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I use Chrome on OS X as well and have disabled the Flash plugin, and use AdBlock and WidgetBlock Chrome extensions to make browsing faster. The only time I use Firefox is to view Flash.
Interesting that war criminals at the Hague can presumably get legal counsel without their lawyers being harassed or shaken down but expose a few corrupt governments and never mind that.
A t for a type variable. I sometimes name variables to the data structure that they are holding, e.g. p for pair, h for heap. The names x, y and z for things that have a generic type, and xs ("axes"), ys ("whys"), zs ("zeds") for collections of general things (and xss for collections of collections of things).

For example, an F# pairing heap:

type 't heap = Empty | Heap of 't * 't heap list

let findmin (Heap(x,_)) = x
let merge h1 h2 =
match (h1,h2) with
| Empty,h | h,Empty -> h
| Heap(x,h1s),Heap(y,h2s) -> if x < y then Heap(x,h2::h1s) else Heap(y,h1::h2s)
let deletemin (Heap(_,hs)) = List.fold merge Empty hs
let insert h x = merge h (Heap(x,[]))

First line: t for type. Second line: x for something of generic type t. Third line: h1 and h2 for heap. Fifth line: h1s and h2s for lists of heaps corresponding to h1 and h2. This saves time coming up with names, and it ends up being more readable if you're used to it. Of course these short names will only be used for variables that are used internally in a function, not for function names and such.
Thanks, restarting Chrome got me to that version, and then the icon appeared.

(It seems this feature must have just been pushed; it was less than a week ago when I last restarted.)
I had the same problems too, had the same firefox profile since the 1.0 days almost, and had my history set to remember it for 1 year, my profile dir alone was over 2GB. After starting a fresh profile everything went back to pretty much normal (by firefox's standards)
Not really. I mean, if Google chose to let them than sure. Otherwise it wouldn't be that hard to have Chrome (which is based on an open source project but is not itself open source) send an encrypted key in each packet ensuring it came from a Chrome browser.

That said both Microsoft and Apple have voice recognition engines built into their client OS which seems like a much better option latency wise.
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I suggest purchasing a SSD for your 2007 MBP. You can then use the SSD drive for when you eventually decide to upgrade to a new computer.

I've heard Apple's SSD drives are expensive and there are better options, like http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/Mercury_Extr...
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They're considering clicking the microphone icon permission. (You did have to click the icon, didn't you?)
Buying new hardware is never a solution for a bad user experience, at least not with the laptop you own.
While I understand your sentiment, your reasoning isn't the best. There are quite a few things that glow in nature:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glowworm
http://www.springbrook.info/glow_worms/about_worms.htm
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Completely agreed, even down to describing my SSD as "the best upgrade I've ever purchased" to friends.

I have a non-unibody MBP from the 2007 era that I now have almost zero interest in upgrading; if it weren't for the fact mine is showing wear-and-tear and other improved hardware features (unibody construction, battery, display, improved headset port, audio-over-Displayport), it would be zero interest, since my 17" is now more than fast enough for everything I do. :)
I'm upset that they won't let you put programming languages into the "Languages You Speak" box.

There's gotta be at least one Facebook engineer lurking on this post. If so, how about a fix? :)
Are they making a similar phone for Android? I'd be interested in seeing that.
I know, I had to do that 100 times. I didn't want any of them there. I didn't think they were applicable.
Its also a little concerning that google is sending this data to its own servers without warning. GOOG-411 at least warned you it was a collection tool.
You can also keep the hard drive and replace the optical drive using several brackets available on the market.

Depending on which MBP you have, you may even be able to fit a 12.5mm SATA drive, which means you could potentially squeeze in a 1TB drive.
I tried your sentence "The owl and the pussycat went to sea in a beautiful pea green boat" and got "seattle hookers gatwick to see a beautiful pizza ri boat". You win.
InfraDNA http://infradna.com/about is the company Kohsuke founded to offer professional support for Hudson.
AFAIK, the Apple TV's kernel still has a notion of a persistent store from which it boots up.
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I did have a look at SSD's for my machine.

The downside is that the model of MBP that I own has a SATA interface that is limited to 1.5Gbps and the research that I did showed that the best SSD's are faster than that, so I'd be wasting some of the power of the SSD because the interface is slow.

The other problem is that installing a replacement hard disk in this machine is a nightmare. I've installed thousands of hard disks into computers and this was the hardest and most scary - I had to bend circuit boards and components to get a new 320GB/7200RPM disk in to replace the old 120GB/5400RPM, hoping that nothing snapped. Apple must have tried hard to design a machine with a disk that hard to upgrade.

