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Can't open file from http://arxiv.org/pdf/0909.0808v1 evince says "Permission Denied".
Could someone provide another link? Thanks in advance.
I hated math. Absolutely loathed it. I had a terrible algebra teacher (8th grade) that left me a gap I never truly closed until college.

However, the 'lights' finally came on in my senior year of high school. I took an experimental trigonometry course, instead of calculus. This course focused on the application of trigonometry to real life problems.

It was by far the best class I've ever had, and it opened me up to understanding the application of ALL of the math that I had been taking for 12 years. It was truly seminal to me. That I had gone 11 years without ever being taught how to actually apply those principles is, in retrospect, mind boggling.
That's the link I was looking for, I knew had seen this somewhere before. The Python one is entertaining, but the Haskell one is brilliant. "explicit type recursion with functors and catamorphisms", ha. I finally learned what a functor is a few days ago.
Maybe it should go Government, then perhaps the outrageous prices and its haemorrhaging of cash won't seem out of place . . . just a suggestion.

I'd much prefer my tax dollars subsidizing my car than subsidizing cheap fishing and agriculture.
That would be trickier than it looks. Run this in your python interpreter:

reduce(lambda x, y: x * y, range(1, 100))

Replicating that in C is certainly possible but you're probably not going to do it quickly, unless you're already pretty deep into that sort of thing.
an analogy...

Man, writing poetry is hard. It takes me 2-3 weeks to write a haiku and months to write a sonnet.

Language doesn't matter for writing code any more than it does for writing poetry.

You need to specify a lot more details before discussing whether 80-120 hours is really fast or really slow for a given project. How many screens, 10 or 200? What kind of test coverage - none or 100% unit tested? How does it have to scale? What level of security? Do you have a style template or do you have to write one?

I work with java too. You can generate a simple crud app extremely quickly if you know what you're doing and which libraries to use.
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Here's the original from the flash blog - http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703

Not surprisingly, the porn example has been yanked with an apology.

Also worth noting the original showed 10 example, not the four in this link, so the porn wasn't quite as obvious (1 of 10 v 1 of 4, and the final one at that).
Oh come on now, it's Star Trek. Besides the low budgets, the fans expected it to be cheesy!
This IPad is touch too. If you touch it it's user screams
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No, but this makes it just a little bit easier for web developers to convince their boss or client that IE6 isn't worth supporting.
Someone mentioned tynt in an earlier comment
A false launch would essentially be capable of ending the world.

The more I think about it, the more I think that the whole Nuclear Winter thing is probably Global Warming 1.0. "Trust us, we're scientists."
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No, but it was easy to jail brake!

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Borderland_(episode)
Porn companies are surprisingly innovative and technologically savvy - they will figure out a way to deliver their experience on the iPad without Flash.
The #1 reason for blogging for a programmer should be altruism, since there is so much that programmers learn from blogs.

If you only read books, then don't blog.

If you ever saved time or got a tip or some code from a blog, then you owe the rest of the programmer community.

I think that's the right spirit.
Ah I see... the description on the site made it sound like a text editor.
That's exactly the issue. The dispute if any should be between the interested parties.

How do you consider yourself not caught in the "middle" when you potentially change your view about someone based on one source?
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That's actually surprising to me. With a large capacitive multi-touch screen like that, I would have figured the cost would have been higher.
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I think they are connected. Part of the reason people are so comfortable with the iPhone is they really can't screw it up. They can't download any apps that are spyware, or viruses or are going to steal their credit cards. They don't have to worry about what attachments they can and can't open. The very locked down nature of the device means it's a controlled environment that you can turn people loose in and say go nutz. That most certainly is not something you can do with an open computer.

So I don't think you can separate the environment from the equation, it's part of the entire end user experience.

Personally I think it's putting the onus back in the right place, which is on developers to make things work and make them work dead simple.
To me, the only missing feature on netbooks is the ability to flip the screen over, turn the thing into a tablet formfactor and write on the screen or use multi-touch.

That can't possibly add that much to a netbook's costs can it?
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I think the reviewer meant to say pictures of actual tactile 'nubs'. There was a patent application for raise up tactile feedback devices, but I don't think they are in the iPad.
You're one of my favorite HN regulars but...

It's not "trust us, we're scientists", it's "trust us, we've published extensive peer-reviewed evidence backing up what we're saying, so if you don't believe us you can pick an informed argument".

