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IPad 2 to ship as early as Feb 2011
There's some irony in that no?

Thanks for the sentiment, you're right, but it's frustrating nonetheless.
Just looking at the title, I was (almost) wondering if it would be honeycomb-shaped... but apparently not. A hexagonal device would have been interesting though. Who says a tablet has to be rectangular anyway? :)
Yep. I saw the Everest IMax movie, and thought "Wow, that seems spectacular. Maybe if I'm able someday I'll try it." Then I read "Into Thin Air" and immediately changed my mind. Great read.
It honestly wouldn't shock me that the restarted attacks on North and South Korea weren't because of Wikileaks. Or for that matter, I'd be surprised that the US isn't having setbacks on many diplomatic processes.
depends on what type of post. there's plenty of stuff that doesn't show up here or doesn't do well here that shows up on reddit and does well, and vice versa. the crowd is similar, but different.
Not only has there been nothing resembling an "age of democracy" in modern times, but Julian Assange doesn't stand for democracy in any way, shape, or form.

He has indeed demonstrated that modern technology combined with antiquated practice can enable a single person to control our institutions for his own purposes.

Not really sure how that got mistaken with democracy. Let's use our words carefully and precisely. Did you mean the "age of free speech"?
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Looks like I will be doing some learning then! Thanks!
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1976127

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#3 here is something I use; but I still haven't figured out any way to make it sort correctly when using -h (human readable) output. Any ideas?
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This makes sense. When I used elance, I set up milestones and even added payouts to early milestones in the hopes of enticing early and often deliverables. Alas, everything slipped.

One thing I've noticed about my own management philosophy is that I am hesitant to step in and dictate terms forcefully when things start to slide. There surely isn't a one size-fits-all solution, but it's clear I need to work on identifying and resolving issues earlier on.
A think a key success factor to health IT really becoming a part of our every day lives is the ability for healthcare platforms to aggregate data from hundreds of input sources to create real intelligence around healthcare.

The Kinect would surely add an interesting twist on augmenting all of that data.
True, but it would be uglier than if the compiler hid the CG behind a wall of syntactic sugar.
Maybe the old software engineering maxim "build one and throw it away" is the best way to look at what Diaspora's done so far.

Yes, it would be great to have a well-thought-out protocol and secure software. But then again there's also huge value in having an implementation that people can play with. We hear all the time about how important it is to get your best guess at an minimum viable product into users' hands, and that's pretty much what Diaspora has done.
I'm not talking about extending HTTP, though, I'm talking about a protocol over HTTP. My project uses a custom protocol called QuickSocial:

https://github.com/appleseedproj/appleseed/blob/master/_docu...

Although the software is protocol-agnostic, and hooks could be written to support XMPP, as well.

I think my biggest issue with XMPP (beyond it's verboseness) is that it requires a whole separate XMPP server. This is less of an issue for Diaspora, which already requires a series of services running, but for my project, Appleseed, the goal is to get everything running under a LAMP stack which can be run on any shared host.
When asked if a music product was coming, Facebook says "No."
Somewhat relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBaiKsYUdvg
There were some other tweets, but as the parent link says they were all deleted. Anna Ardins blog was always taken offline for a few days after they first pressed charges.

I didn't save backups myself I'm afraid, but this forum thread probably have them saved -- https://www.flashback.org/t1275257 -- I'm afraid it's a very long thread, in Swedish..
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In order to truly replace Java, any language really, really needs to think about the ecosystem around the language. Smalltalk vendors really do not have a good deployment strategy, certainly nothing as comprehensive as Java.

The other problem is that Smalltalk is pretty alien to a Java programmer (image vs. text, block based control flow vs. traditional control flow). Garnett and Forester's recommendations might be key.

Although, I still would argue the premise and say most of these institutions know Oracle and understand dealing with them. I don't see people giving up their Oracle databases and having bundled, recommended Java might make Java more of a lock.
This article is one example (pre-cognition as opposed to ESP, but in the same vein):

http://hplusmagazine.com/editors-blog/precognition-real-corn...

I think it comes down to we don't know nearly as much about our little existence as we like to think.
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Haha there seems to be a lot of semantic merry-go-round on HN lately.

The reason you want oxygen is that it is a way of staying alive. The oxygen itself is obviously not desirable.
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The 'best replacement' isn't something that's the government's job to determine, but rather that's the job of the market under cap-and-trade. The whole point of cap-and-trade is that it allows the market to find the most cost effective solution while the market as a whole has a fixed carbon output that we decide in advance.
A great article about how shaking our medical science is:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/11/lies-damne...

