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> Google Code was, by contrast, always ugly, hard to navigate, and hard to understand.

Er, do you remember 2006? Google Code was a breath of fresh air, and a huge huge improvement over what was available at Sourceforge. This isn't damning with faint praise either, it really was clean and fast and easy to use as a developer and user. It didn't do everything you wanted it to, but it did what it did so much better than basically anything else at the time.

The problem was that its interface was never given any attention, and the web is a very different place than it was in 2006, and then things you wished it did back then you still wish it would do now. Its not surprising at all that it now feels clunky and slow. Online interfaces for code hosting is not a solved problem yet, so while it would have guaranteed nothing, it's certainly necessary for a code hosting site's continued success that someone is actually continually working on improving it.
Yeah, I've read the first half of Pyramids half a dozen times ;)
Honestly, I think he was right. Google has a really bad image problem right now where lots of people don't want to get involved with their projects because Google will most likely kill the project just like Reader and Glass.

See my couple of wasted Google Glass devices that will never see an Android update again. Do you think I'll ever buy a Google Android product after they wasted $3k of mine? Do you think I'll buy any more of their tech device blunders like cars or thermostats or other devices? Likely not. It's well established they'll just drop them soon after release anyway.

They are getting the same reputation for software services. There are lots of startups that would have been happy with Reader's usage numbers besides, so they aren't even making decisions everyone would agree are good kills.

With my Android apps, any time someone sends me a bug report or a complaint, I refund them immediately and thank them for the feedback. Does this make me the most money? Hell no. But I have a lot of friendly users who email me constantly with improvements and who aren't mad I'm ripping them off or screwing them over. That's worth a lot too. Google is saving money to screw over users with this Google Code decision and it's definitely not one I agree with.
Reverse Engineering Star Rider and Freedom Fighter
> I expect an innovator to move on from failures

That's great if you are an investor or employee, but if you are a user it kind of sucks.

Google just needs to be up front about it (and maybe they are): We make no commitment to supporting this application or maintaining it as is. We might make radical changes, we might shut it down. If we do shut it down, we'll warn you at least 9 months ahead of time.

I'm not going to invest much in those applications, but others might.
Trying out ACE as simple touch display editor
“Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” - Terry Pratchett

RIP, thank you for the perspective.
Having seen a video[1] of a drone armed with a paintball pistol (and its precision), I would say that it will be much sooner than expected. Despite the fact that I'll probably be put on a watch-list for saying this, it would be the perfect crime. There would be no weapon left at the scene (provided the drone returns to its base), as well as no DNA samples. Anyone who could rig and pilot such a drone would probably be smart enough to leave minimal evidence related to motives, purchases, etc.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jplh7uatr-E&t=138
I wouldn't be surprised if The Archive Team stepped in to backup everything that's left standing. That's sort of their MO.
Is your degree worth it? It depends what you study, not where
There's also a heavily modified backpack that carries a StreetView camera.

https://www.google.com/maps/about/partners/streetview/trekke...
It seems like high powered devices are becoming almost as cheap as low power devices, almost purely as an artifact of the rise in mobile sales. So, to your point, the thought process of which microcontroller/microprocessor to pick lies almost solely in whether or not it's connected to wall power.
I had the fortune of taking 18.06 (Linear Algebra) from Gilbert Strang around the time of this essay. And like other commenters, I will agree that he was a very good teacher. I could tell that he held a great emotional attachment to matrices; he'd often anthropomorphize them with genders and refer to them as "little guys".
+1 for Mort. It is fantastic. And it is about death, so it's highly, should I dare say, appropriate for the occasion.

The Wee Free Men and Dodger are also nice to read. They focus a bit less on humour, being geared a little more towards children. Don't expect to laugh all the time. But the settings of these stories are magical.
He made a cold, rational decision to kill someone. Just because that person wasn't real doesn't change the decision that he made.

