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You have to be careful in the way you use nigger or retard on HN. Calling other people a those will probably result in a comment killed by user flags. Repeated use will result in a shadow ban. Casual use of the word retard (not in the context of mechanisms) might see a few downvotes to poke people into more creative insults.

Most people don't want to use such words and are glad they aren't used in normal conversation. They don't miss cross-burnings; they don't miss similarly violent words.

This is probably a cultural thing. I live in the UK which does not have a free press and which does not have freedom of speech. Most UK citizens find the US position to be extreme. Most UK citizens don't worry about banning Westboro Baptist Church from protesting funerals.

(And, again, this is assuming that Github has actually done something. They might not have; they might be ignoring all reports about the retard word and this is all a troll who faked an email.)
Someone actually got arrested and went to jail in France for an offensive parody of one of the equally offensive Charlie Hebdo covers: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/france-beg... (because it was insensitive to French people rather than Egyptians).
Yes, although by default this is on (Express Setup). Customising the setup allows you to disable it.
These people were saying silly things publicly and they should expect some backlash. Of course any extreme behavior is bad, but I don't know how this is the root of all racism, bigotry, sexism, etc. In this case they are judged by their action, not by their looks/belief.

edit: judged by what they said -> judged by their action
Nope its Sri Lanka.

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We both know that's not what the developer meant. Nice try.
(disclaimer: I wrote that page :) )

Well, there are 2 legal parts that apply here:
- DRM
- software patents.

Software patents for DVDs are almost all over (it's a 20 year old technology). And in Europe, we don't have valid software patents.

On the DRM part, libdvdcss is not DeCSS, it's either finding the right key or brute-forcing to find the right key. In order to play a DVD, you need to "open" the DRM, else you cannot have playback.

In the case of VLC+libdvdcss-bundle, it's usually fine in (sane) juridictions because it's a player, not violating the copyrights holders. On some other, it's illegal.
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> An example of this is Sovereign who bought the rights to a shopping cart.

If anyone wants to google them and can't find anything (like me), that's because the name is Soverain, not Sovereign.
I really don't care about this, why should we expect MS to support their 20 years old software? Back in '95 internet was not that common so it was nice to have such time wasters built into the OS.

On the other hand, including Minecraft would be a really interesting decision.
Doesn't help much apparently, since android is one of the largest software design 'thefts' ever, and the only thing they couldn't include was 'swipe to unlock' and the apple logo.
> Microsoft expects me to buy a separate, full Windows license for each virtual machine I create

That is indeed the case. Otherwise you can buy licenses meant for ISPs and cloud-hosting providers. Your "personal use of multiple VMs" is simply not contemplated. You could probably get by with a MSDN subscription, which gives you some leeway.
I've just understood that you submitted TopChart for the Fellowship. Great idea to post it here on HN ;)
The cognitive dissonance of people downvoting comments when they are complaining about censorship is baffling.

The hypocrisy is weird.
> and funding their operations with money that's forcefully taken from us?

Aren't this claims funny?
How do you know that the majority of users don't care? Did you or anybody else run any surveys or was that thought pulled out of your ass?

I'm hearing this argument a lot on HN, yet it is never accompanied by numbers and because it's always contrary to my experience. Would you say the same thing about Sourceforge? Of course, there's a difference between piggybacking on the work of others to distribute malware and censoring some words, however there's also similarity. GitHub censoring content means they are not a neutral platform for hosting public repositories and they are showing their potential for becoming the next Sourceforge.
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Alright! This is just what I was looking for when I submitted my video to YCF2015: What other applications sounded like.
Just don't give Facebook your real name

As with Linkedin, that's not sufficient. Other people can tell them your name.
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Somebody knows if the proposed library in the article, Alt, with ReactJs makes a full solution (like AngularJs for instance)?
Are you sure about this? I have this kind of license (for Win 8.1) and in the "Win 10 upgrade window" it said that my machine can be upgraded. Although, I have not tried it, yet.
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93.99% is more than "support isn't there yet", in my opinion. Enough for many projects at least.
Obviously if you develop sites with a big IE8/9 audience you should think twice.
"Does facebook actually enforce this?" .... The answer to this question is a loud "yes". The harderst hit groups I've found are transgender folks and occultists. As far as being pagan/occultist, many prefer to keep a seperate account for their religious lives, partially because many live in places where they would be persecuted. In addition, many have a magical name that is part of their chosen religion, that they prefer to be addressed by in such circles.

