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I feel like I should respond though this thread has long lost attention.

I don't take Palin seriously. I think she exists as a point of view and not as a serious candidate.

My personal political axe-grinding would be more like "Why do any of us pay attention to politicians? Does it matter that Obama appoints executors that seem to support intellectual property when we all know intellectual property can't help but lose? PRESIDENTS DON'T MATTER"

In other words, I regard politics as a mug's game in the current stasis. And I feel no guilt in making fun of Palin, because not only is she playing the game that I have no respect for, she doesn't even know how to play it.

Your genuine point is that we all have an ax to grind; but in this thread there's been the irrelevant-to-the-thread and that which actually reacts to what's happening.

And what's happening is, Palin's a joke. She has less of a chance than Hillary Clinton of being nominated, because she's twice as radical and four times as dumb.

I actually have grown to respect Hillary Clinton's intelligence, so I might rate this number higher depending upon my mood.
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> When somebody else starts making better phones,
> computers, blah blah...

What would be your guess, when will be the time when you can start editing your document on Windows machine at work, tweak some on your tablet at home, and then show to someone on your phone without hitting "save" and "export" at all?

Even is Dell starts to make better computers than Apple, HTC—better phones, and HP—better tablets Apple would have an huge advantage of seamless experience.
Agreed. Legendary troll.

OS X and Linux have different kernels, which means different I/O & process schedulers, different file systems, and a whole host of other implementation details that you'll write off as having been abstracted away until you have your first serious encounter

1) What does this have to do with web development? A web developer delegates those kinds of details to a web server.

2) This is a non-issue for most applications, thanks to the magic of POSIX. (results may vary)

2) Last time I checked, web development didn't involve intimate knowledge of POSIX implementation details on different UNIX and UNIX-like systems. There are libraries for that.

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Oh now it makes sense. Someone is trying to differentiate themselves. Pass.
Hardware is already commodotized but hardware+design is still Apple's monopoly. The thing that can change that is desktop manufacturing.
It seems to be more or less universally true that anyone complaining about a particular language, framework, platform, IDE, text editor, etc. is staring into the abyss of whatever outdated, outmoded, outmaneuvered way of thinking that they've invested themselves into. Everyone else is busily improving on what we've got to work with.
fried egg on a roll. oh god, i miss it.

i have found a pretty decent substitute in palo alto, but it's not the same.
I think what he's saying is if Google leaves cookies on your computer that contain your userid, but you're not logged in (similar to trying to access Google Apps Administration or your own Google user account settings where it always prompts for a password) then it will prompt you to fully log in.
indeed. it took me forever to wrap my head around fft of an image.

one thing you can do is read how JPEG works, the DCT is a lot like generalized FFT.
It's truly remarkable that a $60B company is able to make these sort of bets and execute on them. It's easy for smart individuals to make off hand remarks but it is different for a company to rally and gather around a single idea like this.

To be fair, Apple isn't the only company that does this. Google is remarkable, as well. Virgin is another. I'm sure there are many others in many other industries that take big gambles for 'game-changing' or earth shattering results.
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Many of us work on open-source projects and are not so much appreciated for it at corporate workplace. Some just say I work on this Apache project or that cool one. If the HR or tech guy likes Open Source(or knows about it! ), then you'd probably get into a good place with an attractive pay slip. If not, you're quite screwed if Open Sourced Projects are all what you've done - http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/8886/can-someone-find-a-job-as-a-programmer-without-an-education .

What people don't realize is contributing to Open Source projects is way more difficult than working in a closed environment. Your work is "out there" for code review and criticism. So it's gotto be good. Most open source contributors have remarkable coding standard.

"Most developers i know care about producing good code, especially then they are contributing to an open source project!"(http://edorian.posterous.com/please-ship-your-own-coding-standard-as-part).

I believe that some of us are already wondering if we can get certified "free" for the work we do in open source. Can a open source community, award certificates to a person? Is it possible for them to decide on factors like:

What is being committed by a person - Code, Test Cases, Translations, Documentation, Specifications?
How often it was done?
How many projects?

Some ideas are just bad. I wonder if this is. But it'd be stupid not to run it by Hacker News!
It's worth pointing out that clojure's protocols actually address the "multiple issues of the same method" problem. It looks like Yehuda's been, at the very least, reading the same books as Rich Hickey (this is a good thing)
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> Accidental misleading is somehow better?