Nuclear winter is one of the more testable scenarios in global climate, since we have small-scale approximations whenever a big volcano erupts. There's been some good recent research at http://www.agu.org/pubs/crossref/2007/2006JD008235.shtml

I am not a climate scientist, but I've been driven crazy enough by people's vague arguments to track down foundational papers around some of these issues. Please, all I want is some decent research links for any skeptical stuff, no more cheap shots.
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well, if you are going to carry a backpack full of foam just get a parachute instead.
So, selling firewood now counts as a startup as long as they have a website?
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As long as there is a media player which works on the ipad, porn will too.

On a side note. I find the example very very funny. If Apple did indeed hurt Adobe's feelings, then I think the best way to say "You need me" is to show why. Gosh. Am I the only one who finds this example amazing on so many different levels?

1) Movies wont work
2) Flash sites wont work
3) Tv sites like Hulu wont work (based off of the example?)
4) Porn, what the internet is really really great for, wont work
They priced the A4 chip at $15, which sounds awfully aggressive to me. That's what you'd expect for a mass market chip for a item you buy in quantities of hundreds of thousands after all the kinks are worked out in the fab. This is a custom job, which hasn't sold anything yet. It will only get to that if the iPad sells huge numbers.

And obviously none of that includes the engineering costs to produce the chip in the first place.
Question: Would this effect be harnessable for interstellar communication through a modified AM/FM usage? Should SETI be looking for this?

Gamma rays are one of the universes longest travelling emissions that remain unobstructed by background dust, so I wonder if it would ever be harnessable to provide interstellar communication to our nearest neighbors. In theory, you'd only have to establish receivers. Also would it be scalable to use on a gas giant (as to our current knowledge, they're presently more plentiful than rocky planets, and may be necessary to the evolution of habitable planets) to send an amplified message?
Perhaps the analysis is incorrect? Come on, this isn't reddit. We can't believe everything we read on the Internet.
Well, I've heard it said that one of the first things many new computer technologies are used for is porn. It is sort of surprising, though, that Adobe would include porn as a need for flash. Surely there are other better arguments to support flash.
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The question, then, is if one is designing a mass-market computing device, is the ability to tinker with it going to produce enough good in the world to offset all the misery it causes to other people?

Excellent question!

I would answer yes. I would also add that I think Geeks often under-estimate how much simple tinkering non-geeks sometimes do.

The number of competent windows and macintosh users is constantly increasing. Even for those outside geek circles, this basic competence can be a jumping-off point for further tinkering.
Saw the author of Replica Island talk at Google IO. He's worked for nintendo among other handheld companies and really knows his stuff. He works for Google now and developed Replica Island as his 20% project. I'm glad that his software runs well on all the various android capable devices because if he can't get it portable, chances are not many can. One thing not mentioned in this particular article is the fact that he's not only open sourcing replica island but also the engine he's developed to create it, so it should make game development easier on the rest of us.
Tinkering now moves to "Meta Tinkering" - as it always has, to some degree There was a time when Tinkering involved modifying the OpCodes/Circuitry of your Computer - 1950 - 1970s. Then Tinkering involved programming the computer, with little ability to touch the hardware or modify the CPU, using assembler, compilers, interpreters.

The next generation is the creation of Meta-Environments, in which tinkering allows us to go back to first principles, _create_ circuits, OpCodes, and generally understand the Computing Universe from it's bare components - http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&... Has been the most fun I've had in a Decade, and I'm pretty sure any smart kid, around the 8-10+ age, can start to mull through most of it's components.
Go to any Wells Fargo branch. Ask a banker to pull up your account. Notice the little blue 'e' in the upper-right corner.

That's over 6000 retail locations using ie6. To handle your money.
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Once removed it doesn't seem likely you'd be able to hold onto your garments in a 120MPH wind. Then again, you just survived the breakup of an airplane traveling 500MPH, so maybe somebody is really fond of you.
Even if this seemingly premature and speculative analysis is correct, it shouldn't come as a surprise that Apple makes a good profit margin on their hardware. In the last decade they've demonstrated the pattern of using media distribution as the loss leader to sell their profitable hardware.

What's impressive this time is that they may make such a healthy margin on a hardware product that came in so far under everyone's expected $800-1000 price point.
Erm, assuming the iPad is meant for casual, mobile, everyday use, who exactly would be walking around with a tablet playing porn?

