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You're right, I think I had an account with "Pinch" at one time, but I wasn't getting a "you're already registered" error so I assumed the worst...

...excellent product however and I look forward to using it!
No more so than embedding it in a Google Images search.

What it comes down to is: has anyone filed a DMCA claim yet?
It depends if this is based on working days or not. A month of working days is usually on average only 20 actual days.
Very impressive. I have noticed a small bug though. When I drag an item into my form (a textbox for example) about 50% of the time it creates two of them. I am using Chrome 10.0.648.133 on Windows 7.

What tech was used to create the form editor?
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I think it is good that this opinion is out there, and that Reuters felt the need to publish it. However, I want to propose an antithesis to simply more public transparency, but rather that transparency can be achieved through some of the means posited in the film The Corporation. Specifically, we should have more corporations involved in nuclear energy information, research, safety, etc. We should hold the industry (which arguably already has most of the resources needed) to greater transparency through existing means, like for instance, threatening to revoke their charter if they can't push forward in resolving these issues. I know that isn't profit oriented as a company should be, but ultimately the public allows them to operate for profit, and the knowledge marketplace needs profit as well, and also having more competing corporations I would think would allow for a healthier market.
This move will push renewable energy know how in germany.
TLDR:

1. I’ve set up an autoresponder for my email that explains what I’m doing and how to contact me and for what reasons.

2. Twitter will be my main form of communication.

3. For longer conversations, there’s IM or Skype chats. These will be required to be scheduled, and are for friends, interviews or close colleagues only — you’ll have to DM me on Twitter, and we’ll set up a 10-minute chat.

4. For collaboration, I’ll use Google Docs and/or wikis.

5. Friends and family can call me. Especially if they don’t use Twitter. They already do, actually, so email isn’t absolutely necessary. The phone is better for personal communication anyway.

6. A few types of emails will get through for now. My filters allow emails for advertisers, interviews, refunds, and people who want to hire me, to get through to my inbox.

Sounds like more work than it's worth. Why not just learn how to use email judiciously, turn off all Pavlovian-response-inducing new mail notifications on your computers and phone, check 2 or 3 times a day, and continue to benefit from email's almost uniquely asynchronous nature.
The most disappointing aspect is the amount of ambiguous information floating around, which leads to speculation and consequently misinformation. Couple that with ignorance that most people have on the subject and you get a lot of people under/over-reacting.
As for ditching email-like communications entirely, it worked well for Donald Knuth: http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html

Perhaps one day I will try it out!
> but does not having more than one URL, and not using the different HTTP methods really make a difference in terms of programmer usability?

If you're expecting a REST API yes. It also significantly impairs the discovery and the cacheability of the API calls.
I think a big part of music is familiarity which is why you see the overuse of the I, V, vi, IV progression. So to me Xavian sounds like chromatic played out of tune. Nice idea though.
How is your statement any different from "I can't believe that several people don't agree with me"?

Or could it be that there really is something to these ideas? There is a strong intellectual foundation here, and while the novel you mentioned describes much of it, a much fuller explanation can be found in her nonfiction work.

As an intellectual movement, we're gaining steam. Here's a recording of a debate held in NY between Yaron Brook (aynrand.org) and Miles Rapoport (demos.org) just five days ago:
http://www.archive.org/details/FirstPrinciples-Government_Wh...

Here's a link to the debate site (WNYC is New York public radio): http://www.wnyc.org/articles/its-free-country/2011/mar/02/de...

Right now, most people don't agree, but when they hear these ideas out out, they do realize that they constitute a respectable argument (and one that they haven't heard before).

