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I don't think this is a real threat. As people have pointed out, IR filters could circumvent this "feature" if it were ever implemented. Filters could even be incorporated in iPhone case designs.

Also, I think Apple would be crazy to implement this first. How would they market a phone to consumers that would have less capabilities as a camera than their competitors'?
Go out on the streets and talk directly to SMBs to acquire new customers.

Does your competitor offer data export? Offer free data import and huge discounts to their customers if they move to you.

Target businesses already featured on Groupon or other big daily deal sites. If they had successful runs with those, they will now have an email list they can advertise to directly.

Focus on one type of business?

Keep building a kickass product.

Stop blogging for a nerd audience. Blog about your customers' interests. Interview them. Get them featured on popular daily deal blogs like yipit's or Rocky Agrawal's (the guy who recently ripped groupon to pieces).
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I get a "This webpage is not availableThe server at www.youtube.com...". That looks unprofessional.

Get some free website monitoring at alertfox or pingdom.

This will not solve your main problem, but having a reliable website is a prerequisite for any success. For many users, especially website owners - your customers - such a "bug" makes the website look abandoned.
There are 21 million bitcoins and they divide down to 8dp, so you need 16 decimal digits to represent them exactly. Coincidentally (?) double precision floating point is capable of precisely representing exactly 16 decimal digits.

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

So using double is in fact perfectly OK in this case.
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The thing is that you can't do email then.

You can say that google might leak your emails, but the same is true if you use your private email server.
It depends on 1) the IR attenuation of the filter and 2) the sensitivity of the camera element to IR.

IR filters can only attenuate incoming IR so much while still allowing nearby red wavelengths through. And any filter will have a non-flat response through the visible wavelengths, slightly distorting the color response of your photos.

A properly coded IR signal from the transmitting 'disabler' device could still be picked up by the iPhone even if it was severely attenuated. At ~30fps, you can quickly get 100+ samples to cross-correlate with to search for the encoded 'disable' signal.

My gut feeling is that Apple patented this technology because it was low-hanging fruit. They saw they could roll it into a legitimate patent and prevent others from claiming it down the road. Still, I think it's worthwhile to send a quick letter to the powers that be to let them know we all disprove. If it does get implemented, the popularity of jailbreaking will move up another notch.
That's something else entirely compared to tail call optimization, but yes some functional languages (e.g. Haskell) do this. I don't think F# does stream fusion though.
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Or you could bring a paper notebook and pen.
Scapegoat. The evidence will appear as and when they need it.

This whole thing (this and the supposed census leak) stinks of a false flag operation.
I would find a new business model - your competitor already has a ton of traction and after seeing Groupon's numbers it isn't even that attractive. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Is this allowed?

While I agree with DanielStraight that it's probably better to wait for the monthly "Who's hiring?" thread; people do submit job openings pretty regularly. I haven't see any evidence that it's particularly frowned upon or anything.
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Under 25 here, what's the relevance of 2600?
Seems like you were hellbanned... More info at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2619641 (especially ck2's comment and the responses)
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Actually, it looks like he was only the ircop of their channel, and wasn't actually involved: http://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/i568z/19yearold_s...
I hope they add login activity to their "Recent Events" feed ASAP.
A brilliant summary of events so far.
I do, but I like to type sometimes. I type much faster than I write, much closer to the speed of thought.

Whether I like to type or write is a total mood preference thing.
Tumblr also has some other awesome features you may not have noticed.

My favourite is tag pages only up to 15. So if you have 300 items under a given tag, you can only sort of see 225 (at 15 items per page).
re: "I'm for hire atm and would LOVE to join another team." ... add a few links to your HN profile.

Although I'm not hiring at the moment, I'm always curious about who's around, and the first thing I did when I saw that was click over to your HN profile page. With nothing there, I can't find out more about you.
No backups. Unreliable uptime. And of course, no self-hosted option.

If you invest yourself in your blog and take time out of your life to maintain it properly then it's not unreasonable to expect control over your work. If Tumblr goes down for half a day then that means nobody can visit your site, and if you have something that needs to be posted as a matter of urgency then you're stuffed until it comes back up.