The result of the real name policy, outside of taking away individual privacy, has been the shutting down of accounts, forcing people to provide identifacation, phone numbers, etc, to prove you are you, and insisting that the name matches the legal name. Some people never really seem to be able to unlock the original account (or don't want to give facebook ID)
This may be true but I don't think the pupil distance is a required part of the prescription. This measurement is often made at the glasses shop. Since it doesn't require any special knowledge or equipment to make the measurement I don't think it is a big deal.
> it's about using a word that causes harm

Words do not cause harm. It's a slippery slope to total censorship and thought policing to think otherwise.
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They did – publicly, at least. We'll see what they argue in court.
In that case, you will probably need additional budget for a sysadmin to keep it up to date.
Google's balloons to provide Sri Lanka with high-speed internet
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This reads like a spec for a startup opportunity. It's so clear to any one of us what the data model needs to look like and how to make search work. The only real issue is the human labor needed to do the data entry, and the licensing.

The market is huge though. Whoever steps up and attacks this with VC will do quite nicely.

I wouldn't be surprised to see a startup launched from this article in the next YC round.
I would say that people are too quick to jump on the new trend and are not evaluating what they actually need. In my company we are using PouchDB/CouchDb because of the exceptionally good sync engine, we have around 20 nodes offline at least 50% of the time, no SQL database could compete with PouchDB/CouchDb for this non-standard usecase, people should choose their DB according to what they need.
Only read and answer emails a couple of times during the day. For the rest of the day keep your email client closed and notifications off.

You can even add a little notice in your email signature that this is how you operate.
Sounds like something related to Sidewalk Labs[1]?

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dan-doctoroff-and-go...
I think issues/wiki can be exported, no?
Paul Ohm's work on de-anonymization missing?
Do you have a CS or other engineering degree? I'm going back for my masters in Robotics after 5 years in making browsers do things.
I think people don't know that Windows Phone 8's follow up is also called Windows 10.
If you want to get serious/make a career of it, there's no getting around the math. Even an embedded controls engineer needs to understand signals and timing.
Jesse's fuzzers are wonderful. When Mozilla developers make a big change to SpiderMonkey they'll often ask the QA folks to run the change through jsfunfuzz for a few hours, and very often it'll uncover real bugs.
If I want to migrate to any of platforms, how difficult is it to get everything of of github (including tickets, etc) and set up a redirect on github?
willingly installing botnet, why would you do that?
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It certainly already does and your local spy agency too.
Lol. Got em
Thanks for the reply. What does an MSDN subscription permit with respect to running multiple VMs?

Edit: sounds like pretty much whatever you want.
Why do that when you can just turn it off?
Because for years Microsoft built up a reputation for supporting old software and old APIs. Read Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog for some anecdotes about the amazing lengths they would go internally to keep old software working. Like with the classic game Sim City they realized its code was buggy and using uninitialized memory, so the Windows team wrote a special case to detect when Sim City runs and emulate an older compatible memory allocator. It's not really clear if MS today cares about supporting software like they used to.
Don't they pay Apple and Microsoft for various patents though? The vendors that is.
What's up with requiring a Facebook account for upvoting?
Facebook completely enforces this, but only acts on profiles that are reported to them.

Around a year ago, many of my friends were in a "Gay Pride 2014 parade" group. Over two or three days, everyone in that group with a fake-looking name was reported. A little later, everyone who had 'liked' a local gay nightclub page was reported.