And yet, surgeons and medicines have definitely helped me....
Pure vector graphics when looking at standard map views, which will greatly reduce bandwidth.

That doesn't come free, though. Don't vector graphics calculations require more CPU/GPU power and likewise consume more battery?
I would say that both are important. The underlying architecture needs to be very flexible, and the user-facing interface must be familiar and intuitive to the lcd.
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Looks more like a site put together by a programmer who downloaded a premade HTML template.
Agreed. The one that has me wondering how far off we might be is the idea that radioactive decay might not be constant:

http://io9.com/5619954/the-sun-is-changing-the-rate-of-radio...
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The "truth" has limits on publication: privacy, confidentiality, privilege, security, etc. Just because something is the truth, does not mean it is right to publish it. Assange is not a whistle blower. He is not exposing any misrepresentations or cover-up. He is simply exposing America's secrets in order to hurt America. That is criminal.
Purpose should be the third graph, after your social and interest networks. These are the people who engage you in action, or whom you can readily activate for action. They may not be related to you by a common interest. They may not know you well. They share a purpose with you, a goal, and the potential to act toward that goal. This is the foundation for work, dating, civic action; anything where people work together instead of just talking.
Bail was refused:

"Let down by the UK justice system's bizarre decision to refuse bail to Julian Assange. But #cablegate releases continue as planned."

http://twitter.com/wikileaks
According to wikipedia, Everest is no where near the most dangerous. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-thousander

Of 14 8km+ summits, it appears that Everest's death rate is only 5.7%, while Annapurna leads at 42.85% (!)

This weighs against the commercialization of Everest trend theory, I think.
I had a close relative who died couple of weeks ago from that cancer

sucks to know about this today..
In other words, parapsychology is the control group for science: http://lesswrong.com/lw/1ib/parapsychology_the_control_group...
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Kudos for having an eye for detail, and I agree on the anti-aliasing part. Much appreciated. But aesthetic details are just a subset of professionalism, its not professionalism all by itself. The site has different section for intro, pricing, faq, blog and moreover they have a well done short video explaining what Database.com is about. These details are professional enough for a user to stick.
Reminds me of http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SecondSystemEffect
I agree 100%. Clean black and white would look way more professional. From there, add a color here and there but the theme used here is damn ugly from my point of view.

They eye of the beholder...
No worries, I wasn't clear.
Open Financial Exchange (OFX) is a unified specification for the electronic exchange of financial data between financial institutions, businesses and consumers via the Internet.

http://www.ofx.net/
Oversimplification does not benefit anybody.

> He is simply exposing America's secrets in order to hurt America. That is criminal.

Assuming he is - which I really think misses the point - by what law is this criminal ?

He's not an American citizen, nor is he in America. Why do you feel this is criminal ?

Do you think it would it be criminal if an American did it ?
would also have accepted "bananapocolypse"
I've been saying it for some time (I'm not the only one), but JavaScript is the language every developer should be learning. Not the only language, but it's a language you want under your belt. And it's only getting better. How times change. =)
If you mistype a name, you'll get an error when you run the code.

Depends on the context of the typo. I've had errors along the lines of

bar=False
...
bat=True
...
if bar:
print "Hi"

And wondered why "Hi" was never printed. Of course the problem is hardly unique to Python.
The shortcomings of HTML5
One reason the scientific method does not work on economics is that markets are anti-inductive[1]. If you can establish a regular pattern in their behavior, market participants start exploiting that pattern, and it goes away.

[1] http://lesswrong.com/lw/yv/markets_are_antiinductive/
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http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1978638 was posted after you commented.
For those interested in mountaineering, I highly, highly recommend listening to Chris Warner's talk on summitting K2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zkC9IMQmYA

A very very gripping talk by someone who's climbed Everest (and K2, a more dangerous ascent) multiple times. I saw this in person (Chris is the founder of the chain of climbing gyms I used to frequent) and it's even more gripping in person.
No, it's just that those are far more off-topic than this one.
Am I the only one missing India from the rankings?
There is always the battery life issue but a hypervizor that recognized the limitations of a mobile phone (it will never run something like VMware Unity) it would certainly be able to perform pretty nicely. Looking forward to this.
This means nothing can ever be confirmed though -- you never know if you'll learn something later to disprove what you think you know now. Which in turn means a certain level of humility is required. To me, that's where science falls short -- anything that doesn't fit what is currently 'known' and 'proven' is not taken seriously.
While having a database online is a cool thing, they need to start offering basic hosting to make this really kick off.

