many people look up to and want to learn from. What is the problem with letting people see his workflow when experimenting with something new?
I think with Apple and Google's competition, we're well past the point of caring about Microsoft's shrinking desktop monopoly.
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I got from it that the sticking point was that they did not even bother to read the mail in principle, not even that they did not respond. The German in the ruling is quite complex though, so I'd better leave such analysis to someone who is a native speaker.

My reading is that it is all about 'establishing contact' and not necessarily about receiving an email answer.

http://www.vzbv.de/cps/rde/xbcr/vzbv/google-lg_berlin-2014-0...

Page 4 at the bottom.

"Es muesse fuer den Verbracher moeglich sein, den Dienstenanbieter auch ohne vorheriges Ausfuellen eines Formulrs zu kontaktieren."

Freely translated:

"It must be possible for the user, to contact the party offering a service without prior filling out of a form."
Why exactly SHOULD he turn of the cameras if he is just experimenting? You're just inventing these weird rules for people. Have you considered people enjoy watching his coding without any idea what the end result will be?
You're reading too much into my statement. I said npm frustrates me, I didn't say NPM IS BAD.

I do not feel this is the proper place to go into why NPM frustrates me so much, but on a high level, I'll tell you that it has much to do with nested dependencies & lack of support for seeing more than 1 version number on their website. Bower is even worse on the latter. Look at @bshimmin's link, http://www.jongleberry.com/why-i-hate-npm.html, I share a lot of the same concerns.
If you want to jump over a building, you need to depart the ground at the same speed as you'll hit it on the way down

Well, the horizontal speed can be gained more slowly (running before the jump). Only the vertical speed needs immediate acceleration.
Veterans of Israeli NSA-equivalent reject mass surveillance
Wrong on so many levels.
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I think the iPhone's will sell themselves. The watch could have benefited from Steve selling it.
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I hadn't seen that post before. I agree with most of it. Nested dependencies is my main complaint about NPM.
There's a lot of great thinking done here, yet rarely capitalized. My point is not that something in the water lowers IQs but rather that well-intentioned, seemingly sensible, common sense regulation is drowning entrepreneurs. Even Linus Torvalds left to run Linux, a non profit, from the US.

BMW, Mercedes or VW

Founded, respectively, in 1916, 1926, and 1937. Those are some great companies but from completely different times. Neither Saint Peter's Basilica nor the Colosseum tell you much about modern Italy. Those are vestiges of glorious (well, usually) past.

Facebook, Google, Microsoft are outliers from among American startups and typical by being American. Luckily, the world is interconnected so we can buy their products.
Clubs mostly, generally the vast majority of Makerspaces' income is solely the membership dues. There are a handful that are run more like businesses. Techshop is one and there's non profits like The Geek Group up in Michigan which has full time employees and a goal of each department/lab paying for it's own existence. Probably more but those are the ones I know of.
Perhaps a better better question: How long do you spend procrastinating on HN before you can start coding? :)
Trusting cheap vps company to host your business apps isn't a smart idea. Btw what makes you capable of deciding who should or shouldn't work in the field of computing?
Why do you feel we as a community or any group of people have to give Notch some "chances" or determine whether Minecraft was a lucky accident or not? I'm sure most people, including Notch, understand that Minecraft success (as all games) have a certain element of luck..
UNIFIL isn't an intervention as (like in China where the intervention was to protect US, etc., imperial interest in Shanghai from groups directly targeting them) or on behalf of (as in Cuba, where the intervention was directly on behalf of the government against rebels) a principal belligerent, so I think the attempted analogy fails.
Look at this link http://www.jongleberry.com/why-i-hate-npm.html I agree with a lot of the points there

While I don't hate npm, there are better examples of how to do package management. For example, Nuget gets a lot of things right with no nested dependencies.
Warrants? They have plenty of NSLs and even executive orders at hand.
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1) Quantity and quality of assets - I don't see much difference here, do you?

2) Game logic - a game like Wolfenstein has basically planar gameplay, you can't jump or aim up and down. You could play the same game in top-down view on a grid of squares.