Twenty years from now, our ideas will be mainstream in the sense that most people will have heard them and have some idea of what they are (and how they're different from conservativism and libertarianism). Obviously, people will never agree with everything that anyone has to say, but that isn't the point. The point is to get people to think about this stuff in a productive way. The more people that do that, the better.
In trying to prove you wrong and show you how easy it would be to make a similar call with the rdio API, I found out how not easy it would be to make a similar call with the rdio API. :)
At Startup School 2010, didn't Ron tell a story about helping young facebook set up a partnership/press event with Apple they couldn't snag on their own?
Agreed. It sounds like he's throwing out the baby with the bathwater, and then badly re-inventing it with a hodgepodge of other services.
If one is suggested as a substitute for another (as it is in this case), it's never an apples-to-oranges comparison. Maybe it should be apples-to-oranges, but that just means that one option is so out-of-left-field that it should never even have been suggested.
Well I have to think that the SMS cache corruption bug mentioned in the article would be considered critical.
Can you provide me a way to privately contact you? Maybe leave an email address on your HN profile?
Given that this sort of infrastructure tends to be a natural monopoly or close to one, it seems like a perfect case for either the government to build it, or some sort of quasi-governmental regulated utility, the same way power lines are operated. If you consider it an actual utility, the government is implicitly going to be guaranteeing it one way or another, because people aren't going to be willing to put up with a company going bankrupt resulting in service just being discontinued.

Even in states where energy production is free-market/deregulated, with consumers choosing which power generators to buy from at market rates, the actual lines over which the power flows are either government-owned or quasi-governmental, because competition for provision of power lines doesn't work particularly well.

Regardless of the pros/cons though, municipal experimentation in this area seems the least problematic to me. If the federal government or even a state is doing something, it's hard to escape and covers a large area. If a town is doing something, and people don't like it, it's much easier to just avoid that town. If some strategies clearly end up working much better than others, we'll be able to see which towns succeed in their strategies and which fail. Municipalities are also somewhat more constrained in their ability to waste unlimited taxpayer money, due to a mixture of fewer taxes they're allowed to levy, and the fact that people can just move to another town if things get too onerous.
Just adding some documentation about the limits of setTimeout and setInterval - Chrome has now settled on 4ms minimum (HTML5 standard) and Firefox 3 throttles lower values back up to 10ms minimum:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/window.setTimeout#Minimum_d...

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=888#c4

We observed that current browsers
already do not have a stable and consistent clock. As it turns out, even FF3 uses
varying timer speeds of either 15.6ms or 10ms. The reason for this variance is
because FF3 uses the default windows timer mechanisms by default; which have a 15.6ms
clock granularity. However, these timers are influenced by the system-wide
timeGetTime() API. Flash, Quicktime, and Windows Media all set timeBeginPeriod(1),
which changes the clock resolution to 1ms. In this case, FF then applies a clamp to
avoid sub-10ms timers. This can be tested by starting with a blank system w/ only FF
running, and using this tool: http://ejohn.org/apps/timers/ Then load youtube (flash
causes the beginTimePeriod to be called) in a background tab and run your test again.
You'll see the clock speed drop from 15ms to 10ms. So, as you can see, a web
developer today could be running IE w/ a 15ms minimum, FF, with a varying 10/15ms
minimum, or another browser with who-knows-what for a minimum timeout.
The Naïve Developer / Fake Lean Startup Approach: We construct a trap, any trap that works and deploy it (supply pizza for deploy party).

The trap fails (quickly), the Lion escapes and angered by the failed trap attempt said Lion devours and/or maims developers of trap and pizza.

Lion is now tired and full and will fall asleep in the afternoon sun. Capture of Lion left as exercise for reader.
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It looks like a Lantronix (http://lantronix.com) XPort, which can be had for much less than $200 from various electronics suppliers. For example, I just found the XP1001000-03R variant for $51 (qty. 1) at Arrow.

