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Because Nokia R&D spend is 8 times that of HTC, and 5 times of Apple for that matter.[1] Nokia needs the flexibility with the OS. In an ideal world, Nokia most certainly should make an OS by themselves, but clearly that didn't happen, so they choose the one that gives them the most flexibility to do what they want, much more than just putting a custom UI on top.
And yes, the shock is risky. But the way things were going, very necessary.

[1]http://www.itpro.co.uk/630721/nokia-r-d-spend-outweighs-appl...
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Just hold up right there. University is free in Slovenia. I'm not paying a thing for all of this :)

I'm also a doing a job on the side, so I can learn to instantly apply the experience.
...subject to your key being safe, produced from a good source of entropy and never used anywhere else. Is this provable?
Pretty cool. Could do with some tweaking and polishing still though.

Should be valid html. Back button is broken. There should be a home button top left. The colours need tweaking for contrast, and I'm guessing other accessability tweaks.

url search does not work. For example the url: http://jqapi.com/ajax returns 404. Really it should do a search for ajax and take me to that page or list search results.
Bought it, have learned from it, wish the code were in larger or bolder face--those of us who broke in with Perl 4 don't necessarily have best near vision these days. It is a good book.
Bitcoin looks exactly like a pyramid scheme from a money-transfer point of view. Money gets shifted from gullible suckers to the folks who invent the scheme, until one day you run out of people willing to sign on for the scheme, at which point everything collapses and the late adopters are left holding the bag.

It's kinda sad. I think when it happens I'll make like edw519 and self-publish a book "The Best Of Hugh3" in which I publish all my "told you so" comments. And hey, maybe just to be charitable I'll sell copies for a million bitcoins each!
Remote - I need someone with a great attention to detail and appreciation for ui/ux design to convert a series of PSD files to HTML5 and CSS3. I have about 2 to 3 weeks worth of work. You will need to provide a portfolio. Thank you
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There this gem that brings the underscore syntax to Ruby: http://bit.ly/a6QmgL
Pastebin of the unpack-4142.c : http://pastebin.com/AY3abgEJ
> It's just false.

No, you just misunderstand the actual statements.

Deflationary currency doesn't mean that people don't buy anything. It means that the supply and demand curves shift, reducing (but not completely eliminating) investment and consumption. The magnitudes of the shifts vary depending on the product being discussed, but the direction of the shifts is the same in every case.
Plan for China’s Water Crisis Spurs Concern
Why do you assume the tools are pirated?
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I use Comcast business at my workplace. I get a pretty good deal, actually an amazing deal compared to fiber with a zero install cost. 22/5 for around $150 or so. Their business support is competent.

Residential service is around $60 here. So for about double that you can get a 22/5 line without caps.
Quite possibly, and certainly I think they could get it if they really wanted. Certainly it can't be much worse that typical public email providers where law enforcement seem to pretty much just have to type an email into a form to browse your inbox.
In this particular case, the whole process is made easier by the fact that bitcoin enthusiasts form a self-organizing PR machine.
>Expectations about computers have changed. What matters now is heft, portability, battery life, how it fits your bag, and how cool it looks at the coffee shop. Not how fast it is, but how fast it feels. It’s not about specs, it’s about the experience.

For most of the consumer market, this has been true for a very long time. Those who don't know much about computers will buy what is visually appealing over how it functions and those who do care more about how well the things going to hold up.
Would be nice if the sidebar was resizeable.
Easier said then done. The most reliable way to dump audio output is by API Hooking, which isn't easy in the first place and detectable by AV, Spybot etc. It much simpler to intercept the network traffic.
Why did Stephen Elop announce MS in February when first phones take a year more?
I was expecting to read about the owners of each site getting personal, but it's just their respective users offending each other.
What is M0? (ParrotVM)
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Well, it's over 20 years since I graduated with a CS degree that had a strong maths/theory component and I'm pretty happy with what I did. It meant I could go on and do postgraduate work in an engineering department which pretty much directly led to me co-founding a startup with one of my colleagues - before we got VC funding we kept ourselves going for a couple of years largely by writing engineering simulations.

I'm fairly good at picking up new concepts by myself - but could I have taught myself what I learned by being taught and, more importantly, collaborating with some very smart people - I'm pretty sure, for me, the answer to that is no.
I'm not convinced that a penalty makes sense. It's not really the inventor's fault for filing an obvious patent or one with prior art; it's the patent office's fault for approving it.
Here's what the LWN FAQ has to say about subscriber links: http://lwn.net/op/FAQ.lwn#slinks

Where is it appropriate to post a subscriber link?

Almost anywhere. Private mail, messages to project mailing lists, and blog entries are all appropriate. As long as people do not use subscriber links as a way to defeat our attempts to gain subscribers, we are happy to see them shared.