Plus, what happens when Tumblr goes out of business?
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The story isn't over yet. I'm still using Lastpass; I'm certainly not going to continue using Dropbox. I'd wager a fair amount of people will do the same.
As you would expect, there is a legal entity for Lockheed Martin in the UK. Unless there is some crazy immunity for companies working on government contracts (which wouldn't surprise me) I don't see why they couldn't be sued.
Sorry, I should have been more specific on this point - I was on my original draft, and I forgot to put it back in.

If you read through lulzsec's twitter, they entered a petty dispute with someone who hung out on a channel on the 2600 irc server. So they DDoSed 2600 as a whole and began to issue posturing tweets towards 2600.
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It's kind of like a basic dapper? http://open.dapper.net/
sure seems like the best of all possible worlds... a currency based on nothing of tangible value, no central bank to try to keep it stable and stem panics, no real economy or legal infrastructure behind it or army to protect them if they existed, transactions easily traceable (even reversible), prone to speculative fever and vulnerable to security issues.
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Your phrasing is slanted. Citing the abstract of the paper:

> The implementations each use the languages’ idiomatic container classes, looping constructs, and memory/object allocation schemes. It does not attempt to exploit specific language and run-time features to achieve maximum performance.

Meaning, they went out of their way to write idiomatic Scala and idiomatic Java. No performance tweak in Java nor in Scala. The way you phrased it make it sound like they paid more attention to their Scala implementation. If you really think that, say so. Beware though: that would be a direct accusation of intellectual dishonesty.

To me, Google's paper looks like clear (though not iron strong) evidence that idiomatic Scala is is faster than idiomatic Java, with the chosen implementations. Shortening that into "Scala is currently faster than Java" doesn't seem such a stretch. Now if you want to compare idiomatic Java written in Java, and idiomatic Java written in Scala, fine, but I don't think it's a fair comparison.
This is a bit strange. I migrated my blog from Tumblr about a year ago, and at the time there was an easy-to-use XML API to retrieve posts -- presumably the one that powers the many "hacky third party tools that purport to do it".

I suppose it is disconcerting that Tumblr don't just let you export your data from the dashboard, but it's not at all difficult to do, and it's not at all hacky.
Thx to all.
I wonder how long it will take before someone compromises their Twitter account.
When you post a tweet, how much information does twitter have about you? An IP adress, what platform you use, etc.

I'm just curious, because Lulzsec posts frequently and I wonder if law enforcement could subpoena twitter in attempts to catch these people.
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I use American English in programming and British English in normal writing.
> If it does get implemented, the popularity of jailbreaking will move up another notch.

Unless they implement it at the hardware level.
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Think about it this way:

A thief steals a widget from you and sells it to me for $x. I have no reason to suspect it was stolen.

The thief then absconds with the $x and spends it on consumable goods; even if caught, the cash can't be recovered from him.

I currently have the widget and have lost nothing; you're currently the thief's only victim. But if the court takes the widget from me and gives it to you, you're fully compensated, while I am now the victim, because my $x has effectively been stolen with no compensation.

In other words, there are two people who have been victimized by the thief, but all the court can do is re-assign victimhood to one party or the other, which, all things being equal, it should be indifferent to. Allowing the purchaser to keep the widget is basically the same as saying that they'll have no part in deciding who is to be the victim, and allowing circumstance itself to determine that.

But the thief himself is always responsible, and it's entirely appropriate to extract from him as much compensation for both victims as is possible.
Ugh. I hate it when any of my devices make sounds without me explicitly allowing it to, both in principle and on a practical level. (Dear Macbook, please shut the fuck up forever so I don't wake up my girlfriend at night when I boot you up.)
>The law clearly is on the side of rolling back the transactions

No it isn't, there's no precedent for this because it hasn't existed before. The nearest thing I can think of is when that fake letter was sent out about some company causing the stock to tank. Did all the people who bought the stock when it was low have their transactions rolled back? Because that's what happened here, someone used highly technical means to cause an artificial price dive and one guy was able to take advantage of it. It's not at all clear to me that he should give any of it back.
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Just saw the pastebin of the UK census hack. That wasn't us - don't believe fake LulzSec releases unless we put out a tweet first.
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> How would they market a phone to consumers that would have less capabilities as a camera than their competitors'?

