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Alternately, it can be explained by the fact that a lot of happy Apple customers — 'fans', I suppose — are fine with farming out some of their technological decision-making to Apple. Seriously: if Apple isn't putting some seeming obvious feature into a phone, or computer, or whatever, I figure that there's probably some good reason for that. I'm not sufficiently interested to need to understand the minute details of every choice they make.

LTE is a perfect example. I don't give a damn whether my next phone has LTE. I have better things to do with my time than figure out whether the coverage — independent of carriers' marketing claims — is decent, make guesses — independent of etc. etc. — as to the extent of the coverage rollout over the next year, read up on the battery-life implications of LTE, and ponder whether the bottleneck on my phone has anything to do with the network speed in the first place.

(Actually, I already have a very strong suspicion about where the bottleneck is on my phone, and that's why I really don't care about LTE right now.)

Overall, I trust Apple to sell me the best all-round phone given the constraints of current technology. So far I've been very happy with that approach. So, yes, if Apple isn't putting some seeming obvious feature in a phone, I figure that there's probably a good reason for it, a reason that I'd understand and possibly even agree with if I invested a lot of time in the question.

The risk is that, should Apple go rogue, they could rip me off for an iteration or two before I wised up. In which case I would just go buy another phone from someone else and be done with it.

It's not like I'm blindly trusting Apple to not, say, saw off my leg and feed it to alligators; I'm trusting them to make decisions about a whole bunch of tradeoffs, decisions that will at best be valid only for a few months anyway, decisions on which hinge the expenditure of a few hundred dollars.

I'm not saying that becoming a micro-expert on your purchases is wrong, just that there's something to be said for not bothering. This is very much not the Nerd Way, but I have to say that I'm much happier since I stopped having to personally establish the perfect correctness of all my techno-purchasing decisions.
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I wonder how much of them leaving it out has to do with their willingness to wait until tech fits into their defined power envelopes? Is LTE significantly more power hungry, or is this a blu-ray style "we just don't want to" thing?
This is interesting. We're located in OC, and with the exception of the many "startups" being incubated by entertainment giants like Comcast/E!, I'm not aware of any SoCal tech/web startups.

I will bookmark this.
Great website! I just lost 20 minutes of my life rating food to then die in even to eat many of them. I think it is therefore a mission success!

I think a great concept you could add would be a food fight mode where you create your own fight between two image you added and can send a link to it. This would be great when two person argue about who cooked better or what tastes better between two thing. It would be a simple way to incorporate the classic human fight over two meal with a fun tool to get a result out the fight.
Going back to that point, the IMO is like playing at Carnegie Hall. What we want is like messing about with instruments to see what they do, and getting hooked on the curious things that are possible.

I'm torn on this.

I personally got hooked on math while trying to figure out the probability of getting various scores after rolling 5 dice and taking the sum of the top 3. (I wound up suggesting this as a Project Euler problem - http://projecteuler.net/index.php?section=problems&id=24... was the result.) So I know full well the value of messing around.

However I wouldn't trust the educational establishment with a task like this. Right now we're caught in a tension between opposing groups. One is apt to recite drill and kill and learning to learn and then proceed to avoiding teaching things that they think are too hard. (Which is apparently everything.) The other is fond of standardized testing at every opportunity as a way to force the first group to actually teach something. (Usually with pretty ridiculous tests.) At the moment in the USA, the testers have the upper hand. But if history is an indication, this won't last forever.

I would trust neither group with what you are trying to do. The first group would be quick to agree with you, grab a slogan, and then head off to do the wrong thing. The latter group would not see the point, and would either start talking about the 3 Rs, or would add to their tests some random, out of context, facts.

I'm not just saying this out of pessimism. We've seen this particular movie before in the New Math movement. Early experiments, with actual mathematicians involved, went well. The mathematicians presented interesting material, and kids enjoyed it. But when the educational establishment tried to imitate that success and get not particularly mathematically inclined teachers to repeat that, it was a disaster. (I was after the main movement, but there was still some of it going on. And I experienced first hand how bad it was when a teacher who didn't understand the material taught his misunderstandings rather than the material.) In the end outraged parents forced teachers back to the 3 Rs, and New Math became nothing more than a bad memory.

I would highly recommend studying that particular episode with the goal of figuring out what went wrong, where. Because what you would like to do has the potential to do the same thing.
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Ah, that totally makes sense. Apologies if that was a dumb question, I am a high school dropout after all. :)
Interesting idea. It would be a lot more valuable with a domain name that a potential user could spell after hearing it mentioned to them.