I can see the entrapment argument as a reason not to charge him for a crime here, but it's absolutely a reason to personally judge his character.
The "answers" page only has questions...
Url changed from http://transition.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2015... via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9191125.
The first celebrity death that hit me hard. I've read all fourty Discworld novels, some of them 4 or 5 times. His books taught me to approach the world with a twinkle in my eye and a smile quick to come out -- a good change from the cynicism of my teens.

So many memories... he wrote amazing characters.

Dorfl, a Golem who figured out how to program himself (via writing his own scrolls to feed into his head). His fireproof nature made him a great firefighter and a constant nuisance on the street of small gods since he'd engage in rational debates and was not deterred by the prospect of hell -- the first fireproof athiest.

Death quipping to his grandaughter, Susan, when asked why people taught kids to believe in lies like the tooth fairy: SO THEY'LL BELIEVE IN THE BIGGER LIES AS ADULTS, LIKE JUSTICE AND EQUALITY.

I could go on forever, but I'll leave with one last quote from Death:

THERE IS NO JUSTICE, THERE IS JUST US
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9191007.
The builders I know have pretty relaxed lives. They were immigrants and never worked for anyone. Just started buying lots and building new houses with their own money + bank loans.

I actually seek jobs that involved putting out fires. I work best on my feet, thinking quickly, with lots of varied stimuli. I'm getting sick of doing slow office-based stuff, I spiral downwards when I have too much time to think.

Of course, it's stressful putting up all that money and then things out of your control can tank (economy). That's business, though.
Amazon's Amazing Deal: A Free FireTV Stick?
The actual rules are in the 8 page appendix A which starts on page 283 of the PDF.
Concerns with Apple
That's why "reasonable practice" is there.

FCC has the ability to interpret what reasonable is.
That's what concerns me about the rules. It's kind of a bait and switch. First they say that it isn't permissible to block "lawful content", which is actually quite reasonable because it's hard to complain about something that blocks exclusively unlawful content. But then we get this insanity from the quoted portion above:

"Nothing in this part prohibits reasonable efforts by a provider of broadband Internet access service to address copyright infringement or other unlawful activity."

Which is a total inversion of the principle. Instead of allowing blocking only when you're sure it's only blocking unlawful content, it's purporting to allow blocking of unspecified amounts of entirely lawful content as long as it's part of "reasonable" (whatever that means) efforts to address unlawful activity. It's a loophole you could fit a carrier battle group through.
There was never any harm done to anybody.

Ross Ulbricht believed harm had come to the people he'd ordered gangland executions against.

There were plenty of opportunity to come forwards and say: "Hey, I've done an incredibly bad act; here's everything I know about the people I talked to."

Obviously, doing so wouldn't end well for him; it would show some moral standing, however.

The only person responsible for these choices is Ross Ulbricht.
> That stunned me, but what stunned me more was when I found out Richard Bates did most of the technical work.

'Most' is a gross exaggeration. Bates helped troubleshoot a few problems by fielding some questions. The trial transcripts and exhibits don't show he wrote any, much less 'most', of the SR1-related code; he had so little contribution that he had to be told what the project was by Ross.

Other people like 'Variety Jones' or especially the hired coder 'Smedley' contributed way more. (They just managed to avoid their real names coming up, as far as we know, and avoided lying to federal agents.)
In the article: "Bizarrely, the technology was less efficient than the Taliban’s."

From BB comments: "Actually people are shocked because this isn't what war has always looked like. Never has so little personal risk on the part of the invaders been accepted for the privilege of killing people in another country."
Thanks! (Submitted title was "FFC publishes full Net Neutrality rules".)
Doesn't matter. The condition will short-circuit at murder:)
The team at the Bangkok office of Google were ready for the Streetview car
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(Hogfather)
Almost all of the EU countries have citizenship by investment. Almost all of the other developed countries have this too. It's just the numbers might be larger and there is a bit more of a waiting period as you go from permanent residency to citizenship.