The obvious conclusion was someone with an agenda was searching particular groups for people to report.
Not really. We all know what happens if we don't pay taxes. Very few see taxation for the extortion it is.
In the EU, Microsoft sells the N edition [http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/products/what-is...], Windows sans Media Player. Thus, if you have selected the normal version, you are actually paying for Media and DVD playing capabilities.
This is by way of follow-up to the post last month (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9723066) from the Algolia blog about data loss on some SSDs (notably Samsung).

The original Algolia article has since been updated to document the work that Samsung has done to identify and rectify the issue that was originally attributed to their SSD firmware. The root cause now appears to be a Linux kernel issue that only appeared with very heavy discard loads, and from my reading of the patch discussion it also would only apply when LVM-based RAID was in use over the SSDs too. The linked article is the resulting patch submission from a Samsung Linux kernel developer.

There's still the kernel blacklist of devices that don't handle queued-TRIM, but that's unrelated to this issue.

[I have no relationship with any of the parties involved - I was just looking to buy a new SSD yesterday and thought I'd take another look at the issues to see which brands were considered 'safe'.]
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Reasons for why you might not want the upgrade:

https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/3f060k/anonymou...
or Vista users. If you've got a Windows system that actually badly needs upgrading, you're still [not] going to pay for it.
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Not happening. Sorry this has gone on long enough.

Closed both Microsoft accounts and cancelled my MSDN and AP subscription renewals.

I do a big chunk of my work on a CentOS desktop machine already. There's not much of a push to chuck everything in an 8.1 VM and start moving it all over. The MSDN licenses I need persist past the sub so that's enough for me.

I've been on the verge of doing this for a couple of months already anyway for ref.

Edit: Also, I'm really not happy about the pro-Microsoft spin all over the media recently. It appears to be covering up a number of nasty changes behind the scenes and lacking in critical analysis.

Edit 2: Proof: http://imgur.com/a/ZYWZM

Edit 3: does anyone know of a decent 4G modem for a laptop, preferably one that works in Linux. I can then skip my phone as a tether and use a dumbphone.
Your definition only refers to government agencies and courts. Not the body creating the laws in first place. The German parliaments are free to create any law they like (as long as they respect the German constitution).

The only problem would be enforcing the law. As Facebook has offices in Germany and targets German customers that shouldn't be too hard.
Microsoft expects me to buy a separate, full Windows license for each virtual machine I create, for each host machine I run it on.

Yes, that's what the license says.

In practice, what corporate VM users do is get MSDN licenses, which are assigned to the developer. I have one. It's basically a license to not worry about licensing: I can run as many copies of whatever I like, so long as it's "for testing and development purposes". I think there's a different volume licensing programme available if, god help you, you wanted to run a production datacentre on Windows.

Edit: this is obviously a big reason why Windows is never going anywhere in the cloud space outside of Azure.
So that people don't easily game the system. Would you prefer Twitter or just not logging in at all?
As far as I see it, there are two use cases for a pool, swimming and fun. I'd agree with you if you were talking about a pool with swimming lanes. The point of the pool in the video on the website is to have fun. If you make it safe, you kill the fun.
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> Who decides what is and is not appropriate?

GitHub, because that stuff is hosted on their servers.

This is not about Open Source. This is about GitHub.

Yes, it has no place in Open Source. Whether or not it has a place on GitHub is, however, up to GitHub itself.
If there's one thing I've learned in a half year of JS game development, it's that there are usually good libraries to solve most low-level problems. Compactly storing a 512x512 array of binary values can be as simple as:

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Oh as a gamer you can better just get used to it, because of DirectX 12 games that will come in time.
Yep, I remember reading on another article posted on HN that North Korea's economy depends a lot on the black market, which means that North Koreans must be cunning in their every day lives to get the basic things they need.
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There is plenty of more harmful censorship on this very HN thread.

People with controversial or different opinions are downvoted until they don't appear on the site any more, ultimately meaning that only a small range of human opinions are welcome and valid here.

Github asked for the use of a single word to be reconsidered - nothing has been censored in any meaningful way, and the result is that a different word has been used, which means the same in this context.

