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This seems similar but probably not $200: http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/19699/?a=f

I think the technique in the article could control the car from any location via cell modem.
I don't know jrockway, but somehow it seems like I'm logged in as him/her for a split second. Usually if I refresh a few times it goes away.

I wonder if the first three letters of our usernames being the same has any relation to the issue. I never find myself logged in as anyone else.
As joubert had hinted (in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1298038), the Fifobooks.com catalog is now browsable on the web.
Not sure what Patapage is; this article didn't offer anything by way of new information about site improvement, nor did it explain what 'Patapage' is.
Perhaps it could be done less traceably, especially if the crash investigators aren't expecting non-mechanical brake tampering?

Still, it's a pretty difficult and high-failure-probability way of killing somebody.
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Yes, Patapage is a real online service.

P.s.: I'm not hacking the system :-)
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It might be not so difficult to learn Spanish if you know French or English.

Try to learn some language from the different family (non Latin), like Hindi, Nepali, Tibetan, or even Japanese at least in one year. =)

btw, to know a language doesn't mean that you've memorized some basic phrases and most used words. I, for example, can read and translate on the fly to my native language some scientific books on subjects with which I'm familiar, but speaking and writing are extremely difficult to me. It is already an issue of the age.
What I mean is this: If they are over on Android and Blackberry and WebOs helping developers make the same kinds of applications that developers are making on iPhone, they're going to lose unless Android or Blackberry or WebOS find a way to win independently of Flash.

But if there is some new kind of application that I can't imagine that they facilitate, some new category that is so compelling for end users that they buy whatever phone runs the new application, then another phone can supplant iPhone the way PCs supplanted Apple IIs.

If Adobe's product is the dominant way to write the new kind of app, Adobe will ride this new market the way Flash rode the explosion of the web.

But fundamentally, it has to be something new that makes all of the existing apps seem like yesterday's news.
Steven Strogatz has studied (and to a large extent popularized) mathematical models of synchronization of fireflies (and many other things). Here's an interesting TED talk by him about synchronization in general:

http://www.ted.com/talks/steven_strogatz_on_sync.html
I don't know that it's beneficial to think in terms of languages (at least in terms of programming languages). It's probably better to think in terms of paradigms. For instance, once I've learned an object-oriented language, I can pretty much learn any of them easily. The same is mostly true for functional programming languages (although some are admittedly more difficult than others).

I could imagine natural languages are roughly the same way. For instance, I'd believe that learning another Romance Language would be easier after you've already learned one. Same for different variations of Chinese and Hindi.
Ref: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1346961
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I think he's an unmarried Catholic, so he's not having sex already; two months of not having sex amidst a lifetime of not having sex isn't really an issue for him.

He'll change his tune pretty quickly, I'm sure, after getting married (from one "strict" Catholic to another).
Check out stackoverflow.com for issues others are having with android development.
If you can write essays on various topics, you have mastered essay writing
If you are a student in college, pursuing a degree in literature, economics, physics or any other subject, writing an essay would be a regular assignment for you.
For completeness I turned this into a little blog-lesson about searching the web.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347388
How is this a privacy issue? This exposes no personal information. You could create separate ads with different settings and use the differences in the URLs they point to to connect visitors with demographic data from their profile, but you still wouldn't know their name, friends, etc.
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So is there a handy table showing the results of all these tests in all* browsers?

*within reason obviously...
I suggest you email pg and let him know.
"Bus factors" refers to how many people need to get hit by busses before there's nobody left who can work on something. In particular, a bus factor of 1 is a very bad thing to have.
Thanks will give it a go.
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Awesome, I'll have to look into that. Thank you.
i know better than you

Well, I do know better than my audience. That's why they came to my talk. :-)
Ah. I thought it might be an easter egg, not a bug. I will go ahead and drop him a line though.
I put in an ad for my wife around Valentine's day and specifically targeted it to her (it helps that she's the only Memphis-area fan of a fan page I run). She saw it early on the first day of the ad window. I think setting my cost per click at the high end of the range was important.

It wound up costing less than a dollar for the successful campaign.
Who wants to develop remix.com?
I apologize if this is not the right forum for this request, but Hackers are desperately needed. The domain industry sucks and remix.com should be a cool web app.

I’m in a position to engage in a joint venture, sell or lease this domain. The term remix receives more than 100 million monthly searches (35MM U.S.), and the domain is adequately backlinked that it displays on the first page of google results. I wanted to develop this, but my life is going in a different direction. I’d prefer a hands-off equity stake position with the right team because I think the name has exceptional potential.