If your a very wealthy person where playing these border hopping games can save you taxes, then the citizenship stuff doesn't really matter unless your american. You could do with with a resident visa/permit and then just immigrate to the country normally. You just have to be non-resident in your high tax country of origin.
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I gotta be frank here:
If you expect anyone in the tech world, Google or otherwise, to support a non-paid product past the point it's obviously declining in user base (IE obvious to not just internal users, but to external ones), for more than a few years, you are just not going to use anyone's products ;)

Google code is mostly irrelevant to this calculus, because it was not ever meant to make money for anyone, but i think you are a little harsh here.

Don't get me wrong, as a user, I would love to have the stuff i want to use supported forever. But it's unrealistic.
Algorithmia Site Mapper
or he would just have to think which of the people he once knew in college has had a sex change.
They did, but they also were frustrated beyond sanity at what OpenSSL was doing like adding a wrapper around malloc & free and that was new code not old legacy cruft that can be excused. It also taught us all an important lesson in rage commits when Theo screwed up one of them :-P
The book explains that one company was running their own fiber optic cable between Chicago and New York to shave a handful of milliseconds off the latency. HFT firms also built their trading desks as close as possible to where the fiber terminated in New Jersey. This isn't the speed of your mom's google query, they were literally running up against latency caused by the speed that light travels down a cable.
This is a bit of an aside, but this line really stung:

>> Ross was a techie, but he didn't act like one. He seemed eloquent, optimistic, down-to-earth.

One of the main reasons I got into software development in the 90's was the fact that software engineers were (largely) eloquent, optimistic, and down-to-earth.

It's sad that a vocal minority has sullied the image of an entire industry.
Agreed. We have seen zero regulatory or legislative proposals to limit high frequency trading. Flash Boys didn't shake Wall Street to its core. It didn't even register as a tremor.

Arguably (like Michael Lewis' other book, Liar's Poker) it made high frequency trading look sexy, and therefore more attractive.
Chrome 42 WebRTC Release Notes
I wish that it did. The man pages really are supposed to be the manual.
HFT is not bad. Technology is democratized now. The best trading tech is available to consumers. The professional edge lies in their unlimited, low-cost leverage not in their technology. As a consumer, HFT is not my competition it is my order facilitator. A huge share of equity trades get their price IMPROVED by the market makers in order to capture the trade flow.

I love Michael Lewis. The Big Short was a very enjoyable read. I've read all of his stuff. I've run into the guy at the grocery store. But Flash Boys was just silly. Even if you believe it, the guy getting "disrupted" was not a retail trader but a broker crying that HFT was making it hard for him to dump orders on the market in 10,000 share lots.

Edit:
I won't respond to every critic, I respect your views but I've given it thought and have reached a different conclusion. You can quantify that orders are filled today more quickly, at better prices, with far lower commissions, and we have tighter bid-ask spreads, more penny-wide markets than ever before, and an explosion of ETFs that give retail traders access to something that they otherwise would need a futures contract ($100k in notional value) to trade. And of course in the world of algorithmic trading, there is technology not available to consumers. But a consumer today can have a setup at home that is as sophisticated as a professional trader's setup. That never used to be the case. But the software is commoditized now. The trading platforms available to consumers, like Thinkorswim and Interactive Brokers, are top-shelf.
This part sounds neat

> Section 254: Promoting Universal Broadband. Section 254 promotes the deployment and availability of communications networks to all Americans, including rural and low-income Americans—furthering our goals of more and better broadband.

The FCC has been running pilots related to this under the existing Lifeline program, but nothing has materialized yet. Seems they're taking seriously the U.N. report that regarded Internet access as a basic human right.

http://www.fcc.gov/encyclopedia/low-income-broadband-pilot-p...
I read the book a few weeks ago, and I was somewhat disappointed.

