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Ovum may have been wrong on the IPhone but that doesn't mean that Android tablets would not outsell the IPad by 2015.

Remember, a lot of people back in 2008 were saying that it will take a long time for Android to surpass the IPhone. It took Android only about 2 years to achieve that.
Thanks for writing this. I once had a Dwarf Fortress game that got lost to a hung ssh session; I could have used something like this.

Does it work with x apps? Because it would be great to be able to start my IDE over ssh on the laptop knowing I could switch to the desktop with losing what I had open.
Good luck trying to play Call of Duty or any other peer to peer video game behind a carrier NAT. ISPs are going to love the customer support calls they'll get from people whose xboxes don't work anymore.
Yeah, most people expect this to happen within the next dozen days or so. The next IANA allocation is expected to be the last.
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One specific and ubiquitous example of webspam has been driving me nuts this week: An enterprising spammer has won huge on Amazon Web Services (AWS)-related keywords.

For example:
https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=aws+s3+emr+p...

Result #4 at the moment is "AWS Developer Forums: Interactions between S3, EMR and HDFS ..." on http://www.hackzq8search.appspot.com/developer...com/...

What's sublime about this example is that:

1. hackzq8search is clone of AWS's websites amazonwebservices.com, aws.typepad.com, etc

2. hackzq8search is hosted on appspot.com, Google's App Engine domain

3. hackzq8search is over quota, so the site doesn't show any content anyway.

Yet this site was the top search result, beating out the site it was cloning, time and time again on my AWS/EMR-related searches this week.

The one mitigating aspect as that hackzq8search's URL naming scheme is easily decodable -- the hackzq8search URL includes the full URL of the cloned URL, so I can write a Greasemonkey script to extract the proper original URL.

I found a glimmer of optimism in that the site has been slowly fading in SEO-success this week: I complained about https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=aws+s3+security+sox+pc... on Thursday, but on Friday the hackzq8search Search Result was gone from the first search result page.

It's still not hard to slam some AWS-related keywords into Google and get these bogus results, though.
I have tried experimenting with Twitter and not using reader for a week. When I come back to check, there are tons of articles which I would have missed if I had not checked.

Some of the articles are tweeted, but then most of the time I check Twitter on phone so I have to mark them for Read It Later. Sort of defeats the purpose IMO.

There are times when I fall behind in reading feeds and unread count makes me feel guilty. When it gets too much I take drastic step of marking all as read.
clicking a star votes for a combination. top voted combinations show up at the bottom of the page.

showing how a merge would be spelled is a pretty tough problem. if anyone had any clever ideas about this, i'd love to hear it.
Cheers dude :)

Our philosophy is basically to make flash games that don't suck! Goblin seems to have gotten quite a bit of attention over the past 72 hours or so.
Is Gruber trolling on purpose? His posts that make it to the HN always turn into flamewars. Why is everyone here so interested in what he has to say?
> error messages from MUMPS

Is fixing that tractable? Cryptic error messages is one of the most frustrating turn-offs to new would-be contributors.

/probably one of the few people here who has written MUMPS code
I remember when the iPad first came out and many predicted failure. Who wants a big iPhone? That's was a typical question.

Less than a year later the debate is about which tablet will win.
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Basically they are tampering with the satellites, one can only imagine why.

Maybe it's to determine if they can make a GPS guided missle go elsewhere, but you'd think they would do that in the desert somewhere and not interfere with crowded metro civilian areas.

Here's the original document in html via Google

https://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=https://...
It's not a question of understanding the meaning of "libre". Its about the pronounciation. I used to be able to tell people to go and download "Open Office" and they remember.

Phonetically, if you use "Librii Office" - they dont. "Libr Office" they dont. I am not sure why - but I have spoken to dozens in India (accountants, lawyers, etc.) and the name just doesnt have recall. Libre also is not a Commonwealth English word.

I'm sure everyone came up with that name with a noble intent - but it simply isnt working in India which is extremely Anglicized as compared to most other Asian countries. That name really needs to change.

On a curious note - in the U.S. have you spoken to a non-geek, say your pizza delivery dude, and have brand recall of "Libreoffice" ?
Thank you so much for this link. Also, it seems like it is down at the moment, so just use Google cache here:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:92aekcO...