Send me an email (either from my profile or on remix.com) to let me know we can work together. Ludacris used to actually own this name as well, I guess it didn’t work out for him either ☺ http://www.dnforum.com/f17/ludacris-selling-his-domain-remix...
After reading this, I tried to :q that tab.

Had I been using the Vimperator plugin, this would have done something, I know. Maybe it's worth installing again after all. Old habits and all that.
> They told me to write web applications using open and free standards, and I listened.

Too bad you can't write any apps (preferred method for accessing information on the iPhone) using an open and free standard.

It's not just Adobe this effects, it effects any framework. Including the one built on free and open standards: http://www.phonegap.com/
And here is some more coverage of it - http://opensource.com/law/10/5/standing-up-patent-bully
Really, I think that's the only way to learn some things.

Good documentation and comments always seem like a hassle... until the first time you have to go fix a bug on something you wrote 18 months ago and have no clue how it works.
This the same BCA who sued a science journalist for pointing out that their claims didn't seem to have scientific proof.
More at the excellent badscience blog:

http://www.badscience.net/2010/04/british-chiropractic-assoc...
The weird thing is that this appears to be quite serious (although it contains jokes, and quite right too), and motivated by a genuine need to understand the dynamics of coupled cow ensembles.

And there's an interesting and nonobvious result: you can increase the coupling between your cows and get their behaviour to synchronize less. (Although that's only true for a particular configuration of which cows interact with which others, and it's probably not realistic.) Their main example of this isn't quite as surprising as it sounds, to me at least: there's some lag in the influence of one cow on another, and the situation in which increased coupling reduces synchronization is one where there are long chains of mutually influencing cows.

I loved this sentence, from the second page: "Cattle are ruminants, so it is biologically plausible to view them as oscillators."

The paper actually has pictures in it showing spherical cows. The acknowledgements say: "We thank [...] Puck Rombach for assistance with cow puns, and Yulian Ng for drawing a spherical cow for us." Obviously it's a fair assumption that everyone reading their paper is familiar with the joke.
It depends on the car's ECU, and your technical skill-set. For a car like a Mitsubishi Evolution, there is a largish community re-flashing: http://forums.evolutionm.net/ecuflash-179/ is a nice place to learn and understand the craft.

I think if crash investigators lack the ability to dump the ECU rom and have it compared to an original, they are somewhat incompetent.
Does the former assume you will be using Eclipse?
It'd be interesting to see, though, how much users notice ads that have pictures of people they know vs. how much they notice 'regular' ads that don't have familiar people in them: Facebook shows lots of pictures of friends' photos around the edges with reminders to "Get back in touch", etc. and so people have been trained to tune those out, too.
hmm... so if you were a divorce lawyer you could run a "looking for love" ad using a picture of a loved one and a "need a divorce?" ad right underneath it.

Evil, but possibly effective.
Here, check your browsers:

http://mylittlehacks.appspot.com/html5
Did Facebook import my friends, photos, and info from MySpace?
No, I like Wodehouse, so I used Bertie and Oofy in my retelling of the joke. But I'm pretty sure it's much, much older. I don't actually recall it occurring in any of the short stories, novels, or Fry and Laurie dramatizations.
I mean .... how could you know that ?
Really ... how ?
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Doesn't YouTube already do this with their Content ID system?

http://www.youtube.com/t/contentid
How did this blatant advertisement get onto the FP?

Here are 9 things your website needs to improve.

By an *amazing coincidence* the product I want to
sell you does exactly those things!

Order yours today!!!
Incidentally, this theory predicts that all the new(ish) programming languages attracting buzz these days — whether Ruby, or Scala, or Clojure, or Go, or whatever — will fail to attract large numbers of programmers.

I'm a little confused. Hasn't Ruby already passed this test, or am I just biased because I enjoy writing in Ruby? I was under the impression that Ruby and Python were largely equivalent in popularity and notoriety, as evidenced by Rails and Django, for example.
I've been suspecting that he's a sociopath. First, being in a position of power puts him in the right demographic. Then, he seems to continue to do whatever he can get away with, then come with an apology that seems sincere enough that people buy it, and then he keeps on as before. I don't know how you can launch Beacon, the way it was launched, with other people knowing what was going to happen (1), and be surprised when it's a PR disaster. Either he's stupid or he was just testing what he can get away with.

(1) http://gigaom.com/2007/11/06/facebook-beacon-privacy-issues/
This is a dupe of yesterday's story - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1342748
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What can I say, the servant's quarters are pretty sweet, whereas if you homestead you have to cut down your own trees and live in a rough log cabin.