He focusses way too much on the IEX gang, and in a way that is puts the team members on a pedestal. Something about it made it sound like he spent a lot of time with this gang and not so much with others. I'm sure they're smart guys, but I just don't like the style and it seemed overdone to me. This is having worked in finance for 12 years and met loads of smart people with credentials and interesting stories.

Anyway, aside from the style I thought there was a lack of real investigation.

There was one interesting strategy mentioned, the BATS front-run. Superficially, it sounds like it might work. You see a trade on BATS, you pull and reverse. Okay. But what exactly is wrong with that? There's a number of market makers who collectively make the market. A big fish comes in, scares away the minnows. Is that wrong? If there's a big buyer, shouldn't the price be higher? That discussion didn't seem to be there.

Another interesting story is the Spread Networks line. Now, what exactly is being arbed between Chicago and New York? The S&P Future vs ETFs in NYC? Vs the basket? Can that really support a dozen or so firms paying tens of millions each? Maybe it can, let us see the data. A recent conversation with an HFT friend did not reveal the answer. And what happened when the microwave towers came in? Is the line useless now? At the end, I wasn't satisfied I knew WHY the speed was necessary. All I can think of is that there's some very obvious trade that can't lose money if you're the fastest. What is it, and why is it a no-brainer? Is is anything untoward happening?

And then there was the funny order types. How about giving us a concrete example? Use such-and-such an order, cause the market to cross, end up at the front of the queue, profit. There was some mention of the multitude of order types, but the case isn't made until you bring something concrete. Someone like Nanex might have data showing these shenanigans. I picked up another book by Tabb, who was mentioned, that has some more detail.
While true that no one uses Google Code. Every now and then, I bump into some obscure but a little useful project being hosted on Google Code. Maybe, makers of those projects have grown out of them and don't wish to put any more effort but still, there is a bit of value, I am able to derive from them.

What will happen, if those projects are not migrated because their developers have simply forgotten about them?
I hated how Facebook held messages "hostage" until you agreed to install and download their separate Messenger client.
>The question is, do you have a better plan? Because the guys at the Pentagon would really like to hear it.

Plan:

1: stop.

2: give civilians money directly instead of buying bombs.

3: Profit.
Most websites rely on search engine traffic. It's how most people access websites these days - type "hacker news" into Google/Bing/Yahoo and click on the top link.

Especially if they haven't been there before.
excellent point and a reason why, despite my libertarian leanings, i am happy to see regulation here.
Responsible Vacation Policy
Well no not exactly. Yes, a final rejection was issued by the patent office on 2/24/15, and the applicant still has up to 6 months to respond to the final rejection or to file an appeal. With respect to the request for refund, the applicant requested a refund of extension fees and excess claim fees. The refund for extension fees was granted but the refund for excess claim fees was denied. None of this has anything to do with the merits of the patent application itself.

To check on the status of this patent application, go to http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair, enter the captcha, and then enter the patent application number (13/272,825). Select the Image File Wrapper tab to view the various documents relating to the prosecution of the patent application.
Why incentivized customer development is a bad idea
Definitely agreed. Dont be an arse, be polite, move on and upwords. You never know when you might need to cross a bridge you just burned down!
I wondered about the emulated symlinks here, though. NTFS supports symlinks just fine or maybe I'm not aware of a crucial difference in how they work in NTFS and Linux filesystems.
Eyeing on China Mobile Game Market? Get Ready
It won't be taxes, it will be the ISP's that raise rates.
> Google just needs to be up front about it (and maybe they are)

Nobody launches a new product and guarantees "If this doesn't work out, we'll keep it around indefinitely on life support". You don't start a new effort expecting failure. If it doesn't end up working out, it'll be closed down. Google's failures are just a lot more public than whatever side business many of us may take a stab at.

This isn't unique to Google. Failures need to be learned from and culled. We as a small business/startup oriented crowd should understand that more than most. I've had to kill off more projects than I'd like to admit because I didn't want to spend the time/money on what I perceived to be failures.

