bliving

"At the present time, pre-built binaries are not available for Tarsnap — it must be compiled from the source code." https://www.tarsnap.com/download.html

In Canada, the slope is very slippery. Hate speech, under the Canadian Human Rights Act, is anything "likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt". For better or worse, it certainly has a chilling effect.

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

Yes. And they're not shy about it either.

"The way in which the J-20 was unveiled also reflects China’s use and control of information technology to support national interests. The test airfield is located in the city of Chengdu and is not secure, with many public viewing points. Photography is technically forbidden, but reports suggest that patrols have been permitting the use of cell phone cameras."

http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2011/01/more-on-chinese-stea...

"extremely complete library"

I'm interested in how the completeness is defined, as the standards available are loose at best. I couldn't see by what measure they considered this work 'complete'.

That complaint aside, it's a great effort to see. Now to test it out...

It was the sentence before that which caught my eye:

"The cost of a move, in terms of training, hiring experts, rewriting entire application and tool suites, rounds of testing, and final deployment, will easily run higher than continuing to build and deploy Java applications."

so... your costs will go up; whether you end up licensing java, or switching. I'm not sure about you, but that is relevant to my business needs.

The Bureaucracy won't give up paper easily. Please tell me the iPad will kill (at least that part) of The Bureaucracy? Maybe a paperless society is happening closer to the center of the universe. But it isn't here.

Apple's site does list a "iPad Camera Connection Kit" in the Accessory section of the "Tech Specs" page. It allows connecting with USB cameras. So the hardware is there. Who will make the software?

Yes, there's a lot of inertia in infrastructure. And the Internet's infrastructure isn't as centralized as, say, the power infrastructure. There's a lot of links in the DNS chain that will have to be replaced. And I shudder to think about all the links that won't be replaced until they die.

It's not obvious to an outsider that "Hacker News" is Paul Graham's playground and that he is the one "you are having a problem with". As an outsider, I would have assumed as the poster did, that the community would be supportive in resolving what seems to be a reputation issue. But it's not plain that it's a reputation issue, as it seems (to me) that HN-based reputation doesn't map to relationships the same way it does in Real Life; the written rules are not all of the rules.

I do believe that you should be careful about asking stupid questions in public. But I don't think this was unexpected.

And the Macintosh project at Apple; complete with pirate flags!

It's emotionally draining to wade through all the crap being spewed around (I'm not blameless!).

But in a "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow" kind of way, I'm hopeful this mess spurs renewed efforts to (re)construct a healthier, scientific basis for objective analysis.

Entrepreneurs come in all shapes and sizes. I often fall into the trap of visualizing "entrepreneurs" as the stereotypical lone wolf, jack of all trades type.

I remind myself that it's the "entrepreneurial spirit" that is more important, and can be used to conceptualize people, projects, and yes, cities.

I apologize if I've distracted anyone with the "industrial" reference. I'm much more interested in the science behind the climate change [insert synonym for industry here]. I am very sorry that any industrial effects are more interesting the the quality-of-science issues. But here we are discussing industry...

It's my understanding ( and please correct me if I'm wrong ) that the dataset in question is one of the core underpinnings of the findings of the UN's IPCC. And I'm not up-to-date on the policy implications in your country, unless you live in Canada. But in chilly Canada, I see our local carbon-tax lobby use the global warming meme in their effort to impose heavy taxes on our industrial base. Hence, the "de-industrialization" angle.

I'm concerned that this might involve more power-grabbing than scientific concern for our future. Hence the interest in properly designed and documented datasets.

You're referring to the dataset that is the basis of enormous de-industrialization projects. Is it too much to ask to have it properly designed with sufficient documentation?

~A Jedi hand wave~

"These are not the smoking guns your are looking for."

2.7 was the first CD set I purchased. Haven't regretted it.

It was their 'man' pages that sold me. Complete and helpful. Their great documentation is one of their unsung accomplishments.

Specialization would be my first guess. But then the problem is, how do you identify a niche that stays under Google's radar long enough to exploit any advantage? So, you just have to find a knowledge domain to specialize in that Google doesn't cover. And how hard is that?!?

You're right... how do you compete against this?

This isn't suprising when teachers are required to ignore "teaching moments".

reminded me of the line in "Roxanne":

"Oh, ho, ho, irony! Oh, no, no, we don't get that here. See, uh, people ski topless here while smoking dope, so irony's not really a, a high priority. We haven't had any irony here since about, uh, '83, when I was the only practitioner of it. And I stopped because I was tired of being stared at. "

Acard (acard.com) sells battery backed RAM/CFcard solutions for well under $500. There are compromises. It will fit your budget, but may not fit your needs.

Apologies for not being clearer. I believe that they agreed to this co-development project because they are getting a good deal; as in, no being charged 10x because they're chinese.

They will have ample opportunity for the technology transfer required to do the next 800 on their own. And Bombardier will have their opportunity to compete on the next project. But the pessimist in me also believes that Bombardier will do their best to prevent that technology transfer! Sad, but it seems to be the path of least resistance in business these days.

Apologies for not being clearer. I believe that they agreed to the co-development

Construction will happen in China (Qingdao), with project management and components(?) split between China and Europe offices.

And not that funny; I know of heavy manufacturing companies that multiply their selling prices by 10 for equipment that is destined for China just for that reason.

That and...

"Your parseLinks() and processDocument() methods must complete within a total 10 seconds per document processed"

... as a limit on processing leaves room for competition. One advantage of the BYO-Cloud solution is that you can pay for more intensive processing of the crawl.

"You can organize it [what people are saying about you] by highlighting the good stuff and rationally responding to the not-so-good stuff"

Of the example links, only Trader Joe's had a list of "Not so happy" Twitterers. And all they complained about was not having a local Trader Joe's.

I don't think any brand can manage bad press from a single page. But it would be nice to be proven wrong. Good luck!

It's great to see multiple open data formats being supported. But I expected more "meaty" data, such as:

http://crimemapping.edmontonpolice.ca

The cynic in me believes that the police will use this somehow to increase their funding. But it is great information to get into the hands of citizens. And it's worth visiting just to see the "don't sue us" click-through agreement!

But why is it so painful to open up transit data? Are there any good examples of accessible transit data?

So... I'm unnatural, and should be put down?

A journalist? Too "enthusiastic"? Huh.

You're right of course, but a dirt-digging, speculative, news-free 4000 word article has got to attract some advertising viewers somehow.

I want to believe "Newspapers are the walking dead" when I waste my time with this. But yet, here we are, increasing their viewership...

Not going belly-up. They are just re-structuring debt using the bankruptcy process.

Still, not a good-thing.

Yes, there is a need. It brightened my Monday morning! If you think this guy is cantankerous now, wait until he's 60.

I think this is a valid role for Microsoft to play; to be a place to drag the deadwood into the future.

How about "don't run that story about Monica Lewinsky"? That call was taken seriously by Newsweek.

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

Good point. Don't sell the security. Focus on ease-of-use.