Edit: Although, I suppose it'd be more convenient than a laptop in various places throughout one's domicile.
It's noble to pretend that porn isn't important to people, but um... it is.
Less than a month ago, I had never even heard of Lady Gaga before. Ever.

Then I read a nearly obsessive review of her on a social networking site. Then I noticed her showing up on last.fm profiles and other music websites. Then I started seeing her name in every other blog I came across. Then I saw her all over the front pages of mainstream news sites.

Now I'm reading about her on a TECHNOLOGY/STARTUP news aggregator, of all places.

I still haven't taken the time to listen to her music, but I'm already impressed. I'm sure I just wasn't paying attention, but Lady Gaga went from occupying absolutely zero braincycles in December to becoming a name that I have heard literally every other day from every other outlet for the past four weeks. I've been crossing more hype about her than for the iPad.

Like TFA, I couldn't hazard to say whether or not she's just "another fleeting pop novelty," but she's obviously doing something right.
Okay, this article made me feel stupid, given that I've been outside of a CS department for over a decade.

A brief Googling/Wiki-ing explains that they are used to solve certain concurrency problems, but without further explanation. Can somebody give me a practical, real world example of a problem this kind of strategy is supposed to help solve? I feel like I'm missing out on something...
PEOPLE, QUIT DOWN-VOTING THIS MAN!

I'm that much of a hacker news user, but I come around here enough to know that this site prides itself on reasoned discussions. We're all supposed to be thinking adults, we can politely read what he has to say and decide for ourselves if he's full of it or not.

We don't need the mob doing the internet version of throwing rotten fruit at him.
My girlfriend and I watch Deep Space Nine DVD's from Netflix with dinner every night. Wednesday, after the iPad announcement, I remember watching them use their PADD's on DS9 and thinking, "yes, I get it now".

What I really want is for the iPad to get cheap enough that you can leave three or four laying around the house or carry them around with you. You can leave one in the kitchen and use it for recipes, browse on the couch, and so forth.

Also, a long forgotten comment of mine becomes suddenly relevant! http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726950
Clearly the answer is -1818210304. My C program told me that really quickly!
More like C# programmers. Java programmers would either not know how to solve this problem (the majority), or write the 3 line static method.

Sarcasm based on interviewing experience =P
I never understand this sentiment that crusading against porn is noble. People enjoy it. Isn't taking away people's happiness a much larger problem (discounting the porn that is actually illegal)?
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Eh, using the clipboard for files, and especially "cutting" them, is problematic. All three platforms let you do any move or copy by dragging. Mac OS X offers "copy" (with no feedback, when does copy ever have feedback?) but not "cut", so Linux could reach the same level of support by just disabling "cut".
> For all we know, this "business model" is being forced upon Mahalo given the present economic climate.

I find this a little tough to buy. I thought the concept of "human-powered search" smelled a little funky from the beginning. In fact, it smelled so funky that I was really surprised that well-respected VCs invested in it. I figured there had to be something in the prospectus that wasn't in the public marketing.
a) this is all extremely speculative and not really based in reality

b) this assumes that R&D, software/hardware development and pretty much everything else that goes into making a product is free.
Also, it's easier to clean.
If only they would stop supporting IE6 on google.com.
"casual" and "everyday" pretty accurately sums up the porn viewing habits of a lot of 18-24 males (extrapolating from a small, anecdotal sample)
I usually browse with Flash disabled, and I have never needed to enable it to find porn. This is the first I'm hearing of a porn site that requires Flash, in fact...
Right on, they are usually ahead of other companies about 2-3 years.
Tim Sykes is very nearly a con-artist who profits off the gullibility of others. Any success his trades and his readers have is based on just as much luck as it is any penny-stock technical trading strategies.

This is coming from a non-paying reader of his blog. He purposely overemphasizes his accurate calls (which might have happened due to his reasoning, or just as likely not) and brushes the flaws under the proverbial rug.
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If they support html5 video, why wouldn't video work? You can still encode the video to add advertisements like traditional media.
Fail....ah heck...I'll probably buy a few shares anyways...who knows...
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It's a matter of akrasia—if we can decide what makes us happy, then that implies that there's some sort of "meta-happiness"—a utility function that will be "best" maximized compared to other ones. Some people think that a utility function that doesn't include enjoying porn is better than one that does.

