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I'm with the camp that doesn't see an obvious strategic move here.

Acquiring ARM only for the chance at an end-to-end vertically integrated design seems quite expensive, albeit not beyond the "insanely great" motivations of Mr. Jobs.

It's true that ARM has a compelling and growing market share at the lower end, but continuing the licensing business seems un-Apple-like; at the same time, shutting that business down would only hurt competitors a little - it would mainly serve to make the other CPU makers rush in and try to capture the resulting power vacuum.
Opposition Senator queries Conroy, Stephen Smith on US filter concerns
If your problem is CPU usage rather than bandwidth overage, consider switching from Apache to nginx. I found my LAMP WordPress blog (hosted on a small VPS and using W3 Total Cache) was having trouble with concurrent users - traffic spikes would make my CPU usage skyrocket.

I've since switched to nginx and the results have been great under moderate to high traffic, and without the use of any caching plugin.
One is absolute and one is relative.
I hear you, but I think it's more protest/irony than information. Page-breaking is a cheap trick to inflate page views, borne of the same low cunning that gives us items priced at $2.98 instead of $3.

When I'm reading HN on a phone or other high-latency environment I appreciate saving the extra roundtrip.
doh, thanks
you can't turn it on programmatically, users have to leave your app and goto settings

Uh, on Android? False:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/Blu...
I would take a guess and suggest that part of the reason Constantin Film issued a take-down is that they think it's making light of Hitler - many Germans I know are very strongly anti-nazi (e.g. a friend of mine who at a Tokyo punk gig would put down the arms of Japanese patrons who performed nazi salutes to a german-themed Japanese band).

My personal opinion is that this is fair use and beneficial to the company - I see several comments from people saying the only reason they watched Downfall is because of the various videos they watched. But that doesn't seem to ring with a company that I presume mainly makes for the domestic German market (and art-house cinema overseas to a lesser degree) and probably doesn't have a good grip of the benefits of allowing limited remixing of original content.
You have to click the button again to remove the "Like" relationship. --- Wow, talk about confusing as hell...
Makes sense, considering Facebook bought FriendFeed not too long ago. This is probably the first of many benefits they got from that acquisition.
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It requires jailbreaking your iPhone, which according to Apple is illegal. And they're probably right per the DMCA.
I think you're probably correct, but "poor" is much too generous a description of such a methodology. It rates at least an "awful", and "garbage" is not unwarranted.

Consider that it is only an accident of fate that there was merely 1 Drupal posting at time 0. If there had been two, I guess the entire trendline would be half as big.

Or consider this even wackier example:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby%2C+mongodb&l=&...

This goes to show that the algorithm is at least smart enough not to explode when dividing by zero. (There were, I'm pretty sure, zero mentions of "MongoDB" in job postings in 2005.) But, then, what does this graph measure? What are we dividing by for MongoDB? The number of postings at some arbitrary later time?
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I just wish that they had support for rotating through multiple subdomains, so I wouldn't have to do it manually.
They did use RDF ... RDFa.
It's.
What will happen when it eventually runs out of words? Or will the links expire after a certain amount of time?
Great tips. The most useful one for me is to put images and script files on a subdomain.

Doesn't adding CSS and JavaScript inline hurt your google rank?
I agree. I went to their website and saw how the technology works, and it seems really iffy. The way they recognise that two phones were bumped into each other is by having each phone contact a central server and having the central server compare the timing of the two events as well as some rough location information.

So this means that you have to send your data through their central servers. Yes, it is encrypted, etc. but I would feel much safer if it were encrypted and sent locally instead.

Also I am sure as it gets popular there will be issues with timing, such as different people bumping at the same time, or the bumps being mistimed, due to differences in the way the wireless networks of two different providers time stamp the various notifications.

So it seems that while the act of bumping may give an impression of security (i.e., that you know for sure who you are sending your data to), this impression is illusory which means you will have to authenticate the recipient anyways, so you might as well use bluetooth.

And as somebody else noted if they devoted the same efforts to bluetooth, I am sure they could make their app just as nice. And they can also use bumping to initiate bluetooth transfer too.

It seems that they are eerily insistent on transferring the data through their servers.
I knew I'd regret clicking a scripting.com link...how this stuff gets 28 upvotes is beyond me.
Heh heh... Totally clueless companies are so cute sometimes; like watching a toddler try to eat chocolate cake.
Yes, it lets you use the same URL twice - bit.ly does the same. Potentially different people want to share the same link and see their own stats:

http://s.mashd.cc/stats/nonsubstantiality
http://s.mashd.cc/stats/mispage

...although I see I have a but with the impact calculation :)
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Is there a genuinely compelling reason to banish one font or another from our currency? Really? Font Nerds are very high up on the list of geek subcultures that I do not understand. Not quite as high up as furries, though.
As the author points out, the easy fix is to let users know what they just liked, or ask them to confirm.

