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"Now don't get me wrong, Linux does great things but it's never worked out of the box well enough as a desktop. There's always something to tinker with, some driver to compile, some knob to fiddle with."

Been using Linux (Ubuntu LTS releases) as my everyday desktop and laptop OS since around 2007/8. I had issues at first with drivers, especially with wifi and graphics cards.

But lately (approx since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS), stuff just works, no need to manually install or compile anything, no need to tweak anything unless I want to. Of course you can find hardware that doesn't work on Linux, but that's just a matter of a bit of googling before buying a laptop/desktop.

I've found that lately, it seems like Ubuntu requires less fiddling than osx or windows, especially with printers & scanners, where I just plug it in and it works (or it auto detects if it's on a network). But colleagues on windows or osx have to download drivers, usually filled with crapware (i.e. "YOU ARE OUT IF INK, BUY IT HERE" messages, unless they're careful to download the barebone drivers instead of the full driver pack).
Apples and oranges. A "coerced confession" places you under duress, a plea bargain does no such thing.
Is this different from Ubuntu JuJu?

https://juju.ubuntu.com/
No idea. I've always felt that he's made himself seem important to the success of others.

I personally don't like him or his self-importance but I do wish him best in recovery.
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Hey, thanks a lot for the comment.
I agree on your points. I would probably not double the price or anything. But at one or two euros more, I would have probably sold the same amount.

Regarding capturing non-conversions, you're right: it's probably more tricky than it seems.
Oh and thanks for purchasing and recommending it!
So do you enjoy frequently posting on this computer criminal news website? How would you feel if that fact were to be disseminated in the media, were you of sufficient importance for someone to do so?

Usage is important.
I also use Killer Contract, slightly tweaked of course. It's simple, understandable and gives me some leverage when clients don't pay, which happens a lot more often that i would like.
If this isn't lies, and you live in a country with IP laws, it's easy:

Step 1. Validate your claim is legit; documentation and everything goes a long way. Archive.org is actionable in court (for fun, I put up an article on how I can invalidate several Microsoft patents, due to my prior art from 2000 - the patent was in 2008).

Step 2. Get in touch with your own lawyers, after getting some advice on RocketLawyer or similar. To whit, I could not get a lawyer to take my case last year, despite prior case rules in California, referral from a District Attorney AND a victory in California court through mediation, with more charges still pending against the startup.

Step 3. Assuming even like me, you have legal precedent, history and proof - you need funding. Apparently, as I have found, nobody gives a !@#$@$ in the United States of America about actual crime. I've got a ton of documentation, the only thing I have yet to do is literally CALL the police, and ask, point blank, "Why is that man not in jail?"

Step 4. Now that you how hard this uphill battle is guaranteed to be, if you have the proof, if you have the lawyer friends, finally - do you have the money? Can you get it? If that's true on both, review your stomach, because it'll be a long, hard battle. Family, friends and business associates have all "Disowned me," for various reasons, even though I was the victim. Unreal, but true. See Gamergate as well - the victim loses in the modern USA, at least. Other countries, like Maldives, Costa Rica - the victim also loses.

Step 5. Prepare to lose your professional reputation, even if you win in mediation. I'd love to say that if you win in court, like Michael Jackson before you, that somehow, people realize it wasn't you who did wrong. However, sadly, many people still believe he's a pedophile, many people don't believe I was robbed and fired while my boss was in Hawaii, my step-dad in hospital with 10% chance to live.

Sorry, bro. If you want a referral to awesome lawyers, I'm happy to help and do whatever it takes to help somebody. I care. I just wish other people would, too.
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I did mean that, yes.

I would not be afraid to return if I was forbidden to speak Spanish.
OpenBSD doesn't presume to know how you'll use it. That said, it's understandable to be surprised when things 'just work' with very little configuration.
I'm really impressed with this tooling. Effectively Resharper for C++. There's a huge market opportunity for C++ tooling.
or maybe, just maybe its all about PERFORMANCE.

Very recently computers got to the point where we can afford to write slow code, this is the reason higher level people are coming out of the woodwork.
IMHO sanctions are never better than anything and are unfair by definition. You can compare them to antibiotic - destroying both good ones and bad ones.

Majority of people do not want any sanctions, no matter what side they are on. It's the government and politicians that want it, not the people.
Anybody knows a good alternative to this that runs without trouble on Ubuntu and Arch 64 bit Linux machines? Nothing in AUR and I do not feel like hunting for PPA right now.