Given those two issues I think I'd probably buy an entirely new machine and give the old machine to someone else in the family.
Nothing new there then.
eBooks are my thing. But this site as-is is seriously deficient. I see you want to do sample files, etc, but that should have been there from the beginning. I'm not signing up to anything that can't convince me of its value up-front, in plain language, with all the details (and a FAQ), plus samples. And the site as-is convinces me of nothing.
As much as we try not to, we're only human. As such, it's very hard to justify, well, don't be upset, that's from a few years ago. She'll understand, but it still causes unnecessary angst, frustration. There's no reason to not have a remove option for the scroller widget.
"Hack the planet" -> "Mayo clinic"

You win this round Google.
He may well be a douche, or a bit creepy or strange, or any of the other accusations smeared on him. But the point is that he isn't being pursued because he's a douche. He's being pursued because of his involvement in wikileaks and the technological disruption it represents. There is a deep nexus between the changes being enabled by technology and issues of personal liberty.
That's why hackers on here care about technology and transparency - whether it's the transparency of your body through a backscatter imaging device, or the transparency of governments through wikileaks. Hackers are at the vanguard of the changes in technology and freedom. And they care about the liberty of their fellow citizens and democratic institutions. Technology holds both the greatest threat to and the greatest promise for liberty and democracy. How we handle it will determine if it's Big Brother keeping an eye on the people, or the people keeping an eye on Big Brother.
Ok. I have officially heard enough about Julian Assange.

Unless there is considerably new information on this story -- charges filed, some new tech angle, unforeseen reaction to the leaks -- I am flagging any new posts I see.

I don't flag much at all, I have a very high threshold, but this is really pushing the limits. At the very least let's agree that there are good people on both sides of this issue. Some folks think Assange is a criminal. Others don't.

It's fair to say that postings going on about possible sinister plots, political action recommendations, and ways to get back at whomever opposes wikileaks doesn't help me form a better startup, doesn't inform me on startup or hacker-related issues, and can only serve to keep alive a constant bickering argument. That's not why I'm here. I just can't see all of these postings as anything more than emotional appeals to light the torches and go storm the castle. Great political fodder, perhaps, but some of us like Dr. Frankenstein and don't want the castle stormed.

So to all of you who are out there wanting to make a difference and change the world, I feel your pain. Go organize, protest, and plot somewhere else please. Godspeed.
The substantive arguments I am trying to make are:

1. Despite diminishing returns, medicine/health is a social/individual priority and significant resources are dedicated to this field.

2. Health is a core necessity similar to food and shelter - I find it difficult to imagine a future of substantially decreased health resources.

3. Current aims are to improve efficiency, and slow the growth of healthcare as a proportion of GDP, but it would be difficult to actually decrease its proportion of GDP, particularly if expectations for standard of living and health continue to increase.

4. Biological science is really interesting and medicine allows you to help others.

5. You get to see some really cool things that most people can't see.

6. The above reasons are things that won't be changing in the foreseeable future.

For any career, there are intangible and unquantifiable reasons and benefits. I am not, and not seeking to, make a completely objective, metric based argument for medicine. To be successful, I think you need to have a passion for your career, and I am simply trying to identify the aspects of medicine that one can find passion for. For that matter, if the decision to choose medicine is purely quantitative and pragmatic, I would advise you against medicine. We don't need physicians like that.
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If this were how everyone communicated, there'd be no wikileaks.
No I haven't removed Flash. Yes I had Flash installed.
And other browsers could just extract the key and ship it as well.
Is having a high IQ a prerequisite to being a great engineer?
<input x-webkit-speech> works for me, so you may want to just apply the attribute to all input elements regardless of type (and textarea elements for future support). I suspect that support for voice input on input types such as date may also be added eventually.

Edit: More at the HTML5 speech input proposal at https://docs.google.com/View?id=dcfg79pz_5dhnp23f5#y1f9 . It's apparent from this that you should also use the attribute on select elements too. I also can get x-webkit-speech working in current stable Chrome with an input type of speech.
Here in Pittsburgh, many people will actually turn their TV volume down to 0 to listen to the radio commentary for Penguins games. It's because Mike Lange and Phil Bourque are absolutely fantastic, and they've been covering the Pens forever.

