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That's my point: mistrust to organizations who try to push certain conclusions in order to gain profits, in a similar way as it was swine flu & vaccines. That's the meaning of my comparison.

Btw if you care about your taxes, what about Carbon tax?
I refer the honourable gentleman to the answer I gave a few moments ago :)
This appears to be an extension to DNS that would allow for what many network vendors call global load balancing.

In the current implementation, your upstream provider (like Comcast) doesn't pass on the IP of the client doing the DNS query to the authoritative server. Not knowing the correct client IP prevents the server from figuring out which server would be, for example, closest for a given client.

The proposed changes to DNS would allow an upstream provider's DNS server to pass on 3 of the 4 octets of an IP address to the authoritative server. This would allow the server to make judgments on which IPs it returned to the client based on the client's own IP address.

I wonder what net neutrality concerns this raises?
Yes ... but I don't know how to.

If you care to do so, I'll be happy to include the results.
The problems mentioned there 1. small click targets, and 2. slow page loads are instantly and trivially fixed by a big screen and faster hardware.

I'll also note that despite the multi-touch hype I never use the pinch gesture while surfing the web on the iPhone, the auto-zoom double tap works in basically every situation.
I guess as these applications won't be run embedded in a browser that the Flex code won't be able to interactive with JavaScript - which is a shame. It looks like I will have to use HTML 5 Canvas to get OpenShapes (http://shap.es/docs) to work on this platform.
Is java known to be (about) 4x faster than python?
> There is hardly any harm done in using both terms interchangably.

The only caveat is that Global Warming has been intrinsically linked to the word "Man Made" by various people. Rightly or wrongly the phrase has a much more specific connotation than just a subset of climate change.
Indeed, I thought it was always much faster:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

One of the guys behind R is also looking at moving to a LISP base after considering python:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/v38u176xp7j562m3/

That said, I will stick with python as I am not a programmer by profession and can't deal with a plethora of languages when I have a good swiss army knife as it is.
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Apparently there are styluses that will work with capacitive screens.

http://robrohan.com/2009/02/27/diy-iphone-stylus-the-free-ca...
I could * possibly* see Apple creating a way for it to control your Mac in an interactive way (basically an extension of the iTunes remote that the iPhone has)
People don't steal things from their job because they're better for doing their jobs. People steal things from their jobs because they're fun or useful outside of work. Configuring a device so as to seem too work-specific to steal could be an advantage.
Because I'm commenting article content, not the title. Of course the global warming is the subset of a climate change -- the subset most relevant in the article.
4x is low:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/benchmark.php?test=al...

Roughly speaking, anything time-critical needs to be done in c.
Several such machines were demo'ed (usually by chip-manufacturers) at CES earlier this month. The marketing blitz around the iPad makes it much more likely for someone to take these and build an actual end user product. Possibly your telecoms provider would want to sell you one with a contract and their branding.

There appears to be a distinct lack of touch based 'remixes' of Android or Ubuntu though.
Except the $99 is per year, not a one-time cost.

Apple really needs to figure out some kind of open development plan for iPad. I'd argue it's not so important for the iPhone, but for the iPad, I think it may be critical...
You're right, of course. Market share and mind share are important. But this is something new, and products like this have to go through the diffusion of innovation from early adopters to get to the early majority and I personally know of no early adopter who is happy with this thing (all of whom had an iPhone when it launched, etc). The word among early adopters is "bullshit". I don't care who Apple is, or who they think they are, they can't beat that.
It still doesn't feel right to have to pay $99 just to test your code on the device.
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I'm on the Hacker's Diet right now! As John and others have said, it's all about the math and the self-feedback.

I weigh myself everyday and record it on the online Hacker's Diet application[1]. It gives you a moving average (newer measurements count more than older ones) and gives you a great trend chart to track your progress and give you immediate feedback.

I don't exercise (yet) since I'm already losing weight at an acceptable rate and I've managed to get past the point of craving more from a meal. However, the choice is entirely yours -- if you want to eat a little more on the side, you have to make up for those calories with some (daily) exercise.

[1]: http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/online/hdo.html
I don't have an hour to burn either, but I did find previous discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=644007
I don't know if there's a want for it aside from my own.

Well, judging by the number of posts expressing disappointment, I see quite a few--I sense there is a need.
The final paragraphs in this piece illustrate what a fiasco it has proved for RIAA to have filed these sorts of suits.

It is not filing any more of them. It has typically settled the ones it has filed for peanuts ($3,500 on average). And it is offering to settle this particular Minnesota case, in which it had gotten a $1.92M judgment (rejected by the judge as "monstrous and shocking"), in exchange for a $25K donation to charity by the defendant - with the defendant vowing to pursue the case through the appellate courts to challenge the very constitutionality of the stratospheric damages sought be RIAA in such actions.