In the past, corbet has said that posting the occasional link to Hacker News is acceptable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1966033

As long as the posting of subscriber links in places like this is occasional, I believe it serves as good marketing for LWN - indeed, every now and then, I even do it myself.

Personally, I get lots of mileage out of my LWN subscription-they do great reporting, and they try very hard to avoid sensationalism. If you work with Linux professionally, and you like Hacker News, you'll probably appreciate LWN.
This seems like a no-brainer to me. As the integration between back and front end vision becomes tighter, the better the product will be.
> The truth is that CL produces an insane amount of revenue for the head, Craig - and he is happy with that.

I fail to see what the problem is here, as long as he's spreading the wealth along to the rest of the organization and its investors.
They already limit the number of concurrent streaming videos. Last time I checked, N == 1. (Other packages might have different options.)
Why not wait a week until it is generally available?

If a small percentage of LWN subscribers would post their favorite articles to well-read sites, it would quickly defeat the incentive to subscribe to LWN.

Anyway, the main point is: LWN is great, if you like it, consider joining ;).
Use https://join.me/ and share your screen. You just email a unique url to whomever and they can watch you do whatever on your system.
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Pournelle is one of the great 90's tech writers who also did Sci-Fi work - his column in Byte back in the day was great:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle

Think of him as the John Gruber of the 90's.

And yes, someone should give him some CSS help.
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given this move, if microsoft open standardizes the protocol ... my respect for microsoft will go +100
Xen is used all over, AWS and a multitude of linux vps hosting are some of the major ones. I don't know how much kvm is used in comparison but I believe that Xen's paravirtualization offers some advantages over using kvm (someone with more knowledge could probably chime in for that).
Not an open source remake, rather a rebalancing and increased difficulty patch of the original, is Final Fantasy Tactics 1.3:

http://www.insanedifficulty.com/board/index.php?/forum/13-fi...
Learning from introverts: ditching "it's me vs. the world..."
If this goes mainstream, I can imagine the hotel lobby trying to beat AirBnB over the head with this issue. Perhaps even doing their best to instigate legal action by the government for potential violations of the CAN-SPAM Act.
Xen is still widely used. IIRC Xen provides the virtualization layer for AWS, and it is used by some pretty large hosting providers (Linode comes to mind). It also is packaged into a number of commercial commercial offerings. Oracle's VM solution is really just Xen running on Red Hat with some optimizations for their platform stack, same with Citrix. Clearly those two implementations alone is going to be a decently-sized install base.

I don't know how much KVM is used in the wild, but it has been crowned the "official" hypervisor for RHEL and Ubuntu, so I would guess that it it's been steadily gaining steam w/ the OSS crowd.
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The more interesting question is why doesn't one side, or the other, use a tool like http://tineye.com to deal with identifying the images?
Not at all what I expected when I saw the title. And I tend to think that spending that amount per student now would result in a future with (a) less prisoners, (b) citizens with the tools to really improve themselves and the world around them, and (c) taxpayers able to pay more.
impure functional programing with tables of closures.
> How about instead of trying to fruitlessly crack Skype, we spend the time making something that's both open and better?

There's value in making an open client that works with the existing network (for example, Microsoft recently killed the Skype integration plug-in for Asterix).
It's unfortunate that "local" has come to mean "groupon clone". There's so much more to local commerce.
A government collects taxes from all the businesses and people in a given country, which is huge in terms of being able to provide value. Bitcoin has no such thing.
That's not a "potentially more plausible" way for it to fail. It's merely a theoretical vulnerability. The bursting of a bubble in the price of a worthless asset, though -- that's, historically-speaking, a dead certainty.

Come on, people. This isn't the first asset bubble in history (though it may be the most cleverly-designed). We all know how it ends. People keep paying ever-higher prices for the asset, hoping it will go up. And it does for a while. Then one day, the price of the asset stops going up, people realise they don't want to own this asset now it's stopped going up, the value collapses, ka-pow, it returns to a more natural value.

For a real estate bubble, this may mean a halving in prices, because the natural value of real estate is quite high. For bitcoins, the natural value is zero.
Couldn't the client software just keep track of addresses sent and received in a log file, and when you submit a tax return, you send them that file? They then determine how much tax you owe (either a consumption tax or wealth tax,) and you pay it in bitcoin. The government can then inject or withdraw bitcoins from the money supply as it sees fit to promote or ease inflationary pressure.

So the government has two sets of transactions: those accounted for, and those unaccounted for.
They refuse to consider the "skilled in the art" obviousness test

The law includes an obviousness test for a reason. If Congress intended prior patent applications to be the sole test, they would have said so. The patent office is ignoring the law to the detriment of all of us.
A few years ago the Xen developers sent a massive patch to the Linux kernel developers and it got rejected outright because it got far too intimate with way more of the kernel internals than it should have.