So I don't know if the NFL Network would carry it, but I don't think that'd matter too much.
It's tempting because Wikileaks has wisely made it very easy to set up a mirror:

http://wikileaks.nl/mass-mirror.html

I've contacted my VPS host for clarification on their terms of service regarding such a mirror.
This worked great on my aging macbook. That's just amazing, I had no idea it came with sensors to support such functionality.
Well, I've been freelancing for the better part of 15 years now. Mostly as a web developer.
E-mail me: daniel@hybridgroup.com maybe I can give you work.
Hm, I wonder if it's susceptible to clickjacking
DDoS attack on censorship! :P
If they're going to support it in Chromium, they'd have to support it for all browsers, else they'd get bad PR, as Chromium is open source.
First it will be wikileaks servers getting shutdown and the hackers there getting jailed on trumped up charges. And us "normal" hackers won't care.
Then the Torrents will get closed off. It's all piracy, what do we care.
Then maybe Google will start shutting down Google Docs accounts and censoring more search results (hello China) because someone has shared documents that ought not to. But we won't care. We'll move to dropbox and DuckDuckGo.
Until eventually it's YOUR server getting shut down, my "normal" hacker friend. And then who will speak up for you?
Boycotting Amazon is completely boneheaded. They have every right to not host Wikileaks content. Regardless of whether this was the result of government pressure or not is moot.

Well, I shouldn't say "boneheaded." You have every right to refuse to buy things from Amazon. I just think expressing moral outrage because they refuse to host content is silly.
First, even if it is SATA 1.5Gbps, it's still a great upgrade, and you can take the SSD with you to your next machine - the SSDs Apple is shipping in the MBPs are not very good, and you'd be better off buying one separately anyway.

Second, which MBP do you have? That definitely doesn't sound right - I have a non-unibody 17" and it only takes about 5 minutes to take the top off; it's mainly just 12-18 screws, and the 15" looks identical to me (unless they changed how it's put together later on):

http://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Repair/Installing-MacBook-Pro-15...
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Likewise, you would have a point if Facebook allowed me to export your profile, not just my own.
Not to mention, there are plenty of people who might question plenty of the recent stories you've shared yourself as off-topic and political. For example posting the Ron Paul story about scanners, or telling HN to vote.
It's one thing to flag "great political fodder" but another to post political fodder yourself while flagging that posted by others, methinks!
Over 200 and i have one of them.
If i get problems for that, i dont care.

I feel good with the decision to host a mirror!
Work with people where your services are going to make them lots of money. I've never met anybody who won't spend $5k for $50k of added value to their business.
>I just think expressing moral outrage because they refuse to host content is silly.

Really?
Pricey for a personal account, but looks so amazing.
While I agree with the sentiments behind this post, complaining is often used as a way of venting frustrations that you can't do something about (trivially anyway).

It helps people feel less frustrated if they can complain about it.
Julian Assange has a history of, well, exaggerating about the threats against him. I personally think it's part of conscious PR strategy rather than paranoia, but either way I wouldn't necessarily take this story at face value.
21) Display which distro is installed

cat /etc/issue

A better method is using the lsb_release tool:

lsb_release -a

If that's not installed:

cat /etc/lsb-release

may work.
> Tumblr appears to host their status blog on the Tumblr platform

Words fail me.

"How do we find the index file? Of course, if we had an index file, we could look it up in the index file under 'index file'."—Tegan, Doctor Who
Listen to me very carefully. I think free speech is the best thing that each of us owns, and I know for a fact that freedoms are terribly under assault. I am terribly concerned that we are losing the last bit of freedoms we have. We live in a secrecy state that is only getting worse.

But that emotional reaction doesn't make what wikileaks does right. It's completely possible that they have done a great good service -- and they are also criminals. You know what I feel about wikileaks? That idiots who agree with you are more dangerous to your cause than clever people who disagree.

Perhaps you disagree. Fine. I don't expect everybody to agree with me. My point is that this is not a black-and-white, good-versus-evil argument. Everybody wants it to be one. Freedoms have limits. Hell, everything has limits. If you'd like to discuss this at the meta level? Email me. A few other HNers have and I enjoy the discussion. But on a board like this you're only going to get gut reactions and cartoonish slogans. The conversation is just not going to go anywhere except to a bad place. Like trotting out the old "they came for the Jews" thing, or bringing up Nazis. We're a hair away from calling each other asshats. I can see from some of the other comments that we're headed that way in a hurry. It's just a bad topic area right now, no matter what your opinion is about it.

For civility's sake, let it go for a while. Please.
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>I limit my reading to places where I can trust the judgment of the editors.

