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Three alleged members of Anonymous arrested in Spain
When can I have a big server in the cloud?
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"This extension can access: Your data on all websites. Your browsing history"

Standard, but still.
The most interesting part of the story is how they are celebrating and proud about having caught 'the leaders of Anonymous'. Can't they understand that it is decentralized and the arrested people could be leaders of a small organization inside the group, but not of the group itself?
> But all of these advances are still intimately tied to the phone system and phone numbers — and while Google’s managed to abstract the phone number away from the device by building on top of the existing system, none of its services are completely functional unless you’re paying a carrier for a voice plan.

I feel like a broken record repeating this every time VoIP comes up, but this just isn't true; I've had a Nexus One with no voice plan since it came out, and it works really well over SIP.
Hash tables are worst-case O(n) time.

B-trees are an external storage technique; he means balanced binary trees.

The answer to the interview question is another question: "what operations does the container need to support?". It's not "hash tables are O(1)".
Is this just a wrapper to Gremlin (http://gremlin.tinkerpop.com/)?
PHP already provides a mechanism to replace errors with exceptions (set_error_handler() and the ErrorException exception type). I do this on all my projects.
Furthermore, B-trees are designed for storing things that don't fit into primary memory. They are the right answer for things like file systems, I think almost every file system uses some variant of them.
I've been in four accidents. One was my fault, and the other three involved people slamming into my car while it was stationary. Of the three where it wasn't my fault, once my car had its front bumper, hood, and both fenders crumpled, once it just slid six feet and had a tire blown out, and once it was sandwiched between two cars and totalled. I wasn't hurt in any of those cases, but I'm betting if I was on a motorcycle or a scooter, I would not be walking right today if I was walking at all.
know what you meant to say was Roman republic..our democracy is implemented as a roman republic
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I wonder if it wouldn't have been better to import the PHP source-tree first, then apply each patch one at a time/in a batch. That way applying these patches at a later date would have been easier.
Looking at the example... how is this better than just going and reading the source?
I would imagine that improved reverse engineering techniques would also help to dissect botnets, viruses, P2P networks, and other sorts of obfuscated software.

I'd rather believe that than believe that the DoD has lost a significant portion of its code base for its critical applications.
Tracy Morgan Apologizes for Anti-Gay Comments at Nashville Show
Tracy Morgan says he’s sorry for telling an audience at a June 3 comedy show that he’d "pull out a knife and stab" his son if he were gay.
If it's like most folding bikes, it should be fine on the street, not that different from a full-size bike. You see lots of both here in London.
I believe an interface is touch based if you use an object to touch the screen to interact with the interface. Mice do not have this property. Given the downvotes I imagine people at HN disagree with this notion, but here are some links that suggest that there is a part of the world which considers stylus based devices as touch based.

[1] http://solutions.3m.com/wps/portal/3M/en_US/TouchSystems/Tou...
[2] http://www.pdapanache.com/stylusfaq.asp

[3] http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=354774&dl=ACM&...
My wife is a nurse. She has no real interest in technology, though she loves her iPhone. When a new iPhone or new major version of iOS comes out she always asks me about because all her nursey mates on the ward chat about it.
I can understand their passion, but I think it is misplaced. This is like ringing the doorbell of some prominent person and running away; yeah, you'll cause him some loss of sleep, but in the end, it changes nothing.

You know what could change things? Here's one idea. A lot of corruption happens in pushing files (as in, paper files) in the bureaucracy. What if you could come up with a secure, Wiki-like system where files were bits instead of atoms; each change, each access, each transfer, each signature was tracked (just like in Wikipedia); and using a web interface, a citizen could keep track of his/her file. Couple this with a secure biometric-based system which allowed fine-grained control on who has access to the file.

The scourge of corruption in India is nourished by the dark bureaucracy of UDCs, LDCs and myriad clerks whose sole purpose is to shuffle files around. Get rid of them and shine some light there.

Any "hackers" willing to take up this challenge?
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To (mis)quote Henry Ford: "If had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me a faster horse."

The iPhone, iPod, and especially the iPad represented a near-total re-conceptualization of the product in that space.
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nice site, i think very useful, but lacking in presentation (not usability) but design-finesse.
>> All of the cloud computing services Google offers to consumers, like email, word processing and spreadsheets, happen within the browser.