The writeup is invaluable to me as I am planning to use Kickstarter to launch and fund my idea. I will study it more than a Bible. Well done Tom and Dan on your great idea and flawless execution.I hope that the glif has made them both millions at this point. Also here is their original post on Kickstarter:
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Has anyone one found a solution for older Macs not running on Intel? I've been successfully with a firewire external HD but not a USB key. (The machine could still be useful with a USB.)
Android is the biggest cellphone OS on the market. Chrome is the best browser and it is growing at an extremely fast pace. ChromeOS is well on it's way (it won't compete with the MSFT or AAPL but it has it's niche). Gmail is the best free mail service available (and it definitely was revolutionary, think back to when it was just released). Google AdSense changed the way people monetize on the internet. Google Search was the biggest revolution in the history of the internet. Google Maps/Earth was also a huge revolution and is used by so many different services and software on the internet and on cellphones. Google Documents? Google Voice? Please, Google owns the internet.

Sure, Google may not have any hardware revolutions such as Apple, but when it comes to the internet, Google creates and makes possible the most innovative ideas.
The second $ (which is actually the first assignment) was used as as an alias to [] before the first $ gets assigned. I guess to reduce the number of characters.
I don't think awards should be the end goal, but they do serve a purpose. For instance, most people on here probably wouldn't have heard about Liu Xiaobo, well atleast before he won the Nobel Peace Prize. Having the backing of prestigious award such as Nobel Prize will only bolster his cause; he's in prison. Increase financial and political support is not silly at all.

For scientist, this might mean that they wouldn't have to fight as hard to get funding from people who don't understand their research. The people who don't understand research understand awards, so it can be used as a proxy to make judgement.
And what makes it even worse is if the decision is made out of desperation because they're not able to weigh other competing offers.
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If all those blackhat-efforts could be put to better use somewhere.. although its fascinating what _can_ be done. They are truly creative in their own way. :)
I think part of the reason has to do with the water sensors mentioned in another comment. In the case of accidental, non warrantee water damage, these screws would prevent someone from replacing the water sensors with new ones, or at least show the signs of tampering.
Or:

wget -qO- https://github.com/joshfng/railsready/raw/master/railsready.sh | /bin/bash
I stayed at a Formule 1 in France in 2002 that was also fully automated (self cleaning showers and toilets too). They apparently have an iphone app now as well.
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There seems to be a obsession with version numbers: People perceive these as if they must always have the latest/greatest. For example, when MSSQL 2008 came out, the database admin at a company I work for upgraded the MSSQL 2005 database to it, breaking a few applications due to incompatibilities. Version 2008 offered no features we were planning to use, so from an operational standpoint it was completely unnecessary. But it was motivated just because of the higher version number.

The same with Python2 and Python3. Python3 just exists out there so library developers can port their code over to it. It isn't meant to be used in production yet, and people learning Python are advised to learn Python2, not 3. Yet time and time again people choose version 3 to begin with 'because it must be better since it's 3 and everyone knows 3 is better than 2' (the most often heard reason on the #python IRC channel), thereby making it more difficult for themselves than necessary.
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No, we get it. Non-techies don't understand the importance of literacy: http://min.us/mvfKzrP
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Hmm, apparently HN is auto-titling submissions now?

Anyway, saw this on PBS tonight and wow, they are hyper about education.

Somewhere between their extreme and the USA's low, has to be a better solution.

Also see this earlier coverage: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/speakout/world/jan-june11/...
I believe I once ripped off your code :)

I have a simple script that looks in my logs for timing reports like

did X in 12345ms
Z for <arandom non constant string> in 98765ms

and then summarizes them, but the grouping is done based on ad hoc regular expressions. The obvious next step was trying to make it smart enough that it recognizes similar lines and generated the patterns itself, but avoiding making it over generalized/omnicomprehensive.
I still cannot find a good solution :(
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Yes you can, and it may not be a total disaster if

1. Have actual IPv6 connectivity. Chances are you don't. Teredo might save you in a transition period, but it depends on IPv4 so wont work with your experiment here.

2. You use a very narrow set of services. Currently I'm able to use IPv6 for usenet, google-services, facebook (although buggy with links back to the IPv4 site all over the place), Ubuntu-updates, Freenode and EFNet irc and -one- news-site.

3. And for google's services' to work you need their IPv6-addresses. Chances are you don't have them, because they don't expose them over DNS in public by default.

If this covers all you use the internet for, you should be golden.
Wow. That video was wonderful.
Doesn't it seem somewhat passe to give the award to someone as well-established as Twitter?
and second place went to Microsoft
If Flash isn't a big enough issue for you to switch, the chances of you switching at all are tiny. That iOS page is actually a good ad for the fraction of iOS users who might want their product.
I'd like to see what a judge has to say about this.