I have read enough papers that I don't trust any editors. I read based on what I have read of the authors and on what has been recommended by reviewers I trust. If neither is available, I generally read abstracts more or less at random until one catches my attention (usually by being more specific to my needs than most). There have been too many times that groupthink or political correctness has captured journals to trust them too far.
The specific features happened when status updates changed from being a minor (in the right sidebar) to major part of the website, with the large 'What's on your mind' box at the top. It was a while ago, rather than being specific to this update.
If there is one thing I learnt from coming from a family of doctors is that it doesn't matter if your doctor graduated from Harvard Medical School, or a public university in a third world country. What does matter is that the doctor's a fellow at a reputable institution. The well read doctors, who keep studying their whole careers, are the good ones (and in most cases than not, the popular ones). If your doctor doesn't, I'd be wary about his diagnosis for anything other than a common cold.

This is the reality (and also what the article points to). Doctors who don't keep up are the sheep, the same as programmers that learn some stuff in college and spend decades in the corporate world building buzzword resumes. Doctors who do keep up are the cutting edge developers and entrepreneurs either making bazillions of dollars, making the word a better place, or at least being happy knowing you're one of those at the top instead on one of those to scared to climb the mountain.

I know your questions are not directed to me, but I just have to answer them: 1) No I wouldn't be comfortable going to a physician that's not well read and informed on the greatest and latest. My family of doctors also operated a series of medical book stores, which I managed for a few years and spent half the time reading the medical books. If a doctor can't answer the simplest things I got out of 5~10 year old books he should have in his library anyways, I'm leaving ASAP. 2) Last Tuesday. The Dentist is actually really well read. She always tells me about the new interesting stuff she's read.
Enough already... If you all want to rally behind Wikileaks, go for it. But there's no need to submit so many articles, none of which provide any new information.
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By the way, "innate" is misspelled on the front page.
It's not impossible, it just means that any individual would be able to censor a photo they're in from other individuals of their choice. Whether that's desirable is open to argument, but it's certainly possible.
All Apple laptops since 2006 have had a sudden motion sensor to detect when the laptop is falling and lock the hard drive platters in place to prevent damage. Apple exposes this to software basically just because they can, AFAIK. And to support cool features like this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudden_Motion_Sensor
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i'm confused by this attitude.

Amazon has done something a lot of people disagree with. why do you think it's silly to react to that?
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It strikes me that they try to invoke American law when it's convenient to them, and claim they're outside of the scope of American law when it's convenient to them.

Positions that normally receive immunity - lawyers, priests, spouses, psychiatrists - lose that immunity if they participate in crimes. If the State Department believes Assange's lawyers are helping disseminate stolen documents, then they absolutely should be watching them.

They're encouraging people to break the law to disrupt American foreign policy. Then they say it's inappropriate for the American government to pay attention to them. You can't really have it both ways like that.
I don't necessarily disagree with your analysis at a surface level, but it's a first-order analysis. The forces you cite do not exist in a vacuum; people will be reacting to them. The situation you describe can not go on forever, and therefore must cease at some point. If nothing else, then if the government leans on people too heavily a black market will form through sheer, rather bog-standard economic forces. I am not saying it absolutely will come to that, I'm simply saying that places a bound on how far the forces you describe can progress.

I am not sure exactly what will happen in response to the forces you outline, nor am I sure when it will happen. I can only say with confidence that something will. It is absolutely impossible that we will in 2050 be in a world that is simply a straight-line projection from the one we live in today.
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Thx for the kind words.

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Something on the person's main page directly acknowledging the scenario would be more useful - I wasn't the only one who wasn't sure about this. I thought wikipedia might have some update on the situation but there's nothing there. FWIW, just updating the site(s) would have been enough - if it's really that hard to type, that was a lot of typing to do! :/
Boycott wikileaks. Posting classified government documents is going too far. Im all for whistleblowing, but you can't expect to share private government documents that potentially put Americans in danger and expect no consequences.
I get frustrated when sites I use are down, but I don't get angry. It's not like they're down intentionally.
Also, Kohsuke's blog is full of little gems and code snippets:

http://kohsuke.org/
http://www.java.net/blogs/kohsuke/

A good example would be Akuma: his embeddable UNIX daemonization library that he wrote for hudson to use:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/01/writing...
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Californian here, and it was really close on my first try:

the reflected binary code was originally designed to prevent spurious output from electrode mechanical switches

I'm kinda blown away. Here's an mp3 of what I sound like, if anyone is curious: http://cl.ly/3WDv
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I'm assuming there would be some kind of algorithm to generate the encrypted key.