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No warrant is necessary to seize your papers at the border either, so why would anyone think that laptops would be different?

And no, flash drives aren't legally exempt either. They're just less likely to be noticed, at least for now.

And encryption doesn't change things.

One legal response to "I can't show you the content, hah hah" in your best Nelson voice is "that's okay, you can't take it into the US".

Technology isn't the issue and it can't be the solution.
Im not sure where you get your info, on the dev list 0mq, zmq (and zmq_$COMPONENT) and zeromq are pretty evenly distrbuted...

(edit: yoru -> your)
Or rather a gnuPad. (Ubuntu and the FSF don't share organizational structures.)
They really ought to get rid of the microscopic trackpad on that thing and replace it with a trackpoint, or do a Thinkpad-branded version so-configured.
Ask HN: what are your favorite blogs?
Not major sites like reddit or techcrunch, but personal blogs you like for their insight, links, or whatever else.
It won't matter.
2.5 years of a closed phone platform is an insidious threat? Where were you for most of the 2000's?

I predict that within 2 years the iPhone OS will allow you to run unapproved apps provided you click through enough, "Hey, we're warning you! Don't come crying to us when you manage to blow up your dock connector", messages.
this explains why football games are so exciting

I agree, and often ponder what play I would call were I a coordinator.

Note this is also the argument political columnist George Will used to enshrine baseball as the "thinking man's sport", where there's no hard limit between plays. But I prefer football precisely because of the time pressure; it's rather like chess without clocks vs. chess with clocks. (Pitcher checks the runner, steps off the rubber, runner retakes base, pitcher steps on the rubber, gets sign from catcher, winds up, checks the runner again, batter steps out, grabs some dirt, rubs bottom of bat, reseats helmet, steps in box, pounds plate with bat, pumps a couple times, pitcher gets sign from catcher ... lather, rinse, repeat. I've had my fill long ago.)

Back when I was a tyke, televised baseball games (with Dizzy Dean and Buddy Blattner, sponsored by Falstaff, Pabst or Hamms beer) usually took about two hours. Now it's three hours for the same amount of action, and the beers are only slightly better.
Nick Carr: Hello iPad, Goodbye PC
"Postscript for the naive: This post is a mild satire on programming in teams. These three rules, while undoubtedly effective, are evil. They harm overall project progress for your own benefit. They don’t make you a better programmer intrinsically, only compared to the rest of your team. You may, like I and countless others, have done something like this completely innocently in the past, when you didn’t know better. Now you know better." -- Quote at the end of the post
I also really don't like it when people get all uppity about 'copying.' "Who copied who" is a tired game in the software/hardware industry. The real issue is when someone copies something and claims it as their own, not when someone copies something. People adopting the techniques and methods of others is how progress is made.

I 100% agree
That, & a better iSteam were the first apps I could think of after watching the demo yesterday
The SDK that works for the iPad is 3.2, and it's in beta. So, that requires the $99. I assume that as soon as it is no longer in beta, that it will be open just like the regular SDK. If I were to guess, they are doing it this way to gain some protection in the form of a NDA. My guess is that as soon as the device is public, that will be lifted.
Ah, that's good info. I thought it was more along the lines of the PCI stuff. Glad it's not!
In theory yes you could. RL is based on trial and error. The agent senses the environment in the form of states (ligh=state1, dark=state2) and it performs actions according to a policy to receive positive or negative rewards. For example your goal is to have a room always lighten, the agent will sense the environment (it is dark) it will turn the lights on and it will receive a positive reward.
Eventually the agent will learn that in order to receive positive rewards it needs to turn on the light when it is dark and turn it off when it is light.
Actually RL it is more complex than that but that is the basic idea.
If you are interested go to scholar.google.com and search for papers about reinforcement learning. Important authors are Barto, Sutton, Watkins (Q-Learning), Littman, Kudenko, Stone, Clauss, etc.
As I've mentioned in my original post I understand it. I was just clarifying to a reply as to why I'm not happy with it.
It doesn't matter how good applications are at remembering state and how well copy and paste works. There is no way to make context switching as seamless as it is with multitasking. If I open two applications side by side, to switch between them, I move my eyes. I can be reading something online as I type an email without even looking at the email window. While I'm typing this post, I'm watching the progress on a download. There is no way to accomplish this without true multitasking. Faking it with quick application changes doesn't work.
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All Japanese All The Time: Ostensibly about learning Japanese, really about learning in general. http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/
Sure thing! I don't find it offensive to pay $99/year to Apple in exchange for them maintaining their developer portal and tools.