Also I suspect this service is fairly self-regulating. Facebook users are generally careful about what they broadcast. The author gives the captcha trick used by porn sites as an example...how many people are going to broadcast their taste in porn?
How are fluctuations calculated if the reference is the start point? Could these be 'deleted' posts?
I'm not sure about that inline issue - I hadn't heard that. I actually got that advice from Yahoo, I think. The inline Javascript and CSS makes the page load faster, so in theory it would help.
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There's JSON Schema which is serviceable, but unfortunately lacking a bit in the tooling department: http://json-schema.org/
there are ~230k words. once it runs out will start randomly hyphenating two words togther. in the mean time I'm looking at using wordnik's API for word selection - apparently they have ~4M.
Sorry, that was an oversight on my part.
People tried running windows viruses under wine, but the success rate was not that great.

(I can't copy and paste URL on thic stupid cell phone, so ask google for "virus wine linux" for the details.)
I'd prefer that the submitters submit the full page stories or printer friendly versions as the submission. Posting the single page link in the comments is friendly. I also check the comments on HN before clicking the submission link, as there is often a full page link, which always makes me happy. (The comments also tell me whether if I should take the time to actually check the submission out)

I kind of had the feeling that someone is jumping to the karma conclusion. Woe. Woe, I dare to say.

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Addendum:

Oh, and if I said I didn't appreciate the karma, I'd be lying. The +3 boost this is giving me puts me at 660, and I'm annoyed when my karma isn't divisible by 5. (I'm serious)

Otherwise I don't really care. In fact, I often post riskier comments if my overall karma isn't divisible by 5. If I was at 901, and someone somewhere downvoted me to 900, it would make me happy.

So please don't screw up my karma, you'll make me sad.
Fair enough, thanks for answering my question. FWIW, I wouldn't have made my comment if I couldn't have made it (I hope!) a little humorous. I'm in an especially comment-y mood tonight, and I've often wondered why these "Single page" posts are so popular and if they stuck out to anyone else. I find the automatic-karma-race nature of such posts (analogous to the classic xkcd new-comic-insta-submissions on reddit) somewhat intriguing. That is, such posters are obviously being helpful, but in the back of your mind you can't help but question their motivation.
Rumor: Apple to buy ARM for $8 billion?
Some virus guy wrote about the problem of the economic model of major antivirus vendors. Corporate profit interest go against making a decent long lasting antivirus and instead benefit from incremental constant updates. That's why they mostly avoid behavioral analysis and localhost security checks. Instead they just use brute force pattern matching and constant updates.

A subscription model is detrimental to users' security. But try to explain that to your PHB who reads websites and magazines making money on advertisements from the industry.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop_bear
Sort of related, a startup I work(ed) with uses Wufoo and they've had a good experience. Creating custom, arbitrary forms is something that Wufoo does very well. The customer service from the tech side has been good as well.
I'm looking at a "County of Santa Clara (CA) Secured Property Tax Bill." (I'm putting it away with other 2009 records.)

Right under the line that says "1% Maximum Tax Levy" in the "Taxing Agency Tax Rate" table, tha bill lists the percentages for several additional levies. The subtotal labelled "Tot Assessed Val Rate" is more than 1% and there are additional percentages below that, which aren't included in said "Tot". And then there are several other "Special Assessments" which are listed by dollar figure, not percentage.

In the "Tax Rate Per $100" column, it has both the >1% "Tot Assessed Val Rate" figure and the total of the percentages listed below it in the "Agency/Rate" table mentioned above. Both numbers are multiplied by corresponding numbers in the "Assessed Value" column. The total of the special assessments in dollars is added to those products.

I'm paying more than 1%. They may not call the amounts over 1% "property tax", but Santa Clara County is collecting them on the "Secured Property Tax Bill", just like the amount that they call property tax.

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Question: Would ARM chips be suitable for, say, five-years-from-today iMacs? What would be the differentes between ARM and Intel?

Note: I don't know anything about hardware.
I like this idea a lot, though I'm not sure there is any possibility of making money on the business side.

I think I might have to code up an implementation of this to see how well the vibrations between phones match.
I concur :-) Apple will be more likely to buy a company that will reduce a hop on their supply chain; in that sense, a GPU maker makes sense.

But it is funny to speculate as a laymen - I mean what if Google bought AMD instead? That would give them a crazy position to experiment with hardware and keep a check on Apple - after all, Google means serious business with the Nexus one and the mythical tablet. And we all know Google likes to experiment with 3D stuff in browsers and such. Again, I am just blithering- with Google's purchase of AMD (+ATI), they might just have crazy nice open-source 3D tools, maybe even a cloud platform for map-reduce rendering work (take that Pixar - yet another Steve Jobs production).