Of course, this is all theoretical if you can't change what makes you happy—and, since psychological studies say that how much you can change your utility function is something that varies individual-to-individual, there will never be a widely-accepted belief that it's impossible to decide what you like, as there will always be some people who can.
The touch feedback screen is useful as well.
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Truth be told I'm not a porn surfer. I'm not a member of any porn site or anything, so I have no idea whether porn sites actually use flash. The thing which really gets me, is that adobe is clearly attempting to get a message across.

I like sticking it to the man. I'm not one of those people who spend their life sticking it to the man, but I always find it humorous when other people do it. Especially one big company to the other. One big company to a country. Makes me happy to see people challenging and keeping others in check- so to speak.
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You make very good points, which were further elaborated (by Gruber re:iSuppli and the iPhone) here: http://daringfireball.net/2007/07/isuppli

These estimations on profit margins are really useless, and tend to take the discourse off track.
I was attempting to be general and be the background voice which says "Well, if it can be done, it will be done"
Especially if they do not have a friendly port to return to anymore.
Personally, my thoughts tend to move to the erotic when I'm in a situation without access to ordinary media. I'm unsure if the iPad would help or hurt this though. Accessing my TVersity server on the toilet might stop my mind wandering.
The direct link:

http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703

Notice the missing image now. In my opinion, even a weaker stand than having it included.
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Well, they're selling it to themselves; other chips have mark-up. The engineering costs were factored into the purchase price of PA Semi, I imagine.
I think it's more deperate that Adobe has basically faked the Google Finance screenshot. The site degrades gracefully in the absence of Flash, and will still show a graph. The author has edited the graph out and imposed a 'missing plugin' icon. That is terrible! I use GF on my iPhone all the time - it's never looked like that...
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Does Wired always have no sense of humor at all? That was hilarious, and almost certainly meant to be.
Is the Apple iPad really the best browsing experience?
I usually hash passwords like this:

$hash = sha1('foo' . $username . $password);

Can someone explain to me why or when this isn't good enough?
^-- Hear hear.

I started getting pretty deep into the functools until I discovered list comprehensions and generators. You get all the concise goodness of the functools while remaining Pythonic. The list comprehension is a really good, intuitive syntax too, I think.
Not to mention retailer and distributor markups. Most iPods are not sold direct by Apple.
Well, I have wondered for a long time about lightning itself and how we could harness the energy from that. There doesn't seem to be much work going on with that.

I imagine that you could do both, but it is not clear yet how to do either one of them.
there are iphone-specific porn video sites, so i guess if people are willing to watch porn on a 3.5" screen, anything's possible.
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The old idiom is all publicity is good publicity. The comedians that are making jokes at her expense are actually increasing her cultural domination, which increases the likely hood potential fans will find her.

The irony here is that I remember fully there was huge commotion that people thought she had a V-slip during one of her concerts, and I was reading it everywhere. Then about a month later people were claiming she had a penis. I'm sorry, but the mass media is quite frankly retarded. How you can apparently see her vagina and miss seeing a penis and then claim she has a penis is beyond my comprehension. I'm sorry, but I believe it's ever more evidence that P-Zombies exist and simply go along with what's expected..
great, thanks for the follow up.
Its just a PDF file, but the name lacks an extension. You might try downloading it, renaming it with a .pdf extension, and trying again to open it.
If a 7.0 magnitude quake hit Maricopa County, AZ, and a sizable percentage of the local population was buried alive, the otherwise abominable cops there might act like human beings, too, under the watchful eyes of the rest of the world. From TFA:

"The foreigners need to understand the earthquake did the same thing to the police it did to the population," said Antoine Franck, an officer on duty at the Champ du Mars park. "My house fell down. I lost everything. Everyone's house fell down. My dear brother's house fell down, and he is dead under there. Every policeman has dead family."

When will we realize that when it comes to government, at any level, there are no "good guys" or "bad guys"? There are only people, acting in their own interest, as broad or as narrow as that may be. Sometimes -- more often when we find ourselves in a national crisis -- we will act with compassion towards one another.

All other things being equal, though, give a man a uniform, a loaded gun, the security of the "blue wall of silence", and a judicial system inclined to take him at his word no matter what (or worse, no effective judicial system at all, as is the case in many countries), and you might as well just have gang rule.

It's great that the people with the "official" capacity to exercise force in Haiti have opted to look out for their countrymen, rather than loot and pillage. But let's not assume (one way or the other!) that, had there been no disaster, they would be acting so nobly.
Why is it surprising? It's a multi-billion dollar industry that depends on technology (physical and digital) for distribution.
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very nice. thanks for sharing.