Yes, because accidents don't have a profit motive.
Agreed, in fact offline reading (+Kindle syncing) is why I sought out the app in the first place.
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It's not necessarily a comparison of how Apple and Google will 'attack' each other. Just a statement of their situations. Apple's primary goal could be commoditized out from under it, while Google's is less likely to see that happen.
Fair enough, that's his call to make. Meanwhile, I'll keep using InstaFetch for its value added to my Android phone.
There is something disturbingly wrong with how that font is rendering in Firefox 4. Completely unreadable.
Pair programming done right has some pretty effective counters to this:

* Time passes much more quickly when you have an audience you want to impress.
* You're less likely to waste time surfing the web when you're working with someone.
* If your pair thinks you're drifting off, they can say "how about you drive for a while."

Of course it's easily defeated if both people decide to slack.
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I agree. Note that there are multiple things on the Mac App Store that do this already; for instance, I dug up TileWindows (never tried it, no idea if it's the best of them).

It would be nice if windows could be independently told to lose their chrome to make more room, as they seem to in Full Screen, but without actually taking up the whole screen in the process. For instance, why shouldn't I be able to toss 2 or 3 terminal windows on the left half of a display while still having room for regular, non-Full-Screen windows on the right?

Ultimately I think Apple made a good decision by combining Full Screen and Spaces, because they are very similar. Each screenful is essentially devoted to some task, whether that task requires many windows or one, and it's nice to switch between them so easily.

The only question that remains for me is what will happen with 2 displays. I hope Apple has a simple way to place any Full Screen app and/or any Space on either display, where I can switch one display without affecting the other. One of the infuriating things about Mac OS X 10.6 and earlier right now is that a full-screen app on a second display affects the first display in weird ways (e.g. a 2nd display's full-screen mode can be turned off by trying to interact with windows on the 1st display, which seems like a nonsensical restriction).
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The FDA is not underfunded. Its budget has more than doubled from 2006 to 2011:

http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/11/nation/la-na-fda-bud...

When a business fails, its budget is cut as customers leave it in droves for other businesses. But when the FDA fails, the idea is to throw more money at it, to increase the budget of a failure.

The problem is that the FDA is a monopoly. When it fails, which happens routinely, people should be able to look to alternate reviewers -- like the European or Japanese regulatory bodies. That doesn't happen right now.
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Being from Oregon, the submission is kind of funny. It automatically sends an email to your two senators and district representative. So Wyden got an email from me stating "I urge you to join Senator Wyden". Well, maybe it will buttress his resolve.
Ask HN: Visualizing users interaction with a web app.
What are some of the ways to visually represent a set of users interaction with a web application. I'm aware of heat maps and also seen some of the graphics on mixpanel.com web site.
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This was not created by a Mozilla employee, but rather by someone using Mozilla Chromeless.

Source: https://mozillalabs.com/chromeless/2011/05/31/webian-shell-a...
"The program, which was about 50 statements in Visual Basic, checked all of 8991 four digit numbers from 1000 to 9999..."

Whoa, you need 50 statements in VB for that? I need 14 in Python:

import collections

def kaprekar(k):
nr = 0
while True:
if k == 6174: return nr
small = int("".join(sorted(list("%04d" % k))))
large = int("".join(sorted(list("%04d" % k), reverse=True)))
k = large - small
nr += 1

freqs = collections.defaultdict(int)
for i in range(1000, 10000):
if not i % 1111: continue # skip 1111, 2222, etc...
freqs[kaprekar(i)] += 1

for k,v in freqs.items():
print k, v

Outputs:

0 1
1 356
2 519
3 2124
4 1124
5 1379
6 1508
7 1980
I assume you're being sarcastic, right? Microsoft has offered this for years: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_Foundation_Server
I think having good HTML/JS/CSS support is a general trait of all of the JetBrains IDEs, in case you are curious if the one for your language has it too.
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Can anyone compare this to Google's two-factor authentication using the Authenticator App? The app is open source (http://code.google.com/p/google-authenticator/) and the private key(correct?) is provided via a QR scan.
On another forum[1], I read that the download includes a disk image for an emergency boot disk.

[1] http://www.heise.de/mac-and-i/news/foren/S-Re-Mac-OSX-Lion-n...
Not to mention all this Bitcoin stuff we've been hearing about recently. If it actually takes off there's potential in setting up physical systems/cards to facilitate point-of-sale bitcoin transactions in physical space.
> I doubt they'd make it more granular than that as it would complicate things quite a bit while only meeting the needs of a few and isn't really in line with their interests.

What you get after the set-up, in Settings, looks a bit like this: http://i.imgur.com/dYXvU.png
dude, I said Im at work, and cant download it. I didnt knew it was just the website.