But on the other hand, Microsoft is the one who could benefit the most from buying AMD. For one thing, MSFT gets ATI for Xbox 360, a platform that MSFT has well executed. And now, Microsoft even make their own chips from win 7 mobile phones to consoles. To really keep Apple's market cap away from them, MSFT panics and makes their own hardware and opens up retail stores :-P
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Any Ruby vs. Python comparison here is probably tainted by the fact that Rails often becomes "Ruby and Rails" or even just "Ruby" in recruiterspeak. You don't see a lot of reqs for "Python and Django" or "Python and Tornado".
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Bootup Labs' Danny Robinson: "I made mistakes. I was wrong. Lessons Learned."
I'm not sure they have the choice about whether or not to GPL it. They are building on GPL'd code, which means their code must be GPL'd. Perhaps there's a formal way to say, "we won't go after you if you use our code against the terms of the GPL, but we can't control what Drupal does".
...and Apple had SO MUCH luck with that in the classic Mac OS, along with its recapitulation in the form of InputManagers in OS X.

Apple wants everyone to be able to take the same basic UI for granted. They still have a few more years of iteration to go before their UI paradigms solidify, and they really don't want a bunch of fucknuts spoiling their future by dragging in a bunch of WIMP shit. They want nothing to do with the adolescent themers on xda-developers, and are happy to be the Facebook to your Myspace.

They know full well that if they allowed side-loading, their active userbase would mean that there'd be lots of mainstream press coverage of shit like UI full conversions. DO NOT WANT.
Lucene - was extending it to add BM25.
I see this story come up a lot, but according to reCAPTCHA, it's an urban legend. There is not really any evidence that spammers actually do this at all, let alone do it on a meaningful scale.
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Around 60 million people died as result of this megalomaniac. Making a mockery of this figure with voice over is fair game in my view: it dissipates negative energy, and, while still showing the visuals without alteration means to me that the real Hitler is simultaneously not hidden. There are of course going to be mixed reactions to these clips, but with myself having distant family perish (as with many others), it's not offensive but rather makes light of (as in confronts) a terrible time.
1) ARM doesn't manufacture any chips. They licence their designs to chip makers. That means they are in the chip design market, and there is no way they have a monopoly there, so I find it extremely unlikely that the takeover would be blocked on those grounds.

2) Antitrust problems generally happen when you coerce a company into something using your monopoly power - not when you close down a business (if you believe the bit about them closing ARM down - which I don't). If Apple tried to force ARM licencees to forbid the use of Android (or Flash! :)) on the chips, then maybe there would be a concern (abuse of market power etc).
I disagree. See: Airport Security.
If you notice it when you're still on the page, it's easy. However, as I understand it one would have to go to their facebook page to see this, and it seems unlikely that most users would be doing that (constantly watching their facebook page, not just the homepage feed). If someone is "liking" a lot of pages, then there's also the difficulty of figuring out which pages the spam is coming from - even if it would be possibly to determine through a process of elimination, users would have to remember every page they liked by the time they noticed the spam.

Not a big issue now, but if lots of pages start using this capability, it could become a problem, albeit of a very minor variety.
I agree with almost everything Bunnie says, except:

1) I use Strawberry Perl instead of Cygwin. I'm scared of Cygwin. The only Unix utility I have on my Windows XP box is wget.

http://strawberryperl.com

2) I can't get myself to jump to widescreen Thinkpad. I like reading everything as high up on the screen as I can. I'm worried about my neck!
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So maybe that means they can't write code for Drupal?
You're seriously scared about destroying your phone by lightly tapping fists?
Same thing here. Got another Crucial for free and it's been going strong for about 4 months.
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> Growth like that doesn't just stop, unless there is some external factor.

Why? MySpace's growth slowed. Nothing grows infinitely--the math doesn't work. There is always a limiting factor that slows growth eventually, whether it be external or internal.
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The "karma" comment was a joke, one that had the possibility of having some truth to it. I didn't assume any ill will :)

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Addendum: I do appreciate that "divisible by 5" quirk you mentioned :).

My quirk seems to be that I don't really consider my comments complete until I've reread and edited them something like 5-10 times. I thinks that's why it makes me kind of sad when my shortest comments (e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1283979 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1219118) are the ones that get the most upvotes... I spend so little time on those comments, as compared to one like http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1284130.
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Yup, there you're trading off security for theater.
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I never had trouble connecting my Nokia to any other phone, including Samsungs, Sony Ericssons, etc. Bluetooth has been nothing but easy to use and reliable. Couple of UI things on some phones could be improved, but I do not see a reason for switching technologies. IR to bluetooth has been a vast improvement, this bump thing seems ridiculous.
This is a pretty loaded example. You're using the absolute worst case scenario as the use case for bumping (requiring two bumps and that their server is down). 99 times out of 100, you only need a single bump, and their uptime has been great so far!
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similarly, if you look at scala's relative growth it actually is growing faster than ruby: http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=ruby,++scala&l=&re...

but obviously there aren't as many scala jobs out there as there are ruby.
Its never too late to stand up and admit your mistakes.
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I just had this discussion with some friends who got their PhDs and bought homes. "Paying rent is just throwing your money down the drain" they said. It's easy to ignore the opportunity costs of owning a home. I wrote a blog post explain the economic reasons why the cost of owning and renting might differ:
http://aspiringeconomist.com/index.php/2010/04/17/rent-vs-bu...
That's exactly what I was thinking of. Thanks.

