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Ubuntu choosing a different default display manager is hardly newsworthy, would you seriously discuss Windows or OS X swapping some code behind the login window?

I would be more interested in hearing about Canonical putting lots of thought and their weight behind an improved desktop experience developed independently of the current looks and functionality of Windows, especially since for the moment they are the GNU-Linux-on-the-desktop company.
There are numerous holes in the type system. Just browse their bug tracker to see. And several of them are not just "bugs" but deep flaws in the type system.
This. As a merchant, there is no risk accepting bitcoins - you can automate automatical sell order on mtgox everytime someone makes a purchase. So you can do riskless short-term business with bitcoins currently even if you don't believe in it long-term.

In the eurozone getting money out from mtgox is even pretty cheap + fully automated, as are deposits. yay.
"Can't find variable webkitAudioContext" error in chrome, ff, and safari for me.
Microsoft could lose billions in sales to Google's Chromebook
Talk about burying the lede. How the hell did a school desegregation case keep going until a couple months ago?
What I find weird is that the DRM mentioned for Capcom's games applies only to the PS3 versions, as far as I am aware (At least it is with Bionic Commando: Rearmed and Final Fight Arcade.) The 360 version has none of that, as does the PC Version of Rearmed at least. Kind of makes me wonder why they chose to selectively place it on the PS3 only.
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Could you elaborate on your distribution? I've seen many posts like this, but they never speak about how they got to those first 5.000 downloads. You say there was no marketing involved...?
It's the old academic vs. real world dilema just re-framed around operating systems. Is it worth securing the OS to the detriment of bug fixes? Will users be happy with a secure but buggy OS? The answer is always a balance between the two, but I think Linus is right to knock 'security' off the pedestal as the most noble of pursuits. Security alone isn't enough.
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In Chrome, navigate to "about:flags" and enable Web Audio.

Restart browser and it should work!
I was on a plane in 2003 where a woman tried to open the emergency exit. A few burly male passengers tackled her and she spent the flight zip-tied to her seat. Police escorted her off the plane before we disembarked.
The only chink in Google's armor is privacy so facebook had no other option. But as the saying goes - The sun cannot call the stove hot.
What are they trying to imply? That the explanation is some weird parasite that makes humans go crazy? I think this title is a bit sensational.

I mean seriously, one good explanation for this might be random chance. You are bound to see a streak or two with an event that is infrequent eventually.

I think the airline spokesman who said that the only reason people cared about this was because of the recent death of Osama Bin Laden was right.
Arrington's playing the numbers game too - more comments on his post means more people posting it to their facebook walls, in this case, I was happy to repost this because of my dislike for everything facebook stands for, despite the fact that I too use it for my own purposes ...

it's almost impossible not to be hypocritical in this day and age unless you live in a mud hut and eat wild berries!
Please point to a few.
Awfully inflammatory headline. When you don't have the proof, it should say: "Comcast users can't reach thepiratebay.org" Journalism, yay!
Sharp Unveils Aquos SH-12C with a 3D camera and QHD display
Sharp company has announced its new Sharp Aquos SH-12C Android phone with dual 8-megapixel camera with 3D video recording and 4.2" QHD display.
Exactly. its down from my comcast connection, tmobile 3g and also from 3 different VPS i have
Sure, asked and answered.

But this question in particular is discouraged. Follow HN for any length of time and you see the answer. If you want a meta-thread about posting, create one. But this thread is (was) about security.
It is illegal in pretty much every country (US included) to give fake information.
If you don't own/rent a place in the US, you shouldn't inform it.
Show HN: Island's First Open Data Project (open source)
I've just released the Open Elm Project which crowdsources information on Elm tree locations and their health to help monitor Dutch Elm Disease. Is the first Gov 2.0 / open data project for the Isle of Man, which is one of the few places which have remained relatively untouched by Dutch Elm Disease: 25 million tree have been lost in the UK vs 1% on the IoM.

However, last year the Government stopped funding professional tree surveys meaning the number of diseased trees is likely explode without any monitoring / reporting in place. So, not wanting to sit idly by, we built a site and a PhoneGap / jQuery Mobile app for Android and iOS to let the public do their own reporting.

The project is composed of:

A CouchDB backend hosted by couchone.com
A Django-based site which uses makes use of Celery, S3 for photo storage and CouchDBKit for integration with CouchDB
jQuery Mobile based apps wrapped with PhoneGap for iOS and Android which talk directly to CouchDB – photos are pushed to CouchDB from the phone, pulled down by Celery, resized and pushed to S3.

I'd love to hear what you think. And, if you can see other uses for this type of project, the source is there for the taking:

https://github.com/andrewgleave/OpenElm
Didn't know about the Calendar. That's pretty cool.
If you were like... "Whoa! OMG, I didn't know browsers could do this?" It's a relatively newly implemented API.