The other blog post linked from the OP's link mentions this: http://blogs.oracle.com/wim/entry/linux_mainline_contains_al...

Here's one of the LKML threads where the Xen guys sent a pull request straight to Linus, got rejected, and there was a bit of a shitstorm: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.xen.devel/64085

Things seem to have changed now, though -- it looks like the Xen developers have cleaned up their code and the Linux devs were willing to merge it into mainline.
KVM is used by Bytemark (www.bytemark.co.uk), who provide virtual machines for hosting (smaller scale than Linode, mostly UK).
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If your company is ever used as the subject of the "X for Y" analogy, that's success. AirBnB used to be the eBay for vacation rental.. Now other companies are the airbnb of things.
First I agree the cost Michigan pays per prisoner is too high. Texas manages to get by at $13,000 per prisoner Michigan shouldn't need $40,000. But that's for all the expenses to keep them alive (room, board, medical, etc...). So the comparison isn't an accurate one.

But let me ask this:

Michigan is a state where the average teacher makes $57,958 per year BEFORE benefits (http://www.teacher-world.com/teacher-salary/michigan.html). Benefits that include a lifetime pension after retirement. This is in a state with a median income of $44,627 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan)

Yet they rank 30th in education: http://tinyurl.com/5wwq8ep.

I'm not saying teacher's shouldn't be well paid. If they were making 10% over the median income I would have no complaints. But they're well above that and that, as much as the prisons, is why the schools in Michigan have no money.
"Nokia is now on track to release at least one Windows Phone handset in 2011 with a dozen more in 2012."

A dozen!

With a dozen models on the market how are customers supposed to choose?

Nokia should slow down and put as much TLC as possible into 1 or 2 products next year. Make each immaculate instead of figuring you can fix your mistakes in next month's model.
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I used to have a rosy glass over democracy as I came from China. However, news like this really pissed me off. A lot of those representatives are not working for the people who voted them, but rather the big corporates or whichever lobby groups. How come lobbying is even legal in the first place? It's actually glorified bribery. Please forgive me if I'm being a bit cynical here.
Because Bitcoins are being suggested as an alternative to fiat money. However, given their current rate of appreciation, Bitcoins are actually an investment, not a currency.

What is their inherent value, then? Commodities (whether precious or industrial) can be used in production or for luxury goods. Equities generate profits, which are subsequently shared with investors. What do Bitcoins do? Nothing.
keeping the key safe, yes, using the key once, yes, but need not be random at all (with in reason - a key of 0s is feasible, under the pretense that the cipher text, which would be equal to the plain text, is the cipher text for any message with the same length, for some key)

the key space being the same size as the message space, and cipher text space means that all messages of equal length are possible, with no way of knowing which one is the correct one. i suppose, a theoretical attack would be to be to enumerate all messages in the english language, XOR them with the cipher text, and see which resulting keys come close the properties of the PRNG used..

even non-determinism can't help you here, i'm afraid.
Wow. Have to disagree with every one of his points. Total link bait here - I really doubt the success or failure of bitcoin will depend much on what one guy on the internet reckons.

I love that his final argument is just "Something will go wrong - I dunno what, but something will." Mm. Top notch.
Photos might not be rendering. I get an HTTP 400 when I make a request to the Instagram API. Not sure what happened. Maybe I exceeded my API limit.
Then that, with the IP limit should be sufficient. Their goal should be to minimise the abuse without turning their customers into criminals.
Thanks for reminder to contribute to the EFF this year.

We have strength in numbers.
Economist/founder here. And somebody who has not yet commented on bitcoins. Watching otherwise intelligent people adopt these is hilarious. I won't speak to the tech side (I'm sure its strong). Bitcoins are, in fact, an outright disaster/scam.

1 - as highlighted by the author: bitcoins are equity positive in their creation. we can trade with seashells as the medium (painted red so distinguish them as special currency, of course), but every time somebody goes to the beach with a bucket of paint, they get rich. money creation in its traditional sense (generally, except countries with serious issues) does not create equity, it only increases liquidity. major difference. tomorrow we could all adopt a new currency, but we would generally have to back it with something else of value (sort of authors point #2, weakly explained). bitcoins are the creation of 'free money' out of thin air. we can assign it value (if we dupe others into taking it for goods/services), but its value-less
2 - the computing power devoted to this game is completely wasted. look at this from 30,000 feet -- all of these smart people with smart computers are crunching numbers on a frivolous exercise and not for something productive. total deadweight loss

bitcoins are the equivalent of beanie babies. you could buy a car with those, and they became currency, albeit very briefly. but the inherent value is that of a stuffed doll. bitcoins have a negative inherent value
We having a saying here that once you make Director or VP, they force-feed you "stupid pills" that cause you to lose your mind.