(Of course, at >$3000 I'm not actually going to buy one. Just geek out over it.)
I think the HN wall of interesting and intelligent content might have cracked, a "Hilter's Reaction" video on the front page? horrible.
I heard that advice about nginx, but was concerned about lack of a mod_rewrite module for smart URL structure. Is there a way to have search-engine-friendly-urls easily with nginx?
There isn't even 9000 movies. Sounds like you are looping and counting the same set of movies over and over.
While I appreciate your sense of doubt about the cell companies, I personally wouldn't go as far without proper data on their high availability. Again, I am sure Bump has thought about this extensively enough to get some money from Sequoia.
What's the proper way to do this?
Bootup Lab's reputation has still been badly damaged.

An entrepreneur's commitment and sacrifice to their business is very serious and they took a very nonchalant approach to handling this situation until the PR blew up.

Of course Danny is sorry now. I'm sure Bootup will continue to do fine with finding new startups since entrepreneurs in need of cash are always in high supply.

But competent entrepreneurs look for competent investors and the real test now is if Bootup labs is capable of getting/being either of those.
Look at the wild fluctuations for c++:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=python+toronto,+perl+toron...

Or Perl:

http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=python+toronto,+perl+toron...
True, though the impact is somewhat tempered when only done to save your own skin.
Admittedly I thought that AMD made more sense initially but I think the key might be that Apple isn't really a "computer company" anymore. Laptop and desktop sales aren't nearly as important as iphone, ipod and ipad sales. With that buying AMD may not be as enticing as ARM as there may be more of a future in the small devices. Not sure on the numbers but I would also imagine the margins are much better on the small devices. Small devices are also generally more tightly integrated than laptops/desktops so owning the stack may be advantageous.
Wouldn't emulating the Android bytecode inside iPhone OS be the opposite of native?

This looks like it boots straight into the actual android linux, so it's about as native as you can get.
He failed but he didn't fail fast. :) but the important thing is he learned a lesson and wrote about it.
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You're not actually 'trading off' security. You're trading convenience for a false sense of security.
If I ran biz dev at _any other hosting company_ I would offer to host the site for free in exchange for a little logo on the bottom of the page.
I love video games, and have been playing them my entire life (beyond as far back as my memory goes), and I would not consider the majority of games to be art.

"Is it art or not" is a stupid debate. What is art? You cannot even have this argument, because two opposing viewpoints will not have the same definition of art.

Great essay on this matter: http://johnhenrylambert.com/essays/bad_words.html

Are video games fine art? No. Are they art like you might find at a modern art museum? Sometimes, but very rarely. Almost never, for the sort of game you can buy for a console from the store. Are they art like industrial design, transportation, bridges, etc? Probably not, since the games themselves are usually only software. Is software art? Sometimes, probably. Then are games art like software is art? Could be, but most people think of the game as the entire package itself, not just the code that powers the engine.

Are the in-game assets art? The characters, scenery, etc? Individually, certainly. As a whole? Debatable. Individually, the assets have no purpose other than their form. Collectively, they take the form as fulfilling part of an exchange the consumer (who paid money with the understanding that he or she will receive a minimum amount of stimulation and entertainment) has made with the producer of the game. Few people expect to pay $60, put a disc into their console, and look at pictures of chairs nailed to a wall and read a marker-felted diatribe about the uselessness of progressing fashionable design standards if the functional form does not change over time. If you pay $60 to go through a museum of modern art and don't like it, well, too fucking bad.

Most commercially produced games, just like with most commercially produced movies, the consumer pays money with the expectation that their purchase will be fulfilled.

So by that definition, most Hollywood movies are not art, either. Which I would also agree with.

Entertainment is not exactly the same thing as many of the more formal definitions of art.
isn't the "adobe destruction team" actually adobe?
You know, I've tried to jam with bands as a non-fretted player. It's tough - especially since I haven't played with fretted/keyboard instruments in about 12 years (switched from duet recitals to chamber/symphonic).

It's really frustrating to try and figure out the precise notes - but I can improvise fairly well on my own or with another string. I definitely need to train my ear better, but knowing that there's this interval problem now - it'll probably help, because I know that there's something I'm going to have to adjust for.