All in all, a disastrous legal strategy for RIAA. At this point, the whole momentum has shifted and they can't wait to get out of it (their election to file a new trial appears to be nothing more than a desperate attempt to save face, if that is still possible). These are all indicators that this particular bully has been cut down to size, at least for the moment.
Weightlifting is a useful adjunct to a well thought out diet as it encourages the body to retain muscle and drop fat.

Ideally you'd add in some decent lifting with free weights three times a week with the standard compound exercises (bench press, squats, deadlifts, overhead press and pullups/chins).

Additionally, as far as dealing with hunger there's a few things you can do:

1) Prepare a whole lot of salads and other calorically sparse things. The volume of food will displace more energy rich foods. One particularly easy implementation of this I've seen includes eating three apples each day.

2) You can stave off hunger by chewing ice chips or drinking water (even just chewing with an empty mouth seems to promote satiety).

3) Find more interesting distractions. Often it's hard to avoid eating food because there's not much else around to occupy yourself with. If you find something better/more interesting you can often go much longer without eating.
Very much agree with your statement. I can see a ton of use for this device, I think it's another great step towards integrating the web and computers into daily activities and non-desk-work environments.

Specs alone just aren't the way to win people over or to judge a device like this. The experience matters and the iPad offers an experience custom-tailored to tables, unlike other slates where Windows 7 is slapped on without modifications.
> Think of the App Store as the public roads for the iPad--the state has a vested interest in making sure that drivers are minimally competent, so they have a gatekeeping function in the form of a license.

That really makes no sense at all. You are basically saying that in order to produce software you have to pass a 'driving test', but in fact there are millions of people producing open source software that would make the majority of these apps look like the toys they are.

Sorry, but that really doesn't fly with me, the app store is simply a method of control that has nothing to do with quality.

Or were those google programmers that got their application refused somehow incompetent?

The only arbiter of what is 'good enough' and what isn't is the user, not some approval process.

If all they did was scan for malware I'd have no problem with it.
Now, its clear what you were getting at with the reference to the swine flu. As far as carbon tax, its good and bad. Good that it will supposedly encourage competitiveness. Bad that most companies will just move to a state or country that doesn't have the tax.
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I see a lot of classic board games being very fun to play on an iPad. Risk, Monopoly, etc... you can zoom in/around the board when necessary and zoom out to see the entire board. I can see it being much more successful than PC/handheld board game clones.
I hope we can expect at least some loosening of app store restrictions for the iPad- This pad would be great for an "iphone game construction kit" and I think it's a bit irrational for Apple to argue that it would be harmful for folks to create such an app on a full-screen device like the iPad.
> share your code freely with others on github or some other public venue.

Did anyone notice if it's still a terms of service violation to do this? It is for the iPhone/iPod as far as I remember.
Thanks! You guys rock! Also, would you therefore guess most of Google's search engine is written in C?
> (Even though the SDK & associated tools are freely downloadable.)

"[citation needed]", as they say - today I looked into it, and that does not seem to be true anymore.

I did bump into the free university program ( http://developer.apple.com/iphone/program/university.html ), which is tucked a bit out of the way. And there's the
free "Online Member" (at http://developer.apple.com/products/membership.html ).

But the path to the SDK does seem to be paved with 99 USD. I have no particular objection to that, just curious to know if there is a free peek at the goodies or not.
> Humans are incredibly awful at multitasking.

On the contrary, we excel at it by pushing things 'down' when we have mastered them.

For instance, driving and talking to a passenger, walking and thinking about something and so on.

We are so good at it that most of the time we don't even notice any more how many things we are doing at the same time.

The only time we are not multitasking is when we are really concentrating on something difficult, usually problem solving or learning a new skill.
> The device itself is so thick and bulky.

Lenovo's IdeaPad S10-3t, introduced at CES 2010. Capacitive multitouch too.

http://gizmodo.com/5440207/netbook-tablets-get-capacitive-mu...
Price - would you rather spend $50 bucks for a digital frame or $500 for an iPad to sit on a desk?
Go to Apple's support forum for iPhone and detail your problem.

You'll get plenty of help there.

(Of course, first scan the forum for similar problems and use the given advice.)
When will the NDA be lifted?
And like I said before, your comment was poor. You said it was the new swine flu when it's been around far longer. It was disingenuous and apparently calling you on it is a no no; so be it.
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It runs iPhone OS 3.2 with very minimal changes from 3.1.

Draw your own conclusions.

(Can't say more without risking NDA breakage.)
> There is no real "secret". Its simple mathematics.