They invest tens of millions in the toolchain alone every year, and, I'm even underwriting a lot of great LLVM/clang open source development with my fee...
The article incorrectly claims the device doesn't have a microphone. The author added some weasel words "I don't think there's a microphone" to hedge something that would have taken a few seconds to fact-check on any of the liveblog sites that ran yesterday.

Having seen that, it was hard to take the rest of the article seriously.
Mine:

Three-Toed Sloth: data, complexity, and so forth: http://www.cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/

Paul Kedrosky: economics, insight, analysis and links: http://paul.kedrosky.com/

Mind Hacks: fantastic source for everything mind/psychology related: http://www.mindhacks.com/

Ran Prieur: a unique perspective, always thought provoking:
http://www.ranprieur.com/

Kevin Kelly: various cool blogs on tech, future, society, etc.: http://www.kk.org/

Daily Meh: interesting thoughts, ideas, links and photographs: http://dailymeh.tumblr.com/

There are others I could add, but thats a good start.
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I really don't know, but I would guess Google's search engine is almost all C/C++. When you are operating at that scale, it makes sense to invest huge programmer time for very small speed increases.

As to "normal" people, I do a lot of numerical computing using python+C. I end up with probably 90% of the code in python, and 10% inner loops in C. That's typically enough that the C code is taking, say, 50% of the time, at which it isn't worth it (for me) to move more python into C, since I could never buy myself more than a factor of 2 speedup.
A smart accountant once told me that the answer to "How much money did you make?" is always, "Who wants to know?" If it's an investor, the answer is "A lot." If it's a customer, the answer is "A little." If it's the IRS, the answer is "None."

Same thing here. The answer to "Who is a superstar developer?" is always, "Who wants to know?"

To a project manager, the programmer who hits every deadline (regardless of quality) is a superstar.

To a customer, the programmer who solves their problem quickest is a superstar.

To a business owner, the programmer who makes them the most money is a superstar.

To a PHB, the programmer who makes them look the best is the superstar.

To a journalist, the programmer who tells the best stories is the superstar.

To a junior programmer, the best mentor is the superstar.

To another programmer, the programmer they are most likely to want to go into battle with is the superstar.
Yeah, but there's no reason to think that they will either. In fact, I would highly doubt that they'd do that given that they haven't for the iPhone and they're notoriously minimalistic when it comes to making different versions of the same product.
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I may be missing something, but I read this article and think that this guy's points of "bad" are the same reasons to get into android. Smaller market == better chance to be recognized as important when it takes off. Less apps currently == More likely to not have direct competition.

I understand a huge point of the article is that network effects will make the iphone win, but I suspect that popularity will prove to be a fickle mistress (so to speak) and suddenly one day you will look up and see that millions of android phones exist. Not millions of one brand, but millions in aggregate. That will be the key.
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The cost of paper and binding, for one. That's why physical books are so rarely pirated when compared to digital media. Printing a few pages sounds perfectly reasonable to me though.
> or you can write your own Clojure one, like the one we had yesterday here at HN.

The Clojure one we had yesterday that

1. looked only at data during the "hockey-stick handle" period;

2. found, in his very first graph, a steady increase in temperatures over that period whose magnitude (>2 degrees C) was greater than that in the usual "hockey-stick" graph (~ 0.7 degrees C);

3. plotted a bunch more graphs in ways that would inevitably make changes of ~0.7 degrees invisible (look at the last one -- range from -20 to 80 degrees on the y-axis);

3. claimed to have shown by all this that the hockey-stick is not real?

That one?

> CO2 can get absorbed by the Oceans and other earth mechanisms and balance out.

Perhaps it can, but since it's possible to measure CO2 levels and they are in fact increasing that's not actually happening.
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I didn't intend to say the method is fascist, just that it reminds of practices that were and are employed by fascist regimes. If everyone's happy, then there's of course no reason to complain. I just don't see how employees could be happy under a system like this, but to each his own.
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It's better to use the actual JDK (i.e. the one everyone uses) rather than the implementation you get from debian apt-get due to debian's licensing hangups.

SBCL:

* (test)

Evaluation took:
45.268 seconds of real time

Sun JDK

Runtime was: 51086 Milliseconds

That's less than 15%, a far, far cry from '4 times'
ePub is not DRM free; ePub simply has no standardized DRM. All of the major ePub bookstores sell books with some sort of DRM; for the most part, the only ePub books you can find without DRM are the public domain books from Project Gutenberg and the like.
How much would hosting your app and doing payment processing yourself cost you a year?
I think you missed something.

Postscript for the naive: This post is a mild satire on programming in teams. These three rules, while undoubtedly effective, are evil. They harm overall project progress for your own benefit. They don’t make you a better programmer intrinsically, only compared to the rest of your team. You may, like I and countless others, have done something like this completely innocently in the past, when you didn’t know better. Now you know better.
...rights that you should have by default. Such as the ability to program the computer that you just bought.