Roundtrips will be the major bottleneck, so the solution would be to never leave the server. So, hosting apps like AppEngine is the only way.

Or, just offer online databases but with an access-like interface (plenty of potential use cases here) so people store and use the data right there, possibly offering a great reporting tool (like what Crystal used to be eons ago) with a casual REST request for external reports and stuff, but never for external intensive use.
Assange has been jailed pending extradition
I agree about China being representative, but even the best performing state in the US (Massachusetts) still takes a beating from a country like Finland. See the Atlantic's "Your Child Left Behind" - http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/11/your-chi...
In regards to 2 - I would bet that the tablet in his hands cost far in excess of $100,000 not $10,000 - or even higher, depending on how you account for engineering time. The raw materials won't cost that much, but building one-off prototypes is horribly expensive. Luckily they will amortize that cost over a million units or more so the cost of the first one is mostly irrelevant.
The reason you want oxygen is that it is a way of staying alive. The oxygen itself is obviously not desirable.

This is actually my point.
Realizing that it's play.
You have to also consider all the other things that happen when you 'make money,' even if you don't spend it on anything personally.
When a rape trial starts out with something that is not a rape then 'level-headed' went out the window before the trial got started.
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Possibly, but not necessarily. Bandwidth also uses batteries and GPUs are getting more and more power efficient. Anyway the ability to download and store the maps for a weeks trip before leaving home more than makes up for any minor loss in battery life.
I've also been using jq-mobile, and for the most part I like it, though you can still tell it's an immature project. Most recently I found that I was unable to pass url parameters to a page, which is a pretty big deal for a web app. I'm sure this will be fixed in the future, but it's the kind of things early adapters will have to deal with.
"Which makes me wonder what is in the leaks that we haven't seen yet". Maybe there is nothing in those cables, but politicians must be very afraid of what could be published next... Although the irak cables were potentially far more damageable, they were not released in cooperation with major newspapers.
Uh...yes, you're right, this is the 1986 edition.

Oh, well. Saving $30 on a language I'm not likely to use is probably a Good Thing.
Basically the new policy is that Oracle develops the JVM and you use it. You don't develop or port the JVM. Because this is totally acceptable to 99% of Java (app) developers, Java will live on. It's too big to fail.
It resembles some of the standard Joomla/Drupal templates.

My first thought was "probably designed using PowerPoint"!
I agree, it looks like total 'programmer art'.

The flat grey at the top. The logo. The badly resized bullet points with jagged artefacts. No sign of the original salesforce logo. All the fonts are a little too big, but not in a pretty way. The pricing page.

I guess there's something to be said for simplicity, but this site looks like a Frontpage template.
Is it feasible to you that some of the information that they United States has obtained about other countries came from individuals working with them in secret, even against the will of their own government? Do you think North Korea and Iran are reading wikileaks to determine what secret information is leaking to them? Do you think they would have any qualms about killing the spies that are leaking their information to the US?

No. Therefore, the release of this secret information is going to get those people killed, by identifying them as spies for the United States.
ho-hum

http://common3.ziffdavisinternet.com/util_get_image/24/0,142...

:)
You miss the point, so let me rephrase it for you. [snip]

Okay, well if that is indeed all that is being suggested - fine and I couldn't agree more - but it is so often the case that people want more than the simple system allows them, very quickly in fact. Seriously, look at any work MS access sheet for evidence - without fail things get very complicated very quick and in the end a developer has to sort it out.

Wrong. Anybody is able to think like a programmer. [snip]

We are just going to have to agree to disagree on that. I totally agree that it is largely about work, lots and lots of hard work (I'm a developer myself, so don't I know it); but there is a certain kind of structural way of thinking about things which I just don't think most people possess, in the same way that most people don't possess the type of mind which just 'gets' music. Talent is totally overrated, but it it is a pre-requisite to being able to do difficult things. And yes, I do think that is literally being born with a certain type of brain, or at perhaps also early life too to some degree...
Learning is physical changes to the brain, too. Reputation is physical changes to other people's brains.
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Here is information on the CIA link of his accuser, and background info, included deleted tweets and articles that expose the intent of her allegations. http://www.disinfo.com/2010/12/non-surprise-assanges-accuser...
> there is only one HTML page even though the app looks like it has dozens of screens!!

Ugh. Really, you guys think this is the future? It's a total perversion of what a URL and a webpage are supposed to be. It's ugly hacks on top of more ugly hacks to produce a substandard experience.