And just because they havent done it yet, doesnt mean they will never hack the psn itself.
I thought of asking the same question, but decided to do some googling.

Found this interesting review by Guido: https://profiles.google.com/gvanrossum/posts/CGh9MoWU53V

Overall, it seems to be a great editor for doing work in Python. I have been using vim as my main code editor for C++, Python, Ruby, PHP for nearly 10 years and it is hard for me to imagine leaving vim.

But no one says you can't use PyCharm and vim together. What I mean is that, when I am sitting down to work on some code having PyCharm seems great. But when I just need to make some quick edits, then vim can be used. In the end, the results of our work is just text chunks that are in a DVCS.

I think I will give the 30-day free trial a shot to see how it works compared to my vim setup (using https://github.com/astrails/dotvim as a base for my current vim seutp btw). And I recommend you to just give it a shot and see how it works for you and your workflow.
Where did that come from? I never said I thought it was a big use. In fact I've never used Redis, but I'm an avid user of Lua and I was glad to see Redis adopt it.

Since Redis is so popular, is it wrong to suppose it was at least partially responsible?
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And you've missed the point.

Monkey patching is a really bad idea for reasons that have been understood for decades. A lot of Ruby folks think that monkey patching is the bee's knees. The result is that a lot of Ruby gems monkey patch things in conflicting ways.

Every other language community that he discussed frowns on monkey patching and doesn't do it to any significant degree. And it means that stuff isn't nearly as fragile.
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My MobileMe renewed... yesterday afternoon. Chatted the support up and he offered a full refund, however it would take 4-6 weeks to post, a partial refund in the next week or two, and no guidance beyond that because the MobileMe team didn't actually learn that they had been discontinued UNTIL THE KEYNOTE.

He was cool, and only made a few comments, but in the few he did, you could absolutely feel the repressed steverage.

:)
No downvotes from me. I've had two iMac HDDs die, lots of friends' too. My heart sunk when I found out about special temp sensor, I live a long way from any Apple repair centre.

As for Lion, it's anyone's guess whether we'll get a burnable/USBable DMG or not...
Ahh that makes sense, thanks.
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Instapaper will be ok, it has superior features not in Reading List. Same for Camera+ even though Apple added enhancement to native Camera app. Sparrow vs Mail app. iOS market is big enough for Marco to happily survive.
So is this what the Obama "cyberattack = act of war" saber rattling was about?
I asked myself the same, lol, OSX is lagging behind when it comes to accepting HTML/CSS/JS as a first class app environment... Except for Dashboard Widgets, of course.
If I'm understanding this correctly, then an attacker still has to know which seed is linked to my token in order to use it?

Or can they reverse engineer that if they catch sight of one number?

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"More buyers ==> more sellers ==> more buyers" ... just like "more bargain hunters ==> more bargain-offering affiliates ==> more bargain hunters"
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I find it interesting some of the stories that get more upvotes here. Is there anyone here that's actually in favor of this? I'm curious to know why. (And I'll be polite about it.)

Maybe it's just cynicism?
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Ask HN: So, I made a Mac app, and it's in the store...
Hey, gang;
My first-ever Mac app has just hit the App Store. It's a silly little thing that just makes your computer play a sound effect of your choice when you close the lid (and a different one when you open it). I made it to scratch an itch and learn a bit more about Cocoa.

So, two things here:

1. I'd love to share — if anyone would like a promo copy, I'd be happy to give away a few codes. Message @lidpopapp on Twitter.

2. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can possibly promote it? I'm not good at this stuff, and any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Wish me luck!
I don't like the idea of entering my Dropbox credentials directly into an untrusted site. Doesn't Dropbox have any safer means of authentication for these kinds of services, like twitter or facebook offer?

Seems like a cool service, though.
Modern distributions are unusable for me because of Intel 855GM graphics driver bugs. The latest one I can use is Ubuntu 10.10 with special patches by glasen-hardt.de, even Fedora 15 and openSUSE 11.4 give me trouble with flashing windows, missing content etc.
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Preferences → Content → Fonts & Colors → Advanced → Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above

Untick that box, set the Firefox defaults to something attractive like Droid Sans, and rejoice at how readable the Web becomes.
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They have the incentive but they probably fail to recognize this as a threat. Usually until it's too late.
We have seen this over and over in history and it may even be positive as it provides a chance for power shifts.
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Nice work! I was thinking on implementing some cool features on a drawing site I created. I tried to avoid HTML5 canvas to keep compatibility with older browsers (solved with some javascript + image creation workaround). But when I see this kind of apps like yours, makes me wonder if I should forget about compatibility and provide users with better features.
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the dropbox api has oauth for this exact purpose. they also have an endpoint (a la xAuth) that returns a token in exchange for credentials, but afaik, it's reserved for mobile apps that don't want to deal with the oauth dance.
Well, he's basically correct — unwarranted assumptions create security holes. But the people commenting here that usability problems create security holes are also correct. If you have a system with no usability problems and no unwarranted assumptions, is it therefore secure? Or are there other ways that security holes arise?
I can't tell you how many iterations we've been through to design a way to pause the game that is 1) hard for cats and 2) memorable and intuitive for humans.