Spec: https://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/spec...
Mozilla API: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API
https://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/ticket/963
https://lampsvn.epfl.ch/trac/scala/ticket/2856

among others
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I think the key thing is that there is no mechanism to be sure that messages you send to actors are immutable. There is a compiler plugin in development to help, though.
It certainly isn't complicated but compared to starting a bittorrent client it seems like a lot of hassle.
The article answered its own question - the past week Osama got his. That was a game-changer.
> A large part of its quality came from its obscurity.

> It's becoming famous and its time to make a new one.

You joined less than a month ago, and you have a karma average of 1.59. You do realize that you are part of the influx of people who are bringing down the quality of the site? Pot, kettle, yadda, yadda...
If a slave is partitioned from its master, it won't be able to serve requests. (Unless the request is a read query marked as "slaveOk", in which case you admit inconsistency.) I highly doubt anyone would claim otherwise.
They chip away our freedoms every day, but how much is acceptable? The government wants total control of information and it looks like we're about to hand it over. I guess it's cool that we got to experience an open internet, but that won't be true for future generations. Sad really.
I didn't install anything yet. I just googled for it to find out if it will be possible, since that was a rather large hassle during the last switch, and just recently got fixed and is now available as a checkbox option in the preferences.

I found lots of articles and developer resources, but haven't found the documentation for it on the web yet. I assume that will change as exposure increases.
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The problem with the metaphor "you're dead but you don't know it" is that at the end of the movie, Willis' character accepts his situation -- pretty easily, in fact. The startup founder is unlikely to see the light so quickly.

How to break free of the delusion? Maybe by pondering the opportunity costs of not pursuing a new startup worth at least 2x (pick a reasonable concrete number) of your current one? Using real, achievable numbers might make it easier to take that leap of faith.

I think most dead startups suffer from "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush" syndrome (sorry, had to toss in a metaphor of my own) -- knowing how difficult it was to get the "dead" startup off the ground, it's difficult to face starting over.

I was a cofounder of what I used to call "the most successful startup that could never make any money". We got press consistently, did some cool partnerships with big companies (always free), and were driving steadily away from any kind of a revenue model. My partner got stubborn and, frankly, arrogant about the business, despite its professional amateur status, and I had to finally leave. He could not be made to see the light, no matter what I or anyone else said. Now he runs it as a calling card to get himself speaking gigs at conferences.

After writing this down, I'm not sure there was anything I could have said to convince him to spend his time any other way. He's not a math person, so opportunity costs are lost on him. There was nothing I could do but let him man the boat alone and drift off into the night.
Doesn't seem very secret to me. If it was secret people wouldn't know about it. A secret smear is a whisper, not a newspaper article. Furthermore its not a smear if its true. So, 2 lies in the headline. I clicked on the link to verify that it had no information, as things with 2 obvious lies in the headline are wont to do. I have verified that there is no information at the link.
So Facebook admits that their intentions were good ("just needed to get this message out"), and Burson takes the fall for its unethical approach (while gaining reputation for other companies needing similar services). Meanwhile, mission accomplished in raising visibility on what Facebook PR intended--that when pieces about online privacy come up, there's an increased chance that Google will be mentioned in the same breath as Facebook.

Seems like politics 101.
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OT: While looking at this month's home Comcast bill, I did the math: It's gone up about 24% since the end of last year. As best as I recall, this has been in three stages, each a month or two apart. I've made absolutely no change in my service. (Internet, and basic cable -- the latter because basic cable introduces a discount to the Internet pricing that makes the final bill about the same.)

At this point, were there any effective regulation, I would expect local and state level officials, if not national, to be beating down their door. Instead, they get NBC as some sort of prize.

At the time I signed up, Comcast was my only option. (AT&T couldn't be bothered to upgrade their system to reach the extra mile to my community of several thousand. [1]) I hate AT&T with a passion -- a hatred born of long-standing, historical as well as current experience. But I may switch, simply to try to apply an iota of pressure by qualifying for introductory pricing.

(By the way, the quality and maintenance of Comcast's local cable signal has gone to hell since the digital conversion. They appear to put zero time/effort into it, and they constrain the upstream bandwidth to the point where channels become unwatchable due to low frame rates and pixelation. Additionally, channels will "freeze" and take the better part of a day before somebody bothers to "unstick" them.)

--

[1] And as a result, the best offer I could get from another DSL provider, e.g. SpeakEasy (IIRC) or some well-regarded local/regional outfits -- of the few who were willing to try -- was a $200 installation fee and no guarantee that it would work. And the joy of their trying to coordinate this with AT&T.
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Kudos to Christopher Soghoian[1] for releasing the email[2] instead of accepting the offer for cash + high-profile smear publication.