Also - A caption for each submission would be huge.
The Guiness world records are with numbers only because they are consistent from language to language. I suspect someone can type much faster with a non-accented language.
Nothing there.
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What is a student loan?
College education is compulsory if students wish to get ahead in life. As college tuition is expensive, a student loan is something which will tide them over this situation. There are many types of student loans and students can select the most suitable one for them.
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I noted the "[developer] tools were free, would always be free" line. Why does Apple charge $99/yr? Seems like it might be a quality filter. Certainly doesn't stop the fart apps, but it seems like a nice indicator of "I'm serious about this." Or maybe it helps cover hosting charges of the free apps? Just greediness?

http://developer.apple.com/programs/ios/
I've never done anything with them, but e.g. http://www.rootlabs.com/engineer-job.html sounded a lot more interesting than what you describe. On the open-source front, you find stuff like Metasploit, nmap, Snort, previously Nessus (forked as OpenVAS), web stuff like Nikto, etc.

Don't forget that lots of "programmers" are barely-skilled and working on VBA macros - one label can cover a wide range of skill.
I was at a conference last week with 100 developers, at least 50 of which use mostly Microsoft development tools. A speaker from Microsoft asked who had a Windows Phone 7 device. He was the only one. Even gadget nuts like me that carry multiple devices didn't have one.

I know about 6 people that have them, but they're all either Microsoft employees, Microsoft MVPs, or are married to one.
What ad?

Why do you assume everyone will see the same thing you see?
that's the best domain name that I could think of at the time.
As for the caption, I'm not sure yet... I'm still trying to see if I can pull the photo comment from Instagram.
Wait! That reads like I support him. There's was a definite tone of sarcasm when I wrote that!
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The definition of "meritocracy" that the article provides isn't the dictionary definition of the word; it's the first sentence of the Wikipedia article on the topic where the opening paragraphs are talking about the historical origination of the concept. The dictionary definition reads, "government or the holding of power by people selected on the basis of their ability". The Wikipedia article lists intelligence, credentials, and education as examples of potential measures of merit but the particular measures of merit used in a given meritocracy aren't inherent to the words definition.

Whether or not advancement in a meritocracy is correlated to privilege is a function of what measures of merit are used not some innate property of meritocracies in general. In the context of an open source project one would hope it is a meritocracy of ideas where the merits being judged are something like the quality of the algorithms and code.

Selena's wish to be more open to contributors that have less time to contribute isn't a question of meritocracy it is one of organizational culture; unless the merit on which they are judging people is the amount of raw time they spend on the project vs. the quality of their contributed work.
I would have hated that.
Digital imaging devices have interesting pixel patterns. A common pattern found in digital cameras is four sensors in a square grid, red/green/blue/green. Since most image formats, like PNG, assume only three channels centered on one another, the four raw pixels must be interpolated to create one "cooked" pixel.

Due to reasons relating to signal processing which I'm not qualified to discuss (e.g. Nyquist limit and aliasing), a naïve sampling of these pixels can result in image artifacts such as Moiré patterns. My guess is that the artifacts I'm seeing in these images are of this type, but I could be wrong.
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To be fair, Mohamed Hassan did contact Samsung support and they didn't clear up the issue. In fact, I believe they may have even confirmed that there was a key logger installed! At that point his due dilligence has been done and he has confirmation. He doesn't need to do anything further than that. Shame on Samsung support for such a pathetic showing.
You might want to call it something else to avoid confusion with http://startupcafe.co.uk/
What he meant was that if those foreign entrepreneur could not stay in the US, they will go back to their own country to create jobs there. Therefore, the US would lose this entrepreneur along with the technology and the job he/she creates.
Really? Because I am sure it cost a lot more money to fly over and shoot the elephant himself than if he had just donated it to hungry people to buy the food or means to protect their food supply.
Thanks! Great idea! allowing users to create custom pairs of photo and allow to share them is on the upcoming features list, and perhaps a facebook app would suit this purpose.
Everything that he did was just shameful. Suggesting class-action, writing two articles essentially saying the same thing (in a "2-part series"), shoving our faces with his credentials (that obviously didn't do much for him), claiming that his anti-virus program never had false positives, drawing comparisons to the Sony rootkit debacle, etc.

I hope this guy has it coming to him. If he's going to put his creds up like that, he's putting himself out there as an informed source. You expect that sort of sensationalism from journalists, not from a security "expert". Shameful work, overall.
Somewhat ironic now that the whole story turns out, not only to be false, but the result of stunningly inept research. Yeay Norwich!
You can power a sailboat with a giant fan. What's the problem? Don't point it at the sail though - just point it away from the boat. :)

But anyway the difference here is that the "wind" is not being "pulled" from external sources (like real wind), it's created by Pioneer. And that makes a huge difference.