It would not have less capabilities - in fact, it would have more, and they would simply have to play this up. See their examples about extracting more metadata from the environment.

I'm sure they could spin the possibility of forbidding photos in a positive light - "Worried about perverts photographing your children at the playground? Worry no more, with the iPerv - simply turn it on, and cameras in the vicinity won't be able to steal your child's innocence pixels!"
Until recently, Flash didn't even use any hardware acceleration for video. I don't believe that it actually gives the direct access to the hardware that WebGL does. So while it's still a security risk(especially given Adobe's track record), I'm not entirely convinced that it's a greater potential risk than WebGL.
I am not your audience, so what I think is not that important, but I looked at your homepage.

Your opening pitch has too much jargon. I'll avoid using specific words (geez, you are trying to hide from Google? Good luck, Winston Smith!) but you sound like you're talking to a Techcrunch editor in an elevator. Pretend you are selling your product to people who don't know what it is and think it is made by elves.

Meanwhile a lot of the text on that page is white on beige, for the love of god. (In Safari/Mac, Flash blocked). Please hire a designer who can see. Or, rather, one who can't see so superhumanly well that they can read completely invisible text and not notice a problem.

Your homepage is dominated by a giant out-of-focus video preview image in what appears to be 120 by 120 pixel resolution. In other words, my first impression of your site is that you literally lack focus and polish.

Don't rely so much on the video and the clickable previews. I never click them. They tend to play sounds, which disturbs my fellow inmates. They tend to waste valuable seconds of my life. They take my mouse too far away from the back button. Sometimes they just don't work. Try to hook me in the first six seconds without any additional clicks.

I found what I bet is your competitor's homepage. (Google took me right to a bunch of great SEO, surprise surprise.) The page I found is full of reassuring pep talk about how their product is going to improve my business. Words like audience and revenue and affinity. They have helpful links to really basic FAQs about what is, after all, a brand-new fashion trend in business which a lot of people haven't heard of yet. Their design is clean and sharp. It's like an infomercial. I tend to roll my eyes when I read such stuff, but that's my problem: I read too much Techcrunch, I'm too cynical and I know too much about the web-services sausage factory, I am not your audience. Your audience probably appreciates being sold a product in terms that they understand, that they have heard before. It's no mystery to me why your competitor is cleaning up.

Finally, you've heard of A/B testing, right? Because I wouldn't assume that I'm not completely full of it, here. I'm just throwing out hypotheses [1], I'm just one guy, and I'm never going to buy your product anyway.

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[1] Except for the white-on-beige thing. That is a bug, my friend. A high priority bug.
Too lazy to read past the first page before breakfast, but:

All four implementations stay very close to the formal specification of the algorithm and do not attempt any form of language specific optimization or adaption.

So there appears to be some inconsistency in how they describe their methods.
Selenium will do this, although it's not pretty. I spent about 4 months on a contract doing exactly that, and it sucked.
I'd like to believe that, but... I dunno. Things are crazy, and non-techies just don't understand technical things. It'll come down to how well the lawyers can convince the judge that this applies or doesn't apply.
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Without wanting to sound harsh, but we knew it existed and that one could not live without it.
I mostly agree, but there's a bit more to it than that. For example, you want to be able to report back to the page that WebGL is disabled, so that whatever content is supposed to be there can degrade semi-gracefully.
LulzSec DID NOT hack UK Census
Even a cursory look at Wikipedia would let the author know that MS was a part of the original OpenGL ARB till 2003 and was even a voting member along with all the big backers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL_Architecture_Review_Boar...

>They later started emphasizing Direct3D as the preferred way to do 3D, possibly because supporting OpenGL would make porting 3D-heavy games to other platforms easier.