3) Rendering - it should take you at most a day to write a Wolfenstein like renderer. Might be scary if you've never done 3D before, but it's a great starter project.
Fileformats wiki: “if it holds data, it's probably documented here”
And again, good luck sending a Yahoo exec to jail with no public explanation.
This is inspirational. The guy is just openly doing his thing, experimenting with software and making the process and results very public. Sometimes he ends up creating something cool, sometimes not and I think he just enjoys the process without too much pressure to "succeed".
If we are setting the pragmatic definition of customer, then yeah I would follow the old adage of "if you're not paying for it, you're not the customer". If we are setting a legal definition, I would rather see customer be defined as anyone who uses the product as it is advertised to them. That is, if Gmail is offered to me as being free, I am a customer even if I don't pay. You advertised it as free. If you're forced to do support, set tiers of support based on the tiers of your plan. Free users get basic support with a 5-7 day SLA. Paid users get far better. However, if it's advertised to me as being $50 and I am using it for free, I'm not a customer. I'm not using it as advertised.

Would this change the business model of a lot of start ups? You bet it would. But it would change it for the better in the customer's eyes. Maybe the "free tier" becomes the free trial, time-limited. Maybe paid users will no longer subsidize the paid users. Maybe companies will think through their business model a little more and not offer free service for just long enough to get embedded in someone's life then realize they have to shut down for lack of money.

I would love to see a shift from "user" to "customer". You don't have 200,000 users if they're not paying you. You have 200,000 customers and 0 profit.
I have HN in one monitor and work in the other so I can do both.
I'd say it is not very common, but there are obviously some deployments out there.

Mandatory example: $ dig yp.to ns

I think it's sad that the trend is towards DNSSEC which provides not confidentiality, only authentication. As we've seen since last summer, the extra protection is very much needed.
> Using Haskell on toy examples can get FUNNY SUPRISE.

Funny surprises such as?
Between the lines: Google has calculated that

ExpectedLockinValue(given(ventureFunded)) + SillyPRBoost.value > ExpectedUsage($100k/yr)

Or, in other words, Google believes for the venture-funded cohort, giving you a $100k option now will set them up to take significantly more later. They also don't want to spend any effort administrating (vetting) this program.

I don't think this is confusing or insulting. Google's cards are plainly on the table, and as always they're here to make a profit.
The law in question is not intended regulate business-customer-relations, but is also for business-business of business-press-relation or any other form of contact.

If you operate a business in germany and have a website you have to have an "impressum". Even most personal sites put up an "impressum" even if they are not required too, just because everyone is scared of the "impressumspflicht".
Think of it this way.

Absolute rulers generally need to have some linkage or endorsement of their power. It's an important critical element of political legitimacy. So they tie themselves to some higher power -- god, "the people", the sun, ideology.

Christianity broke the mold (by acknowledging only one god, not caesar) and undermined the legitimacy of imperial Roman rule.
Rumors are swirling about Notch's upcoming formula one game. It's apparently tailored to nerds who will now be able to go head-to-head with DHH on the track of their choosing.
Page 11 of the ruling:

"Es kann auch hiernach nicht Aufgabe des TMG sein, eine Antwort oder eine bestimmte Qualität der Antwort zu erzwingen. Es genügt die abstrakte Möglichkeit, dass Kommunikation aufgenommen wird, eine Reaktion erfolgt. Auch ein Nichtantworten kann eine Reaktion sein. Wenn aber Nichtantworten Prinzip ist, kann nicht mehr von Kommunikation die Rede sein."

translated by me:

"Hereafter it cannot be the function of the TMG to force a reply or a certain quality of the reply. The abstract possibility that communication is started, a reaction happens, suffices. A nonreply can be a reaction, as well. But if not replying is the principle, one cannot speak of communication anymore."
Congratulations, you made @horse_js!

https://twitter.com/horse_js/status/510394421490507776
man! and here I am feeling like a champ conquering NTFS's long file name limitations :/
> commercially, GENERALLY in return for a fee

(generally is emphasized by me)

The argument can be made that showing someone ads in return for services is offering things commercially. C.f. free tv channels with ad-breaks.
Let's not forget the MacBook Air in the manilla envelope.
Tom Tom was founded in very recent history, the WWW is of the last 3 decades and now powers a substantial amount of the world economy in one way or another (would you have preferred to buy access from a single huge American company, say AOL?), and Team Viewer (which you've probably never even heard of) was a German company until they exited for $1B+.