Look in the app store for a Baby App called Rattle. It has a simple, effective way to get to the menu that babies can't do by accident.

It has a little "i" icon that, when held, brings up a non-obnoxious, non-modal, hardly noticeable translucent text message saying "drag this down with 2 fingers". Do so, and the menu appears. Do anything else and it reverts back to the game.
The mockups for split screen apps later in the video remind me of the Windows 8 preview.

Also: am I the only one who feels like these sort of shells should do away with the back/forward buttons as a default part of the display provide shortcuts or similar instead, especially since a lot of web apps don't play well with browser history, or provide their own state management/back button.

The same could probably be said for the address bar, as well; hide it unless the user specifically wants to enter a URL. I find I mostly enter search terms into my address bar, and on web shells this could easily be replaced by offering a search box front and center on your new tab landing page.
Unfortunately, your A-B example is about the best we can do for cryptographic proofs at this point. We don't even know how to prove P≠NP at this point, and worse, as far as I know, we don't even know how to design cryptosystems whose attacks would reduce to a known NP-complete problem. The best we know how to do so far is math problems that nobody has found an efficient algorithm for yet, such as discrete logarithms and integer factorization.
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"Google’s frame is the browser window. Apple’s frame is the screen. That’s what we’ll remember about today’s keynote ten years from now."

So... what happens when you maximize the browser window?

The actual issue is Google wants to be accessible from any device, Apple wants to sell you their custom hardware.

"But Google’s vision is about software you run in a web browser. Apple’s is about native apps you run on devices."

Other than that Apple wants to sell you hardware, there are only technical differences between those two things.
Apple steamrolls over 3rd party apps (including implementing features that they rejected another app for including), developers get angry and... this is somehow this is partly Microsoft's fault. Interesting.
Quote from the article:

Sources close to RSA tell Ars that the March breach did indeed result in seeds being compromised. The algorithm is already public knowledge.

As a result, SecurID offered no defense against the hackers that broke into RSA in March. For those hackers, SecurID was rendered equivalent to basic password authentication, with all the vulnerability to keyloggers and password reuse that entails.

So they got a lot of the seeds and then were basically down to trial and error, similar to know passwords.
I'd like to focus on that, but it's so lost in his over-the-top attitude of adulation that it's difficult to discern what the actual message might be. Google makes apps for browsers, Apple makes native apps... so what? Can you explain it?
There's a big problem here, downtime. Twitter is very unreliable. But i suspect they plan to acquire them.
"We'll foot the bill for the pirates and turn them into paying customers if you let us. We are the only ones that will even try." Must have been magic in the boardroom during the pitch.
You've been able to do that forever with full screen browser modes, of course. Flash can do full screen, too. And then of course Google has done the ultimate, with an OS that only fits a browser window.
Yes, in spite of claims to the contrary, 10.4 -> 10.6 worked for several people I know.
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Confusingly enough - no. From what I do [and what I've seen most people do], there's an equal split between listening to:

1) All songs from the movie

2) All songs by the composer(s) (or 'music director')

3) All songs by the singer(s)

...with other edge cases like a specific combination of composer and singer, the decade of movie release, genre or even by the movie director.

ID3 tags and smart playlists are a frickin boon to managing a large set of Indian film music!
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The most amazing thing about this is that Facebook has now alienated both Apple and Google. Only Adobe is left from the big 4 as Schmidt described it. Flash Facebook Fone?
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I tend to build projects around an API - not just integrate an API service into something for authentication or the like.
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I don't think that the majority opinion amongst "hackers" (as in, the general programmer audience here) agrees with Stallman in a meaningful sense. A majority might sort of prefer free software, but don't care to fight for it very much; how many people use and develop for & on proprietary software and locked-down hardware anyway because they care more about convenience and utility than freedom?

RMS calls it like he sees it.
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is there any reasonable explanation for this attack, other than pure vandalism?
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