It makes you wonder about the existing op-eds slamming social circles[3,4,5]

[1] http://www.dubfire.net/
[2] http://pastebin.com/zaeTeJeJ
[3] http://www.switched.com/2010/08/09/google-shows-off-how-well-it-knows-your-social-circle/
[4] http://marketing.about.com/b/2011/03/31/google-wants-you-to-1.htm
[5] http://librarianbyday.net/2010/03/30/googles-social-circle-social-search-may-not-violate-any-privacy-laws-but-it-gives-me-the-creeps/
Can't wait to have a version of PyPy that supports numpy!

Since the benefits have been proven, I can't help but wonder why there aren't more people working on this...
Thanks. I scanned the article and couldn't find it.
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Might be worth noting that Heroku has released Doozer as an open source project and link to its home at: https://github.com/ha/doozer
Sounds like something to build as part of your tricorder and get paid twice :oP
http://www.reghardware.com/2011/05/12/x_prize_foundation_tri...

Also, that doesn't sound like a lot of money to transfer intellectual property rights for that.
I guess they have patents on the hardware side so the algorithm is not easily monetisable by itself.
For many of the services listed you need a credit card with an American address.
When are you guys going to wake up and use newsgroups? BitTorrent is a huge liability if you ask me. If you're caught and sued, it's for distribution — not downloading.
That's really a different issue than type safety.
Absolutely awesome. I've been rewriting most of my financial analytics code in Scala & its a genuine pleasure to see code sizes reduce 5-6 times & being a lot more expressive at the same time, not to mention speed improvements.

Just yesterday I had an interview for a developer position with a hedge fund where the partners used M$ Excel, M$ SQL Server, M$ VBA macros and a bunch of Bloomberg terminals for the datafeed. I had prepared a presentation that advocated Scala as the primary toolset, Hadoop on the backend & a couple of DCOM hooks ( JIntegra ) that got data in & out of the Bloomberg & the rest of M$ world without getting all tangled up in M$ land.

Must say I didn't get very far. "Seems too cutting edge, no commercial support, we only have few 1000 rows so why not just use a SQL Server, what about front-end solutions for this newfangled language, does Scala do reporting, does Scala talk to Bloomberg, do other IB's use Scala, we'll use Scala when an IB starts using Scala " were some of the concerns I got.

They haven't said no, but I have a feeling they'll end up hiring a dotNet veteran who'll happily code VBA macros till the end of time instead of taking a chance on a platform that'll genuinely change the nature of s/w development as we know it.

Its amazing to see people happily betting the farm on CDS defaults of XYZ company, where they stand to lose a couple hundred million dollars if the bet goes wrong. But the same folks won't bet on a promising new technology because its too new & has no commercial support, preferring instead to stick with 30 year old M$ tech due to comfort level. The chance of a loss here is several orders of magnitude lesser, yet they don't get it.
Site is slow/down, so here's a mirror.

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"Honestly if there is no chance that I ever buy something (say because it is not available for sale) what does it matter if I download it?"

Devil's advocate: You spend time consuming the thing you torrented instead of buying something that was legally available to you and consuming that instead. But yes, this is getting to "penumbric emanation"-level of arguing, though I think that the limited nature of your time is something that should be pointed out.
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"Some people are making reports using Excel/VBA or Perl" <-- these are the second-class people, so to speak.

"some are building trading gateways in C++ from scratch" <-- depending on the shop, its either support (banks) or first-class (hft)

"some are developing trading models (typically requires a PhD or a financial engineering master's)" <-- this is not completely true. GETCO for example hires mostly bachelor's.

"getting a job at SIG, Jane Street, etc, is harder than getting a job at Google, Facebook, etc." <-- its primarily harder because the competition is tighter and the work is very different from what silicon valley asks for.
As of a day ago you can get dollars out of Mt. Gox using Dwolla, which has been excellent in my experience and only charges 25 cents per transaction. I withdrew money today and it was in my Dwolla account in less than an hour.

As far as using the API goes, there are still a few problems. My understanding from the #bitcoin-otc IRC channel is that there is a 30-second delay on trades on the Mt. Gox exchange. This contributes to weirdly huge sub-minute swings in the exchange rate. Two nights ago, there was a point where the rate went from $5 up to $6 and then back down to $5 within the space of a few seconds. This means that in the time it takes for the merchant to process the transaction, upload the bitcoins to the Mt. Gox exchange, and put in a sell order for the highest buy rate, the price may have changed dramatically.

Another problem is that the gap between the highest bid and the lowest asking price is often very large. There is no 'market rate' as of yet. So depending on when the merchant places a sell order, they may be getting a bad rate.