Meanwhile it would be great if Google could provide a repository with a linux version that runs flawlessly.

Thanks!
iPad is the first computing device in history that essentially takes away any user capability to tinker with its machine, forbids installing any software that Apple decides it shouldn't be running on it, including basic things like alternative browsers (as you know, Chrome on iOS is only a reskin of the included WebKit) or installing a previous OSes (which means my one year old iPad 3 became a slow but beautiful paperweight after updating to iOS 7), you can't develop apps for it without paying Apple 100€/year (even if you don't plan to distribute them), etc. But if you think that's okay because that means less technical support for friends, go ahead.
Haven't looked at EU law in a year or two, but europa and eulex used to provide useful and simple summaries of both legislation and court of justice caselaw.
Apple has done the same. It's not their call, they have to follow Government rules.
Meh.. What else can you expect. CCP's very existence depends on keeping its citizens brainwashed.
I need to transfer data between the machines because I want to be able to store different type of data: it's not just "journal" in the normal sense of the word, I plan to store things that pertain to my life (ie more media type than just text, and also not always info in the form of text that I can just type in).

At the very least, the need for backup will require a data transfer between machine.
The issue is with translating "user units" to real world units. Up until now SVG is tricky as a CNC file format because of this little detail. For Inkscape you had to translate user units/px based on the assumption of 90dpi.

Not a big deal if you only use Inkscape. The real mess starts when going between different authoring apps. Then pretty soon a 100mm line in Inkscape turns into something longer or shorter. This is when you revert back to DXF, the bastard of all file formats.

I don't see how the viewBox's real world units can solve this. I think the geometries need to actually use real world units (which the SVG standard supports).
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I thought it was common knowledge that their servers were in a particular datacenter underground.
You basically code on the browser, which is not meant to be an IDE of your favorite programing language, you have to blame HTML, Web, Javascript, Web Browsers, Internet, your ISP, country, policies, cables, satelite all together, a lot of open source tools used by hackerrank for syntax highlighting, auto-completion etc.

Just because you didn't go through, you recommend whoever cleared not to join the prospective employer?

I see hackerrank and other similar sites are improving overtime, along with technologies & eco-system. You should understand that you might be programming 10000 miles away from the compiler.
All of them are very common mistakes that when avoided can have a significant impact on the ROI. Even if it is just a side project app you should take promotion and marketing as part of the development of your app.

What worked wonders for some friends who launched a small pet project recently was to get very specialized and local blogs to publish a review of their app for the launch date. It's an easy way to reach an audience of potential early adopters.
Please see my comment above about this. Thanks!
I wish the same thing could be said for demonoid. I have yet to find a replacement for demonoid let alone a replacement that is a lot better.
"The past few months have been bumpy for tech pundit Robert Scoble. They have included a confession about being sexually abused as a teenager; a diagnosis of cancer; a decision to go to Alcoholics Anonymous; a new best friend who had him wearing a "Hustler" cap (see above) and making videos about "Hustle University"..."

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He released the IP under an open source license.

Litigating this is both foolhardy and an uphill battle. Even if he can prove that they weren't giving proper credit, it's extremely hard to prove damages when there is an open source license.
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Depending on your level of luxury, you can rent for 300-2k per month.

I stayed in this exact place: https://surfproperties.wordpress.com/house-for-rent-in-playa...

The owners live a few steps away in their own home. The wife cleans your place once per week. The man will taxi you around as-needed (he charges normal rates, which are pretty high there--gas is expensive). They are FANTASTIC people, they made my stay much better than it might have been.

There's a wall around the property and a gate that gets locked at night, but in all honesty, I've never felt safer anywhere in my life than I did in Playa Grande--wall or no wall.

Edit: I paid $550/month for that place in the off-season. The prices listed seem a little high, they were going to charge me $600/month in season (US winter is their season, US summer is their winter, and it's pretty rainy).
The question of whether LDA as a method "understands" anything could though.
How worried should I be that Google will discontinue Google Earth? It hasn't been updated in a long time, Google prefers web apps, and now this. I prefer native apps, and Google maps can't do everything Earth can do.
The Apache 2 license has attribution clauses.
It also costs time. This Russian cracker will plead out.
I already have a journal/note (digital) that I used to store relevant information about work, idea etc. The problem is that I want to start writing more personal note down (similar to this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918935) :-).
Sometimes it just takes many tries to get it right. One should not be afraid to rewrite old code until it is right.