I'm not convinced that there will be much distinction between the infringing works being in the binaries or not. They are in the source tree and that is essentially part of the build process. What's more, the source tree is distributed to all Android manufacturers. Google are shipping the source code.

I'm sure Oracle don't see it that way.

What we should be talking about is how they got into the git tree in the first place.
my own take has been:

talent > training

talent + training > (talent || training)
Most of my work is repairs of higher end mechanical watches. I do manufacture parts, but it is to repair as well.

I've only "made" one watch from start to finish of which I still own. There really isn't much of a market for custom made watches. Plus all my tools are traditional hand tools so it can take a couple months to craft a single movement.
Of course you should apply. If you don't, there's a 0% chance you will be accepted. Even if you aren't chosen for an interview, I have read many comments here from people who found going through the application process was a worthwhile endeavor in itself.

Good luck.
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So, how do you like it?
re: header job offerings

I’m very sure Google has them. I came across it when working with one of their APIs, considered it for a while, and decided I wasn’t looking for a job at Google. I think it was Analytics, in case you want to work at Google.
I don't think you really read what I wrote, or maybe innovation means something different to you.

Edit: oh, I see the problem, either you're trolling or don't know the history of products earlier than Google. Nice try Sergei.

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I know in the PC industry if you can add one more tick to the extensive feature list it is regarded as massively innovation, but I wouldn't call it innovation, and it certainly isn't disruptive.

The only things gmail did differently from other free email services was that they changed the way threading was done, and they added good search that worked (edit: I want to make it clear that I'm not denigrating that, going back to my work Outlook account after using my private gmail account was enough to nearly make me cry - not so much because gmail was utterly amazing, but because Outlook was utterly crap). Neither of those things is disruptive, so I wouldn't really call it innovation. Similarly just about everything else you mention is a minor improvement on something that went before, or something 'cool' (example: Google Maps/Earth) that Google has failed to do much with because the bean counters from the ad division starve it of resources.

Sure Android and Search and Adwords are big - note that I very carefully made a distinction between being big and being innovative. The problem with Android and Chrome is that they are "me too!" things, where they copy other people's innovations rather than doing anything particularly new. I could announce that I was doing a new browser, and nobody would think that it was breath-takingly original... they'd be like "oh yeah, another web browser... whatever".

Note that copying what other people have done is how most of the computer industry works. Apple copied Xerox, Microsoft copied Apple etc. Don't get too upset about it or you'll drain your Reality Distortion Field's batteries too soon. (But hey, at least the Google RDF has replaceable batteries!)

Visicalc was innovative, but I'd rather have the bank balance of Excel than Visicalc :D Even Excel was relatively more innovative than anything Google has ever done, because it was the first spreadsheet with a modern interface rather than being command-line driven. What'd Google do? Oh, we take a spreadsheet and put it online. Yawn

"the biggest revolution in the history of the internet"

Google search isn't even innovative let alone disruptive because there were a great many search engines before them. Oh, they have a 'special' algorithm. Big whoopy do.

Google AdSense changed your life huh? Must be a true believer :D Anyway, glad that you can cash those big fat cheques from Google every month, good for you. :D
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Incredible. I just saw that episode yesterday as well (but on YouTube), and that's exactly what came to mind.
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I fully agree with this sentiment. This whole discussion about 3 or 2, which isn't really one for Python developers involved in the community, is hurting mainstream adoption the most.
People don't like to learn a new language, when they're not sure which the future proof way to start is and when the project behind it seems to be 'in limbo'. I hope this doesn't hinder the Python project too much.
So this article prompted me to upggrade to Firefox 4 and from Vimperator to this. I've noticed one annoying bug:

If I start typing the first few letters of a site I want to visit then hit tab to complete it the highlight jumps to the first item in the list just before the tab completion kicks in. So the site I want to visit is highlighted, but the command line at the bottom shows a different site (the top entry if I tab complete from nothing) so it keeps sending me to the wrong site. Am I doing something wrong?
Thankfully, I have Terminal and sudo access on my MacBook. I can even reformat the hard drive and install Ubuntu on it, although I'm much happier running Mac OS X. So really, if not being in control of my computer anymore is the problem, than there is no problem.
Perhaps "But of all these religions that exist, there must be some sort of truth between them all, considering the many congruencies." doesn't strike people as a valuable addition to the discussion?
Well Facebook had won it for the past 3 years (which happens to be every other year the Crunchies have existed), so I wouldn't say it's that unexpected.
Seeking is slightly painful with some mkv files for me (at least over Samba - Which was expected given it's 10/100 ethernet), but in generally all the files I've tried (mostly 720p) have played back perfectly.
It's not as simple as you would like to believe. Lacking social skills and having self-defeating attitudes are much more likely to keep them poor, assuming they are not mentally deficient, than a simple pursuit of leisure over work. Lots of people, rich and poor, prefer leisure to their current work situation, in case you don't know. Some rich people have poor social skills and self-defeating attitudes and somehow manage to stay rich too. But this is more about beginning poor and staying poor. Many poor people are not that happy, feel frustrated, and perhaps watching TV is an easy activity that makes them feel okay.
Unless Google starts making tablet hardware by then and does an amazing job of selling it, what the analyst is actually predicting is that by 2015, the combined sales of dozens of Apple competitors will be slightly ahead of Apple's sales.

Assuming he's right--so what? It would be at least as accurate to headline the analysts prediction as "By 2015, Apple will still be the dominant tablet maker by far".
If your pages directly access the model, where is the controller? When I see things like foo.html it makes me think that this is not an MVC framework. (eg. foo.html on the server = /foo.html on the website)

If you don't shred pages from the designer then how to you retain the same look and feel across pages (eg. Does lift not have templating?)

Also, Lift is not the best framework for me because you have to write HTML and can't use something like HAML.

Sass + Haml + coffescript = WIN!
Does anyone else think this can be done by privatizing the space industry and using the lean startup model?
Except (unless I've completely missed it) stuff over AFP.
These would have been far more interesting if they focused on newer, less established companies and products. Everyone already knows exactly what Twitter, Facebook, and the iPad are and no one cares if they win awards.
All in all, I've found the Apple TV port to be pretty awesome - If you're willing to live with 720p output (It can decode 1080p, but it downscales to 720p - and it supposedly has minor lag at some points) and minor issues with seeking (which are bearable) and the current tethered jailbreak, it's a fantastic $130 XBMC device.

One thing to note is the default skin for XBMC felt laggy, but once I set it all up and switched to something else (in my case, Rapier tweaked to work on XBMC 10), it felt a lot faster and worked pretty well.

Better yet, using seas0npass and nitoTV (It's my own blog post, but http://blog.ninjahideout.com/posts/apple-tv-2g-and-xbmc-setu... details the process) it's relatively simple to set up - the caveat being it's tethered still on Firmware v4.1.1. Here's hoping the new release of GreenPois0n which will supposedly be untethered comes soon.
For moving or persisting X applications you would need something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xmove
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It reassures me that there is commodity hardware out there that won't work behind a NAT.

Ten years ago I would have assumed they'd just jump to NAT; back then, setting up cross-network PC games was still mostly the realm of geeks (besides Battlenet-based games).
My ISP won't do IPv6 without docsis3 cablemodem which are $40+ even if you had a IPv6 router (DD-WRT can if you have a WRT54G model with 32M)

So many end users are very unprepared, unless major ISPs are going to run tunnels.

BTW, little known fact, Windows XP can actually support IPv6 if your equipment can by running this command

netsh interface ipv6 install

Too bad the government can't do what they did during the DTV switchover and pay for consumer equipment upgrades by the offset of selling the freed-up bandwidth.
Hm, yeah Regular Expressions are great, but they are also fragile and slow. The generator will, from what I se only generate very strict regexes, that will break if the input differs just a little bit.
Congratulations.
are you going to share who bought it? is it public ?
That's very good, this way it is balanced as actually nobody with a minimal business idea can expect google to reply 1:1 to normal users that happen to don't find what they want in the search engine or like.
I use Scrapy: http://scrapy.org/
another Python option: http://twill.idyll.org/
for Rails: http://nokogiri.org/
and perl: http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
In my case, it's more that, when I learn a new language, I don't want to end up learning something that's going to turn into the next PHP 4 in a year or two.

(That is: still used, has lots of libraries written with it, technically more or less future-compatible, but is the thing everyone is moving away from.)
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Surely there's going to be a backlash once it sinks in how useless this will be.
For the most part I only whine about things I use. I also don't expect people to take me seriously when I whine about the things I don't use. I obviously don't use it because it doesn't suit me, so why would I be a credible source for whining about it?
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A shooting is bad enough that it should show up regardless of the population density. But I certainly would feel a lot less safe if a shooting took place on a street where only 10 people lived, so density is still a valid factor.

I agree foot traffic might be a better metric than population, though.