With the side effect that the standard moved much faster unlike OpenGL that got stuck in the 'design-by-committee' hole, not to mention a much cleaner API with way better dev tools and features.
Great point, Kevan. We'll shoot for "opening the kimono" a bit faster on the next one. Thx!
Dropbox and other similar cloud services should prompt you to encrypt your files before they get uploaded with your own key, by default.
Can you gently suggest to him that his blog is really hard to navigate? I can't even figure out where to find information about the book.
Grey is the UK spelling - gray is the American.
I'd be surprised if the current implementation of F# didn't do anything of this sort. But as a language, I understand fusion is more difficult in ML than in Haskell: that's because ML is strict and non pure. Therefore, some of the assumptions you could do in a non-strict, pure language don't hold, and it may not be unconditionally true that

∀f, ∀g, map g ∘ map f == map (f ∘ g)

because f or g could perform some side effect, or fail to terminate. (My example may be bogus, but I'm sure we can find some real one.)
Because managament was abviously stupid.
The N900 was already a fine product.
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If this becomes reality it will seriously set back the value of the internet, its freedom of speech and privacy. It doesnt matter that it is "just" one country. Its a western country and this mindset of censorship and control by such a government worries me. Alot.
True. Flash is a plugin that Adobe ships, whereas IE is the responsibility of Microsoft because it ships with Windows. Flash taking a risky bet is different from the IE shipping potentially vulnerable code with the Windows box.
That's not a walled garden, it's a hedge maze. You can get out of it you're willing to put in a modicum of effort.
Oh wow, completely missed that. I thought all the "Who's hiring" thread ended up there
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That's one way. There's another, even better way: Ask. Ideally, talky-talky over the phone, if you can get it. Direct, personal, simple emails if not.
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You seem to imply reason has any influence on Nokia's management. They wouldn't be where they are now if that were true.
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When will you be launching the trial?
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I'm sure they aren't connecting to twitter directly.
I imagine there are thousands of people who are deeply familiar with openGL whose names you have never heard of.

If you dont understand a subject enough to be able to debate on the points that are being made rather than who is making them you should not be debating it

I just dont think its good practice to disregard someones opinion just because someone you have heard of disagrees with them
You mean ad filtered RSS/Atom? I assume such a program would be much faster to write these days: have a set of newsfeeds, map() them with a filter function and merge the results.

While the web gets more complex, the tools at hand get better. Much better.
> Locke makes less money with his 99-cent gambit than he would selling the same number of books with a traditional publisher.

It's like nobody has ever heard of a supply/demand curve.
During the 'hunt' for Wikileaks the U.S. has subpoenaed Twitter for info about supposed supporters.[1] In the case of Lulzsec this will have very little use though, as they use VPN's to hide their IP [2].

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/01/twitter/

[2] http://lulzsecexposed.blogspot.com/2011/06/scared-puppies.ht...
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We don't have as many members or as much space as the Mountain View Hacker Dojo, but we put on a pretty good open house (if I do say so myself) every Tuesday from 7 to 10!
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I wonder why they consider investing all of their resources on a platform they can't control would be the smart thing to do.
True, this is a good point. I don't know why any consumer would willingly purchase a device with such limitations.
Kind of nifty surprised it go so many upvotes though
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Perhaps the ETrade baby uses that program? (ducks)
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Above you explain what it does in two sentences, yet on the web page you do not (or not successfully). Instead of a video that most people lack the patience to watch (unless they're already interested in your product), show a screenshot and a very simple (in one brief sentence) explanation what it does. Then if they're interested, link 'em to the video showing your product in action (but cut out the titles and get right to showing the product).

It's about making that first look count - most people won't give you a second one if they're not specifically looking for something like this. So you need to grab their attention right away, show what you're offering and make it easy to find out more.
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It's media like this that great minds are trying to fight, you just want to make stories, create a buzz, even if it's by communicating misleading information that, when interpreted by people would not show the truth of what happens but just make them go nuts.

illustrated example:
billgates twitter account: " Do you want me to give you all my money or what lolz"
techcrunch : "OH MY GOD, BILLGATES PLANING TO GIVE A WAY ALL OF HIS MONEY"
and later : "OH MY GOD, HERE'S THE GUY BILLGATES WAS TALKING ABOUT"
I mean seriously, I just hate buzz seeking journalists.
Very true, so we ran multiple tests using trial registrations and subscriptions as the conversion metric as well. The aim being to optimise each step of the funnel plus overall subscriptions as well.
If I were Apple I would make the IR processing happen at hardware level (so no jailbreak) and I would make sure the hardware would stop working unless a physiological level of background IR light is picked up.

That means that an IR filter physically placed in front of the objective would stop the secret signal but make the camera useless as well.
Apparently Lulzsec DIDN'T hack the UK Census data
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