I'm sure everyone has stories.
US P2P lawsuits show signs of 'pirate honeypots'
1) Bitcoin has a bootstrap advantage, not disadvantage; like all Ponzi schemes, it has the potential to return real profit to early adopters.

Can't the same be said for people who bought Apple or Google stocks early on?
Google around. General consensus seems to be that 75-80% of gold production goes to jewellery, and there's some fraction going to industry too. As the most ductile element, it's used in microelectronics, though of course in small quantities.

http://symmetricinfo.org/category/goldprices/ estimates 50% of gold stock is in jewellery, 12% in industry. Of course, some fraction of that jewellery is bought because people believe that the gold will be a store of value, not just because of how it works; though I wouldn't expect selling jewellery for its gold content to give particularly good returns.
Kudos to the superintendent for doing his job. Whatever validity you think his point has, there's no doubt he'll get a lot of attention thanks to the clever way he's approached the problem.

I'm one of those people that, whenever they hear about economic problems, always thinks individuals are responsible. I want to know, am I wrong? Nowhere does it say you need a house with a spare bedroom and a bathroom for each person. You aren't entitled to a car, let alone two. It isn't some birthright that you go on vacation or buy a flat screen through credit.

Education is important. It's also expensive and difficult. Why aren't parents more on the hook? Yes, some parents really, really can't. But most could. It might take substantial life style changes, but the amount of money an average westerner can free up is staggering.

I know michigan is particularly hard hit, so this might not be the most sympathetic example to ask, but I just can't help feeling this way. (and that doesn't change the fact that I think the superintended did a great job, whether I think it's the states problem or not).
I think that zero-tolerance policing does absolutely nothing to tackle crime, it only drives it deeper underground, or to other places. In order to stop a weed from growing, you do not cut it whenever it grows past an arbitrary point, you take away it's food, light and water instead. Effectively and permanently tackling crime involves a similar approach - address the root issues and you no longer have crime.

So what causes people to steal? They are poor, they want more than they currently have because what they have is not enough. If you want them to stop stealing, then society must become fairer. As it stands, resources are allocated through a sort of popularity contest. Those at the top of the social popularity ranking get the most.

Why do people kill and fight? For respect. Society looks down on the poor, it avoids them, laughs at them and criticizes them for being where they are without having walked in their shoes. Want people to stop being so violent? Show them some love and put the batons away.

Not to mention the double standard of having a bunch of hired thugs (the police) keeping us safe from a bunch of hired thugs (gangsters). I don't want any thugs in my neighborhood.
Comes on the heels of a massive profit downgrade. It's PR.
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"There is absolutely nothing preventing people from taking the open-source code and creating an alternative "Bittoken" currency which changes problematic design elements such as the minting/issuance model."

Broadly speaking, the more desirable properties you try to obtain at once, the more you constrain the design, and it is absolutely possible to constrain the design to the point where there are zero solutions. Arrow's theorem shows an example of that in a voting context. You can not have all of the five desirable properties laid out in the theorem, and it isn't a matter of finding a clever algorithmic solution; they are actually contradictory. You have to loosen the requirements somehow.

There is no guarantee that any given set of desirable properties has a solution. There is no guarantee that BitCoin is even close to having a solution, there's no guarantee that it is merely one requirement over the line, it may well contain multiple contradictions. There's no guarantee that there is anything more optimal than government fiat money.

I'm in favor of experimentation to find out, in general. But it should be pointed out that there is not necessarily going to be a solution at all, and I certainly would say it's not going to be easy to just "take BitCoin and fix the problems" or any variant thereof. There is something stopping people from just "creating an alternative", it's going to be freaking hard, and again, I don't just mean hard in the way that creating an open source operating system from the efforts of thousands of not-centrally managed programmers is, I mean, potentially hard in the way that proving P != NP is, really, actually, hard. Starting from BitCoin isn't necessarily even starting from a useful base.
As someone who graduated from university while doing summer jobs, I am extremely happy with my education, and I find it useful on a regular basis. Even the physics that I won't be using as a software developer is a great framework that helps me pick up stuff that would have normally been beyond me, and the approach to problems that I picked up there makes many software tasks easier -- either to grasp, or to implement.

As for school itself - it both pointed me in the right direction, making me take classes that were related, useful, and built on each other in a meaningful way. It lead me down the right paths, and the access to professors that were willing to spend time to answer questions and point me in the right direction for further study were invaluable.

Of course school isn't a complete education, but it's a vital component of it.
Looks quite promising, but horribly broken in the iPad Safari:

* Neither the ToC nor the content pane scroll.
* Clicking a method link in the ToC pops up the keyboard which quickly gets annoying.