Who decides what is and is not appropriate? Github does. Github chooses exactly the terms that you need to meet to host there, and decides when those terms change. That's agreed contractually and implicitly when you sign up to use Github. It's important to understand that this applies to every online service you might use.
Yes, is there a logical extension to "UX" design which includes "non-user in proximity experience"? NUIPX perhaps?
I think it is your responsibility to make sure you dedicate yourself 100% when you're working for a client. That means not being carried away reading emails related to other matters when you're on the clock.

With that being said, we just charge a general fee each month called "Administration & maintenance". It's the equivalent of 4 hours consulting. That usually covers any time spent not directly impacting the work for the client.
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I'm not an expert about AngularJS and we're still studying/experimenting with Alt, but AFAIK the combination is comparable, except maybe for the AJAX communication with the server - if Angular also manages that (which I don't know): with Alt you need to manage the server calls yourself, preferably by creating some API helper functions and calling them from inside the Actions.

EDIT: clarification
Depends on whether you consider "privacy" as paramount in your security, in that case VPS's aint that great either.

Shared hosting can be more secure than most self configured dedicated hosting options, simply because the hosting providers "cares" about the security in the former while outsourcing the risk to you for the most part in the latter.

If say we look at how many times a shared hosting provider was compromised (excluding stolen credentials for individual accounts since it doesn't matter if they steal your credentials for the shared control panel or for the SSH on your dedicated box) i think the picture will be quite different than what you imagine.

Big hosting providers rarely get actually compromised, on the other hand self configured dedicated hosting boxes get owned everyday by the truck load, from configuration issues to missing updates to unhardened environments they tend to be much more vulnerable.

Shared hosting providers need and do lockdown everything since their adversaries are not only external attackers but also customers with high degree of access. This doesn't just reduces the likelihood of a security issue but also reduces the impact of such issues for example SQL injection on a shared hosting will yield pretty much nothing, yes they'll be able to dump the application tables but that's it, forget about code/command execution that DB is locked down harder than one would think it's possible same thing go for other issues, local file inclusion? well GL, directory traversal, breaking out of the chroot, try agin...

Now this ofc doesn't mean that some one can't configure their own box to be just as secure for but for all effective purposes if you are running a small operation like a personal site or a site for you own small business the chances of you being able to effectively managing security at the same level of a solid hosting provider is quite slim.
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By using multiple versions of multiple software, you can determine the false positives. There are little servers that deliberately fuzz external in a consistent way of all software found. Mostly they only do PHP or Apache, but forget OpenSSH. If there is a hoster doing it in consistent way and ended on our shame list. Please stand up, you deserve a full new blog post about how it should be done.
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> horrendously broken patent system

If the patent system were "horrendously broken" it would have been fixed long ago. It obviously serves powerful political interests horrendously well.
That is demonstrably not true. But that is not even what I was asking about.

What I was talking about is an online feature, called Windows Account, which works online by default(!). Therefore we must ask ourselves what is Microsoft doing with that information.
It might be worth mentioning here that Launchpad.net (Owned, Operated by Canonical Ltd of Ubuntu fame) recently launched (rudimentary) Git support [1]. They obviously need to integrate it better, but that is on it's way.

Launchpad.net might be a (more?) suitable option to consider if you're mainly developing Free and Open Source Software.

[1] http://blog.launchpad.net/general/git-code-hosting-beta
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I don't see that split happening right now and I often browse /r/kotakuinaction, which is one of the central gamergater hubs.

Also user Snesker, you have been hell-banned.
I have been telling people this for years, including people already running music businesses but they havent listened. Its a good market as people will pay more, even though the total market size is smaller.
This is, tragically, how Microsoft OEM licensing works. It's presumably using the same machine identifier as "Genuine Advantage".
Apple does release products, you might want to check the definition of the patent troll.
A few English mistakes, maybe have someone proofread it.
Sub-branding vs. brand fragmentation, which should you choose?
Regarding SF, That's their only chance to save the brand and the site.

At this point, the current owner can't be trusted anymore.