Factually, this is incorrect. All of the services are available within the browser, but there have been native mobile apps available for gmail/docs/calendar for quite some time now.
"...there will be room for a computer override of sorts to stop amateur pilots tipping over"

I don't know. I still think there's too much of a risk in the whole thing being top heavy due to the blades being below the rider. Envisioning being at 5,000 ft. and all of the sudden looking at the world upside down while rocketing to the ground.
I'd argue that, through failure to gain consumer traction, Microsoft just haven't been able to create the network of tightly related devices that Apple has. Thanks to their consumer focus, Apple have an entire platform sharing the same operating system, individual devices developed somewhat in harmony. Microsoft, attempting to corner several markets separately, has competing teams working on entirely unrelated products whose connectedness is incidental.

There was a Steve Jobs keynote from the 1990s posted the other day in which he outlined his vision of a networked device ecosystem. It is very significant that they built the line of devices before they tried to market the backbone. Microsoft was thinking about this concept for just as long, but they never really had the platform.

Edit: To reply, the key is that product follows from brand and marketing. The reason Apple's products are connected so well is that they're all targeted at one market. Microsoft target several, so their products are developed in bubbles.

Edit: To reply again, I think we may be arguing the same thing, but our disagreement is in the reasoning. I believe that Microsoft's lack of a coherent product is due to an attempt to sell their vision to several markets at once; it makes connecting the dots very difficult. Apple's (assumed) success lies in their coherent targeting of a single market, through their strong consumer brand. Both of them are selling a vision; Apple get to amplify this by designing products that fit with their brand.

It's a shame we can't continue this conversation further due to the weird commenting system.
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The lord of the manor defends his fiefdom, or else his knights, retainers, and vassals start wondering if he's cut out for the job.
I think it's mostly the general consensus--period. This has boiler-room style "pump and dump" written all over it; yet the big investment banks have been getting away with running IPOs this way for years.

Groupon just happens to be the latest example.
Nice work David. Customer service is a HUGE differentiator. I have recently been on the receiving end of Customer Wow from Performable, so you walk the talk.
I wouldn't say Putin is an asset to any country, but you can't blame it all on him either. With people like Lenin, Stalin and Jeltsin as your predecessors you don't really start off good.
Just yesterday we had a rogue WAP show up in our building called Virus23. One of our developers was using his phone to broadcast that SSID and his Android tablet was connecting to it. He used that name for the same reason. It made us in IT a bit nervous till we figured out what it was.
The following is a bit strongly stated, but it is my considered opinion after observing (albeit passively) for some time.

Generally speaking, businesses and the business environment thrive on a certain degree of stability and predictability. You compete, but you can count on certain fundamentals holding true enough to justify the risks you take.

Groupon seems, particularly at the small business level, to represent the antithesis of that.

Sell at a loss, because your neighbor will.

Snake oil.

The only "value added" is for Groupon itself. It represents the worst of contemporary culture.

And its founders and principals may be in the process of "checking out", just like the one-time customers they generate.
What about New Horizons[1], launched in 2006? It's supposed to leave the solar system in 2029, according to wikipedia (granted, citation needed).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Horizons#Key_mission_dates
Seems like creating and maintaining the dependency graph could be error-prone. If it's a manual process then it can't be very fine-grained, which you would want more of for maximum efficiency.
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I just keep thinking how many terrible articles can be written about them before the IPO is scrapped. Their numbers are a joke.
Right. Like I said, the problem is not branding but that Microsoft's products do not play well together like Apple's TV box, speakers, wifi base stations, automatic backup devices, phones, computers, and music players, all of which hook up to each other basically automatically (all you have to do is enter your iTunes account info).

To reply to your edit: I think that brand and marketing come from product. You cannot market a feature that does not exist, nor can your brand gain a reputation for an attribute that your products do not have. But underneath, product, brand, and marketing all stem from vision and priorities. Apple and MS shared the same vision, but Apple made this part of that vision a priority. Therefore their products reflect it, their brand gains a reputation for it, and their marketing can highlight the features that support the vision. Microsoft made this part of their vision a talking point, thus their products don't reflect it, their brand lacks the reputation, and any marketing that tries to highlight connectedness of devices rings hollow.
Fortunately this isn't as bad as the PSN fiasco. Its still not good to have your personal information leaked like that. That could lead to further security breaches for the people who's data was stolen.
Agreed. The constant blame focused on the President is naive and unwarranted.
"Error. MacBook not working. Please take into shower and leave webcam running"
The state said it was not practical to provide electronic [...] emails.
I can say that one person is male and another person is female without insulting either of them. Pointing out a difference between genders is not automatically derogatory.
This is the funniest thing I've seen in a while. Makes you wonder who first thought of patenting a tax strategy.