Not that failure is bad. Like Google, I've learned a ton from my unsuccessful projects.
US Equity markets. Where do we stand
I think taking less calculus and more linear algebra is a mistake.

There is a really good book in two volumes that I feel shows how methods of linear algebra can be extended using calculus to solve a wide range of problems: A Course in Mathematics for Students of Physics:

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2685577-a-course-in-mathe...

Volume 2 is more important. It starts demonstrating how methods of Linear Algebra can be used to solve circuit problem, then generalizes this to higher dimensions and from discrete to continuous spaces using the exterior derivative. Seeing this demonstrated gave me a much clearer, more intuitive understanding for both calculus and linear algebra.
Chromium is already on Github. https://github.com/chromium
I guess they will be using their own tool to migrate issues: IssueExporterTool

"How to export Google Code issue tracker data to other services"
https://code.google.com/p/support-tools/wiki/IssueExporterTo...
At least for Android bug reports, Google mostly ignores them and closes them all as obsolete every release even though they weren't fixed. So I don't think they'll have any problem ditching Chromium bug reports. I've heard they have an internal bug tracker anyway, so the public ones like b.android.com are just jokes on people who don't know any better.
The incubator could avoid profitability equally well by not charging startups at all. So capital structure and tax incentives are irrelevant in that sense, leaving the question of why startups are being charged more than 8000 USD EACH MONTH in fees and whether they are getting a good deal.

I personally consider it deceptive for any incubator to ask a participant to pay for things the incubator positions as free support (i.e. use of "our" office space). And it is perfectly valid to call out any business as predatory when its behavior seems purposefully structured to confuse customers about how much they are paying and what they get for it.
Docker Acquires Kitematic,a Container Management UI for Mac OS
TRWTF is that there is a bounty for a Traveling Salesman algorithm :)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that unlawful activity existed outside of the law, anyway.

Meaning, if (for example) I sell you heroin, you can't sue me in small claims court saying that I cut it with baby laxatives and therefore you demand your money back.

If that's how things work, then if Comcast were to block a child porn site, the child porn site couldn't take Comcast to court over it and expect to win. Regardless of any net neutrality laws.

http://definitions.uslegal.com/c/clean-hands-doctrine/
To be fair, that's been the stereotype for quite a while. Remember Revenge of the Nerds movies?
> Unfortunately, if you want a slim laptop Ethernet will have to go

Am I the only one who still remembers PCMCIA cards (thinner than most slim laptops) with Ethernet ports?

Here, an example from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:XJACK_network_card_extend...
cmd.exe is _not_ the console subsystem. It's just another program running in it. If you run bash, there's no cmd to be found anywhere. Just as your shell is not your terminal emulator the same holds true on Windows.
Beyond Benchmarking with Commissar, a Use Case Performance Tool for Redis
You can't guarantee that code path never gets executed. For a good historical example, Windows NT4 also came with inbuilt OS/2 and POSIX subsystems that were never used by users, but typically used by people on the internet to crack boxes.
SignalFx, a SaaS to Monitor Apps at Any Scale
"Oppressively colossal"? :)
https://xkcd.com/1294/
Explorer does too when not at command-line.
> Someone with the author's deep insight into almost everything should have been able to work out that you don't need to contact JKR to hire an editor.

You need to contact JKR to know what to tell the editor (is she offended by the many criticisms of canon? the occasional political comments eg on immigration? the notorious Draco rape bit? and so on); bonus points if the editor is trusted and can help make the deal work.
This simple hack will grow your revenue 34%–share your financials
Also came up this idea two nights ago before falling asleep, and two days later someone did it! Looking forward to see how it evolves.
I care, how much depends on the price and the cost, but video is the entire point of 99% of porn (audio porn is supposed to be hot and literotica has a lot of porn, including things even the Japanese haven't figured out).
I actually have two of those, but no 3G makes it far from being modern :)
Glad to hear it. Every time I find a promising library and it's on Google code I groan a little.