As far as the product being designed for hobbyists - hmm - it doesn't really have that feel to it. I think the intended market is more along the lines of one-off or low production volume industrial control hardware, test equipment, etc. One use I've seen documented was as an out-of-band control channel on a very high end FPGA board.
I must say that I did not find the author to be excusing Steve's behavior in the slightest, but I concede that room was left to read it another way.
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The fact that I can conjecture doesn't mean that I should. This is one of those "Heads you win, tails I lose" situations. You think it's dishonest to ask "What do you mean? Can you give an example of what this phrase means?" Someone else thinks it's insulting, rude, or just plain fallacious to say "You mean X and this is why I disagree" if I get X wrong. The correct response is not "Reg, you're being dishonest in asking what I mean," it's "Reg, I mean _____, for example _____."

I didn't pretend to entertain the possibility of a citation, he (or you) could easily reply "It's the same thing as this thing or that thing, just different words." I still entertain this possibility.

If you want to say I was ungracious in replying to an incredibly terse statement, I do not disagree. But dishonesty doesn't enter into asking someone what they mean by a phrase that I haven't seen before--and which doesn't have Google hits--and asking for a citation.

Terse? Yes. Ungracious? Sure, why not. Dishonest? I don't think so.

EDIT: But still, thanks for the feedback. I like where you're coming from about graciousness.
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"separating the second and third strings by a major third instead of a perfect fifth"

The other strings on a guitar are separated by a fourth, not fifth (perfect or otherwise).
Thought Crime ?

The fact that a government is acting against its citizens in behalf of a minority, now that should be a crime.
You could also make it consistent by making public performances felony charges. I feel an Emerson quote coming on very shortly involving hobgoblins...

Note, you do raise a good point, I'm just not sure that the consistency we want is in the direction that we're going in. Like you say, a separate discussion.
So where's the code showing the 3d transform technique?
yes, but the generated state machine is able to recognize a regular language, so if the automaton can recognize http it would mean that it is a regular language, and existing parsing tools should be able to deal with it, or am I missing something?
Tapku - a few light-weight, handy classes: Coverflow, Graph, Month Calendar View, EmptyView, Shake Window, Label Table View Cells, Alert Center, Circle View

https://github.com/devinross/tapkulibrary
A handful of square meters per windmill, unless it's off shore and then it's none (as in no land). You realize windmills for energy production dots the Danish landscape, placed in handfuls in the middle of farms, right?
Nuclear technology has a lot of room for improvement, too. There's some improvement that's relatively straightforward, like bringing capital costs down; China is working on this, with great success, as they can now construct CPR1000 plants cheaper than coal plants of the same size.

Then we have more exotic and longer-range options, like breeder reactors (both uranium and thorium), small modular reactors, Brayton-cycle gas turbines instead of steam turbines, and so on. Nuclear technology seems stagnant, but the reasons for this are political rather than technical, and that's changing now.

Edit: I forgot to mention clever applications that are possible without reactor modifications, like high-temperature hydrogen production, ammonia synthesis, desalination with waste heat, and so on.
Do you think the iPad's target audience even knows what tabs in a browser are? Or cares? It's entire goal is to simplify computing.
It can probably be argued to be: you can't just go to rdio/api/1/artist/whatever, but you can get the exact same thing via RPC calls.

I often think that, via REST APIs and content negotiations, API can become browseable and self-descriptive but I've yet to see any example of such a thing. Furthermore, just because an API is restful doesn't mean it's well-designed, and doesn't mean it has descriptive APIs (the artist's track could just as well be in rdio/api/64D89CAC?q=42, that wouldn't inherently make the API non-restful)
Exactly. ReST as a concept is not even tied to HTTP. HTTP's design was just heavily influenced my ReST so it happens to be good at it. Somehow people are obsessed over URL formatting and HTTP specificities... while they are important, it's not the literal embodiment of what representation state transfer is, just an implementation of it.

What most people talk about when they say REST are good HTTP practices. Meaningful URLs, proper methods, etc... are all about using HTTP properly. We can call some of these views other acronyms like ROA but it's really just appreciation for proper and modern HTTP stacks.
Can you cite the bug you're referring to?
You're not actually saying anything here. You're waving your hands around, shouting "make it better," without any concrete steps for how that might work.