Really, there is a ton going on in Europe, but it just isn't as much cult-of-personality oriented in as in the US, nor does it typically become a world wide brand. Things are slower, but just different, not worse.

And if they would be worse then those per-capita-gdp's would be quite different.

Another way to look at it is gdp per man/woman hour worked. And on that scale Europe comes out ahead. You can compare these two until the cows come home, in the end the differences are much smaller than the similarities.

SV is an outlier for the world, not just for the US.
Have you seen any good Prolog tutorials for programmers? I've played with Prolog a little bit, but I've never understood how you'd really use it.
Doom's art would actually be very labor intensive, because you have to animate each sprite from every angle.
Programmer of 15+ years here, I disagree.

It's a new language with some interestinf semantics than can be tricky even for those familiar with say C or Java or Python etc, so it's good that it's conversational -- it helps cater to both the new programmer and the experienced one in other languages.

The skipping of cruft part I can do by myself, using "vgrep".

This "skipping of cruft" because we're talking to "experienced programmers" is what makes Manfiles nearly useless, EVEN for experienced programmers, unless as a very basic flag reference.
Makerhaus was a good example of how not to do one of these ventures. Priced out hobbyists, and reportedly not very well run. Lots of glitz and glam without a sound business plan or market analysis. See comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/2e0tv4/makerhaus_in...
It is not so simple. Often you like some hardware and want to buy it but you get no option of getting it with GNU/Linux or at least without paying for Windows which you will then replace with GNU/Linux anyways. You can choose other laptops but often they don't offer what you want, hardware wise.
Google ups ante and hedges QM computing bet by buying up Martinis lab
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Great liberty cap hunting in the area too! :)
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That was exactly my reading, thank you for the translation.

The 'categoric rejection' was the problem, not the lack of a specific answer.
Yes, I think it's clear that this is not charity, but spending <=$100,000 on EXTREMELY well-targeted advertising.
There's another thing that's important about company names, and more generally any product or software name. It has to be google-able. The amount of frustration that come from trying to find a generic software name is awful. E.g. Go, finding anything about go is awful until you start using golang.
This one is similar in that it strips out all JavaScript, CSS, and attributes, essentially stripping down pages into simple documents.
It is still in constant use as the official language of the Vatican.

They keep having to invent new Latin words and phrases so they can discuss things like hotpants, which are brevíssimae bracae femíneae apparently.

Have a look here - http://usvsth3m.com/post/95991771713/hotpants-flirt-and-othe...

The cashpoint with Latin in comic-sans is awesome.

edit - translating from the latin, comic-sans is a pretty accurate font name.
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"Prefer" or don't really have a choice?

https://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/395614967467999232
You realize that you are writing in a news site hosted by a startup accelerator, right ?

I can´t think of many other places where it would be more relevant.
This is awesome, now AWS will offer $150,000 to use theirs with no accelerator requirement.
Doom only used sprites from a limited number of angles.

Here's the entire cacodemon spritesheet http://doomfansite.synthasite.com/resources/Cacodemonsheet.g...
Yep, I solved several Math and Physics problems for school (I used to get into competitions), understood a martials arts technique (it was taught to us but nobody could make it work. In my dream I fought someone but I saw everything upside down, and there I figured the technique was very similar to other one we already knew, but upside down), and solved many programming problems I had when I started learning that.

I also feel like my naps defragment my brain even when I'm not 100% unconscious. I go through things that happened that morning or the day before and kind of classify everything. Sometimes I understand how the people I interacted with felt. Things that in the moment they occurred I couldn't appreciate. Like when you consciously try to think things from the other person's perspective, but dreaming sometimes forces me to do that.
This really speaks to Amazon's dominance in the space. Over the past year I've been approach by Google reps with increasingly insane offers of free hosting. This move seems to be a whole new level.

I still wonder "is it worth not doing something on Amazon?" $100k is a lot of money, but how much will most startups spend on hosting in the first year anyway? Unless you're specifically focused on infrastructure, in which case you probably won't choose your provider (i.e. the key partner in your business) based on free credit.
They actually made 3D models of the enemies by hand, and took pictures of them from each angle

http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/0/2807/1702120-...
AWS customers with high month-over-month revenue & traffic growth and less than 10 employees?