Do you feel this applies equally to everything that "computes" (including your cable box, your microwave, your car, your dumbphone etc.) or is there some threshold at which that expectation begins?
While some CO2 will be absorbed by the oceans, that has consequences for ocean life by lowering the pH.
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If we're not careful this kind of total lockdown is the future for the rest of computing too.
I think you mean "Ubuntu".
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I draw the line at appliances that are 'single use' versus appliances that are dual-to-universal uses.

For instance the 'slug' is a nice example of such a device, it is far more useful 'open' than it ever was closed.
Yes exactly (to your edit).
You have to say specifically "carbohydrate" and not single out sugar. People try to make this false distinction between "complex" and simple carbohydrates and sugar. ANY starch is broken down rapidly in the small intestine and absorbed as sugar.
"How much would hosting your app and doing payment processing yourself cost you a year?"

Ahh but I am not talking about the 30% Apple takes off the price of my app when sold through the Apple Store ; The AppStore itself is another sharecropper management device but never mind that for now

I am talking of how much it costs me per year to put my program on my device. The commission on sales (which arguably pays for hosting and payment processing) is a separate issue.

The latter is arguable. The former is indefensible.

Look, no one is arguing you shouldn't sell your soul to Apple. It is your money, go right ahead.

The OP asked why people balked at paying 99$ (every year). I was just explaining why some of us unenlightened developers refuse to see the light ;-).
Or archos.

Or the Vega ( http://convergeddevices.net/products/vega.html )

Or Dell.

Orrrr the Nook.

And i guess i could find a lot more to come this year if i would just start to google.
Yesterday: Java, XML, Oracle/ MySQL.

Tomorrow: Python, JSON, PostgreSQL.

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http://developer.apple.com/iphone/terms/registered_iphone_de...

I don't see anything in the iPhone developer agreement that addresses this point.

If all you're sharing is your code, and not any of their headers, documentation, etc., then you're free to do so.

There's a good deal of high-quality open-source iPhone library code out there on github right now.
Oracle's big bear hug for Java bodes really well
I've been thinking much the same thing - I'd love it if the non-technical people in my life were using an iPad. They'd get in to much less trouble (of course, the same is true for Chrome OS).

The question posed at the end is an interesting one: at the moment, the iPad appears to require a regular computer (just like an iPod touch does). Presumably a future version - or even a software update for the existing model - will get rid of this dependency.
> no butter and other dairies except for yoghurt

Nonsense. I'm 8% body fat and eat loads of butter (almost a stick a day) and whole fat yogurt. I don't exercise that much either. Dairy fat is one of the best possible foods. Excellent satiety and virtually no insulin response.
Apropos Juggling Chainsaws, (but not this post) From an article about "Mad Chad"…

Tim Newman, a commercial director and cousin of Grammy-winning musician Randy Newman, asked if I could juggle chainsaws? In my naïve enthusiasm I said sure. I had opened my big mouth and the clock was ticking, with only 10 days to figure out how to juggle a live chainsaw without seriously injuring or killing myself. The first four days I was so nervous that I wouldn’t even start the chainsaw. Finally I pulled the cord and on my first attempt, I missed. The chainsaw hit the ground and went crazy, buzzing at full speed. Two policemen ran up and asked, “What the hell are you doing, kid?” I explained my dire situation and they thought it was cool. They began cheering me on. They wanted to see me do it!

On shoot day I show up for the commercial and get prepared. I fire up the chainsaw and Tim Newman says, “Whoa, what are you doing?” Long story short, after 10 days of practice, I find out they didn’t want the chainsaw running during the commercial (insurance won’t cover a stunt like that). The plan was to just add the sound effect in post-production. I felt a little stupid but it turned out to be the best mistake I ever made. The seed had been planted and soon I was juggling three saws at the same time. No one in Venice was doing a more extreme act.

There is a lesson about requirements gathering in there somewhere, and probably one about stepping outside your comfort zone.

Whole article: http://www.venicebeachbook.com/vbb2c.html
Just as a simple test, 0mq.com redirects to zeromq.com :-)

Also, if all three are evenly distributed, then that makes the letter prefix preferable to the digit prefix 2:1.

In any event, I think "0mq" looks ugly and people might mistake it for "OMG".
But how do you sell this to the user? "We will give you full, unfettered access to this application for free until you begin to really rely on it, than we will charge you" Doesn't sound quite right from a marketing perspective. And how do you know when your users have reached the stage when they are sold? Ask them? "Are you ready to pay for this now?"