But it's YOUR log cabin!
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The gold standard of local business databases seems to be InfoUSA and their InfoGroup Licensing division. Their licensing usually starts in the six figures. I have an idea that needs similar data to real make it useful, but can't start with a 6 figure budget. Ideas?
Highly recommended. http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Android-Application-Devel...
http://www.limitless.co.nz/ sells the cable + software for re-flashing a variety of ECU's. I think he makes the cables by hand (he also started offering a nifty GPS + flashing unit as well). It's impressive work. It's quite easy to play with (and also quite easy to physically damage your car if you don't know what you are doing).

Having physical access to the car would make it impossible to stop: It's relatively easy to replace the ECU in a vehicle, which would be essentially impossible to notice (in my cars case, it's tucked in behind the glove box). Then you could have much wider levels of control over the vehicle than an ECU would generally provide, by using your own custom hardware.

I find it highly unlikely that the ECU would be networked (so to speak) with the car entertainment system (wireless/internet etc).
Er, that should be "How to design a popular systems programming language." Since web stuff isn't dependent on a platform the language of choice can be very fluid. Remember when nearly all webapps were written in Perl?
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See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1347388
"... it would be incredibly cool if they went out and bought some tiny startup or lab with a really revolutionary product and pimped it out as the successor to Flash for mobile devices."

Instead, Adobe went and bought Omniture for $1.8B. The acquisition has "completing the loop" written all over it. These are the actions of an incumbent who is more concerned with milking their position than maintaining it. We should be glad Apple lighting a fire under Adobe's feet; somebody needs to remind them to compete.
With all this talk of flash you would be lead to believe that Adobe are the worst company in the world. I just isn't, they have some really good products that nobody in the industry has managed to copy yet. Let's face it, the reason for Apple's attitude is Adobe is a serious player with the resources that could change the nature of Apple's mobile computing platform and reduce mac sales (developers really have to buy a Mac to write apps).

I'm not for flash, but some of the authoring tools available from Adobe are difficult to copy. I'm thinking how would I do some of that key frame animation that's been in flash for years in html5? Tweening?

Is this another case where the competition is fended off for just enough time to build the software in-house or buy it in?
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Please remember that this wasn't a book chapter or a blog posting, but presentation slides.

As presentations are normally held, the slides are just key excerpts from the one hour talk he was holding while the slides whizzed by.
I really like the books by Mark Murphy at commonsware.com. I have submitted some errata to Mark, and I think I have a spare coupon code you could use for a 6 month subscription if you want to take a look. My email is in my profile. Mark also does a one hour Office Hours session about twice a week, and that's been helpful.

As for ORM, I have been using SQLiteOpenHelper and SQLiteDatabase directly, but I had heard that you can use Hibernate (edit: don't think this is true). Also, there is one that recently released but is not free (I have not tried it and have no affiliation): https://www.activeandroid.com/

As for platform target, I would just go with Android 1.6 unless you need something specific from the more recent releases. That covered most of the market in January, and there have been a ton of 2.0 and higher phones sold since then.

I'm far from an expert, but I'd be glad to chat with you if you run into any questions. (I'm working in the other direction, trying to learn some iPhone OS)
Yes. They also use behavior differences between summer and winter to motivate the study, so an atmosphere is implicit.

Despite all its successes, we've known for years that someday we'd have to move beyond the Standard Model.
The only problem I have with Etacts is that it forces you to use Google Chrome. At least Rapportive is integrated in Mailplane as well.

Don't get me wrong, I love Chrome, but once you start doing font management (I'm a designer) on your computer Chrome start screwing things up
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Because it's a completely nonsensical question.

If balaclavas are used in bank robberies, and you care about the safety of your money, why would you wear a balaclava on a mountain climbing expedition?

PDFs are not a tool for security attacks because they are PDFs, they are a tool for security attacks because of vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. Any given PDF is not a danger, only PDFs with exploits are dangerous.

And including a buffer overflow exploit, rootkit and phone-home code isn't something you're going to do accidentally while publishing your talk slides, is it?
What books do you recommend?

I've depended entirely on the web for learning Android development, but I've heard good things about the Android books from http://commonsware.com/. He has some helpful (free) tutorials available as well.

What is the best part about working with Android?

For me: flexibility and transparency. I like to get my hands dirty and gain a deeper understanding of the system, and it's quite helpful having (1) access to the source code for almost the entire system and (2) root access on the device. Those things likely won't matter when you're writing your first Android app, but it will matter when you're doing something uncommon or complex.

Are there are any CoreData like persistence frameworks?

I haven't needed any for my own apps, but the framework has integrated data storage engines. I imagine that someone has built a CoreData-like layer that uses them. This link might be helpful: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/371538/any-good-orm-tools...