Seems a little late to lure them into the Google Platform.
"Microsoft: stands for "microprocessor software". Still the dominant software vendor for descendants of the original microprocessor. Never made commercially successful hardware."

Do you not count the xbox 360?
Data shows JavaScript and Java are the top languages for mobile app developers
There are a decent amount of developers making games in the Goldeneye-era style. Though most are more creative takes on the genre than clones of retro games (ex: Superhot, Screencheat).
Just to reinforce this... (I am a Google Cloud Platform engineer)

Google's internal data, which is mined (and audited), and the Cloud datacenters/data, are hosted entirely separately (though that's as much to protect us from you as you from us).

We do not do anything with data stored by cloud platform customers.
Seems pretty obvious considering words spoken to a sleeping person can be incorporated into their dream - and the only way to do that is through classification
Initially, Bezos wanted a name for his company that began with an "A" for alphabetic list purpose.
You might find Whited00r useful for older iOS devices. For me it made an old 3GS into a snappy prepaid loaner phone for guests visiting from out of country.
> ...not able to get the complex behavior by selecting only the fittest to survive. Instead, he ended up having to kill off the least fit of the species and leave the rest to proliferate and develop interdependencies.

How is "selecting only the fittest to survive" aka killing the least fit different from "kill off the least fit of the species" aka selecting only the fittest to survive they sound like exactly the same thing thing.
4 main data file types I work with daily

TDMS, MDF4, MDF4, r64 are not listed.
Sounds like 150k in free bitcoins to whomever wants to jump on that deal, to me.
I didn´t say that Sergio´s article was more balanced. I said that reading both articles will let you form a more balanced view of the whole issue.

Note that I am with Catalonians when they ask for more money from the central goverment; they deserve it. It is this independentism thing that I find artificial and terribly unfair with the rest of the country.
That is so cool. I use Visual Studio every day, and I can't believe I haven't seen this before!
How many startups are going to build on Google's Cloud Platform, then after a year port everything to AWS, particularly if Google can prove that they're cheaper or at least cost-competitive with similar feature set.

It's hardly lock-in if the reason for not leaving is "we're cheaper than the competition". That's just having a better offer.
Or the intellimouse.
My friend (who completed a computational biology PhD but was dismayed by the small likelyhood of being able to do meaningful science and left to do a ML based startup) has taken the route of becoming independently wealthy himself and then privately fund researchers he personally knows with his own wealth.

One way to circumvent a broken system I guess.
The number of people who are in some way part of YC here are far outnumbered by those of us just reading the site, so, yeah, most of us are not really going to be directly affected by this.
I think OP is referencing 0x10c, not this Doom game.
Thanks for the Empire Flippers shout, Brian. Glad to hear you dig the show.
> There's still nobody around who can do a product release like Apple.

But they might just reusing old fame. another one or two non-revolutionary product releases and , and their launches might become like everyone else's.
I assume they rotoscoped over those photos because the images are definitely look hand-edited. Blizzard went similar for Starcraft and Diablo - start with 3D model renderings and then hand-paint over them to get the art pixel-perfect.
Doom has vertical aiming, but it's automatic. There are doom engine based games which relax this limitation and let you actually look up and down, fly, even jump. It doesn't actually make things much more complicated. See heretic & hexen.
BlackBerry based a big part of their business on doing so.
It's not money, it's credits.
Or, you know, Europe doesn't like huge behemoth mono/oligopolies as much.

There are better and more accurate metrics to compare economies.

E.g both (EU and US) have a GDP of about 16 trillion USD, despite EU also including lots of quite poor ex-socialist countries, and not being a same-language homegenous market.

Heck, EU is 26+ countries each with far more autonomy and diversity than state have between them, something which also keeps cross-EU big companies smaller.

Obvious misinformed snark is obvious.
You're not giving him any chances. That's not in your power. He's doing things that you can choose to pay attention to or not. If not, he'll keep doing those things.
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Let’s Stop Talking About the “Work-Life Balance”
So, launder the information through a third party like Primary Global Research.