The last three Perl codebases I have worked with were overly complicated when I started and had major sections that only a few people had the domain knowledge to touch. With one of those, I became the domain knowledge expert (financial accounting). But the other two I just haven't had time to do that. For example, I am not a quantitative finance guy and I would have to learn that field (and the other is even more specialized).

But what I have learned to do is be guided by a few principles:

1. I much prefer to work with people smarter than me.

2. I try to be good at the little things everyone else ignores ("is this really the right way to handle exceptions?" "Are these functions really written with testability in mind?").

A big problem of course is that codebases don't just fall from the sky, nice and sleek. They are built up over time and entropy within them slowly grows. What starts out as simple get tweaked and made a little more complicated, then again and again until it is a monster you can hardly touch safely.

Simple, beautiful code is darned hard to write and I haven't yet met anyone who succeeds at that all the time (I know I don't). But one can hope with feedback from outside eyes, and a willingness to watch and rewrite over time, that it may eventually get there.
Lets give the guy a break. He's helped a lot of folks, entrepreneurs and others too. Revealing out his own demons and suffering is part of his own therapy so it looks, and let us wish him a solid and prompt recovery and a great time with his family.
Find someone to go to these events with, who is more talkative than you. Ask the people you know to introduce you to someone they know, who would also like to network with the same types of business people. Do it together.
So what does he do? Is his skill just speaking? Must be nice. I guess he has a degree in communication or writing.
Proving damages, with open source on the backs of funding, is relatively easy for an attorney with startup experienc, knows how much it costs to build a brand + reputation, etc. Then you can put together a financial model on, "Opportunity cost," re-coup it in a civil case, on top of and after the criminal case is finished. A good law firm will file both separately.

Nice, though, for crapping on his chances. I love the positive thinking.
I think this is the beginning of a pattern. I was once a die hard techie too, addicted to all the new gadgets, spending 10+ hours out of the day in the Valley in front of 5 glowing monitors - but these apps and devices run the same patterns in our brain as drugs and alcohol. Their a vice. I cold turkey dropped drugs, social networks, my smartphone, and more of my gadgets about 9 months ago. Never been happier.

"The problems plain to see, too much technology. Machines to save our lives, machines dehumanize"
I've beat Link's Awakening several times, and the ending "cinematic" always brought a tear to my eye.
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I work for a small web dev startup in Boulder, CO. I'm going to post in tomorrow's HN Hiring thread for a JS Dev. If you're interested, shoot me an email (address is in my profile).
>iPad is the first computing device in history that I can suggest to my non-computer-savvy friends and know they will be able to use it, without the software getting screwed up in a few months.

This is really important. Mutability is a key requirement for creation, but also destruction.

What's more, the iPad is a capital P Product, which itself hosts Virtual Products, both of which have tightly constrained mutability. And this, it seems, really resonates with people: bright, shiny, consistently behaving virtual products. Apple wins financially by tightly coupling these virtual products to their physical product, but people win too because now they have, arguably for the first time, truly reliable virtual products.
Agreed. Or "I'll work as much as you do."
Firefox also has the very useful "Restore Previous Session" option under the "History" menu - perfect for when you close your browser by accident (in case of a crash Firefox reopens last tabs by default anyway).

The tabs are also "soft-loaded" meaning that you have to click on them to load the content, so you can find the offending tab and kill it to prevent crash from happening again.
I tried installing OpenBSD 5.6 with XFCE on a Thinkpad X300, and I didn't have any trouble with the hardware I use, or the base system, in fact everything looks well though out and documented in the manpages. (Gnome works too but it feels quite slow even on Linux)

In the end I switched back to Linux when I encountered trouble with applications from the ports, for example libreoffice dumping core everytime you click somewhere in a spreadsheet.
I did write down all the tweaks/configuration that I've done on the system in an ansible script, and my plan is to try again with the next release, and report some bugs if it still fails.
the Internet and technology should be above politics.