With wind, the fan pulls the wind (which creates force), and also pushes the wind (which also creates force).

Next you impact the wind into the sail, which subtracts from our force (since the wind is pushing in the wrong direction).

And finally the wind "bounces" off the sail, also subtracting, and leaving you with no net force.

i.e. +2 then -2.

With pioneer one step is missing - the force from pulling the wind (since the photons are created on the fly). So you have +1 then -2, leaving you with a net force of -1.

PS. If you don't understand why pulling and pushing the wind counts as two forces, think of a compressor which sucks in air and stores it. It still causes motion by pulling the air, but it doesn't push it.
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I wouldn't say it is widespread and certainly not in the software world - but there are environments where that kind of daft thinking does occur.
and loses 1$ donating to elephant charity.
It's always good to see news like this when you first wake up. Not my country, but just knowing that some courts in the world can rule intelligently on these issues gives me hope.
> Any Google search on his name from now on will probably reveal this whole debacle.

Actually, he has a sufficiently common name that those results will be relegated to the 2nd or 3rd page of search results within a few weeks:

http://www.google.com/search?q=Mohamed+Hassan
I heard Microsoft is going to reimburse its engineers who decide to pursue a law degree as it aligns with their internal strategy to have more lawyers than coders by 2015.
Color is - http://twitter.com/#!/dpatil/status/53130035732824064
LOL! Didn't get that at first.
A restaurant with tables for 1 only reminds me of a classroom full of new boys. Make eye contact at your peril.
They named a folder SL. Two letter folder name on a non unix system?
Am I missing something? 11,500 apps and an average of 12 apps per end user. Those seem like abysmal numbers to me.

According to Appsfire http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/28/appsfire_survey/ the average for iOS is 88 apps per user, 63 free, 25 paid.

Asymco http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/16/more-than-60-apps-have-been... puts this number at 60, but still.

This very old report, http://www.intomobile.com/2010/09/10/study-iphone-users-down... puts Android at 25 per user, which is probably higher now, but I couldn't find any new figures.
well, thats how most places work, including godaddy. but i notice you didn't say that godaddy is a trap.

plus, calling them a trap is rather disingenuous when the world is full of snail mail spammers who try and trick people who have expiring domains, and their ilk
Can you name a registrar that doesn't permit this? I certainly wouldn't use them.
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The reason it's like a jet engine is that the engine "creates" wind - by burning fuel, the hot exhaust is the new wind. If a jet engine only moved wind (like a turbo prop), then a thrust reverser would not work.
Nope, not seeing any ad here...
The crux of what people mean when they refer to meritocratic systems or organizations has nothing to do with the people in the organization or is related only tangentially to people. What they really mean is that the best ideas win, that the people in the system operate in accordance with a set of values that place the excellence of the end product above the egos of the people, especially the popular or powerful people. Do we have a suitable word to use in place of “meritocracy” and friends?
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He did not fulfill his due diligence. Not if they're going to add this to the article:
"Mohamed Hassan, MSIA, CISSP, CISA is the founder of NetSec Consulting Corp, a firm that specializes in information security consulting services. He is a senior IT Security consultant and an adjunct professor of Information Systems in the School of Business at the University of Phoenix."

If they're going to pass him off as an expert, then he better be doing analysis that a normal lay-man can't do. If he has the credentials, then why is he basing his claim off of a conversation with low-level customer support?
So was I. But there is still hope - these results have not been verified yet. :)
To me, multi-paradigm always was about mixing the styles, so this sounds a like quite a radical restriction, and a bit weird.
Looks pretty good to me, but if I limit the search to Heathrow and just a few months in the middle of the year, nothing comes up. Where are you getting your data from?
The head of the math department at my college actually taught one of these classes. He would assign two students each class period to take notes. He said that way, the rest of us could pay attention :) He would stand at the front and ramble about whatever came to mind, and scribble on an overhead transparency. He would start with a topic and take it wherever we asked: multiple dimensions, knot-tying, origami, computational geometry, ray-tracing. The course was called "3D Math" or something, so everything was relevant :) There were no tests, and we got to choose our own final projects. The notes and overheads were duplicated as study guides for the final, and the questions were taken right out of them. It was the most informative math class, if only because we were all doing our own thing and learning from each other.