Meanwhile, not a single company has come to market with a tablet that can match Apple on price, consistency, build quality, operating system, 3rd party developer support or user experience.

I mean, what are you looking for in iPad 2, exactly – a holographic display and unicorn-bone battery, driving a telepathic OS?
I used to get this a lot when I led a division of about 20 people. We'd usually discuss some aspect of leadership, and the classic question is asked:

"Would you rather go to a doctor who has great bedside manner, but isn't very good at medicine, or one that will almost certainly cure you but is an asshole?"

It's a false dichotomy. There are a lot of people, however, who confuse being great at something with a license to be a jerk because in most cases, people will tolerate you in exchange for your greatness.

But it's not an excuse, and I don't care how financially successful you are; if you don't treat other people well, you're not a success. There are plenty of people who manage to do both.
What kinds of "aspects and details" are you thinking of?
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I considered doing something similar a while back, but just like snail mail, you cant avoid it if everyone else still insists on using it. I'm still dumbfounded that i have to verify my identity via fax for some organisation or by letter for government institutions. There's just no avoiding it.

its the same with email. How will he deal with verifying his identity with a website that emails him the verification link?

But more to the point, if it's spam he wants to avoid, or people trying to get his attention, he's not going to avoid that just by going to Twitter or Skype or anywhere else.
Except that there was already a perfectly good name for that: RPC. REST was defined in contrast to RPC, so calling an API that involves "POST to this URL with the method as a parameter" REST is really unnecessarily confusing.
A typical CT scan will expose you to 10-15mSv. A dose of 100mSv infers a 1% lifetime cancer risk. The effects of doses as small as 1mSv are not known and are inferred by models.
They didn't stretch it, apps have been re-designed to take advantage of the bigger screen. Seriously, what are you hoping an iPad to do? If you want dark, glowing buttons with 10 widgets on screen at once, I'd try an Android tablet.
Actually, it's a plutocracy. People don't listen to technocrats unless they have a good idea for generating wealth/power.

The reason you don't leave any serious decisions in the hands of the masses is because it leads to instability, which is the worst thing that can happen to a government.

In every form of government, you have a minority bloc which makes the most important decisions unilaterally. The remaining decisions are, depending on the visible form of government, passed on to various degrees to the public so that they may feel they are participating in the running of their country's affairs.

There is, of course, some give-and-take when a special interest group gains too much power, but those can be dealt with on a case-by-case basis.
I am pleased with IE's changes and Microsoft's dedication to bring a better web along. But I strongly disagree that this alone means that IE is now "modern" because is so many other ways it is stuck in the past. It may be an excellent browser (I don't know, my OS doesn't support it) and it may be the fastest out there and it may be very standards compliant. But that definitely doesn't automatically make it modern.
HTTP makes some simple guarantees in its spec regarding to the methods used. For example, GET must never have side effects. POST, PUT, DELETE always have side effects. This simple guarantees enable software like HTTP proxies to work properly. Thus by just abiding to that simple rules your API should become cachable.

What REST brings to table is exchanging representations. For one thing, it makes your API actually simpler, since you don't even need a list of 'methods' like rdio has, all you need to know is the representations and methods stay the same—which should come natural if you know HTTP.

The other nice thing that you get for free is that it accommodates for unreliable connectivity. In case of failure you can just retry. OTOH RPC abstracts such things away. For example if you have a call like "addSomethingToList" and you retry that method, you risk having duplicates.
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Does 4G really matter?
I live in the triangle area. My broadband options are limited. An excerpt I wrote nominating my municipality for Google Fiber for Communities:

Though there are many technology workers here, the area has limited Internet access providers, primarily BellSouth DSL and Time Warner cable, both of which have higher prices, yet offer less bandwidth compated to providers in other regions.