For the more legally inclined: I know these aren't exactly the same, but doesn't 17 USC 102(b) set at least some kind of precedence for disallowing patenting tax strategies already?
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What about the media frenzy before and after the event? Don't tell me that it doesn't have a beneficial effect.
Didn't MS also try to do this with Zune? I think the reason why the Apple brand is so strong is mainly because they are making good products.
You can use a package forwarding service to get shipping to Peru (or any other country) from US stores that don't ship outside the US. You can get a US address, order from Newegg (or any store you want) and forward your items to your country. See http://www.opas.com/how-it-works.php
He paid with his own time, for something much better than simply the software:

He is no longer in the path of becoming a PHB.
The real question is: will Cheney get a new apprentice, or will Bush kill him and get an apprentice of his own? Or was Rove the apprentice? And was Mitt Romney's true parentage concealed, and was he secretly raised in the Utah desert by trustworthy moisture farmers?

Always two there are.
Definitely not, I know loads of people who are happy Apple users but by no definition geeks, and they watch it. Just because they want to know what way the platform is going they're using.
They can't scrap it. They are bleeding cash.
I can see your point and I think "the value it creates for people" ( including both developer and customer ) is a good metric for how much it should be priced. The problem is, why should we assume that the price is the only ( or the most relevant ) proxy for "value it creates for people"...
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I'm aware of that method. It's not an ideal approach IMO.

Specific errors should throw specific exceptions. That way I can handle the ones I know how to handle and let the others bubble up and either completely break the app to be logged and fixed later or get handled correctly somewhere else. With ErrorException, you have to look at the contents of the error message to see if it's an error you can handle or need to rethrow.
Your email problem is easily solved. Get your own domain. I did this the first time I had a problem with my email provider and I've never looked back through multiple acquisitions and subsequent degradation in quality. In fact, I just changed to fastmail last month and it was painless.
Hover Bike?
I think every story I heard or read on the IPO at least mentioned the fact that they seem to be losing a fair bit of money.
For reference this is the feature I'm talking about, and it will import it to your Google account (though it wasn't useful for me, since my contacts were stored on my old phone rather than a SIM).

http://www.htc.com/www/howto.aspx?id=14183&type=1&p_...

This kind of feature should be in the standard Android Contacts app IMO. But I can't comment on that, since I've not used a vanilla Android phone.

The Google Contacts 'find duplicates' feature did a passable job for the few duplicates I had, but I doubt it would fit some systems (e.g. matching together "Bill Posters" and "Bill Work") nor would it be worth the effort to try too hard. I guess that's a pain we have to live with.
Related:

GoRuCo 2010 - James Golick - Scaling to Hundreds of Millions of Requests

http://vimeo.com/12814529
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Pentagons "big stick" ideology meets its first test of will power
You've responded to an objective assessment of Italy's economy --- it's hugely in debt and lags the EU in job creation and GDP growth --- with subjective claims about organic food and clothes. Everyone seems to realize that Italy's economy is dominated by exports, including those organic foods and designer clothes. They're still getting their credit rating downgraded. Now what?
It's not empty! That's what's so fantastic!
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I like Windows 7's window management features well enough that I leave everything open (most things minimized) all the time. I've got 18 windows in 12 applications open, 3 of them visible. Win7 isn't perfect for this, but it's really pretty pleasant.

I'm also using about 6 gigs of RAM, but since I have 8 to play with, why not? :)
> I don't know that anything Apple is doing is that revolutionary

Apple is proof that there is a very fine line between good and great but it's hard to make something good great. Apple has a long history (now) of taking things that suck and making them not suck. How do you define revolutionary?

> the difference is that Apple and Jobs are phenomenal at presenting the idea so that people actually get it.

Marketing people will tell you that good marketing sells products. They have a vested interest in fermenting this view. The truth is simpler: good products sell themselves. Marketing just helps.

The real success of Apple isn't in the success of their market (although their ads are really quite brilliant generally speaking), it's that their products are simple enough TO get.

> The bottom line is that Apple knows how to sell products to consumers

Apple is a consumer hardware company. That's all they really do and care about and it shows.

Microsoft is an OEM and enterprise Windows and Office license selling company and it shows.

Apple can (and did) change their desktop OS to make the best experience possible. In Microsoft there would be a turf war (particularly with Ballmer at the helm, given his history) to make sure that any new product somehow pushes the Windows agenda. A new OS? No way that'll happen.

It's not about marketing, it's about singularity of purpose. The guy with one goal is more often than not going to do better at achieving that goal than the guy with that goal and another one.
Is filtering through illegal in US? Motorbike riders in the UK generally filter through and stop at the front of the quee, which reduces the risk of stationary accidents.
Amsterdam to Palo Alto!? Palo Alto is a shithole compared to Amsterdam.
Google Earth adds underwater improvements (topography, POIs)
If you want to talk about any of the details I am happy to discuss. I never said that the array went offline because of the failure but the head was under very heavy load trying to recover from it.