I did a 3D extension of the Lyapunov fractal images that Mario Markus published in Scientific American in 1992. Markus's 2D: http://charles.vassallo.pagesperso-orange.fr/en/lyap_art/lya... and my 3D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-omN5ZM3Jho with a moving cross-section http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePRJfF3pwqg
As xkcd points out, this kinda makes a mockery of the pole vault. Certainly at the olympic level anyway.

http://xkcd.com/852/
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Primary sources can be rather dry/difficult reading. I'm fairly intelligent, but it's just not easy for me to grok older style language.

I have had some experience with reading primary sources though. I had an excellent history teacher in high school who had us read The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin to prepare us for American History. Now, Benjamin Franklin is a fascinating person, and he did plenty of extremely interesting things, but I had a lot of trouble getting through the style it was written in. I love learning about the things he did, but the language and style of his autobiography just did not work well for me.

Primary sources are an option, but it doesn't work for everyone.
I would like to agree with this and hope this is true. As Steve Jobs once said he would much rather be considered as builder rather than trader. And so building part of entrepreneurship is more like an art. As unpredictable and challenging starting up a company is, I would like to think that it is the art aspect of it that makes it somewhat fun as well. As difficult, unpredictable & dangerous doing a startup may be, there must be this fun aspect of it(which is more artistic) that makes it fulfilling. Else it will be just like another exam(to be passed, graded to be acquired).
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He did talk to customer support, and once in a while, I'd rather have a false alarm (keeping it to the level of information, rather than lawsuits) now and then, than something like this actually happening and kept under the radar.
Agreed. Against all reason, I was kinda hoping that the Pioneer Anomaly would somehow lead us to FTL travel... Something like: "Hey, I think I figured out the Pioneer Anom... [pause...] Ooooohhhh!"
In the future, all your cards will be public keys that can be revoked.
Wait, University of Phoenix? Isn't it the same university associated with scams and sham degrees, am I wrong?
> Of course, other groups will want to confirm these results and a team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, which has gathered the data on the probes, is currently studying its own computer model of the thermal budgets.

Here's to hoping that the numbers match. Phong shading to calculate numerically the effects of a what is almost a solar sail to decelerate Pioneer - now that's cool science!
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If there is one thing apple is right about people won't buy tablets based on specs. I do think they will buy on features.

I think the touchpad has a quad-core chip in it from qualcom.
Looks cool. You could do better with displaying the results like this site - http://www.thematchinggame.com/
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The article said 12 apps per month not 12 apps total.
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Still no simple backup/restore feature. All I ask is for them to implement a dashboard based backup & restore tool!
You should check out drush - "drush is a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal":

http://drupal.org/project/drush
I saw this via twitter this morning, not sure what clover is, but: https://www.clover.com/jobs.html
It should also be a good reminder to all of the people on HN who jumped to the conclusion that this guy was right on very sketchy evidence. This place is influential. We should do better.
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Math education should at the very least include a description of what math is and why it's interesting. Current math curricula don't let students know that math can be engaging, and so they're not engaged. The ambassador thing is to tell "normal" people what math is about. That's fundamental, not "touchy-feely".
What we want is like messing about with instruments to see what they do,
and getting hooked on the curious things that are possible.

In high school, I wanted girls to have sex with me and adults to leave me alone (so I could get better at football and maybe girls would have sex with me). I got good at math to effect the latter, and it so happens that I got quite good. Until calculus senior year, I don't ever remember having any notion of "the curious things that are possible".

Now I work in scientific computing.

Anyways, I don't know if student engagement is as important as you seem to think.
TL;DR -- Advertisers/websites want users, Google has users, and we don't know how the fuck to compete with that other than playing dirty.

Oh Microsoft, how I'd like for you to become even more irrelevant than you already are.
Impressive. Now they just need to make a non-crappy, standards-based, express version of Dreamweaver (calling it something else might help) for iPad, add integration with Dropbox and/or WordPress and Adobe's got a game changer.

Mom / small business owner / hobbyist creates own website from couch? Check.
bar grahps is definitely a more powerful visual cue... will see when I can add it, thanks for the idea!
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What basic programming language would you suggest? I started with Visual Basic, and I found that it really didn't prepare me for programming in general. It seems like the best combination of useful and easy would be either Python or bash, but I'm sure other people can come up with better suggestions.

I think the key is to find something that's teachable to people completely new at programming, but something that will be useful to them. I was thinking of Python due to it just feeling "natural" to me, at least after coming from VB and then Java. Bash is somewhat of a weird choice (especially considering most students aren't going to be using Linux), but I was thinking about that due to it being useful for immediate computer tasks, but it may not be enough of a "real programming language". I wish Windows had a good equivalent scripting language...