It's math but it is definitely not simple math. Both overeating and undereating lead to adaptations and those adaptations can be very different in different people and different conditions, for example stress levels and macronutrients. Those adaptations can affect the body as well as the mind (through perceived energy levels). And body and mind are intertwined in a way you cannot ignore.

Ultimately there is a delta calorie equation that is simple, but it's as useless and trite as saying that a pregnant woman gains weight because she eats more calories than her body burns. It's trivially true, but misses the most important levels.
"Pay your $99 to become a developer"

Correct me if I am wrong but I think you have to pay this every year? (I remember something like this for IPhone dev). Insane to pay year after year for the privilege of developing and deploying your code on your device.

yeah we don't "hate" Apple/IPhone/Ipad but it is natural for people to resist being treated like idiots/serfs/sharecroppers.
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Darn, I laughed twice for this.
And of course, Haskell can be faster than all of these.
I have no reason to expect that they will lift that from the TOS.
The result of the distance() function is unused and can be optimized away by the compiler. Runs in 0.04s with LuaJIT 2.0. No type declarations needed. :-)

local radius = 6371

local function distance(latA, lngA, latB, lngB)
local latAr = math.rad(latA)
local lngAr = math.rad(lngA)
local latBr = math.rad(latB)
local lngBr = math.rad(lngB)

local deltaLat = latBr - latAr
local deltaLng = lngBr - lngAr

return radius * 2 * math.asin(math.sqrt(
math.sin(deltaLat/2)^2 + math.cos(latAr)
* math.cos(latBr) * (math.sin(deltaLng/2)^2)))
end

local start = os.clock()

for latA=-90,90,2.5 do
for lngA=-90,90,2.5 do
for latB=-90,90,2.5 do
for lngB=-90,90,2.5 do
distance(latA, lngA, latB, lngB)
end
end
end
end

local stop = os.clock()
print(stop-start)
Global warming != Climate change

1.) Global warming increases average temperatures.

2.) Climate change might turn the weather to extremes, which implies greater temperature _variance_ locally.

Now the pattern I see is: people are trying to focus on 1.), disprove it, then (falsly) claim that 2.) would also be wrong!

This is not the case. 1.) does NOT relate to 2.) in any way!

The climate change IS happening, this does not change by disproving 1.)
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Sure it has been. At the moment most scientists think that the current crop of climate change is man made. That's just how it is and that's the reason why the term global warming currently usually implies man made.

You will not change that by complaining about definitions and how words are used. In the 19th century light implied aether. No change of the dictionary could change that, there had actual scientific work to be done to change that.
I can't wait to use it as an input device for my Mac. A huge touch pad that can connect via Bluetooth and be used to bring multi-touch to my iMac would be excellent.
Ask HN: Ideas for getting a visual to represent a domain other than favicon?
I'm building a chart of top domains submitted to Windy Citizen and would like to spice it up with a visual for each domain on the chart. The chart is automated, so any images need to be grabbable programmatically. I could pull in Favicons, but was wondering if there was a way to get something a little more visually compelling.

Almost every domain has a twitter account where they post their stories. It'd be great if there was some way to programmatically grab a twitter avatar for a domain. Is there a service that lets a publisher link a twitter account to their site in the header? If not, perhaps there should be.

Other ideas?
It shows, you are comparing optomized LISP with unoptomized Java and C. Java has a long startup process so it is relativly faster on 20 second benchmarks than sub second ones. As to C, it does what you tell it do do, so the compiler needs a little more handholding. I suspect LISP's compiler is not acctually doing the computations because they are never used, granted I have not really looked into it.
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Doesn't a Mac run Vim and is usable by normal people too?
At this point we don't need climate science -- we just need to observe the ice at poles and the dead coral reefs.
So how would you do it? I notice you didn't write "IP geolocation", just "geolocation", so perhaps you would use something other than the IP information?

It is clear that no matter how smart you are as a developer, IP-only geolocation can't work reliably, simply because of the proxy issue.
The Kindle takes the book/publishment you want to read and lets you focus entirely on that. No flashy page curls, no notifications, hell not even a clock to see what time it is. It's wonderful in that sense. The e-ink is also a nice benefit, my eyes _never_ hurt from reading on my Kindle.

I think the iPad has a good idea going with iBooks and I hope they eventually do magazines as magazines are very media-heavy but I don't see it taking over the Kindles growing book environment.
It's an issue with the trig functions in Java. See this Factor vs Java comparison: http://factor-language.blogspot.com/2009/08/performance-comp...
No secret.

When I saw it, I thought "Oh, they're going back to a 4:3 screen. How nice."