Is three weeks, give or take a few days, too aggressive a deadline for doing a port from iPhone to Android?

Can you give us any more details? Your time commitment will vary significantly depending on the complexity of the app. If it's a 3D game, then three weeks might not cut it. If it's a reasonably straight-forward app that doesn't have a ton of features, then three weeks will be ample time given your prior experience.

A few other thoughts: don't be afraid of Android UI building. It isn't as scary as it sounds. heliodorj's comments about reading the Activity/Intent/Multitasking documentation are spot on -- making sure that you grok those concepts will save you time and frustration. Be sure to test on a real phone, preferably one that isn't super speedy so that you don't frustrate users with older hardware (e.g., the G1, aka HTC Dream).
Reto (the author) is a wicked smart developer who is now on the Developer Relations team at Google. While I haven't read/used it myself (not a Java/Android programmer) I can speak to excellence of the author.
I think that the best way to learn would be to first go some place that has good practices, then go somewhere shoddy. You'll learn to appreciate the good practices a lot more without having to un-learn bad habits.
What we also see over and over, once you learn to how to look for it, is that pouring money into something without the fundamentals to support the tech you're trying to build doesn't work. You can't exceed your primitives, and matching Erlang's primitives turns out to be pretty hard. Any attempt to jam Erlang's primitives into Javascript will make it not Javascript anymore, but some derived language that merely resembles Javascript.

Node.js will get better, but it will get spanked by Erlang at high loads and with lots of processes, and while there isn't nothing that Node.js can do about it, there's a limit to what they can do and still be JS.

(Interestingly, this is not necessarily true in general. It is particularly true here because Javascript is the colloquial term for ECMAScript, which is a standard. To get the requisite primitives in there would require changes that violate the standard, such as the execution environments and the way references are treated. A language that isn't standardized could change and still claim to just be the next version.)
I do not have the power to downvote, and I hate when people downvote because of disagreement but do not explain their stance -- I learn nothing from it; I can give you my perspective on your comment. (It would be nice to have a personal downvote message feature or something; the anonymity helps us avoid embarrassment, I guess.)

First, your point is irrelevant. Whatever the medium, this discussion is about cryptography. There is not a real case of hypocrisy here. Cryptography is certainly related to security, but as far as I can tell, that is not the thrust of this discussion.

Second, while the technology can be abused, as you point out, that is a far cry from this particular author abusing it and using it as a security attack. The author's PDF is fine.

I am not agreeing or disagreeing with you, btw.

In other words, I can see that this comment was downvoted because it did not meaningfully add to the discussion. I usually see downvotes on posts that include offtopic personal axe grinding. I may receive the same, myself, for this post, but I just wanted to help you avoid it in the future.
Tell HN: I quit my job Starting full-time on my startup on Monday.
I put in my notice a couple of weeks ago. Today is my last day! I will be working with RyanElkins (a fellow hacker) on IActionable.com full-time starting next week. We received some initial funding through a local program called BoomStartup.com.

One thought I wanted to share was on my experience letting my coworkers know that I am leaving. I was definitely not prepared for the responses I received. When people first heard I was leaving almost everyone jokingly responded with "Traitor! Who are you leaving us for? Is it more money?!". But once I explained that I'm doing my own thing the attitude change was amazing. I wasn't told "You're crazy!" but instead I was congratulated and applauded as if I had broken free from some captor and were cheering me to run as fast and as far as I can. I was also reminded over and over again to remember them as if I was supposed to return and free them. Perhaps one day :)

Of course, from my perspective I feel more like I'm late to a marathon that I have been jealously watching others run for years. The feedback we received from our 'Review our Site' posts as well as everyone's experiences that were shared here have definitely helped us get to where we are today.

Thank you Hacker News - Here we go!
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Oh, I thought that it was Cappuccino blogging about a Github client written by Github guys (I think because it uses the Github mascot in the UI) but now I see it was actually built by experienced Cappuccino guys. I think? I'm not sure anymore. So... I guess the question should be expanded to:

Hey anyone who has switched to Objective J (but not originally coming from Objective C background)... how was the transition for you? Any lessons to share with us?
You might want to double check your facts. PhoneGap won't be affected by 3.3.1
To you this is news.

To a lot of people this is like finding out that someone has spidered and indexed their conversations at the pub.

Their fault? Sure. But a lot of people react worse to bad events when a mistake they made caused it, especially if they were warned before hand. Anticipating hearing 'we told you so' is not going to make the general public feel calm and relaxed.
"How I Learned French in One Year" : http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/29/15258/287
is a very insighful article on how to learn language without going to the country. Advices are not specific to french. The best advice I retained is that commute time are your friends when learning a language.