I'm not meaning to be critical, I would really like to know!
Sad. I was in high school when it happened, I remember my Chemistry teacher telling us the news and then everyone watching it on a TV that someone had rolled out. The explosion, and the investigation that followed really shook the foundations of our beliefs as the U.S. as the leader in space exploration and engineering.
There's a group of hardcore people who will want to read and type while watching the progress of a download, as you described. But I don't think the iPad is targeted at these people. It doesn't even have an accessible file system. Watching the progress of an arbitrary file download doesn't have much out-of-context meaning in a system where files are only accessible in-context.

Also, as I mentioned in the article, you can always move your eyes from your iPad to your iPhone if the app you're using doesn't have the social tools you need integrated into it. I realize the practicality of this is highly debatable though until we see some real world use.
I totally agree that this device could replace the PC for many many people. I see the iPad as the universal remote-commander for all kind of media and entertainment. Imagine you could buy a film on iTunes and beam it into your television screen...
Actually, all over the front page I see ØMQ, not 0MQ. It's read "zero", but it's spelled with a slashed capital O.
I don't agree with it, but that's not the issue. Your comment wasn't worthwhile. You're arguing ad hominem and haven't even backed up your silly point still and it's four or five comments later.

Flipping it over on me doesn't change the fact that your comment was poor. There are also obvious counterarguments to your point that popularity means you're right but I don't need to go into them.
Quote from University of Bristol research (http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2009/6649.html):

New data show that the balance between the airborne and the absorbed fraction of carbon dioxide has stayed approximately constant since 1850, despite emissions of carbon dioxide having risen from about 2 billion tons a year in 1850 to 35 billion tons a year now.

This suggests that terrestrial ecosystems and the oceans have a much greater capacity to absorb CO2 than had been previously expected.

No-one is denying that concentrations are rising, the Modelling of these processes is being questioned. Also I don't doubt the need for well thought action. In the 70's-80's similar lobbies killed nuclear energy which is one of the cleanest means of generating energy. Since hydrocarbons will one day run out, we should be spending more money towards this. Granted a portion can be generated with solar and wind, but solar or wind on its own cannot provide the current or projected needs.
Another similarity between iPad and Wii: People ruthlessly made fun of the name when it was first announced.
Steve Jobs foreshadowed in an October 2008 conference call that they are creating the $500 iPad and not going after those people who want multi-tasking (even if its just: "I want IM/irc running in the background, listening to pandora and browsing at once"). And those who want shell access and total admin control. All of which probably requires Mac OS X - which the PA Semi A4 chip presumably does not yet support.

"What we want to do is deliver an increasing level of value to these customers, but there are some customers which we choose not to serve. We don't know how to make a $500 computer that's not a piece of junk; our DNA will not let us do that. We've seen great success by focusing on certain segments of the market and not trying to be everything to everybody, and you can expect us to stick with that winning strategy."

-Steve Jobs, 2008 October

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-10072393-37.html
Better than I could state it myself. Funny how this comment is ignored even though I tried to make this distinction in another comment :)
So, go straight to VC? We've spoken to a few seed investors and they really want to work with us, but we've always turned them down due to the amount of investment.

But, they always claim to have great connections.

Could you recommend any VCs that deal with banking or finance?
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The problem is that nobody care whether the "climate is changing". Change is the only constant. The question is whether it is bad and whether we can do something about it. Neither has been very well established in my mind. If in fact our CO2 contribution's effect is far smaller than the IPCC and environmentalists claim, then natural variation is the dominant factor and even completely giving up industrialization entirely next year may not have a very large effect. This means that it is a lot harder to affect the climate than we have been telling ourselves. And climate changes have been happening continuously for billions of years, so it's not at all obvious that they are a priori bad for anything other than human agriculture. (Which is itself bad, but something we can deal with, and broadly speaking is our problem rather than the ecosystem's problem.)

If environmentalists think they can turn on a dime after thirty years of "anthropogenic global warming -> disaster", they are in for a well-deserved beating in the court of general opinion. Falling back to "The climate is changing" is basically an admission that we have no clue, and more than that, where we thought human effects dominated it, it doesn't seem to. You can't just turn around and apply panic over AGW to panic over "climate change"; it is neither rational nor human-irrational.

If you want to panic over something environmental, how about overfishing, plastic pollution in the pacific, fertilizer runoff, or something else that isn't "debatable" but actually, factually exists? In addition to the fact that it's a bad idea to try to "salvage" climate change as an issue, it isn't even necessary. There are real problems. Unless you personally are driven by using environmentalism as an excuse to destroy democracy and transfer wealth to the poor, if you are really driven by concern for the environment, you don't need to "win" this issue. Trying to build your political case on a lie can only be actively harmful in the long run.
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