- I am not sure about this, sometimes politics threatens the Internet itself. Putin clearly considers the Internet to be "a CIA project" and Russia is heading to its own walled network where you won't need Google technology anyway. Haven't Github and Youtube been blocked in Russia already? Even more, don't be surprised if one day you are arrested for mere fact of using Tor/i2p. So don't blame Google much, it's what Crimeans have chosen themselves: mirage of the "rich" and "mighty" state over freedom and democracy.
While Jobs saw a Smalltalk system during some Xerox PARC visit, the Mac was more influenced by the Xerox Star office system with its GUI, Desktop, Icons, ...

http://www.digibarn.com/collections/systems/xerox-8010/retro...

Compare that with a classical Smalltalk UI:

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/blampson/38-al...

The programming language of the Xerox Star system was 'Mesa'. Which was much more like what Apple used: Clascal, Lisa Pascal, and then Object Pascal, ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_(programming_language)
We'd need much clearer specifics to give good advice, but generally I'd avoid getting aggressive. It's unlikely that you have much (if any) legal claim, so the primary benefit you can get is to build some social capital with their investors.

> How should I respond? Is this common practice?

It is extremely common practice to use open source software in building a company, but most startups will acknowledge they didn't write all the code themselves. That being said, some certainly do gloss over the exact authorship (especially since some business people still don't understand open source).

Also, there's a huge difference between them selling literally your code as their own and them using your code to build a business you hadn't thought of.

Either way, your best bet is to respond diplomatically to the investors. If you play your cards right (don't be aggressive, but do be clear that you wrote the IP), you could easily spin this into:

1) Money for an additional "license" (essentially, money to keep you from harassing them)

2) Investment in your own startup. The fact that people are successfully raising money on software you wrote speaks volumes to your potential market.
I'd suggest the Unquiet Grave (Cyril Connolly) as an older but richer and more creative examination of the issue.

If I took my lead from Palinurus, I'd remark that 'the war of art' demonstrates the cultural penury of our age.

But then Palinurus took that view of himself too.
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Thanks! That's certainly an interesting conclusion.

Unfortunately, I want to make a journal in the vein of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2918935 -- partly a reason why I rejected paper (limit to word, and probably not suitable for the amount of data that is being stored).
> IMHO sanctions are never better than anything and are unfair by definition. You can compare them to antibiotic - destroying both good ones and bad ones.

But antibiotics are better than most other options. That's why we use them.

> Majority of people do not want any sanctions, no matter what side they are on. It's the government and politicians that want it, not the people.

The people do not want war. Sanctions are a way of bringing pressure without threats of violence.
In fiction this method is mostly used to mark places where a more descriptive word is needed. Helps to avoid repetition of vocabulary.

Also even with non-fiction most people have their own version of TK and don't realise it.

I've seen plenty of posts published with <> and ???? still in them.
I got to use Visual Works at the university during 1995, then as you say Java came out and Smalltalk became history.
If it's true, then this is so unfair that I literally wanna scream... Android, Golang, Angular.js, Chromium, are all open-source. Why the hell they are blocking access is beyond me. Are they really forced to do this???
> A "coerced confession" places you under duress, a plea bargain does no such thing.

My understanding was that plea bargains are criticised in the context of being offered as an alternative to fighting the case against a very significantly tougher sentence, so that you might win but you're much worse off if you lose. The criticism is then that there is certainly duress - not literally forcing your hand, but forcing a choice that is unreasonable given the nature of the crimes and (so is the claim) encourages confessions by people that are innocent or even just an overall sentencing distribution that ends up being a bad fit for the crimes.

I could have understood wrong previous discussion of this though, or perhaps the problematic cases are not widespread.
Despite the fact that computer languages are technological constructs, what happens to them is similar to what happens with other human languages. Adoption is more correlated to the usefulness than to any intrinsic characteristic of the language. For example, English is the most used language in the world, despite the fact that it is a bad language in so many senses: hard to spell, hard to speak, ambiguous, etc. Other languages more suited to the task are forgotten -- just take the example of Latin that is now a dead language. So, despite the fact that the C family has shortcomings, this has little to do with its destiny as a way for humans to collaborate in creating software.
Of course it is important. But it is also simply too late. If you wanted to change the way the word hacker is being used you'd need access to a flux capacitor and a DeLorean first, and we all know how that one will end.
What criminal case?

They have every right to use his software. Under the Apache license, they typically don't even have to publicly admit to using it.

Their only fault is likely glossing over the exact details of what code they wrote and what code they licensed, and even that only in private with investors.

I just don't see how there's any sort of case here. They haven't infringed on any IP.