And it opens up another way for someone to manipulate the market to rip off the merchant. The highest buy order is usually placed by a bot that takes the highest non-bot buy order and increases it by something like .0001 bitcoins. The bots update their bids every minute or so. Since there are only a small number of traders in the exchange, a single large trader or group of medium-size traders could manipulate the market by placing a series of strategically high buy orders. This will drive up the overall rate, as the bots respond to the change in price by increasing their bids. (Edit: There are also bots programmed to make bids at somewhat less than the highest buy order, which would contribute to the illusion of a legitimate upward movement in the price, as all of those bots chase after the highest price.) Within just a few minutes, they can increase the highest bid by a significant amount (say $1 USD), and then place a bitcoin order for real goods and services with the merchant, knowing that they use an automatic system to exchange bitcoins for USD at the inflated market price. But during the time it takes the merchant to get their bitcoins into Mt. Gox's system and sell them, the price will have dropped back down as the fraudsters stop making inflated buy orders.
I've only seen one Steam game that couldn't be bought in Brazil (I still don't know why).

I'm guessing it depends at which store you are buying it. Many of the US stores don't sell to foreigners, though. Could they be afraid of fraud?
Or, if you sell software or other digital goods, you can set the price at a fixed rate per day (based on either a moving median, the closing price or whatever), and cash out at a longer interval.

It's a bit more risky (you may lose one day of sales if bitcoin was to crash definitely), but since you don't have any fixed cost, it shouldn't matter.
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Show HN: user generated TL;DRs with a smart scorer
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That 3x speed up is about the same that I have seen with my code. I'm currently writing a database cache simulator to try different algorithms with it, and if I want to have anywhere near realistic results I have to use realistic access traces.

Tried it today with a tpc-c trace which has about 500 million accesses. The result: CPython would have run for about 90 minutes (I stopped it after 30 minutes, and began to look for a speedier possibility), PyPy only took 22 minutes.
Why would we expect anything to be equal? People don't eat equally healthy. They don't exercise equally.
> I've actually seen companies claim that it is illegal to use the software they sell outside of the country they sell it in.

This isn't directly relevant to copyright, but there are indeed export controls on some technologies to prevent them from leaving the country and it is illegal to export them.
I think this will smack of the Streisand Effect (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect) over time. Facebook trying to call attention to privacy concerns over Google will, inevitably, as this piece exemplifies, call attention to their own privacy concerns. And the stigma of this hypocritical stance will also call attention to the overall maturity and sensibility of Facebook, as well.

Then again, the kind of people who are most likely to be affected by this entire affair are also the kind of people who already know this information about both companies. So maybe this will have little overall effect?
Even with the app it seems really hard to find the beat. It's really easy to find the bass hit though, so I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the tempos are off by 1/2 or 1/4.
Agreed, with one quibble. Alcohol usage is inversely parabolically correlated with earning power and life expectancy. Even self reported heavy drinkers earn slightly more and live slightly longer than than complete abstainers.
If 700$ an hour is a reasonable price for the services rendered as the article indicates... Then the request seems reasonable. It's a bit confusing that this case took so long to be resolved... but thems the breaks. If the invoice is legit it's hard to have sympathy for anyone complaining.
Hi HN,

Here's a little background about gistpoint, I was an FPGA developer working on DSP systems at a big company in D.C. Last May, bored of my job and frustrated at my career progress, I took the paths most travelled and quit my job to wander around the world. Along the way, I picked up ruby/rails and javascript because I want to transition into web programming. The learning curve was steep coming from the hardware world. Plus running from city to city also made it tough to maintain focus. 2 months ago, after many false starts and months of distraction, I finally decided to push it through completion.

gistpoint is a web app that lets you search and submit summaries for online articles. It's unique in that it has a scorer that rates how relevant a summary is compared to its fulltext. This is done by analyzing several factors such as information coverage, sentence grammar, word stemming, etc. So the best summary will rise to the top and gets shown as the default. No signup/login is needed to submit summaries, and quality is controlled without voting. When no user-submitted summary is available, it will extract the most relevant passage from the fulltext. From my experience if I just naturally summarize an article I just read, the scorer rates it highly compared to the extracted one.

Please let me know what you think. If anyone wants to know more about the scoring algorithm, I'll be happy to write a post about it. I definitely open source the summary extraction and grammar gems on github. They're already on rubygems https://rubygems.org/profiles/50055 for you to download, I just need to create the documentations.
People are working on it. For example, Quora is having Alex Gaynor help move their site to PyPy this summer:
http://alexgaynor.net/2011/may/06/this-summer/
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Try putting in 1 and just adding 0's :) Wonderful!