An app like this is not hard to produce with Xcode and Obj-C, and it will look feel and work 10x better. It will only get easier as development tools improve, and Xcode and Interface Builder have a ways to go to catch up with Visual Studio.

There is a place for web apps and a place for real apps. For many years now countless companies have been investing in shoehorning an app into a webpage, and they don't have much to show for it except buggy javascript and unreliable software. Not even semi-professionals would consider using Google Docs over client-based Word for serious document composition. Or substituting Photoshop with one of the dozens of webapp photo editing tools. It's all cute, but in the end its not practical for real world use.

It's unfortunate that so many talented programmers are sucked into this "webapp everything" mindset and devote themselves to crappy products, sometimes simply because they have a personal hangup with Microsoft or Apple. Obviously there are plenty of skilled coders who are making client-based software that's beautiful, useful, and profitable, but client software is still dominated by crap, even on super popular platforms like iOS and especially Android. There are enormous opportunities on the client that have been ignored for a decade.

Think about this, today for less than $200 you can have a more powerful computer (more RAM, more storage, more MHz) in your pocket than you could buy for $1000 in 2000. And today's has a phone, a camera, broadband internet, GPS all built in. Not only that, but that same computer is making its way into your TV and car. And what is being done with all that power? Still hacking choppy javascript animations on a document markup language!
Are they? Like the OP of this thread, my immediate impression was that I was at the wrong site. It just feels like a domain squatting site, really (especially the "database.com" in the upper left. Here in the 20xxs it just isn't that impressive that you got a dictionary word domain, so stop being so impressed with it).
https://www.salesforce.com/platform/ may service that need, but I'm not entirely sure of the capabilities of the platform w/r to web apps.
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How about at humility?
Do they always play the negative before the positive? If so, maybe people are just getting better at the game as they play more.
A number of users mentioned removing middleware from their applications and using this db directly.

Out of curiosity, how would one hide the db structure and secure it from malicious users in a javascript app?
Don't worry about the verboseness of XMPP - TLS with the deflate option drops that down to 10% of the original size. Or you can do what google did on Android and write your own binary protocol representation.

If I setup a new appleseed node and how do you really know it is me/example.com? I've yet to see that done well in http and would love to be proven wrong.
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It's a dubious source but it raises interesting points for independent verification.

Someone in the mainstream media (one of those investigative journalists that they have so many of there) should dig in and find out.
I'm not a big fan of his style either, but compared with the integrity of those accusing him I can make allowances.
It takes but a few minutes to illustrate my point:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbwiXRmzKi0
An excellent book on this topic is Thou Shall Prosper by Rabbi Daniel Lapin. He examines why the Jewish culture is disproportionately wealthy and much of the reason lies in their positive attitude about business.
Brilliant, now these people can double their prices. :)
I don't think it's that rescue attempts are more difficult on Everest but rather that they are more futile. If a climber collapses from HAPE/HACE in the death zone it is often too late to help them.

Of course I agree completely that rescue attempts become more difficult when you throw in a bunch of type-A amateurs.
So since Visa and mastercard vet all their customers so carefully they presumably approve of any porn child or otherwise that is bought on their cards.
> not in the sense that it will save your life

There are countless counter-examples to this claim. For example, Jerzy Kukuczka's spent three nights out above 8000m on K2 without food, water, tent, or sleeping bag. During this time, he covered substantial technical ground to summit their new route (the South Face) and descended safely without assistance and even without frostbite. His partner, Tadeusz Piotrowski, was suffering more seriously from the exposure and fell while downclimbing ice unroped. Kukuczka was not just "lucky", he was prepared and knew how to last in extreme conditions. His decision-making with regard to batteries (his headlamp never worked when it mattered) and rope (he died when the second-hand 6mm rope he was leading on cut) was not so good.

Touching the Void is a great story and Joe Simpson is an entertaining writer, but he's also notoriously accident-prone and has some peculiar risk analysis judging from his writing about places that I have climbed. Sure, cutting edge alpine-style climbing is dangerous and requires a great deal of competence, but it's still not crazy gamble you describe as long as you make objective decisions.
I think you're both right. The reduced use of raw bandwidth is going to be a huge battery saver alone. If you're allowed to download trip data BEFORE leaving on a trip, this will also save a lot of battery, especially if you're in areas with poor 3G coverage.

Basically, we may be heading to a time where we can rely solely on our Android phones for GPS navigation.
I kept wanting to pull out a red pen while reading the article. Ack, I'm not even that obsessive about grammar.
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