The email is a careful balance of information that 90% of people will find useful and not too much information that no one understands it. Never once did we say we are not to blame, actually the opposite, it is our responsibility no matter the vendor or what we replace the hardware with.
With that sentence construction, you could be a lawyer :)
> Italians are, well, Italians

Care to elaborate on this? "Blacks are, well, blacks" would sound racist. I'm not sure this highly upvoted comment of yours is much nobler in spirit.
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Ignoring that the submission title doesn't accurately reflect the original title, and even though you might be right, I'm having trouble understanding your decision to cite a 2004 post by user "Rommie" of the Urch forums as an authority on American English.
I feel that if Microsoft had taken Bill Gates' book "The Road Ahead" and implemented a lot of the ideas in the book they could have preempted Apple and Google by several years! What's amazing to me is that the book is over 15 years old and just now a lot of what he mentioned in there with respect to the cloud is being implemented. Not by his company but Apple.
Well, the problem is basically in the GPS receivers, which get interfered by out-of-band signals. There's really no reason for FCC to not approve Light^2. http://tmfassociates.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/GPS...
Microsoft Launches Tools for Finding iPhone Apps
Perhaps I'm too attuned to NDA issues after having listened to the most recent episode of Gruber's Talk Show (http://5by5.tv/talkshow/46), but I am guessing that this guy is coming dangerously close to — and is perhaps crossing — the line with respect to disclosing details about Apple's technology and software development practices.

When in doubt, STFU. Not just for legal reasons, but also because you don't want future collaborators and employers thinking you're a Chatty Cathy who's going to tell everyone about your secret sauce.
Lefkofsky's only talent seems to be pumping valuation and exiting on top.
It apparently needs to modify links on pages that link to WSJ.

You can expect the source easily enough by installing it and navigating to something like ~/.google/chrome/Extensions
Wow, great stuff. Was the NYT story in print or just online? How much of the direct traffic to you attribute to the NYT story?
>>twice as long or longer.<<

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=...

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/performance.php?test=...
Agreed. A fellow co-worker, who doesn't even have an iPhone, loves watching Steve Jobs present keynotes due to his presentation style and they way he/apple demo's new technology. While she may be a producer in a digital agency she is certainly not tech savvy and not trying to keep up with the latest apple news.

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Good article on this very strategy and some tips for price elasticity testing:

http://www.conversionvoodoo.com/blog/2010/06/one-simple-secr...
Is this the end of hard drives? Infinite Storage...
Because we'll fall off the side! Oh, that's why we can't circumnavigate.

Some other things man will never do: http://www.rense.com/general81/dw.htm
This article digs up some interesting events from the past, but it has a negative spin so definitely also read Lefkofsky's own words:

http://www.lefkofsky.com/blog/when-you-dont-know-what-to-say

He seems both honest and it's evident he's determined and learns a lot from experience.

He's clearly the type of entrepreneur that VCs always ask for: the "go big or go home" type. Seems like his early investors didn't grasp that.

I wonder if he'll distribute any of his Groupon proceeds to some of the investors who backed him early. The ones who didn't turn on him when things went south, anyway.
Microsoft does poor advertising. Office 2011 has a pretty sick cloud integration although you need to be running windows to use it properly. http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive Skydrive. And Office 365 is even further along apparently although I am not a Beta user. I would argue M$FT is ahead of both apple and google, if you run windows and have a win7 phone your integration is pretty insane at this point, toss in an xbox + live and everything is integrated really well. It's just not so cool to talk M$FT as it isn't as shiny. I have a Mac now and have for 6 years, for the 4 years before that I went to a high school with all macs, just trying to point out I am not biased. People just seem to want to love apple and hate msft and as a user of both I don't get why other than "apple's cool."

On a similar note, many people buy macs because they "don't have viruses" which has to do with market share not that they aren't vulnerable as we all know. Am I the only one who believes the Mac App Store is just the beginning of them closing off the system so that in the case they reach a substantial market share they can avoid virus control by making sure you download directly from them? If M$FT told dev's you can only put software on our machines if you give us 30% ppl would go nuts.

Just saying, the fanboyism keeps many users from being critical, in the end they are a company, question every move they make as with google and M$FT.
I should probably point out that selfDoc returns an object that can be moved about as JSON, but combined with a templating engine you can produce HTML docs that always stay in sync with the code. https://github.com/rudenoise/selfDoc.js/tree/master/demo
What matters is not traffic but profits, and particularly growth thereof.
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