For example, Comcast advertises (in Santa Clara, CA) 15 Mbps down, 3 Mbps up (w/PowerBoost) for $42.95 per month, after a six-month intro of $19.99.

By comparison, Time Warner Cable offers only 10 Mbps down, 512 Kbps up for $64.90 per month, after a six-month intro of $39.90/month. Two-thirds the bandwidth for 1.5x the cost, nevermind that I can't even get higher speed if I wanted to.

DSL is even worse. I can't get BellSouth's website to tell me what DSL options are available at my address, but att.com advertises 6 Mbps DSL for $42.95 per month after a 12-month intro of $24.95. AT&T U-verse is not yet available to me either.

Now look what Wilson, NC, 60 miles to the east, offers to its residents:

http://www.greenlightnc.com/about/internet/

10 Mbps symmetric service for $35/month up to 100 Mbps symmetric for $150/month.

More about what's going on at http://savencbb.wordpress.com/
"Like Xerox and Kleenex, the popular usage is technically incorrect, but in practice, it doesn't matter."

The integrity of some acronyms is worth defending. I wouldn't want 'ACID' diluted to mean anything less than its strict definition, and I think the same holds true for 'REST'. The benefit of these distinctions is twofold: 1) we encourage the advantages of good RESTful practices and 2) we can communicate consistently without spending unnecessary effort qualifying our meaning. If REST means 'Anything but SOAP' then at some point we'll have to come up with another shorthand for 'Real REST' or spend lots of time re-stating the principles of REST every time we need to communicate architectural strategies that use them.

I should be able to say 'Singleton' or 'MVC' or 'ACID' and know that there is enough integrity to those ideas that a competent coder will know what I mean without me having to pseudo-code or UML the concept for them. The same should hold true for REST.
From the first paragraph of http://www.lyx.org/:

> LyX is a document processor that encourages an approach to writing based on the structure of your documents (WYSIWYM) and not simply their appearance (WYSIWYG).
Whilst I agree with the general point, I don't think the rapidly-backpedalling author of the linked blog post or many of us here are qualified to determine what the appropriate reaction is. Most of the reaction is simply a case of people with limited understanding of the relevant facts (either the current condition of the reactor or the underlying science) attempting to communicate to people with no understanding of the facts.

I also suspect that well-orchestrated overprecaution and explanations of worst case scenarios are better for public safety than feeding them constant reassurances they don't believe and leaving them to get their sensationalism from demagogues
> What you'd want to see in a Rdio REST interface would be:

You should disclaim that these URLs could just as well be

* /rdio?q=1&s=63

* /rdio?q=1&s=63-8

* /rdio/4E7?q=1

* /rdio/4E63?q=1

and still be part of a RESTful API.
much kudos and respect for the brave workers working to safely retire the reactors.while all the various news reports state some version of what they have heard or read, we won't know the entire truth of what is happening, since the updates and articles change by the hour. the sheer volatility in the markets (japanese market fall, solar companies rising, etc.) shows the entire picture isn't clear yet.
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Sure they did, Paul. But were they vital? That's the question.
> REST is now just a generic term for any HTTP API that's not SOAP.

So you're telling me I should call my XML-RPC APIs REST?
He says his problem with cell phones is that they can be used for surveillance. Later in the article he talks about how free software in the phone could protect you from eavesdropping (not surveillance). He is correct. If everything was encrypted, eavesdropping would be impossible. But they could still track your position.

So, unless I'm misreading things, he never says that the issue with surveillance is about "whether or not the software in the phone is 'free'".
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I would guess that what some perceive as "bad boss" behavior is simply unfiltered honesty in communications.

To be as successful as Steve is, one must see the world the way it is, which requires complete internal honesty.
is u-Boot a System BIOS? it appears to be a Bootloader:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/u-boot/

Bootloaders are executed after the BIOS.
Any chance they would have intentionally given a misleading location to throw off tourists?