Widescreen displays make it easy for panel manufacturers to skimp on resolution while keeping the same diagonal size.
Likely when the product is released to the public.
Reading through this book, I got the feeling that there was a lot of excellent information alongside a lot of very questionable or dated information, and it can be hard to tell the difference.
How so? If you feel like taking notes it's pretty much required.
I don't count the startup time for any of the languages (Java included). And the runtime for Java was over 2 minutes.
Or I could wait for the next device to come along, one that's just a flat PC, and not have to jump through any hoops whatsoever.
IPad or iMonopoly?
10 pages is enough to link the guy to socialism? really?

Maybe not to start a conversation. But when chiming in to support someone else's claim, and with the clear caveat, then yes, I think it's perfectly OK.

Monsters use any rhetoric they think will fit at their historic moment.

Show me a monster since the advent of socialism that did not use it as its justification. The only one I can think of is Pinochet in Chile (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chilean_coup_of_1973#Casualties ), and even that needs a very loose definition of monster. Certainly the chart-toppers like Lenin, Mao, Stalin, Kim, Pol Pot, Hitler preached socialism. (I'll grant that they generally didn't understand the concept very well, but the point is that it's what they advocated to their partisans and people as the ultimate solution)
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> At the moment most scientists think that the current crop of climate change is man made.

This is the part of the issue under debate...

However: the world appears to be warming up - that is why the phrase global warming was used. There was no man made connotation either way when it was first used. The linking has been made for various reasons.
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I do not think it's a sign of failure. I have watched 3 of his video and the product need a stylus just to be more accurate on small menu not all the time.

The idea is great and it has a battery on the back of the screen to be able to use it as a tablet this is why it's not very slim. I really love the idea and this product is real. Keep in mind that most of what we see on the web are just speculation or prototype. This is a step beyond dreaming... Of course it has not the style of the iPad but at least it can multi-task, have a real keyboard, etc etc... Might not be perfect but it seems very cool for the price!
I think you get the hate very much so- In fact I think you get the hate and disagree with it, which is why you made that post. I hate. I apologize, no wait I don't. I'm not willing to sign my work away to Apple to code for them. I have chosen NEVER to apply to a job for apple, and this would be like giving my life's work away to them. I don't sign NDAs for no reason. (I'm lying when I say this:) Sorry again. But No.
That was an excellent article. As someone who missed your post yesterday, thanks for thread-hijacking! ;-)
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I'm still hoping for a simple protocol with strong guarantees and persistence. RabbitMQ seems to be a very good backend implementation but its the choice of AMQP for the main protocol is a pity.

AMQP is a ridiculously over-engineered monstrosity and a saturn-sized ball on a chain for any project.
They complain about lack of video, but I have to imagine that holding up this object to take pictures or record video would be quite awkward. It is a large object. It would look kind of funny - in the way that large cellphones from 1998 look kind of funny today.
I wish I had caught it! I'm on the design side of things and feel a bit slow after missing it.

I considered writing on of which resolution is better for the device, but I figure I'll leave that up to the test of time. I do think 4:3 is a great way to launch it.
I'm afraid that in some parts of the world it will encourage corruption instead.

It can also hurt developing countries where better energy sources are not available or insanely expensive. I specifically mean eastern part of the EU where carbon tax is likely to be forced.
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Define "slower". Languages don't have a fixed "speed" relation between them. Performance varies between machine, language, problem, and implementation technique.
Personally, I'm just going to wait until some enterprising soul turns one of the slate PCs announced at CES into a hackintosh. Then I'll be very interested in the "Apple tablet".
It's the new subscription model, subscribe to rights that you should have by default. Such as the ability to program the computer that you just bought.

Early computers all came with built in programming capability, then we lost some of that and then open source happened and suddenly it seemed ridiculous to ask developers money to support your platform.

It's like charging the guys that sweep your street toll.

Be happy that people want to develop for your platform and make it as easy as possible for them.

Things like this will incrementally push developers away from closed platforms. Why on earth would anybody pay a subscription to a toolchain. Open source tools are abundant and free, run on practically any piece of hardware from small embedded controllers all the way to supercomputers.

When switching from a windows environment to open source for my main dev box a couple of years ago, I was worried about not being able to bring my tools along. Now I feel completely unable to do anything useful on a machine that does not come with at least a full complement of unix tools.

I can see a device like the ipad as a target, but if development is going to be limited to apple-only then the subscription fee is the smaller part (we do have an imac here, but I doubt that everybody that wants to develop for the pad has a mac ready to go).

So for some the cost is significantly higher than just the subscription to the SDK.

I prefer software without a built in expiry date anyway.
Not always:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...
I've been looking around but I can't find anything that comes close and isn't vapourware.

But I don't think it'll be long.
2) You can stave off hunger by chewing ice chips or drinking water (even just chewing with an empty mouth seems to promote satiety).

Chewing gum really helps me in the same way.
Is not this the one who was just now commemorating free software?
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